Mokete Mokoena,[1] was a South African political activist and anti-apartheid campaigner who, along with Nelson Mandela and others, was imprisoned after the Rivonia Trial.
[8] In 2017, Mlangeni [9] appeared with fellow defendants at the Rivonia Trial, Denis Goldberg and Ahmed Kathrada, along with lawyers Joel Joffe, George Bizos and Denis Kuny in a documentary film entitled Life is Wonderful, directed by Sir Nicholas Stadlen,[10] which tells the story of the trial.
(The title reflects Goldberg's words to his mother at the end of the trial on hearing that he and his comrades had been spared the death sentence).
[18] On that visit, he was also a guest of honour at the opening of the Mandela Centenary Exhibition at the South Bank Centre, alongside the Duke and Duchess of Sussex.
President Cyril Ramaphosa expressed his condolences on behalf of the government, stating: "The passing of Andrew Mokete Mlangeni signifies the end of a generational history and places our future squarely in our hands".