DYABOOI, Xolile ‘Maqoma’

Age 21

Description
A UDF supporter and Worcester youth activist who was arrested at the Botswana border post while trying to leave the country with four others in June 1987. He was severely tortured, first by members of the Bophuthatswana Police in that area, then taken back to the Cape and tortured again by named members of the Security Branch from Worcester. After being held under section 29 in solitary confinement for six months, Mr Dyabooi was sentenced to six years’ imprisonment.

TV Series Hearing Transcripts TRC Final Report Glossary

Transcript of episode 8, section 6, starting at: 29:35

When I say I’m affected psychologically, I’m not a psychiatric patient. But if you can ask any person who was detained under section 29 he will tell you the after effects of that. Anybody who was detained under that section never comes out a normal person again.

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