Nobuhle Hillary Mohapi, the widow of Mapetla Mohapi who died in detention, was banned for five years, in 1979, under the Internal Security Act.
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Mapetla Frank Mohapi
Born:
September 2, 1947
in Sterkspruit,Eastern Cape,South Africa
Died:
August 5, 1976
in East London, Eastern Province, (now Eastern Cape)
(Suicide by hanging)
Mapetla Frank Mohapi was born in the rural village of Jozanashoek, Sterkspruit in the former Transkei (now Eastern Province) on 2 September 1947. He studied at the University of the North (Turfloop), where he graduated with a degree in Social Work in the early 1970s.