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Anton 'Gamka' Fransch (c. 1969 – 17 November 1989), nom de guerre Mahomad, was a commander in uMkhonto we Sizwe. He was killed on 17 November 1989 in Cape Town by members of the South African Police and the South African Defence Force for his anti-apartheid activities, after a seven-hour siege in which he used hand-grenades and a machine gun.

Cultural references

Fransch is the subject of The Funeral of Anton Fransch, a poem by Tatamkhulu Afrika, and the 2003 film Deafening Echoes, directed by Eugene Paramoer.

References

1. Krog, Antjie (2000). Country of my skull: guilt, sorrow, and the limits of forgiveness in the new South Africa. Three River Press. p. 71. ISBN 978-0-8129-3129-7.
2. Payne, Leigh A. (2008). Unsettling accounts: neither truth nor reconciliation in confessions of state violence. Duke University Press. p. 64. ISBN 978-0-8223-4082-9.
3. ^ McCluskey, Audrey T. (2007). Frame by frame three. Indiana University Press. p. 196. ISBN 978-0-253-34829-6.
4. Meyer, Warda (18 November 2014). "MK man's epic gun battle remembered". Cape Argus. Retrieved 19 November 2014.
5. Hirson, Denis (1997). The lava of this land: South African poetry, 1960-1996. Northwestern University Press. pp. 250–252. ISBN 978-0-8101-5069-0.

• 1960s births
• 1989 deaths
• UMkhonto we Sizwe personnel
• People shot dead by law enforcement officers in South Africa
• South African anti-apartheid activists
• South African democracy activists
• Assassinated South African activists
• People from Cape Town
• Cape Coloureds
• Guerrillas killed in action