Flag Boshielo

Flag Marutle Boshielo (born 1920; disappeared 20 August 1970) was a South African anti-apartheid activist, trade unionist, and communist. He went into exile with the African National Congress (ANC) after the party was banned in 1960 and served as political commissar of Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) from 1969 until his disappearance in 1970. He went missing in August 1970 during an unsuccessful MK operation after his contingent was ambushed. He is presumed to have died in 1970 or soon afterwards.

Early life and activism Boshielo was born in 1920 in Phokoane in Sekhukhuneland in the former Northern Transvaal. In his 20s, he moved to Johannesburg, where he found work as a gardener and later as a driver for a bakery. He was also a founding member of Sebatakgomo, a resistance movement formed by Sekhukhune migrant workers in Johannesburg that went on to play a central role in the 1958 Sekhukhuneland revolt. The proposal was adopted and, in addition, Boshielo was appointed as MK's overall political commissar.

Boshielo is presumed to have died at Caprivi or in subsequent detention in Rhodesia. He is also the namesake of the Flag Boshielo Dam in Limpopo (present-day Northern Transvaal).