full_name: Tholasi Ponnen
firstname: Tholasi
description: Was detained in 1965 and continually harassed by members of the Special Branch in Chatsworth, Durban, in regard to his brother-in-law, Mr George Gangen Ponnen, an underground SACP/ ANC activist and a leader of the trade union movement in South Africa. Mr Ponnen and his wife were interrogated as to the whereabouts of Gangen Ponnen and questioned about any communication they might have had with him. 