Zone d'identification
Cote
Titre
Date(s)
- May–June 1980 (Création/Production)
Niveau de description
Étendue matérielle et support
1 newsletter (multi-page, printed text)
Zone du contexte
Nom du producteur
Dépôt
Histoire archivistique
Maintained within the IDAF archive series on legal repression and resistance movements in Southern Africa.
Source immédiate d'acquisition ou de transfert
South African History Archive (SAHA)
Zone du contenu et de la structure
Portée et contenu
This issue centers on the campaign to release Nelson Mandela, political trials involving ANC members, widespread detentions, prison conditions, and regional instability due to South African military incursions into Angola and Zambia. Key trials include those of James Mange, Renfrew Christie, and numerous ANC guerrillas. The issue details amnesties in Zimbabwe, restoration of study rights for political prisoners in South Africa, torture accounts of detained youth, and the banning of religious and civil society organizations in the Transkei. Also discussed are border attacks, military build-ups, and systematic pressure on frontline states.
Évaluation, élimination et calendrier de conservation
Retained permanently for historical research on Southern African political repression and human rights violations.
Accroissements
No further accruals expected.
Mode de classement
Filed as part of the chronological sequence of IDAF 'Focus' newsletters.
Zone des conditions d'accès et d'utilisation
Conditions d'accès
Open for public research and archival access.
Conditions de reproduction
Reproduction allowed with proper citation of IDAF as source.
Langue des documents
anglais
Écriture des documents
Notes de langue et graphie
Caractéristiques matérielle et contraintes techniques
OCR scan from printed bulletin; clear and complete.
Instruments de recherche
Instrument de recherche téléversé
Zone des sources complémentaires
Existence et lieu de conservation des originaux
Originals held by the South African History Archives.
Existence et lieu de conservation des copies
Digital copy available through the PWP projects and other Archives.
Unités de description associées
Issues 1–27, ANC trial records, IDAF Special Issue on Zimbabwe, South African military cross-border operations reports.
Note de publication
Focus', Issue No. 28. International Defence and Aid Fund, May–June 1980.
Zone des notes
Note
Key issue on escalation of military and legal repression amid calls for international solidarity and increasing civil resistance.
Identifiant(s) alternatif(s)
Mots-clés
Mots-clés - Noms
- Nelson Mandela (Sujet)
- Winnie Mandela (Sujet)
- James Mange (Sujet)
- Lucia Hamutenya (Sujet)
- Renfrew Christie (Sujet)
- Nto Mitta Maphike (Sujet)
- Thami Mkhwanazi (Sujet)
- Priscilla Jana (Sujet)
- Dorothy Nyembe (Sujet)
- David Russell (Sujet)
- Mamphela Ramphele (Sujet)
- Aubrey Mokoena (Sujet)
- Robert Mugabe (Sujet)
- Canaan Banana (Sujet)
- Archbishop Desmond Tutu (Sujet)
- Alexander Moumbaris (Sujet)
- Timothy Jenkin (Sujet)
- Stephen Lee (Sujet)
- Chief Sabata Dalindyebo (Sujet)
Mots-clés - Genre
Zone du contrôle de la description
Identifiant de la description
Identifiant du service d'archives
Règles et/ou conventions utilisées
ISAD(G): General International Standard Archival Description, Second Edition
Statut
Niveau de détail
Dates de production, de révision, de suppression
Langue(s)
Écriture(s)
Sources
Note de l'archiviste
Important issue capturing coordinated regional repression and grassroots responses, including the Mandela campaign, guerrilla warfare trials, and transnational solidarity movements.
