Zone d'identification
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Date(s)
- January–February 1983 (Création/Production)
Niveau de description
Étendue matérielle et support
1 newsletter (multi-page, printed text)
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Histoire archivistique
Stored and preserved as part of IDAF’s archive on political repression 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 focuses on increasing military control in Namibia, particularly through South Africa’s use of intelligence and military figures to override civil authority. It documents multiple cases of deaths in detention (notably in Kavango), systemic torture by security police, conditions in Namibian hospitals, repression of trade unionists, political trials (including Barbara Hogan, Cedric Mayson, and Allan Fine), abuses of the Internal Security Act, political detentions, and apartheid’s legal manipulation. Includes statistical updates, case reports, and trial summaries relating to anti-apartheid activists, students, and workers across Southern Africa.
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
Chronological within the 'Focus' newsletter series.
Zone des conditions d'accès et d'utilisation
Conditions d'accès
Open for public access and academic research.
Conditions de reproduction
Reproduction allowed with proper citation of IDAF as source.
Langue des documents
anglais
Écriture des documents
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Caractéristiques matérielle et contraintes techniques
OCR scanned; legible and structurally complete.
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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 1–43, Rabie Commission reports, DPSC torture memoranda, Koevoet operations, ANC/SWAPO trial records, Namibian occupation archives.
Note de publication
Focus', Issue No. 44. International Defence and Aid Fund, January–February 1983.
Zone des notes
Note
Contains strong evidence of systemic torture, multiple deaths in detention, civil-military overlap in Namibia, and growing resistance through legal and trade union activism.
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Mots-clés
Mots-clés - Sujets
Mots-clés - Lieux
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- Barbara Hogan (Sujet)
- Cedric Mayson (Sujet)
- Neil Aggett (Sujet)
- Oscar Mpetha (Sujet)
- Suzman Mokoena (Sujet)
- Siphiwo Mtimkulu (Sujet)
- Mandla Sibisi (Sujet)
- Joe Thloloe (Sujet)
- Sisa Njikelana (Sujet)
- Thozamile Gqweta (Sujet)
- Roggerio Chamusso (Sujet)
- Lillian Keagile (Sujet)
- Nomakhephu Ntsatha (Sujet)
- Mncekeleli Peter (Sujet)
- Mlungisi Mtshotana (Sujet)
- Alan Fine (Sujet)
- Themba Mthembu (Sujet)
- Makhosazana Nhlapo (Sujet)
- Benedicta Monama (Sujet)
- Cosmos Makanga (Sujet)
- Sintenga Nguuru (Sujet)
- P.W. Botha (Sujet)
- Magnus Malan (Sujet)
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Règles et/ou conventions utilisées
ISAD(G): General International Standard Archival Description, Second Edition
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Note de l'archiviste
This issue intensifies documentation of the collapse of civilian governance in Namibia under military pressure, and marks a high point in the exposure of systemic torture practices in South Africa.