The small white button contains black lettering, and a rope with an empty noose that curves from the left to below the words. The ANC Six were two groups of three men of the African National Congress's armed wing Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) who were sentenced to death in two separate trials. There was an international campaign to save them, and the UN General Assembly and Security Council passed resolutions calling on the apartheid regime not to execute the six men. On August 19, 1981, Anthony Tsotsobe, Johannes Shabangu, and David Moise were sentenced to death. On October 4, 1982, Simon Mogoerane, Jerry Mosololi and Marcus Motaung were sentenced to death. The sentences of the first group were...
The small white button contains black lettering, and a rope with an empty noose that curves from the left to below the words. The ANC Six were two groups of three men of the African National Congress's armed wing Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) who were sentenced to death in two separate trials. There was an international campaign to save them, and the UN General Assembly and Security Council passed resolutions calling on the apartheid regime not to execute the six men. On August 19, 1981, Anthony Tsotsobe, Johannes Shabangu, and David Moise were sentenced to death. On October 4, 1982, Simon Mogoerane, Jerry Mosololi and Marcus Motaung were sentenced to death. The sentences of the first group were commuted to life imprisonment. The second group were all hanged on June 9, 1983.
