Patrick Chamusso
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Patrick Chamusso (born in 1949 in Mozambique) is a former political prisoner, freedom fighter/terrorist and member of the ANC party of South Africa.
One of three sons, Patrick came to live in South Africa when as a teenager he followed his migrant worker father to work in the mines of South Africa performing odd jobs. After his father's death, Chamusso's mother remarried, and bore another daughter. [1]
He was responsible for the ANC bombing of the Sasol oil refinery at Secunda , which resulted in no casualties. He was arrested in 1980, held without due process, tortured and ultimately sentenced to 24 years in prison.
In 1991, as the apartheid system began to dismantle, having served only 10 years, Chamusso, like many political prisoners, was released under the new government's amnesty policy.
After his release, Chamusso married a woman named Conney, and the couple bore three children, in addition to fostering 63 AIDS orphans at their home in Mpumalanga.[1]
Chamusso rose to world prominence in October 2006, when Catch a Fire, a biographical film depicting his struggle against the system of Apartheid in South Africa, was released.
