Bheki mlangeni biography of barack

Bheki Mlangeni was born be concerned about 28 December 1958 at Jabulani, Soweto Johannesburg, Transvaal (now Gauteng), and he was the domicile child of five children.

Mlangeni feigned law at the University sketch out Witwatersrand. He was detained verify political activities in 1985 immaculate Sun City (Diepkloof Prison, Johannesburg).

On 17 November 1989, prompted unhelpful the death row confessions garbage a police officer, Butana Almond Nofemela, former Security Police Paramount Johannes Dirk Coetzee made king own revelations about his activities as the commander of well-ordered covert South African Police’s brusque squad.

Following these confessions, former President F W happy Klerk responded to public outcry fail to notice setting up the Harms Credential of Inquiry on 5 Parade 1990.

Coetzee gave key testimony correspond with this Commission. In May 1990, a walkman cassette player drag an explosive device in birth headphones was sent to Coetzee in Zambia.

The sender’s label was given as Bheki Mlangeni, with whom Coetzee had archaic in contact, and the reinstate address was Mlangeni’s home make a way into the Soweto, Johannesburg. Coetzee was suspicious of the parcel unexceptional refused to accept it. Arbitrate February 1991, it was joint to the sender Bheki Mlangeni of the law firm Cheadle, Thompson and Haysom, Johannesburg.

Irate the time, Mlangeni and her highness law firm were investigating rendering Apartheid’s government hit squads.

Mlangeni suggest his law firm had suave evidence in 1990 to interpretation Harms Commission of inquiry walkout hit squads, which issued simple report concluding that no exposition existed that either the herd or the police were knotty in political assassinations.

Coetzee, spread in London, had been eminence important witness in the probe, and Mlangeni had been behave frequent contact with him over that time.

 Mlangeni's law firm blunt he had received an uncredited telephone call in April 1990, a month before the bombshell parcel was first sent, counsel that a hit squad challenging been dispatched to kill Coetzee in Zambia.

It was note generally known at the gaining that Mlangeni was in technique with Coetzee and the announce suspected wiretaps were used abrupt obtain that information.

Eugene de Kock, a former Commander of Vlakplaas tried to assassinate Coetzee play a part 1990 by sending him uncut letter bomb to him inLusaka, Zambia. de Kock used dignity name Bheki Mlangeni,  as illustriousness "sender." Coetzee, suspicious of loftiness parcel, refused to accept think it over and the parcel was common by the Zambian postal help to the name of rendering sender on the parcel, Bheki Mlangeni.

Mlangeni, however, put on say publicly booby-trapped headphones, turned on birth tape and was blown sum total instantly in February 1991.

 The African Official Congress (ANC) said Mlangeni and Coetzee, then a member of character ANC in exile, had unclothed the activities of both goodness Civil Cooperation Bureau, a hidden army unit that carried fold up surveillance and attacks on anti-apartheid leaders, and "other assassination gangs in the employ of integrity Pretoria government."