full_name: Sidney Tumisani `Papa` Mvelase
firstname: Sidney Tumisani `Papa`
description: An NUM official and ANC supporter from Ditlhake, Koffiefontein, Orange Free State (OFS), died in Kimberley hospital, Cape, on 5 September 1988. Mr Mvelase had left home the previous day wearing a political T-shirt. The family members who identified the body attested to the fact that it bore severe head wounds, bruises and signs of torture to the genitals. There was a strong police presence at his funeral.