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  • Mzwangile Nongwe, born in 1960, joined the MK in 1983. and began working in the underground movement within South Africa.  In 1989 he left the country to go receive training in Tanzania. He currently lives in the house of his dead brother, but says that his sister in law is trying to make him move out, at which point he would be homeless.  "Many of us who were in the struggle fighting against the apartheid regime are closed out.  And alot of the people who were not involved in the struggle are riding the gravy train.:
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  • Vusimuzi Cilo, born in 1970, was involved with the Daveyton Student Youth Congress beginning in 1983.  He wrote, directed and produced plays that discussed apartheid and inequality.  These activities initially earned the scorn and harassment of the authorities.  He later became involved in riots and fighting.  One day he returned to his home, he says, to find the police had broken all of the windows and beaten his sister.  Soon after he left home and went into exile..
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  • Temba Palmer(b. 1948) went into exle in 1976 and went to the USSR where was trained in intelligence. He would  interrogate and investigate new arrivals to the MK camps abroad to determine if they were spies trying to infiltrate the structure.  He is now unemployed and lives in a small house.  "If you are like myself, uneducated, you don't get  a job. Jobs are only for those people that went to school. That's the trouble."..
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  • Mandna Hlatshwayo (b. 1960) went into exile in 1979 and received training in intelligence in Angola. He frequently returned underground to South Africa to do political work and organizing. ..
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  • Petros Vilakazi (b 1967) joined MK and went into exile in 1985.  "It keeps coming back.  Nightmares always come back. They're gonna haunt me for the rest of my life. There's no getting rid of them."
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  • Sanson Hadede (b. 1959) joined the MK in 1976 and went to Angola for training. Before returning to SA in 1992 he frequently came back to the country to help set up and maintain the underground network for smuggling men, information and weapons into the country.
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  • Edgar Tshepo (b. 1970) joined MK in 1986 and went to Angola to train in military tactics and anti-aircraft.  He has two children and currently lives in an abandoned house while he waits for government assistance to begin a community greenhouse project.  "I found myself in the situation that if i don't go and train I will die . . .  was trained in military tactic and anti aircraft , but what am I doing with those skills today?".
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  • Remembrance Nhlahla Tlhabanelo, born in 1969, joined the MK in the early 80s.  He currently lives in a shack made of tine and cardboard in the front yard of a friend's bar.  When asked what he was trained to do with the MK he directly responds:  "My specialty was to kill. Guerrilla warfare".
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  • Patrick Dhlamini (b. 1973), currently lives in a tin shack behind his family's home.  After spending his youth as part of the MK he currently has no job, no home and no prospects for work.
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  • Robert Maphumzane, born in 1962, was an underground activist and joined the MK in 1980. He was trained in intelligence and political education, traveling frequently to talk about the doctrine and politics of the ANC. He currently wants to be a librarian but finds himself in the same situation as many of his fellow soldiers, poor and jobless.
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  • Michael Sithole (b.1952) in his bedroom  with his wife Mabidiso and their son Khapathe.  Sithole was an MK commander and went into exile in 1976. He did not return to South Africa until 1993, spending the interim training and fighting abroad.  "I want to live a life that normal people live. I didn't have that because I went into exile. Now I am stuck.  There is nothing happening."
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  • Stephen Themba Hlophe, born in 1973, sits in his bedroom in a small house in Daveyton, South Africa. Stephen was very young when he became involved in the resistance and is known to have been a deadly, skilled fighter.  He went into exile in 1989 when it became too dangerous for him to remain in the country.  "Im a very talented man. I want to understand why today I am like this," he says, referring to the fact that he has no job and can barely scrape together enough money for food.
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  • Thandoxolo Nduna(b. 1965) was a Political Education officer in the MK. He went into exile in 1984 after it was discovered that his home was part of the underground resistance network and was being used to harbor underground soldiers.
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  • Daniel Zakhele Maseko, born in 1970, went into exile in 1989 after years of fighting for the underground.  He burned cars and white owned businesses and frequently clashed with the police, who routinely came to his house.  His parents no longer wanted the attention of the authorities and kick him out of the house.  "For me as an individual, life wasn't good. Most of us were politically motivated and automatically along the way there were some activities that led to harassment by the police"
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  • Mmete Teresa Mathambo had two brothers in the MK and went into exile with them in 1970.  She lived in the training camps in Zambia and Tanzania looking after many of the children there.  "I was like a mother to many of the children in exile. Many parents would leave there families with me so they could go back and fight"
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  • Ali Benthusi was barely 10 years old when he began to fight as part of the resistance movement.  He fought for several years in Daveyton as part of the underground before formally joining the MK in 1989. He says that the police came to his house looking for him but did not realize that the person they were looking for was just a boy. When the police asked him who Ali was he responded that he didn't know. The next day he left home to go into exile. "I didn't like that stage of my life. If the clock could be turned back I would go back and do it again. I would just forget everything and go back to school.
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