NHLAPHO, Sipho

Age 24

Description
A UDF supporter and student activist, was detained, harrassed and tortured by members of the Security Police from 1976 onwards. He moved to Balfour, Transvaal, and was kept in solitary confinement before being detained for about three months on suspicion of burning down a councillor’s house. He was later charged with resisting arrest, and sentenced to seven months in prison.