Lt. General Xhanti Charles Sebe[1] was leader of the Ciskei Defence Force- the military of the Bantustan of Ciskei, and its Director of State Security. A former Security Branch policeman, he later joined the South AfricanBureau of State Security (B.O.S.S.) before founding the Ciskei state security apparatus.[2]
Described as having created a police state in Ciskei,[3][4] and being perceived as its de facto ruler,[5] he is the young brother of Lennox Sebe. He was subsequently arrested by his brother's government, and sentenced to prison by the Ciskei government for incitement,[6][7] but was rescued from jail by white mercenaries,[8] and escaped to the nearby Bantustan of Transkei, where he began an organisation that aimed to overthrow his brother's government.[9]
Sebe was lured, with Onward Guzana, back to Ciskei in an operation orchestrated by South African security forces[10][11] in 1991 27/28 January, during the rule of Oupa Gqozo, and, having been wounded in an ambush which killed an associate, was the subject of a manhunt, and he was subsequently shot to death by the Ciskei Security forces.[11][12][13] Gqozo was tried in 1993 for murder by the Ciskei Supreme Court and, with codefendant Sergeant-Major Thozamile Veliti, was acquitted.[14]
