full_name: Thembani Samuel Ngcume
firstname: Thembani Samuel
description: A Soweto Area Committee chairperson and Port Elizabeth Youth Congress member who was repeatedly detained, threatened, interrogated, beaten and tortured between 1985 and 1987 at various locations in Port Elizabeth, by members of the SAP and named members of the Security Branch wanting information about the activities of UDF street committees during the state of emergency. He still suffers from memory loss, nervousness and panic attacks. 