MGALI, Matenza

Age 23

Description
Was seriously injured after being abducted at gunpoint with his neighbour by IFP-supporting hostel-dwellers and taken to Kwesine hostel in Tokoza, Transvaal, on 29 March 1991. Mr Matenza and his neighbour were questioned about the activities of civic activist Sam Ntuli, who was subsequently assassinated in September 1991. They were then burnt, stabbed and repeatedly shot by hostel-dwellers before being left for dead. Mr Matenza`s neighbour did not survive the incident. See also Ntuli funeral.