The brutality of apartheid had a way of eroding fear, leading some "non-white" South Africans to realise that "we are doomed if we fight, we are doomed if we don't". In this spirit, Dan Mdluli rebelled against the state's repressive pass laws as a teenager in the sixties. In 1962, he bacame a member of Poqo, the armed wing of the Pan African Congress (PAC), to join other like Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe, who were already engagnin in various forms of resistance against apartheid and colonialism. This led to his arrest, torture, and incarceration on Robben Island.
The notorious Special Branch of the South African Police (SAP) continued to make his life hell even after his release and subsequent exile in swaziland. Arrested again during the rounding up and expulsion of the PAC in Swaziland in April 1978, he funcitoned as the PAC's chief representative.
As Serve, Suffer, and Scrifice suggests, many detainees weren't ale to withstand the suffering and torture at the hands of teh SAP… and paid the ultimate price. Fortunately, Dan Mdluli is happy to be alive and to have played his part in the struggle against apartheid having served, suffered and sacrificed a great deal.
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