QUMBELO, Mountain

Age 33

Description
A member of the ANC underground in Cape Town who was detained for many months and severely tortured by being electrocuted and suffocated by named members of the Security Police in October 1963 in Pretoria. He was given a six-year prison sentence that he won on appeal. He was then placed under a five-year banning order. In 1977 he was again detained and served a prison term on Robben Island from 1978 to 1983. Thereafter, as a UDF activist, he was repeatedly detained under emergency regulations from 1985 to 1989. See police brutality