Anton Fransch
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Anton 'Gamka' Fransch (c. 1969 – 17 November 1989), nom de guerre Mahomad,{{cite book |title=Country of my skull: guilt, sorrow, and the limits of forgiveness in the new South Africa |last=Krog |first=Antjie |authorlink=Antjie Krog |year=2000 |publisher=Three River Press |isbn=978-0-8129-3129-7 |page=71 }} was a commander in uMkhonto we Sizwe.{{cite book |title=Unsettling accounts: neither truth nor reconciliation in confessions of state violence |last=Payne |first=Leigh A. |year=2008 |publisher=Duke University Press |isbn=978-0-8223-4082-9 |page=64 }} He was killed on 17 November 1989 in Cape Town by members of the South African Police and the South African Defence Force for his anti-apartheid activities, after a seven-hour siege in which he used hand-grenades and a machine gun.{{cite web | url=http://www.iol.co.za/news/south-africa/western-cape/mk-man-s-epic-gun-battle-remembered-1.1781987#.VGxeaPmUeSo | title=MK man's epic gun battle remembered | publisher=Cape Argus | date=18 November 2014 | accessdate=19 November 2014 | author=Meyer, Warda}}
Cultural references
Fransch is the subject of The Funeral of Anton Fransch, a poem by Tatamkhulu Afrika,{{cite book |title=The lava of this land: South African poetry, 1960-1996 |last=Hirson |first=Denis |year=1997 |publisher=Northwestern University Press |isbn=978-0-8101-5069-0 |pages=250–252 }} and the 2003 film Deafening Echoes, directed by Eugene Paramoer.{{cite book |title=Frame by frame three |last=McCluskey |first=Audrey T. |year=2007 |publisher=Indiana University Press |isbn=978-0-253-34829-6 |page=196 }}
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