On 16 July 1987, Peter Sello Motau, thirty-two years old, was gunned down in Swaziland by South African agents. Motau was a dedicated young activist who had joined the African National Congress (ANC) in 1976, living in exile since his departure on Christmas Eve 1975. His mother is shown in this picture mourning his death at a severely restricted funeral in her home in Soweto.
