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Book launch: Parcel of death: The biography of Onkgopotse Abram Tiro

When: Thursday, 12 September 2019 - Thursday, 12 September 2019
Where: Braamfontein Campus East
Humanities Graduate Seminar Room, Ground floor, South West Engineering Building, Braamfontein Campus East
Start time:18:30
Enquiries:

Antonette.Gouws@wits.ac.za

The History Workshop will host the launch of the book, Parcel of Death: The Biography of Onkgopotse Abram Tiro by Gaongalelwe Tiro.

The book recounts the little-told life story of Onkgopotse Abram Tiro, the first South African freedom fighter to be pursued by the apartheid regime beyond the country's borders in order to be assassinated by means of a parcel bomb.

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