These items provide additional context about oppression and resistance in South Africa with information about the concentration camps in the Anglo-Boer/South African War and the Black Consciousness movement.

Commission of Inquiry into the Structure and Functioning of the Courts, Chairman Mr Justice GG Hoexter.

The Commission was appointed in 1979 to investigate legislation relating to the protection of internal security. Also see 3.11.2. for publications.

Subjects include the application of the law, sentencing and the admissibility of statements. There are articles about individuals and the Legal Resources Centre with material about judges, attorneys, advocates and legal services for the disadvantaged.

Material from local black sports organisations and overseas organisations from Kairos file.

Organisations and items include:

Also see 2.1.2.3., 2.1.4.3., 2.1.5.3. for detention of students and youth, 3.4.4. for the detention of members of the Pan-Africanist Students Organisation.

These include reports from Kairos, reports and published letters from the United Nations, the International Association of Democratic Lawyers, Amnesty International and other reports on torture and deaths in detention. Material relates to investigations, campaigns and personal testimony.

These include reports and analysis of the presence of foreign torturers in South Africa, reports about two members of the medical profession who helped reveal the incidence of torture and abuse of detainees, Drs Wendy Orr and Jonathan Gluckman.