MOHAPI, White Mosoeunyane

Age 20

Description
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 was one of around 20 UDF activists arrested while trying to cross the border into Lesotho in April 1986, with the intention of joining the ANC in exile. In detention they were interrogated, tortured, beaten, subjected to degrading treatment and denied food. One member of the SAP was granted amnesty for the 1986 torture of Mr Mohapi (AC/1999/0026).