MORODU, Scheepers
Age 18
Description
As deputy chairperson of the Mamelodi Student Congress in Mamelodi, Pretoria, Scheepers was detained and tortured during interrogation, by Northern Transvaal Security Branch operatives in 1987. Three Northern Transvaal Security Branch operatives were granted amnesty for the incident. Shortly before his detention, his 11-year-old niece was killed in a petrol-bomb attack. Four Northern Transvaal Security Branch operatives, including the divisional commander, as well as the Deputy Commissioner of the Northern Transvaal SAP were granted amnesty (AC/1999/30, AC/1999/32, AC/2001/259, AC/2001/61).
Some of the policemen’s victims survived. Scheepers Morudu was a Mamelodi High School activist in the late 1980s. That was enough reason for Paul van Vuuren and his colleagues to torture him. Even worse, they forced him to become a police informer.
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