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Solomon Ngobeni (died 14 November 1989) was the last person to be executed by the government of South Africa. In October 1987, Ngobeni was found guilty and sentenced to death for shooting dead Mackson Kubayi, a driver of a Peugeot bakkie (a South African term for pickup truck) during a robbery in Nwamitwa, Transvaal. Ngobeni was convicted and hanged at Pretoria Central Prison on 14 November 1989.