He was unconditionally released from prison in 1990, just days after the ban on the African National Congress and the PanAfricanistCongress was lifted.
When the PanAfricanistCongress , a small opposition party with less than 1% support in the last election, took up the cause of the squatters last month, the issue became politicised.
Mike Muendane of the radical Pan-Africanist Congress told the crowd that it was a dishonour to call South Africa a free country when children can be killed with impunity.