This Day in History: June 15, 1984
Additional Date: June 15, 1984
Former commander of the armed forces of the Ciskei, Major-General Charles Sebe, brother of President Lennox Sebe, was sentenced to twelve years' imprisonment after being found guilty of incitement to public violence. He was charged with being leader of an underground organisation, Iliso Lomzi, bent on destabilising the Ciskei government.
On 26 September 1985, a group of White men raided the Maximum Security Prison in Middledrift and freed Charles Sebe.