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University Daily Kansan
Nation/World
Friday, Oct. 18, 1985
Apartheid opponent executed
United Press International
PRETORIA, South Africa — Black nationalist guerrilla Benjamin Moloise, who told his mother he would go to the gallows singing, was hanged early today for the slaying of a policeman.
"Tell the world that we shall overcome. Tomorrow I will spill my blood for those who remain behind," he told his mother when she paid a farewell visit to him in Pretoria Central Prison yesterday.
Moloise, 30, was the first member of the outlawed African National Congress to be executed since three ANC guerrillas were hanged in 1883.
He was sentenced to be hanged in dawn at the Pretoria Central Prison
for the slaying of Phillipus Selepe, a black security policeman shot and killed in an ambush near Pretoria in 1982.
The prison staff refused to allow Moloise's parents into the prison when they arrived. Mamike and Robert Moloise waited outside for about 90 minutes, then they were in to pray beside their son's coffin.
"We wanted to sing for our son, but they would not let us," Mrs. Moloise told reporters as she emerged from the paneal pale stone prison on Polgtert Street.
"This government is so cruel. This is really, really, really cruel," she said.
After the hanging, the Moloises
sang the ANC anthem, "G God bless Africa," in a parking lot opposite the prison and raised their fists in a "black power" salute.
Police fired tears gas to break up a vigil by about 300 blacks who gathered late yesterday at the Moloises' home in Soweto, the sprawling black township outside Johannesburg.
Earlier yesterday, Mrs. Moloise met with her son in prison for the last time and carried back his final message: "The struggle must go on. Nobody must fear it."
She told reporters in Johannesburg after the 20-minute visit, conducted through a glass screen in the maximum-security Pretoria prison, that he looked "strong, stronger than
I have ever seen him."
Mrs. Moloiise also sang a song he told her he wrote and would sing on the walk to the gallows. A black reporter said it translated: "There are no more forests. There is no more darkness. I want no more."
She said that he was ready to die and that he remained committed to the ANC.
The ANC, based in Lusaka, Zambia, issued a statement saying, "Benjamin Moloise dedicated his life to political objectives which the whole world accepts as basic to human dignity and liberty. For this crime, he is being taken to the gallows."
The ANC — a black nationalist guerrilla group fighting to overthrow South Africa's white minority
government and end its apartheid policies mandating separation of races — claimed responsibility for Selepe's killing but said another member carried out the shooting.
The guerrilla group warned there would be reprisals for Molière's action.
Appeals for a last-minute reprieve poured in from the United Nations, the European Community, the British Commonwealth countries, Scandinavian governments and Amnesty International.
Winnie Mandela, wife of jailed ANC leader Nelson Mandela, arrived outside the prison today. She declined to speak to reporters, but a friend, Marina Bockel, said she had come "to mourn Benjamin Moloise."
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