Pièce PWPFOCI028 - Focus on Political Repression in Southern Africa - Issue 28

1 newsletter (multi-page, printed text)

Maintained within the IDAF archive series on legal repression and resistance movements in Southern Africa.

South African History Archive (SAHA)

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.

Retained permanently for historical research on Southern African political repression and human rights violations.

No further accruals expected.

Filed as part of the chronological sequence of IDAF 'Focus' newsletters.

Open for public research and archival access.

Reproduction allowed with proper citation of IDAF as source.

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OCR scan from printed bulletin; clear and complete.

Originals held by the South African History Archives.

Digital copy available through the PWP projects and other Archives.

Issues 1–27, ANC trial records, IDAF Special Issue on Zimbabwe, South African military cross-border operations reports.

Focus', Issue No. 28. International Defence and Aid Fund, May–June 1980.

Key issue on escalation of military and legal repression amid calls for international solidarity and increasing civil resistance.

ISAD(G): General International Standard Archival Description, Second Edition

Important issue capturing coordinated regional repression and grassroots responses, including the Mandela campaign, guerrilla warfare trials, and transnational solidarity movements.