MAGUBANE, Peter

Age 37

Description
Was detained in 1969 and held in solitary confinement for five hundred and eighty six days in Johannesburg. Mr Magubane failed in his application for a court interdict to stop torture and interrogation by a named member of the Security Police in 1970. On release Mr Magubane was banned for five years which resulted in him losing his job as a photojournalist. He was continually harassed by police during his coverage of the 1976 Soweto uprising and in 1985 he was injured when police opened fire with birdshot. See Soweto uprising.