Stuk PWPFOCI043 - Focus on Political Repression in Southern Africa - Issue 43

1 newsletter (multi-page, printed text)

Part of the IDAF Focus series documenting political trials, labour repression, censorship, and military violence in Southern Africa.

South African History Archive (SAHA)

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.

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

No further accruals expected.

Chronologically arranged in the IDAF Focus series.

Open access for public and research purposes.

Reproduction allowed with proper citation of IDAF as source.

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OCR scanned document; readable and complete.

Originals held by the South African History Archives.

Digital copy available through the PWP projects and other Archives.

Issues 1–42, Trade union archives, Rabie Commission reports, SWAPO POW files, ANC trial transcripts, Koevoet documentation.

Focus', Issue No. 43. International Defence and Aid Fund, November–December 1982.

This issue offers substantial legal detail on political convictions, state brutality, constitutional entrenchment of apartheid, and union suppression.

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

This issue serves as a crucial resource for understanding the relationship between state violence, judicial process, and civil resistance under apartheid during late 1982.