Former Pan Africanist Congress prisoner Kenny Motsamai has been released after 28 years in prison. Motsamai was arrested in 1989 for the murder in a bank robbery sanctioned by the PAC. Motsamai has been in prison since his conviction in 1989 for murdering a white traffic officer in Rustenburg during an Azanian People’s Liberation Army-sanctioned bank robbery in 1989 and handed two life sentences. He was 26, and had just returned from military training in Ethiopia. Apla was the PAC’s military wing.

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