Glory Lefoshie Sedibe, popularly known as Comrade September (16 May 1953 - 20 March 1994), was a member of the African National Congress (ANC) and a senior Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) operative who in August 1986 was abducted by an Apartheid police death squad led by Eugene de Kock.
[1][2] He was a very prominent ANC activist in exile who went by the noms de guerre Comrade September, Lucky Seme and Wally Williams and was also nicknamed Dois M and Sebata.
[3] Sedibe's name featured high during the Truth and Reconciliation Commission that was established by Nelson Mandela's democratic government in 1996 and he was an example of how inhumane the Apartheid regime was to black people "who were often faced with no real choice at all [but] to betray their comrades or be killed," as journalist Rebecca Davis puts it.
Soon he rose through the ranks of the ANC's military wing Umkhonto we Sizwe to occupy positions of influence in exile, including becoming head of intelligence for the then Transvaal region.
He was taken to a house in Piet Retief where he was subjected to prolonged torture and interrogation for five months before he agreed to co-operate with police and was then transferred to Vlakplaas where he became an askari, murdering his own ANC comrades.
Ebrahim only served 6 years of this sentence and was released in 1991 when he won his appeal on grounds that the Apartheid police had illegally abducted him from Swaziland in December 1986 and had no jurisdiction to prosecute him[9][10][11] Sedibe died mysteriously on 20 March 1994.