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- January-June 1982 (Creation)
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March-May 1982: letters about Modika Mothibi Tatsa, detained for more than 18 months for refusing to be a state witness and then again under Section 10; includes letters from Priscilla Jana and others.
12/03/82: Helen Suzman request permission to visit Pollsmoor and Robben Island to assess the conditions; letter from Kobie Coetsee about the release of Esther Levitan [who was then about 60 years old] after being held for about 7 weeks.
30/03/82: Helen Suzman thanks Coetsee for arranging visit to Pollsmoor.
20/04/82: Letter from Alex Boraine MP about Mrs. Jenkins, mother of Tim Jenkins; she says her other son Michael is in jail for 1-3 years for assisting Stephen who escaped with Tim; they have photos of burn marks where he was given electric shocks — taken 7 weeks later when he was out on bail; wants to know if anything can be done.
28/04/82: letter to Coetsee thanking him for arranging the Prisons group [of MPs] tour of Robben Island on 24/04/82.
18/05/82: about a request from the 1st cousin of Raymond Mhlaba to be allowed to visit him for the first time since 1964.