full_name: Mthunzi Thabani Basil Sithole
firstname: Mthunzi Thabani Basil
description: An ANC supporter who was stoned to death by a named perpetrator at Osizweni, KwaZulu, near Newcastle, Natal, on 15 September 1991 in ongoing political violence between IFP and ANC supporters in the area. Five years earlier, in 1986, Mr Sithole was detained in Newcastle and Pietermaritzburgand severely assaulted. He was charged and convicted of involvement in the placing of bombs in businesses in the Newcastle area, and was imprisoned on Robben Island from November 1986 to 1991. He was killed four months after his release.