Justice Minister, Mamaloko Kubayi, says they have finalised drafting legislation for compensation for victims of apartheid. Kubayi said this as the remains of the two anti-apartheid activists, who were executed by South Africa’s apartheid regime were reburied at Ga-Maupa outside Modjadjiskloof in Limpopo.

In 1986, Alex Matsepane and Solomon Mawasha were hung and given paupers’ burials. They were members of the United Democratic Front.

“The TRC report states that for all the families we needed to give them an initial reparation amount of R30,000 per family. That was done at the beginning of the TRC process, though there are unidentified families of about 2,000 that are unclaimed. Then we have another process for rebuilding houses that belonged to activists and were bombed by the apartheid regime. We have to fix those houses or rebuild them. Those who have already done that, we give them a once-off amount that we just finalised the regulations for and we will be implementing it this financial year,” says Kubayi.

She says the government will also give bursaries to the children of the affected families.

“We give bursary support for the children of those who were identified in the TRC report. They are already receiving it. Others are coming up with different levels of education and we provide that support as well,” she says.

Minister Kubayi says 130 political prisoners were hung at what is now known as the Kgosi Mampuru Prison, between 1960 and 1990.

The remains of the first 47 prisoners were exhumed and returned to their families before 2016.

The reburial service of two anti-apartheid activists, Alex Matsepane and Solomon Mawasha, is underway at the ga-Maupa sports ground. The pair were hung by the apartheid government in 1986 for protesting against imposed trial councils #sabcnews pic.twitter.com/HTtphAoh4m

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Eighty-one of them have been returned and reburied, and the last two are expected to be reburied by September.

Today marked the final send-off for two anti-apartheid activists, Alex Matsepane and Solomon Mawasha, who were hung at the gallows in 1986 at Pretoria Central Prison, now the Kgosi Mampuru Prison.

The apartheid regime buried them in Mamelodi in unmarked graves as paupers.

A year earlier, they were convicted for leading a protest against the colonial apartheid regime’s imposition of tribal authorities.

During the protest in Ga-Maupa, members of the imposed tribal structures were killed.

The families of Alex Matsepane and Solomon Mawasha are grateful to know what happened to the two activists.

Remains of two anti-apartheid activists reburied