full_name: Themba Abeshai Maqanda
firstname: Themba Abeshai
description: Was paralysed after he was shot and severely injured by a named town councillor in Vosloorus, Transvaal, on 13 December 1992. Mr Maqanda was returning from a mass meeting about a rent boycott when people taking part in a protest march tried to set the councillor`s house alight.