full_name: Edward Vuyo Charles
firstname: Edward Vuyo
description: An MK operative and former UDF chairperson for Welkom who was repeatedly detained, threatened and tortured by the SAP in Welkom, Orange Free State (OFS). He is reported to have gone into exile in 1985, but was killed at a police roadblock in Brandfort, OFS, on 15 December 1987, while entering South Africa from Lesotho in connection with MK activities. His family only first heard of his death shortly before the ANC arranged for exhumation of the body in 1991, and its reburial in Welkom.