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After the photograph was released, he was harassed by the security services, and was forced to flee South Africa. His mother, Nombulelo Makhubo, told the Truth and Reconciliation Commission that she received a letter from him from Nigeria in 1978, but that she had not heard from him since. In 2013, claims emerged that a man imprisoned in Canada for the previous eight years on immigration charges was Makhubo.
Genetic tests were conducted to determine whether this man is indeed Mbuyisa Makhubo.
lieutenant was later reported that the deoxyribonucleic acid tests did not substantiate the man"s claim to be Makhubo, to the disappointment of Makhubo"s family.
