full_name: Ezra Zeera Mtshontshi
firstname: Ezra Zeera
description: A PAC supporter who was arrested in 1963 in Southern Rhodesia (Zimbabwe) when he was twenty six, and handed over to the South African security authorities. He served a two-year sentence for leaving the country illegally. On 6 June 1976, he was detained in the Transkei and tortured. In 1980, he was forced to flee his home in the Transkei to avoid being served with a banishment order from the Transkei.