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THYSE, Jan

Age 49

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A minister of religion and a UDF supporter who was arrested with 27 other clergy during the Pollsmoor march on 28 August 1985, and held in humiliating conditions for five days at Pollsmoor prison, Cape Town. The day after their arrest they were severely suffocated when a teargas canister was thrown into the closed police vehicle that was taking them to court.

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