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QIBLA

Explanation
A movement of pro-PAC Muslims established by Achmat Cassiem in the 1980s with the aim of intensifying Muslim involvement in opposing apartheid.

A PAC activist trained in Libya who was arrested on the South African side of the Botswana border in February 1987 and detained and tortured in various prisons over the next year. He was reportedly interrogated about the QIBLA organisation and forced to testify in court against seven PAC members.
A member of QIBLA who disappeared in September 1988 after fleeing the country for political reasons. He had been detained several times before he left South Africa.
 
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