full_name: Zubeida Jaffer
firstname: Zubeida
description: A journalist who was detained in July 1980 for reporting on police unrest shootings in Cape Town. During her forty two days of detention, she was interrogated, drugged, tortured and denied sleep for several days at a time. Ms Jaffer, also a trade union activist, was again detained in December 1985 for six weeks while pregnant. The life of her unborn child was threatened by a named member of the Security Branch.