Tanzania opened a Furniture factory that was known as the Vuyisile Mini Factory (VMF). At the time of his death, Mini was married, and had six children. One of his children, Nomkhosi Mini became a member of MK and survived a March 1979 South African Defence Force attack on the Novo Catengue camp in Angola. She was shot dead by members of the notorious Vlakplaas hit squad when they raided two houses in Maseru, Lesotho on 19 December 1985. Seven members of the Security branch, including its then deputy chief were refused amnesty for this killing. Private life Mini was a gifted actor, dancer, poet and singer (he was a member of various groups and a prominent member of the P.E. Male Voice Choir). He is remembered for the songs he composed as well as their delivery in his powerful bass voice, sometimes militant, and at other times nostalgic. His words composed during the Treason Trial, Thath' unthwalo Buti sigoduke balindile umama no bab' ekhaya (Take up your things Brother and let's go, they are waiting, our mothers and fathers, at home), came to take on new associations as the forced relocation scheme of apartheid made Black people refugees in the land of their birth. He is remembered for composing one of the most popular liberation songs of the 1950s, Pasopa nantsi 'ndondemnyama we Verwoerd, (Look out, Verwoerd, here are the Black people). See also Amandla!: A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony Notes References Ngqungwana, R.M.T. [DISA document of an adaptation of a radio script by the author]. Accessed on the Internet 21 September 2004: http://disa.nu.ac.za/articledisplaypage.asp?articletitle=Vuyisile+Mini&filename=DaSI86 Reddy, E. S. (1974). 'Vuyisile Mini' in Notes and Documents, No. 31/74, November. Accessed from Internet 21 September 2004: http://www.anc.org.za/ancdocs/history/misc/mini.html Truth & Reconciliation Commission, (2002). Truth & Reconciliation Commission of South Africa Report, Vol. 7, Cape Town: Juta, p. 428. External links www.dispatch.co.za/1998/04/08/southafrica/MK.HTM www.sacp.org.za/biographies/vmini.html South Africa Bulletin, February 1965, reports on the execution of Vuysile Mini, Zinakele Nkaba, and Wilson Knayinga, The African Activist Archive Project website has documents on Vuyisile Mini, including: MEMORANDUM ON POLITICAL PRISONERS AND TRIALS IN SOUTH AFRICA by the American Committee on Africa (about April of May 1964), South Africa Bulletin (February 1965) by the American Committee on Africa, and UNITED NATIONS AND THE AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS Partners in the Struggle against Apartheid by E.S. Reddy (October 2012) 1920 births 1964 deaths 20th-century executions by South Africa Anti-apartheid activists 20th-century