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MADAKA, Tobekile `Topsy`

Age 28

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Was one of two ANC members abducted by the Port Elizabeth Security Branch in Port Elizabeth on 14 April 1982. They were given a drink containing a sedative and shot in the head. Their bodies were placed on a pile of branches, doused with diesel and then set alight. Their remains were allegedly thrown into the Fish River. Four members of the Port Elizabeth Security Branch, including the divisional commander, were granted amnesty for this operation (AC/2000/034).

and two colonels faced the nation to unravel the secrets surrounding the deaths of Eastern Cape student leader Siphiwo Mtimkulu and his friend Topsy Madaka. General Gerrit Erasmus who gave the order for the killing; General Nick van Rensburg, a multiple killer who assassinated one of the young ...
 
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