SHIBANDA, Mhlaba Solomon

Age 68

Description
A People’s Congress supporter who lost property and livestock when his house was petrol-bombed in August 1980 in Pietersburg, Transvaal . The attack was linked to conflict that erupted in February 1980 at Ga-Matlala village about Lebowa’ s proposed independence from South Africa. Residents who opposed independence were forcefully removed, their houses were burnt and their livestock taken to government farms.