Nicklo Pedro
MOSSEL BAY NEWS - The struggle icon Nicklo Pedro (54) lost his final battle last weekend when he succumbed to cancer at his home in Mossel Bay on Saturday 8 May.
In a statement released by the ANC of the Western Cape this week, Pedro is dubbed the people’s soldier and described as one of the brightest flowers of the revolution ensuring a free and democratic South Africa.
He was recruited by Umkhonto we Sizwe while studying law at the University of the Western Cape. After fleeing from the security police, he was arrested near the Lesotho border in 1987 and taken back to Cape Town where he suffered at the hands of the notorious Wo Jeffrey Benzien, whose torture techniques are legendary.