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A COSAS and CAYCO member who was detained in Worcester, Cape, during 1993, and charged for participating in a political campaign to boycott taxis belonging to local councillors. Following this detainment, he continued to be harassed by police, and eventually fled Worcester and went into hiding in ...

A COSAS member and chairperson of the Ikageng Youth Congress who was tortured in detention in Krugersdorp, Transvaal, in June 1986 and accused of having taken part in a necklace killing. Mr Gaduka was shot by a member of the SAP in Ikageng, Potchefstroom, Transvaal, on 30 April 1986 and detained ...

A Cosas member who was arrested in Vosloorus, Transvaal, on 8 April 1986 and subsequently sentenced to two years’ imprisonment. She was released on 18 October 1988. While at Klerksdorp prison, Ms Theledi was held in solitary confinement for a month and was allegedly deprived of food. Ms Theledi ...

A COSAS supporter whose family home was burnt down by AZAPO members during political conflict in Port Elizabeth in 1985. Mr Zigoxo was in detention at the time of the attack. His grandmother was injured in the attack. Mr Zigoxo, who subsequently joined MK in exile and was known as Marvin Gasupani, ...

A COSAS member who was recruited for military training by a Security Branch agent purporting to be an MK operative, and was killed in the Nietverdiend ambush near the Botswana border on 26 June 1986. Eight operatives from SADF Special Forces, Northern and Western Transvaal Security Branches were ...

A COSAS member who was recruited for military training by a Security Branch agent purporting to be an MK operative, and died in the Nietverdiend ambush near the Botswana border on 26 June 1986. Eight operatives from SADF Special Forces, Northern and Western Transvaal Security Branches were granted ...

A COSAS member who was recruited for military training by a Security Branch agent purporting to be an MK operative, and was killed in the Nietverdiend ambush near the Botswana border on 26 June 1986. Eight operatives from SADF Special Forces, Northern and Western Transvaal Security Branches were ...

A COSAS member who was recruited for military training by a Security Branch agent purporting to be an MK operative, and was killed in the Nietverdied ambush near the Botswana border on 26 June 1986. Eight operatives from SADF Special Forces, Northern and Western Transvaal Security Branches were ...

A COSAS member who was recruited for military training by a Security Branch agent purporting to be an MK operative, and was killed in the Nietverdiend ambush near the Botswana border on 26 June 1986. Eight operatives from SADF Special Forces, Northern and Western Transvaal Security Branches were ...

A COSAS member who was recruited for military training by a Security Branch agent purporting to be an MK operative, and was killed in the Nietverdiend ambush near the Botswana border on 26 June 1986. Eight operatives from SADF Special Forces, Northern and Western Transvaal Security Branches were ...

A COSAS member who was at a protest meeting against police brutality at City Rocks Stadium, Winterveld, Bophuthatswana, on 26 March 1986 when police opened fire. Eleven people were killed and two hundred injured in the City Rocks shooting. In the aftermath, police allegedly assaulted fleeing ...

A COSAS member who was shot, severely injured, and then beaten in a `Trojan Horse` type shooting by named members of the SAP and Railway Police concealed on a railway truck in Nyanga, Cape Town, on 25 March 1986. Two youths were shot dead in the incident. See Trojan Horse incident, Cape Town.

A COSAS member who was recruited for military training by a Security Branch agent purporting to be an MK operative, and was killed in the Nietverdiend ambush near the Botswana border on 26 June 1986. Eight operatives from SADF Special Forces, Northern and Western Transvaal Security Branches were ...

A member of COSAS who lost his fingers when a booby-trapped grenade exploded in his hand in Duduza, Nigel, Transvaal, on 25 June 1985. He was one of seven activists in the area recruited for supposed guerrilla training by Vlakplaas operatives and then killed or injured in the incident. Fifteen ...

A COSAS member who was recruited for military training by a Security Branch agent purporting to be an MK operative, and was killed in the Nietverdiend ambush near the Botswana border on 26 June 1986. Eight operatives from SADF Special Forces, Northern and Western Transvaal Security Branches were ...

A COSAS member who was recruited for military training by a Security Branch agent purporting to be an MK operative, and was killed in the Nietverdiend ambush near the Botswana border on 26 June 1986. Eight operatives from SADF Special Forces, Northern and Western Transvaal Security Branches were ...

A COSAS member who was recruited for military training by a Security Branch agent purporting to be an MK operative. He was killed in the Nietverdiend ambush near the Botswana border on 26 June 1986. Eight operatives from SADF Special Forces, Northern and Western Transvaal Security Branches were ...

A political activist and COSAS member who was abducted with three other youths from the Methodist manse by alleged Mandela United Football Club (MUFC) members and taken to Ms Madikizela-Mandela’s home in Diepkloof, Soweto, Johannesburg, on 29 December 1989. He was accused of being a police ...

A COSAS executive member who was shot and injured by SAP members while attending a student crisis meeting in Bloemfontein, on 27 April 1984. In April 1986, Mr Mohapi was severely beaten and tortured by named members of the Security Branch at the Fountain police station in Bloemfontein. Mr Mohapi ...