Matthews Marwale Mabelane by Maddie Measel
This article forms part of the SAHO and Southern Methodist University partnership project
Southern Methodist University Partnership Project - 2017 submissions
Maddie Measel
Project: Matthews Marwale Mabelane
Cole Worsham
Project: Nicodemus Kgoathe
Taylor Hare
Project: Simon Thembuyise Mndawe
P.J. Van den Branden
Mzukisi Nobhadula
Mr Mzukisi Nobhadula died in detention on 20 December 1977 at the North End Prison in Port Elizabeth.Mr Nobhadula was an awaiting-trial prisoner on a charge of perjury and had been held for 6 days at the time of his death.The perjury charge arose from evidence he gave in a public violence trial which resulted from the frequent violent clashes between police and students in PE during 1977. Subsequently a number of students were arrested and charged with inciting violence.
Obituary for Andrew Verster
Andrew Verster died peacefully in his bed on Sunday 16th February. It was the kind if death he would have wished for. No fuss, no drama – an end to a life well lived. Since his life partner, Aidan Walsh, died in July 2009 it seemed that life was never quite the same for him.
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Jock Strachan: Artist, guerilla, fighter pilot, bomb maker, fisherman, humourist, writer, hero
Jock Strachan – who died this month aged 94 – prevented a probable second massacre of black demonstrators outside Central Prison in Durban by deliberately standing with his young wife Maggie between them and white apartheid police pointing Sten guns, only days after the massacre at Sharpeville 60 years ago.
The police had already shot dead a “guileless, slightly built bloke with a bag full of Granny Smith apples”, left lying in the road.
The demonstrators were workers demanding the release of their leaders, locked up without trial in the prison.
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Rose Segwale
On 9th July 1977 a detainee,Mrs Rose Segwale ,aged 59,died in prison in Soweto.No further details are available.