Member of the SRC at University of Natal (Non-European section), first president of SASO, Chair of SASO Publications, Bl...
Labour activist, medical doctor, organiser of the Transvaal Brach of the African Food and Canning Workers’ Union and the...
political prisoner, political detainee, banned person, member of SASO, died in detention
Legal clerk, political activist, Transvaal Indian Congress member, fourth person to die in police custody for political ...
Muslim cleric, killed in police detention
Trade union, community and political activist, member of CRADORA. One of the ‘Cradock Four’ murdered by the South Africa...
Teacher, member of the South African Communist Party, first political detainee to die at the hands of the Security Polic...
Member of the ANC, banished person
Matthew Goniwe was born on 27 December 1947 in Lingelihle Township on the outskirts of Cradock in the Eastern Cape. His ...
Hawker, member of the ANC and MK
Masango Caleb Job Mayekiso was born 1913 in Idutywa Transkei. He was a factory worker in Port Elizabeth.He was a genuine...
Mayatula was born in 1921 in Willowvale in the Transkei,attended Lovedale and was a member of the African National Congr...
Trade unionist who brought the grievances of black workers int white homes through a crippling of Johannesburg municipal...
Mr Sifundile Matalazi,aged 27 died on 20 December 1980 in Umtata in the Transkei after being held for 112 days.The Act u...
Mr Mzukisi Nobhadula died in detention on 20 December 1977 at the North End Prison in Port Elizabeth.Mr Nobhadula was an...
On 9th July 1977 a detainee,Mrs Rose Segwale ,aged 59,died in prison in Soweto.No further details are available.
Mr Aaron Khoza,aged 35,from Kagiso was detained on 9 December 1976 in Krugersdorp in terms of section 6(1) of the Terror...
Mr Samuel Malinga,aged 45,died in the intensive care unit of the Edendale Hospital in Pietermaritzberg on 22 February 19...
On 15 February 1977 Mr Matthews Mabelane,aged 23,fell to his death from the tenth floor of John Vorster Square,Johannesb...
A member of the African National Congress (ANC), Malele was an activist involved in the 1952 Defiance Campaign, one of t...
Mr Lawrence Ndzanga,aged 53, a former secretary of the Railway Workers Union and a national executive committee member o...
Mr George Botha aged 30,a coloured teacher at the Patterson High School in Port Elizabeth, was detained on December 197...
Mr Wellington Tshazibane,aged 30,an employee of the De Beers-Lesotho Mining Company,was detained on 9th December 1976 at...
Mr Ernest Mamashila, aged 35,was detained on 16 November 1976 under section 6(1) of the Terrorism Act.His wife was told ...
Mr Edward Mzolo,aged 40, who died on 9th October 1976,was the third person to die at the Johannesburg Fort in 2 weeks. N...
In February 1977 a Cape Times report revealed that a detainee,Mr Robert L Barber,had died in detention in October 1976 i...
On the 5th of October 1976 Mr Jacob Mashabane, aged 22, a University of Zululand student was reported to have died in de...
Mr Fenuel Mogatusi, aged 22, a Soweto school student,was detained in July 1976 and died in detention on 28 September 197...
Mr Dumisani Mbatha aged 16,was among a group of students and youths detained under section 6(1) of the Terrorism Act in ...
Mr Luke Mazwembe, aged 32 , a member of the Western Province Workers Advice Bureau and of the South African Student Asso...
Mr William Nomodi Tshwane was reported to have been detained with other Soweto students on 25 July 1976 and held at Modd...
Mr Thola Mosala was detained on 31 August 1976 together with chief Neo Sibi. Mr Mosala was a leader of a Sotho minority ...
Mr Jacob Monnakgotla was detained under section 6(1) of the Terrorism Act on 29 January 1969 with nine other Bakubung tr...
Mr Michael Shivute was detained on 16th June 1969 under section 6(1) of the Terrorism Act and was held at the Ondagwa po...
Member of the African National Congress (ANC) and South African Communist Party (SACP), Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) Commander...
Caleb Mayekiso was an African National Congress (ANC) supporter who was arrested on 16 January 1964 in Graaff-Reinet, C...
Mr Solomon Modipane was another of the Bakwena tribesman .He was detained on 25 February 1969 and held under section 6(1...
Mr Nicodemus Kgoathe was one of eleven Bakwena-ba-Mokgopa tribesmen detained after an attempt was made to burn down the ...
According to the minster of police in May 1969 Mr Jundea Tubakwa was detained on 10th September 1968 under section 6(1) ...
Political Activist
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