Mr Dumisani Mbatha aged 16,was among a group of students and youths detained under section 6(1) of the Terrorism Act in Johannesburg on 16 September 1976 during a demostration by Soweto students.He was held at Modderbee prison. After he was reported missing for several days his parents made inquiries at John Vorster Square ,at which stage they learnt of his death.

Ellen Elmendorp was born in the Netherlands and is a freelance documentary photographer based in South Africa.She has lived in Poland, Spain, Argentina, Finland, Cuba, Rumania, and England where she studied photography at the London Polytechnic.In 1988 after living and working in Europe and Latin America, she moved to Johannesburg where her first job was picture editor at the independent photo agency Afrapix and after living and working in Europe and Latin America. 

Mr Luke Mazwembe, aged 32 , a member of the Western Province Workers Advice Bureau and of the South African Student Association,was detained under section 22 of the General Law Amendment Act No 62 of 1966 on 2 September 1976. He was reported to have been found dead in his cell at Caledon Square police station,Cape Town,the same morning 2 hours after being detained .The police report released by the minister of justice said he was neither visited nor interrogated.

Mr Jacob Monnakgotla was detained under section 6(1) of the Terrorism Act on 29 January 1969 with nine other Bakubung tribesmen on charges of assault with intent to commit murder,after a dispute over a government proposal that, the tribe should be resettled in Ledig,between Elands River and Pilansberg. The dispute began in 1965 when the minister of Bantu administration and development announced the entire Bakubung tribe would have to leave their 74-year-old village at Molotestad and move to Ledig.