full_name: Palele Windvoel Qawula
firstname: Palele Windvoel
description: An ANC activist who was arrested by police, tied to a tree and severely beaten by named members of the SAP in Worcester, Cape, on 19 April 1960, for his involvement in the anti-Pass Law campaign. He then spent four months in custody at Paarl and Worcester prisons where he was beaten, ill-treated and deprived of food. He was finally given a suspended sentence. 