He fled South Africa following the 1976 Soweto uprising at the age of 18 . He entered the Umkhonto We Sizwe ( MK ) in Angola , the armed wing of the ANC and soon rose up through the military structures of the MK . He traveled to Czechoslovakia with the MK , where he received specialist military training . On 21 May 1985 , Nkadimeng was killed by a car bomb placed by the apartheid police
1976 Soweto uprising
Soweto uprising
Vernon Nkadimeng