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Bomb Blast was targeting the military offices in the Central Business District in Pretoria. Due to the fact that the operation happened during midday, a number of civilians were affected as a result, which gave the apartheid regime to go and campaign by the UN.

“What is interesting is that a few days later after Nkosinathi evaded the police in SA, he went to his parental home in Botswana to tell his parents that he is alive,” said Elias.

According to Elias that was the last time his (Nkosinathi) parents saw him as he was reportedly ambushed and later found dead in Pretoria East.

Funeral

He said the family could not attend to the funeral of the late Nkosinathi because they feared being arrested. In the book, No.43 KwaMagogo, Elias stated that it was mentioned that they could not attend the funeral but lied on a three month old baby between Joana and Nkosinathi. This baby he said; attended the funeral of her father accompanied by her mother’s friend who also shared the same name. She was working at the department of marriages, birth and death at the Ministry of Home Affairs. The child’s passport was organised and a fictitious name (Nomsa Yengwayo) was presented to the child. After the funeral, they returned to Eswatini, while police in SA went to raid the home where the funeral was looking for the baby, but did not find one as they had already returned to the country. Elias stated that the missing baby was still a mystery in the South African Service (SAPS) to date.

Her daughter became the youngest person at two and a half months to represent a family in the funeral of her father (Nkosinathi) who was ambushed and killed during the apartheid regime in South Africa (SA).