MR MASANGO
The execution of Solomon Mahlango was quite a turning point in my life, both in my personal and my political life.  I was at a time just shortly before Mahlango was executed, I was the Chairperson of the Save Solomon Mahlango Committee.  I was the Chairperson of that committee, the aims of which were to try to save, as the name suggests, to save the life of Mahlango, that he shouldn't be executed.
	I remember so vividly, on the 5th of April 1979 we had a night vigil at his place in Mamelodi.  I was presiding over that night vigil and it was there that I publicly took the vow that should Solomon Mahlango be hanged, which was said to be the following day, the 6th of April, I publicly vowed that should he be hanged I'm going to skip the country to join the ANC and its military wing, Umkhonto weSizwe.
	Two weeks after exactly after that, after his execution I did exactly that, left the country.