full_name: Johannes Soidaha Silema-Malatsi
firstname: Johannes Soidaha
description: Was assaulted and set alight by youths at Ha-Maila, Venda, on 19 March 1990. Mr Silema-Malatsi, who was thought to be practising witchcraft to hinder political activism in the area, was pelted with stones, stabbed with a sword, interrogated and necklaced to death. Two perpetrators were granted amnesty; a third application was refused (AC/2000/094). 