THE DEATH IN DETENTION

OF PETRUS NCHABALENG

Duration: 8 mins

 

 

United Democratic Front Northern Transvaal President,

Petrus Nchabeleng, died in police detention on II April 1986.

At the time of his detention, Petrus Nchabeleng was living in the remote

Sekukuneland village of Apel, the region to which he had been banned

and banished by the South African government after serving an eight year

political sentence on Robben Island.

 

This report includes an interview and sequence filmed with Mr Nchabeleng

during his period of banishment in 1983.

 

The circumstances surrounding his death in police custody are

investigated through interviews with Mr Nchabeleng's wife,

son and Northern Transvaal Council of Churches field worker,

Mr Robert Maningi.