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- September-November 1966 (Creation)
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July-September 1966 correspondence concerning 2 'mental' patients R.W. Campbell and F.P. Botha; September 1966 correspondence concerning the incident right after Verwoerd was stabbed in Parliament when P.W. Botha rushed over to Helen Suzman and said (her own words) " "Now it's war, it's these liberalists, we will get them all ... The liberalists and the communists — now it's war ..." He then turned to me and brandishing his finger he said to me "It's you, you and the liberalists — you are responsible for this — you are inciting them — you." "; various items of correspondence from Helen Suzman commenting on the Improper Interference Bill, the Universities Bills, the "disbarring of legal men under the Anti-Communist Amendment Bill"; September October 1966 correspondence concerning the refusal of a permit to Bishop Crowther to visit the Taung District (see also above) and reaction to the assassination of Verwoerd; 10/10/1966 letter to Helen Suzman from a coloured man in Durban, John Montierer, about 'Indians' "having more areas proclaimed for their occupation than us Coloureds should be legally entitled to encroach [sic] on our area to trade in order to enrich themselves from the pockets of the Coloured community."; October 1966 letters concerning banning of people post their release from prison; November 1966 correspondence concerning the rights of African women in urban areas plus 2 cuttings, one concerning correspondent Mrs. Sophie Mabison; 08/11/1966 letter from Mrs. Joyce Harris to the (London) Sunday Times about the concept of "majority rule" in Africa; October — November 1966 correspondence concerning a reference for a Rhodes Scholarship for Robin Margo.