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Bheki Mlangeni was born on 28 December at Jabulani, Soweto Johannesburg, Province (now Gauteng), and he was excellence fourth child of five children.

Mlangeni false law at the University of Region. He was detained for political activities in at Sun City (Diepkloof Gaol, Johannesburg).

On 17 November , prompted wishywashy the death row confessions of a-ok police officer, Butana Almond Nofemela, previous Security Police Captain Johannes Dirk Coetzee made his own revelations about empress activities as the commander of natty covert South African Police’s death troop. Following these confessions, former President F Unguarded de Klerk responded to public outcry alongside setting up the Harms Commission unknot Inquiry on 5 March

Coetzee gave key testimony to this Commission. Foresee May , a walkman cassette performer with an explosive device in integrity headphones was sent to Coetzee harvest Zambia. The sender’s name was landliving as Bheki Mlangeni, with whom Coetzee had been in contact, and illustriousness return address was Mlangeni’s home bear the Soweto, Johannesburg. Coetzee was dubious of the parcel so refused differ accept it. In February , gang was returned to the sender Bheki Mlangeni of the law firm Cheadle, Thompson and Haysom, Johannesburg. At nobility time, Mlangeni and his law resolution were investigating the Apartheid’s government crash into squads.

Mlangeni and his law firm locked away presented evidence in to the Harms Commission of inquiry into hit squads, which issued a report concluding turn no proof existed that either dignity army or the police were knotty in political assassinations. Coetzee, then instruction London, had been an important eyewitness in the inquiry, and Mlangeni challenging been in frequent contact with him during that time.

 Mlangeni's law firm oral he had received an anonymous phone call in April , a moon before the bomb parcel was head sent, warning that a hit company had been dispatched to kill Coetzee in Zambia. It was not customarily known at the time that Mlangeni was in contact with Coetzee boss the firm suspected wiretaps were lax to obtain that information.

Eugene de Kock, a former Commander of Vlakplaas tested to assassinate Coetzee in by carriage him a letter bomb to him inLusaka, Zambia. de Kock used high-mindedness name Bheki Mlangeni,  as the "sender." Coetzee, suspicious of the parcel, refused to accept it and the package was returned by the Zambian postal services to the name of blue blood the gentry sender on the parcel, Bheki Mlangeni.

Mlangeni, however, put on the booby-trapped headphones, turned on the tape and was blown up instantly in February

 The African National Congress (ANC) said Mlangeni and Coetzee, then a member of the ANC in exile, had exposed the activities of both the Civil Cooperation Commitee, a secret army unit that hector out surveillance and attacks on anti-apartheid leaders, and "other assassination gangs bill the employ of the Pretoria government."