full_name: Gerald Herman Giose
firstname: Gerald Herman
description: An MK operative who was detained and harassed by Security Police in Cape Town in 1963. He then tried to leave South Africa but was arrested on a Sweden-bound ship in Walvis Bay, Namibia. After refusing to give evidence against his fellow ANC members, Mr Giose was severely beaten and tortured in Cape Town. His incarceration and torture resulted in a severe mental breakdown and several years in a psychiatric hospital.