On the morning of 13 January 1979, an Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) Botswana Machinery Unit of seven combatants was waiting in the bush on their route to Ga-Rankuwa. The Unit was infiltrated on Friday night, 12 January 1979, near the village of Sikwane in Botswana, which is close to Derdepoort.
While they were waiting in the bush, one of the cadres, Thabo Makgage, who was operating the Unit’s Light Machine Gun (LMG), asked to be allowed to relieve himself as he had a “runny” tummy. He then left the LMG with the Commander of the Unit, Authi Muzorewa, who had been injured in August the previous year, with Barney Molokoane, during a confrontation with the apartheid security forces in Witkleigat.
The current group was an initiative of the Botswana Machinery to resume infiltrations into the country and they selected a Unit of seven MK cadres that were taken from Lobatse in a Toyota light delivery vehicle. Six of them were armed with AK-47 assault rifles, one LMG, and each of them had four defensive and two offensive hand grenades, TNT explosive blocks, and a tin of food.
When Thabo Paulos Makgage (aka “Jacob”) left the Unit to relieve himself, he instead made his way to the nearest road, where he saw a vehicle approaching being driven by a white man. Makgage managed to stop the vehicle and asked the driver to take him to the nearest police station. Speaking in Tswana, the white driver asked him why, and he responded that he was trained guerrilla from Angola and he prod
Is this sellout still alive? If yes, did he confess to his sins?
Reading these articles one thing comes out clear to me is that the movement has long been infiltrated by the enemy agents.