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Detainees Parents Support Committee (DPSC), Records Subseries
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Simon Nkoli, Diaries written in detention

Diaries kept by the detainee Simon Nkoli in prison.

Simon Nkoli was arrested and charged as one of 21 accused, all of which were associated with the United Democratic Front (UDF). The main charge was treason, and the protracted trial became known as the Delmas Treason Trial.

Simon Nkoli was also a gay rights activist. His personal papers are housed at the Gay and Lesbian Archive (GALA) at Wits University, among them missing pieces of his diary on tissue paper.

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Subjects include: Detainees on Hunger Strike (includes memoranda handed to prison authorities to be presented to Minister of Law and Order/ StatePresident from detainees); Informal State of Emergency; conditions and treatment of detainees; Vaal detainees; death in detention; DPSC Annual Conference.

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Correspondents include: Amnesty International: Azanian Students Organisation (AZASO); entraide et fraternite; General and Allied Workers Union; Inter Union Project; Network of Concern for South African Detainees; Peter Soal; South African Catholic Bishops Conference (SACBC); Soweto Parents' Crisis Committee; United Democratic Front.

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