MARWANQANA, Alfred Fikile

Age 50

Description
An ANC member from Port Elizabeth who was shot dead in an attack by SADF Special Forces operatives on several ANC houses and a block of flats in Maseru, Lesotho, on 9 December 1982. Thirty South Africans, including Mr Marwanqana`s son and daughter, and 12 citizens of Lesotho were killed in the midnight attack. Mr Marwanqana had previously been imprisoned for six and a half years on Robben Island for political offences, and thereafter banished to Ilinge, near Queenstown. After 12 years of banishment, he and his family fled to Lesotho four days prior to the raid.