Arrested days after her wedding, nurse recounts electrocutions, beatings in Pretoria jail

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2026-08-23

ONGHA, 15 August 2026 - Retired nurse Anna Nghihondjwa-Haipinge. (Photo by Eba Kandovazu) NAMPA

By Eba Kandovazu

ONGHA, 23 AUG (NAMPA) - The courage Anna Nghihondjwa-Haipinge showed as a young woman helping PLAN fighters placed her directly in the sights of the South African apartheid soldiers, leading to torture and imprisonment.
Now 77, retired nurse and war veteran, Nghihondjwa-Haipinge, remembers how, just 12 days after she got married on 4 October 1975, she was arrested when South African troops, whom she remembers as “omakakunya”, ra...

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WINDHOEK, 23 August 2026 - A photo of former nurses - Anna Nghihondjwa-Haipinge (L) and Rauna Nambinga - on the day they arrived at the Windhoek railway station from Pretoria where they were jailed as political prisoners. (Photo: Contributed) NAMPA

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