Bhekokwakhe Robert Mkhize (18 August 1952 – 30 July 2000) was a South African politician and trade unionist who was the founding president of the National Education, Health and Allied Workers' Union from 1987 to 1992.
[2] He was later a founding member and inaugural president of another COSATU affiliate, the National Education, Health and Allied Workers' Union (NEHAWU), from 1987 to 1992.
[3] He joined the National Assembly in 1995,[4] filling a casual vacancy in the ANC's caucus, and was re-elected to a full term in the seat in the 1999 general election.
[4][5] In the early morning of 30 July 2000, Mkhize was shot dead during a police raid at his second home at Mhlabatini near Ulundi in northern KwaZulu-Natal, where he had been visiting family.
[2] The Provincial Executive Committee of the ANC's KwaZulu-Natal branch demanded the arrest of all the police officers who had been present during Mkhize's "gruesome assassination".