Mr. Lawrence Ndzanga, aged 53, a former secretary of the Railway Workers Union and a national executive committee member of the South African Congress Trade Unions (SACTU), was detained under section 6(1) of the Terrorism Act on 18 November 1976.
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He was held at the Johannesburg Fort. He was charged in terms of the Terrorism Act on 28 December and remanded in detention. Mr. and Mrs. Ndzanga were banned in 1964.
Both were detained in 1969 and twice tried and acquitted on charges under the Terrorism and Suppression of Communism Acts. They were again banned for 5 years after their acquittal.
The police issued the following statement regarding Mr. Ndzanga’s death: ‘He was detained on 18 November 1976, in terms of section 6 of the Terrorism Act, and on 28 December.
As an awaiting-trial prisoner, he was detained from 12 December in the Fort prison in Johannesburg where he died on 8th January 1977, of a heart attack.’ The results of the post-mortem reads as follows: Tuberculosis pleurisy-hydrothorax-and acute myocarditis-and cardiac failure(natural