KATI, Zamiwonga James

Age 38

Description
An ANC member active in Transkei opposition politics who was detained in 1962 in the Eastern Cape and was severely beaten by police. He then served eight years on Robben Island from 1964. After his release in 1972 he was banned. In 1977 he was detained and tortured in Cape Town. He was detained in 1980 in the Transkei for his ongoing activity in opposition politics. In 1981 he was again detained in the Transkei and severely tortured there and in East London, after which he served an effective six year prison sentence for terrorism.