gugulethu seven
The streets of Gugulethu were quiet.
Then just after 7am on March 3, 1986, sounds of violence erupted. Minutes later the bloody bullet-ridden bodies of seven young men lay scattered on the ground. All in their twenties, all of them dead.
Christopher Piet, Jabulani Godfrey Miya, Zabonke John Konile, Mandla Simon Mxinwa, Themba Mlifi, Zola Alfred Swelani and Zandisile “Sammi” Mjobo.
Their biggest crime was that they were black and their lives expendable to the white police officers who murdered them. None of the policemen
