Black lawyer killed
NZPA-Reuter Durban A prominent black antiapartheid lawyer, Victoria Mxenge, was shot and killed outside her home yesterday, four years after her husband, another leading activist, was also murdered, the police said. Ms Mxenge was one of the lawyers in the treason trial of 16 members of the United Democratic Front, which is due to resume on Monday. A legal colleague
said that she was a vital counsel in the case. “Four men arrived at her home and did the shooting,” a police spokesman said. He refused to give further details. Griffiths Mxenge, also a prominent civil rights lawyer, was found with 45 stab wounds and a slit throat in the same area in 1981. His killers have never been found.
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Press, 3 August 1985, Page 11
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