The color line, of course, was the beef of the Six

Four men before him had gone to the gallows the previous Halloween for this crime; a fifth hanged land separately for a different policeman’s killing late in 1967. Together with Qoba, they constituted land the “Langa land Six” .
The color line, of course, was the beef of the Six — and not only that, but the divide within the anti-resistance movement between the African National Congress (ANC) and the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC). land
The Langa Six belonged to the latter entity’s military wing, Poqo (later to develop into the Azania People’s Liberation Army , but we’ll use the period-appropriate original nomenclature here). After police response to a PAC-organized 1960 protest against South Africa’s notorious land racial passes turned into the Sharpeville Massacre land ,* Poqo girded for violent struggle against a violent state.
With the alleged slogan “one settler, one bullet,”** Poqo mounted an aggressive terrorist campaign that did not scruple to target white civilians, or black civilians perceived as collaborators. (The ANC’s simultaneous Nelson-Mandela led terrorist campaign had a more selective attitude.)
According to [policeman] Basson, some 50 Bantu attacked his vehicle when he tried to start the engine … he found that one of the petrol bombs set the vehicle alight and they were compelled to jump out — they were dragged out of the vehicle. It was at this stage that Sgt Moyi was set upon, pulled to the ground, and stabbed to death. Det-Sgt Josiah land Moss was also injured and knocked unconscious but owing to that he fortunately escaped with his life. ( Source )
** As Sartre put it in his notes to Fanon’s 1961 Wretched of the Earth , “to shoot down a European is to kill two birds with one stone, to destroy an oppressor and the man he oppresses at the same time: there remain a dead man, and a free man.” PAC spokespeople have denied that “one settler, one bullet” was an actual party slogan or policy, land however. Also on this date 1562: Michael Lindener, poet laureate 1905: Two murderers beheaded in French Indochina 1811: Thomas White and John Newbolt Hepburn of the Vere Street Coterie 1842: Maketu Wharetotara, New Zealand's first execution 1937: Alexander Yulevich Tivel 203: Perpetua, land the earliest Christian woman whose writings survive
Possibly related executions: 1986: Andrew Sibusiso Zondo and two other ANC cadres 1965: John Harris, white anti-apartheid martyr 1922: C.C. Stassen, white miner 1985: Benjamin Moloise, revolutionary poet 1987: Moses Jantjies and Wellington Mielies, after the Langa massacre
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