full_name: Mkongozeli Tharborn Tom
firstname: Mkongozeli Tharborn
description: A UDF supporter who was tear-gassed in his cell after being arrested on charges of public violence in Richmond, Cape, on 29 November 1985. After two months in custody he was convicted and sentenced to seven cuts. Mr Tom was detained on 16 June 1986 and held under emergency regulations for three months at Middelburg prison, Cape. See police brutality. 