Letlapa Mphahlele (born 8 December 1960) is a member of the National Assembly of South Africa who represents the Pan Africanist Congress of Azania.
Returning to Botswana on an Azanian People's Liberation Army (APLA) assignment, he was expelled from the country and crossed the border to Zimbabwe, where he was detained as an illegal immigrant.
Ignored by the PAC and forced to rely upon African National Congress members for food and supplies, he embarked on a hunger strike and was visited by then PAC-president Zephania Mothopeng.
Mphahele smuggled himself back into South Africa from Botswana in January 1991 and, for a time, hid in the rural areas around Mmabatho in what was then Bophuthatswana before making his way to meetup with underground units in the Transvaal Province.
During his application for amnesty in the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) he stated that he had authorised attacks on white civilians following the killing of five school children by the Transkei Defence Force in Umtata.
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