James "Stompie" Seipei (1974-6 January 1989) was a United Democratic Front activist from Parys, South Africa. On 29 December 1988, he was kidnapped by Winnie Mandela's "Mandela United FC" security detail and murdered after he was suspected of being a police informant.
Biography[]
James Seipei was born in 1974, and he joined the street uprisings against apartheid in the 1980s. He was South Africa's youngest political detainee when he was thrown in prison at the age of twelve, and he was expelled from school a year later. Using the pseudonym of "Stompie Moeketsi", he decided to join Winnie Mandela's "Mandela United FC" security detail to fight against apartheid, and Mandela promised him that she would protect him. However, her security chief Jerry Musivuzi Richardson claimed that security guard Anton had seen Stompie speaking with policemen at the Paris soccer game, and he told Mandela that Seipei was a police informant. In response, Mandela allowed Musivuzi and his men to kidnap Seipei from Paul Verryn's church hostel on 29 December 1988. Seipei was murdered, and his body was found on 6 January 1989 with his throat slit.