- ZA HPRA A2084-A-Aa-Aa1-Aa1.1-Aa1.1.7
- Dossier
- 1981
Fait partie de Helen Suzman Papers
Fait partie de Helen Suzman Papers
Fait partie de Helen Suzman Papers
Includes: letter addressed to "Miss" from "Black Warders" at Point Prison complaining about the man in charge there who they call "UDIAMIN"; letter from Zonderwater Prison concerning the death by shooting with an R1 rifle of Joseph Kganagama and the death / murder of Edgar Banda at the same prison.
Fait partie de Helen Suzman Papers
Includes: 02/02/1980: from 'Dagga Smugglers' saying "We cannot sit back and spectate while our families starve to death ... [we are] forced to deal in dagga by the government's maladministration of SA ... We steal nothing, even the dagga money is ultimately taxed when we purchase furnitures [sic] and vehicles etc.".
Fait partie de Helen Suzman Papers
Fait partie de Helen Suzman Papers
Typed transcript provided.
Fait partie de Helen Suzman Papers
Fait partie de Helen Suzman Papers
Includes: 19/03/1979: photocopy of letter from an inmate of Allandale Prison referring to "Nazi law" and "Stalin camp" treatment of prisoners; 26/06/1979: letter from Velile Rasmen, St. Albans Prison, saying "Is the term [kaffir] not abolished. This prison is built in a modern [sic] way but what is done behind the scenes in it imitates Auschwitz in Poland."; 10/07/1979: letter from Victor Mkhele also St. Albans refers to "St. Albans imitates terrible Nazi concentration camps.... At the hospital section Dr. Lang and a coloured warder Mr. Peterson are playing a ruthless role... Prisoners of the 1976 unrest want your help.".
Fait partie de Helen Suzman Papers
Includes letter from China Mandela, St. Albans Prison, PE: "worst of all we are being told that we belong to an underprivileged [sic] race. Is the word kaffir not forbidden to use?", dated 20/07/1978.
Fait partie de Helen Suzman Papers
Fait partie de Helen Suzman Papers
Includes: letter concerning 3 deaths at Standerton prison due to ill-treatment; letter saying being imprisoned for dagga possession is unfair when "I found dagga selling and being smoked like hot buns" [in prison].