full_name: Thandiwe Gladys Shezi
firstname: Thandiwe Gladys
description: Was detained, interrogated, assaulted, tortured and raped by Witwaters-rand Security Branch operatives at Sandton police station, Johannesburg, during 1988. Ms Shezi was detained because she was the girlfriend of one of the suspects in an MK bomb blast at Vanderbijlpark Square on 21 October 1988. A member of the Witwatersrand Security Branch was granted amnesty for the assault, but denied any knowledge of the rape (AC/2001/242). 