McKENZIE, Keith Charles

Age 35

Description
Was detained in Botswana by ANC security members in April 1987 and held for several years in Zambia and Angola during which he suffered severe ill-treatment. McKenzie, originally from Eersterus, Transvaal, was, at the time, involved in a joint Northern and Western Transvaal Security Branches and Special Forces operation which resulted in the deaths of three Batswana citizens, including two children, and injury to three others. This occurred when, a few days after his detention, South African security agents found the bus he had been driving and detonated the bomb it was carrying. According to amnesty applicants, Mr McKenzie was unaware he was driving a booby-trapped vehicle. Five members of the Security Branch were granted amnesty for the explosion (AC/2000/0214).