MBONGWE, Emmanuel Bongani 'Faustus'

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A UDF activist and member of the Trust Feeds Crisis Committee who was repeatedly harassed by named Inkatha supporters and members of the SAP in November 1988. He was detained on 23 November 1988 and held for 65 days under emergency regulations, during which time the Trust Feeds massacre took place. His house had been burnt in an arson attack about a year earlier, in October 1988. On 8 July 1990 he was shot and injured in a flat on the Durban beachfront while in the company of ANC-supporting Chief Mhlabunzima Maphumulo.