MK Cadres Granted Amnesty for Dissident Phungulwa’s Death
On 27 June 1990, Luzipho Dyasophu (aka “Chauke”) and some of his fellow former African National Congress (ANC) Camp 32 Rehabilitation Centre inmates, in Angola, were attempting to make follow-ups with Archbishop Desmond Tutu regarding his commitment to an inquiry around the palpable murder of Sipho Phungulwa (aka “Oscar Sizwe”).
Dyasophu and his colleagues had written a letter to Archbishop Tutu, which they delivered personally to him on 21 June 1990 in Oxford, the United Kingdom, where he was receiving an Honorary Doctoral degree. They were pursuing Tutu about his steadfast support for an inquiry into the death of Phungulwa, who was also their fellow inmate in Camp 32, colloquially referred to as “Quatro” (named in Portuguese after the notorious Johannesburg Fort, which was called “Number Four”).
Phungulwa and Dyasophu and most of those who were making this follow-up with Tutu were companions that had been arrested together in 1984 by the African National Congress (ANC) following the Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) Mutiny in Angola. They had been transferred to a camp in Dakawa, in the outskirts of Morogoro, in Tanzania. A large number had then left Dakawa and illegally crossed the Tanzanian border to Nairobi, Kenya, and ten others to Malawi, in January and February 1990, following their dissatisfaction with political processes in the ANC. This occurred on 24 December 1989, after the newly elected le
