NGUBANE, Ntombenkulu

Age 24

Description
An ANC activist who was detained under emergency regulations in 1960, and tortured. In 1963, she was served with a five-year banning order confining her to Umlazi. She defied it and went into hiding in Clermont, near Durban. Arrested in 1964, she was tortured in detention and forced to sign a confession. Sentenced to nine years’ imprisonment, she lost her baby, which was delivered in prison.