![]() Today the area has a memorial to the seven, the shadows of which form the shape of of there slain bodies. ![]() They were led into an ambush at the corner of NY1 and NY111 (Native Yard 1 and Native Yard 111). The first is the “Gugulethu 7” murder when back in 1986, apartheid security forces led by a Vlakplas based unit of the South African police shot and killed seven members of MK, the armed wing of the ANC. Īll the murder spots in Gugs tell of a bitter and traumatic past. ![]() The largest section of graves by far was more elaborate tombstones and mostly HIV-AIDS related deaths since 1994. Kenny explains how the graves prior to 1994 with humble tombstones are mostly likely victims of political violence. To understand life in Gugs, you need to understand Death! Our first stop was the cemetery. On the eve of local government elections, I was invited to participant on a Politcial tour of Gugulethu (Gugs) with a local resident and lecturer of Political Science at UWC, Kenny Bafo. I’ve been doing township tours for years – Soweto, Mamelodi, Khayamandi, Masiphumelele – but to experience an in-depth political township tour, meeting the local candidates and dealing with the issues that our young democracy is facing is an experience that is not to be missed when wanting to get to the heart of South African politics.
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