Nokuthula Mabaso

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Nokuthula Mabaso, (1981/1982 – 5 May, 2022) was a prominent leader in Abahlali baseMjondolo and one of the leaders of its women's league. She was a leader in a food sovereignty project organised at the EKhenana Commune.^[1][2]

Nokuthula Mabaso was arrested along with Thozama Mazwi and Sindiswa Ngcobo, all members of the eKhenana branch of Abahlali baseMjondolo. The arrests were part of a spate of arrests of about a dozen movement members and were widely seen as politically motivated. All charges were later dropped.^[3][4][5]

She was assassinated in the presence of her children in her home at the eKhenana Commune, in Cato Manor, Durban, South Africa on 5 May 2022 .^[6][7][8] She left behind a husband and four children.^[9][10] She was shot seven times.^[11]

Two months before she was murdered she had witnessed the assassination by five gunmen of Ayanda Ngila, also a leader in the eKhenana Commune. The movement Abahlali baseMjondolo claims that she was murdered because of her activism and specifically after she decided to become a state witness fingering Khaya Ngubane as one of the perpetrators.^[12] She was laid to rest at her family home at Esidumbini near Tongaat.^[13][14][15] After Mabaso was killed, Khaya Ngubane was denied bail in the Ngila case.^[16]

On the 26 July 2022, a pastor named Samson Ngubane (who leads a Zionist church in Mayville) as well as his brother Mhlanganyelwa Ngubane, who are also the father and uncle of Khaya Ngubane, were arrested for their involvement in Mabaso's assassination. On 6 September 2022, both accused were denied bail.^{[17][18][19][20]}

• Abahlali baseMjondolo
• List of unsolved murders
• Political assassinations in post-apartheid South Africa
• Political repression in post-apartheid South Africa
• List of assassinated human rights activists