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A member of COSAS who was killed when a booby-trapped hand-grenade exploded in his hands on 25/26 June 1985. Fifteen Security Branch operatives, including the head of the Security Branch and other senior personnel, were granted amnesty for the operation (AC/2001/058). See Operation Zero Zero.

A COSAS member who was arrested and tortured by suffocation by members of the Security Police on 14 May 1980 in the Sanlam Building, Strand Street, Port Elizabeth. Security Police wanted him to admit to the killing of the head of the Peacemakers in Grahamstown during the student boycotts of 1980.

A COSAS member who was killed when a booby-trapped hand-grenade exploded in his hands on 25/26 June 1985. See Operation Zero Zero. Fifteen Security Branch operatives, including the head of the Security Branch and other senior personnel, were granted amnesty for the operation (AC/2001/058).

A member of COSAS who was injured when a booby-trapped hand-grenade exploded in his hands on 25/26 June 1985. Fifteen Security Branch operatives, including the head of the Security Branch and other senior personnel, were granted amnesty for the operation (AC/2001/058). See Operation Zero Zero.

A COSAS member who was interrogated and tortured by beating and having pins stuck into his penis by named members of the SAP in Bedford and Cradock police stations. He was arrested in Lesotho while attempting to join MK in exile on 15 June 1985. He was charged with leaving the country without a ...

A COSAS member who was interrogated and tortured by beating and having pins stuck into his penis by named members of the SAP in Bedford and Cradock police stations. He was arrested in Lesotho while attempting to join MK in exile on 15 June 1985. He was charged with leaving the country without a ...

A COSAS member who was beaten by members of the Security Police while in detention at Cambridge police station, East London, on 18 June 1986. She was accused of burning the homes of two police members during the 1986 state of emergency. See police brutality.

A COSAS member who is assumed to have been burnt to death by Vlakplaas operatives at Vlaklaagte, KwaNdebele, in June 1986. Malobola was recruited with eight other youth activists by Vlakplaas askaris for supposed military training. The house they were staying in was set alight and their bodies were ...

A COSAS supporter who was severely beaten on 12 April 1993 in Soweto, Johannesburg, by members of the SAP while attending a night vigil for assassinated SACP leader Chris Hani. Police interrupted the vigil and insulted Chris Hani before beating up mourners and firing birdshot at them.

A member of COSAS who was seriously injured when a booby-trapped hand-grenade exploded in his hands on 25/26 June 1985. Fifteen Security Branch operatives, including the head of the Security Branch and other senior personnel, were granted amnesty for the operation (AC/2001/058). See Operation Zero ...

A member of COSAS who was severely injured when a booby-trapped hand-grenade exploded in his hands on 25/26 June 1985. Fifteen Security Branch operatives, including the head of the Security Branch and other senior personnel, were granted amnesty for the operation (AC/2001/058). See Operation Zero ...

A COSAS and Alexandra Youth Congress member who was tortured while in detention in Johannesburg Prison, in 1986. Ms Bapela was detained at Sun City Prison under emergency regulations during 1985 and was only released in 1988. Ms Bapela and other activists launched a protest demanding to be charged ...

Was harassed by Security Police in Chesterville, Durban, from 1981 onwards because her son was a COSAS member. He left for exile in 1983, but harassment continued, culminating in her house being set on fire in 1985, allegedly by the police. When her son and other members of his unit were shot dead ...

A COSAS member and UDF supporter who was shot and injured by members of the Security Branch in Bloemfontein, on 18 April 1985, while participating in a march to commemorate the Uitenhage and Sharpeville massacres. An Orange Free State Security Branch operative was refused amnesty owing to ...

A COSAS supporter who was severely beaten in detention by named Security Branch members on 23 October 1980, 3 February 1985, in August 1985 and on 14 July 1986, at Cradock police station, Cape. On 27 March 1984, Mr Jacobs was detained at Pollsmoor prison. He was then served with a banning order.

A COSAS member who was assaulted by members of the SAP at Mhlotshana High School in Whittlesea, Ciskei, in 1980, during a school boycott. He was later charged, together with other students, with the stoning to death of a policeman, and was detained at Whittlesea police station for two weeks. ...

A founding member of COSAS who was detained, assaulted and tortured by suffocation in Johannesburg in 1976. Ms Tyawa was detained at various times by the Security Police at John Vorster Square and Protea police station because of her political involvement. Ms Tyawa was held in solitary confinement ...

A COSAS member who was detained and subjected to electric shocks by named and other members of the SAP in Khutsong, Carletonville, Transvaal , on 18 January 1986. He was released later that day and told to ‘be careful’. Many youths were arrested at the time as Khutsong erupted in violent ...

A member of COSAS who was severely injured when a booby-trapped hand-grenade exploded in his hands on 25/26 June 1985. Fifteen Security Branch operatives, including the head of the Security Branch and other senior personnel, were granted amnesty for the operation (AC/2001/058). See Operation Zero ...

... was thrown into a police vehicle and assaulted by members of the SAP in Daveyton, Benoni, Transvaal, in June 1986. He was at a night vigil of a COSAS member when police ordered mourners to disperse and then fired at them. Mr Mabuza had his fingers and both legs amputated as a result of his ...