11/10/1974: newspaper cutting from the Pretoria News "Rogue police must be fired — Helen" and a House of Assembly question paper dated 06/09/1974 concerning how many people had been shot and killed or wounded by the SAP between January and June 1974.

22//10/1974: Memo to Helen Suzman from Barry Streek headed "Police Vote: SASO / BPC detentions"; the memo concerns arrests and detentions after pro-Frelimo rallies, Lindelwa and Brigett [sic] Mabandla, both of whom were detained for more than 3 weeks and who have a 6 month old baby. Streek also says "I have also enclosed some cuttings on discriminatory police pay and benefits — which could, usefully, be hammered, as well as low pay for police".

11/11/1974: letter addressed to Honourable Minister of Justice [presumably Jimmy Kruger] addressed "Dear Jimmy" with a list of prisons about which she'd received complaints during 1974 [12 are listed including Baviaanspoort, Lesley Prison Outstation and Oubiqua]; the letter also contains a paragraph referring to Robben Island and complaints she has received about conditions there. She goes on "I am about to leave for America and I will contact you on my return to see whether I can persuade you to change your mind about allowing me to visit Pretoria Special Section ... I hope you will manage to get some rest during the recess from troublesome some MPs who shall be nameless".

13/11/1974: Helen Suzman letter to Denis Herbstein at the UK Sunday Times concerning Jack Tarshish good recovery from open heart surgery and not being able to get Mrs. De Keyser (Ethel) a temporary visa to SA to visit her brother.

03/01/1975: letter from a Mrs. Robertson in South Hills — she says "we are poor people", they don't even have a telephone — about her son who is wasting away in Kroonstad Prison though he's only a short-term prisoner and Helen Suzman response.

23/03/1975: letter from Mr. W.G. Anderson to the Mayor of Boksburg about the state of Cinderella Prison.

29/07/1975: Letters to and from Mrs. Phyllis Naidoo at A.J. Gumede & Phyllis Naidoo Attorneys & Conveyancers in Durban concerning Robben Island authorities not accepting a R100 cheque for Billy Nair's studies.

June-July 1976: correspondence concerning Brian Henry Price who was imprisoned in Zonderwater Prison for 10 years for selling LSD from his yacht, then escaped, stowed away on the Windsor Castle and arrived back in the UK on 05/07/1976.

Undated letter from former prisoner Hugh Lewin to Helen Suzman from London "Dear Helen, Lovely to see you again — and many thanks for Thandi's teddy [Thandi is his daughter]"; letter goes on about new prison regulations concerning studying while jailed and that these regulations are essentially pernicious and could be invoked especially harshly against political prisoners including those held at Pretoria Local and Robben Island; he mentions Harold Strachan case, Thoms, Aucamp, Brigadier van Aardt and the Goldberg / Thoms affair of December 1972.

December 1971 — June 1972: correspondence concerning young white men being jailed, in military barracks, for refusing military service and then being sentenced again for refusing to wear uniforms whilst serving the original sentence. Voortrekkerhoogte barracks seem to be the worst. Letters from parents — Mrs. Lamb (who mentions that black JW's luckily don't get called up or imagine what their conditions of detention would be like), Ballantine and Minaar; also Admiral Bierman, Commandant-General of the SADF.

July — September 1978: correspondence concerning a T.G. Whitlock, jailed for dagga offences; correspondents are Helen Suzman, Mrs. Whitlock and Minister Jimmy Kruger; in a letter dated 05/09/1978 letter to "Dear Jimmy" re Whitlock, Helen Suzman also mentions detainee Mr. Khayalethu Mqayisa who was originally held under Section 6 and then Section 10 of the Internal Security Act; he became ill in Grahamstown jail; PEN [international writers group] has taken up his case.

15/11/1978: correspondence raising various cases with Minister Kruger including: a request to allow Thandi Magubane to visit her fiancé Stanley Nkosi (convicted under the Terrorism Act, jailed in 1977) on Robben Island, various dagga offenders and parole for them, Mr. M. Moodley, whose father is a member of the SA Indian Council, unable to get a firearms licence; Helen Suzman also thanks Kruger for investigating the case of Khayalethu Mqayisa and strongly protests the detention of Mrs. Sally Motlana under Section — "I cannot allow the continued harassment of leading members of the Soweto community to go unprotested.".

12/06/1979: correspondence between Helen Suzman and Minister Kruger [who now addresses her as "Dear Helen"] concerning a criminal prisoner with an artificial leg and Helen Suzman also thanks Kruger for allowing Mrs. Amiel to bring her grandson to SA to visit his father [Alex Moumbaris] at Pretoria Central; Helen Suzman also refers to Enoch Duma's application for a passport.

20/06/1979: Helen Suzman writes first letter to new Minister of Police, Louis le Grange — "Dear Louis, An early beginning to our relationship!".

09/07/1979: letter concerning Diliza Benedict Matshoba who had been sentenced for possessing banned books and now the Security Police won't let him go back to Soweto to live with his mother despite the fact that he has a job with Anglo.

23/07/79-30/10/79: Letter from Minister Le Grange concerning Diliza Matshoba's release and resettlement in Mdantsane by the Dept. of Cooperation & Development; Le Grange says "Your inference that his removal was on the instructions of the Security Branch is therefore unfounded. I may add however that in retrospect our Dept. fully endorses the action of the Dept. of Cooperation & Development." There are also some letters about the "harassment" of the owner of 'Pic a Movie'.

09/07/79-06/11/ 79: correspondence concerning continuing assaults on prisoners at St. Alban's Prison.

24/07/79-18/12/79: correspondence concerning the South African government denying UN employee and SA citizen Diana Boernstein (formerly Hermans) renewal of her passport; she was a producer and researcher on the UN film "White Laager"'.

21/08/78-19/11/79: letters from Ismail Ayob, the Dept. of Prisons, Helen Suzman, Advocate Ernie Wentzel concerning compensation for Mrs. Desai's stolen jewellery; the first offer was for R150, then R500 and finally R1000; Mrs. Desai was detained at Kroonstad Prison.

12/11/78: Helen Suzman to Le Grange asking if she can visit prisoners at Pretoria Prison around Christmas time as she used to do, especially those who have no family in SA — mentions David Rabkin as example.

18/12/79: Helen Suzman request to Brigadier Johan Coetzee that Curtis Nkondo be allowed to visit his brother Winston Nkondo (alias Victor Motlou) who is imprisoned in Bloemfontein.

11/01/79-23/01/80: Letter concerning the denial of a passport to Sabelo Neku, wanting to study in the US where his mother lives.

27/12/79: letter to T.N. (Norman) Westcott about "Nicky" and her file being looked at by the Security Police head Johan Coetzee.

26/07/80: handwritten note to Helen Suzman from 'Thelma' about police provocation and associated problems in Grahamstown — a boy and a woman shot dead by police, another boy bitten in the groin by police dog, why police have no visible identification etc., "Press may not enter the locations and we are therefore not in full possession of the facts".

HS visited Zonderwater Prison — "essentially for psychopathic prisoners" — a week prior to 20/10/80 — correspondence resulting from visit.