[3] Langa's killing and its aftermath have been used to illustrate the danger of accepting without due process accusations of treachery, and by implication, of organisations which enable or condone this.
There have been hints that former president of South Africa, Jacob Zuma, who was MK security chief in Swaziland (now eSwatini), was involved.
Ben was elected General Secretary of SASO[6] in 1973 while a student at the University of Fort Hare.
Ben's poetry is difficult to locate nowadays since many ephemeral publications of the 1970s and 80s have not been digitised.
[7] Oral performances were important within the anti-apartheid movement, rooted in the indigenous tradition of izibongo ("praise poems").