X-Nico

2 unusual facts about Popo Molefe


Popo Molefe

A 1985 arrest resulted in three years of detention without bail, followed by court proceedings in the Delmas Treason Trial.

•

Popo Simon Molefe (born 1952 in the Sophiatown district of Johannesburg) is a South African politician, and the former Premier of the North West Province.


Yunus Mohamed

When three senior members of the UDF – Frank Chikane, Popo Molefe and Patrick Lekota – and 19 others were arrested for treason, Mohamed was an instructing attorney in what became known as the Delmas Treason Trial.


see also

Rose Moss

A non-fiction book, Shouting at the Crocodile (1990) presents two defendants, Popo Molefe and Mosiuoa Lekota, in the Delmas Treason Trial during the last days of apartheid.