full_name: Sonwabo Sydwell Mbekela
firstname: Sonwabo Sydwell
description: An MK operative who was tortured during interrogation in Umtata, Transkei, in September 1985 and again in December 1987. Mr Mbekela was charged with political offences and held in custody until 1989. One Transkei Security Branch operative was granted amnesty for the 1987 torture (AC/2000/076).