full_name: Gideon Madlongolwana
firstname: Gideon
description: Was arrested and charged, with twenty five others, with the crowd killing of a Municipal Policeman in Paballelo, Upington, Cape, on 13 November 1985. One of the Upington 26, he was convicted and, with 13 others including his wife, received the death penalty, spending two years on death row before the conviction was overturned on appeal in 1991.