Fanyana Ishmael Malindi
Fanyana Ishmael
An MK operative and Sharpeville self-defence unit leader who was tortured and shot dead by members of the SAP in Orange Farm, Vereeniging, Transvaal, on 30 March 1993. Conflicting reasons for his arrest were given including robbery, the killing of white civilians at Eikenhof, and his connection to MK operatives killed by police in Sharpeville. Two others arrested with Mr Malindi provided sworn affidavits about extreme torture inflicted on him by the police before his death. Police also disrupted Mr Malindi`s funeral.