full_name: Mary Nongazi Shongwe
firstname: Mary Nongazi
description: Was subjected to psychological torture and harassment by members of the SAP in 1990 in Brits, Transvaal, after her son was shot dead and his taxi was found filled with explosives at a parking garage attached to police headquarters in Pretoria. It later emerged that Mr Shongwe’s son was killed by an MK operative and his taxi was then used to make a car bomb. The bomb was discovered before it exploded.