Identity area
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Date(s)
- November–December 1982 (Creation)
Level of description
Extent and medium
1 newsletter (multi-page, printed text)
Context area
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Repository
Archival history
Part of the IDAF Focus series documenting political trials, labour repression, censorship, and military violence in Southern Africa.
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
South African History Archive (SAHA)
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Issue 43 provides in-depth coverage of labour repression in South Africa, including mass strikes, police violence, dockworker and miner disputes, and the suppression of the General Workers Union. It documents political trials of ANC members, including those of Barbara Hogan, Alan Fine, and others, with graphic accounts of torture. The issue includes updates on detentions and preventive detention under the new Internal Security Act, the massacre at Oshikuku (Namibia), SWAPO activities, and constitutional reforms aimed at entrenching apartheid. A full list of political detainees and those who died in custody since 1963 is also included.
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Retained permanently for historical research on Southern African political repression and human rights violations.
Accruals
No further accruals expected.
System of arrangement
Chronologically arranged in the IDAF Focus series.
Conditions of access and use area
Conditions governing access
Open access for public and research purposes.
Conditions governing reproduction
Reproduction allowed with proper citation of IDAF as source.
Language of material
English
Script of material
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Physical characteristics and technical requirements
OCR scanned document; readable and complete.
Finding aids
Uploaded finding aid
Allied materials area
Existence and location of originals
Originals held by the South African History Archives.
Existence and location of copies
Digital copy available through the PWP projects and other Archives.
Related units of description
Issues 1–42, Trade union archives, Rabie Commission reports, SWAPO POW files, ANC trial transcripts, Koevoet documentation.
Publication note
Focus', Issue No. 43. International Defence and Aid Fund, November–December 1982.
Notes area
Note
This issue offers substantial legal detail on political convictions, state brutality, constitutional entrenchment of apartheid, and union suppression.
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Subject access points
- Labour repression
- Dockworker strikes
- Mineworker protests
- ANC trials
- SWAPO
- Internal Security Act
- Torture
- Deaths in detention
- Constitutional reforms
- Pass laws
- Trade union persecution
- Political funerals
- Preventive detention
- Namibian massacres
- Koevoet
- Press censorship
- Political violence
- Psychological torture
Place access points
Name access points
- Barbara Hogan (Subject)
- Oscar Mpetha (Subject)
- Alan Fine (Subject)
- Neil Aggett (Subject)
- Ernest Dipale (Subject)
- Johannes Shabangu (Subject)
- David Moise (Subject)
- Thelle Mogoerane (Subject)
- Jerry Mosololi (Subject)
- Marcus Motaung (Subject)
- Thozamile Gqweta (Subject)
- Sisa Njikelana (Subject)
- Sam Kikine (Subject)
- Roggerio Chamusso (Subject)
- Charlton Ntuli (Subject)
- Robert Adam (Subject)
- Mandla Themba (Subject)
- Suzman Mokoena (Subject)
- Wilfred Marwane (Subject)
- Lillian Keagile (Subject)
- Prema Naidoo (Subject)
- Archbishop Desmond Tutu (Subject)
- Keith Coleman (Subject)
- Ismail Momoniat (Subject)
- Lazarus Shole (Subject)
- Jane Ntsathe (Subject)
- Laurence Peter (Subject)
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Rules and/or conventions used
ISAD(G): General International Standard Archival Description, Second Edition
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Archivist's note
This issue serves as a crucial resource for understanding the relationship between state violence, judicial process, and civil resistance under apartheid during late 1982.