The Eswatini Correctional Services has released a statement after allegations that South African Communist Party member and anti-apartheid activist,Speaking at Mbedzi’s funeral at Makonde outside Thohoyandou in Limpopo on Sunday, PUDEMO Spokesperson Lucky Lukhele and the SACP’s First Deputy Secretary Solly Mapaila, said Mbedzi was not given medical attention when he suffered a stroke.
Mbedzi spent 14 years in prison in eSwatini before he was transferred to South Africa two months ago. In an unsigned statement, Correctional Services Spokesperson Gugulethu Dlamini says the allegations are unfounded and malicious.In 1989, he left the country to go to Uganda for military training. He returned in 1993 and was integrated into the South African Defence Force but resigned in 1996 to focus on his work in the South African Communist Party.
Mbedzi died last week Tuesday at a Polokwane Hospital after the Eswatini government transferred him to South Africa in March, to complete his sentence because he was terminally ill.Solly Mapaila says: “This was one of our finest revolutionaries, comrade Amos Mbedzi. He was killed by the despotic Swazi government, and especially by its leader King Mswati III. And we blame them, the Swazi government for denying him healthcare and inflicting assault on his body and torturing him.
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