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Detainees Parents Support Committee (DPSC), Records
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Correspondence received from detainees in various prisons

Appeals; Requests for food, tracksuits...; Requests for legal assistance.

Items include: Section 29 Detainees - Duduza, Tsakane and Kwa Thema injured in handgrenade explosions; Appeal from Section 28 Detainees -Pietersburg (Peter Mokaba - Publicity Secretary of Mankweng Civic Association/Maca & UDF Northern Transvaal Coordinating Committee Treasurer; Frans Mohlala - Mayco President & UDF Transvaal Rural Organiser; Louis Mnguni - Maca Chairperson, UDF Northern Transvaal Chairperson & Descom member); Section 29 Detainees at Sun City; Pretoria Local Prison; Leeukop Maximum Prison; Johannesburg Prison; Potchefstroom Prison; emergency detainees held at Modderbee re legality of their continued detention (21 August 1986).

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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