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.