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ZA HPRA A2084-J-Ja-Ja1-Ja1.1-Ja1.1.2-Ja1.1.2.3
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Correspondence
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- 1972 (Creation)
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Letter to Helen Suzman from Miss Marja Ilmatar Vaisala, a Finnish missionary in South-West Africa since 1941 (and now over 60 years ols) writes about what the Finnish missionaries have heard is going on in Ovamboland since the emergency was proclaimed such as shootings, killings, collaborators being attacked, police using torture, including electric shocks, wet blankets, hanging people from poles, "I just wanted to let somebody know what we know."; 27/04/1972 from John Kane-Berman, then a SA Institute of Race Relations (SAIRR) research assistant, about SWA Employment Bureaux Regulations.