Item PWPFOCI047 - Focus on Political Repression in Southern Africa - Issue 47

1 newsletter (multi-page, printed text)

Part of IDAF’s primary source collection on apartheid resistance and repression.

South African History Archive (SAHA)

This issue documents the worsening prison conditions for Nelson Mandela and fellow political prisoners at Pollsmoor Prison, state-sanctioned forced removals and the killing of community leader Saul Mkhize, child malnutrition and mortality in resettlement camps, mass detentions and psychiatric abuse of detainees, repression in the Ciskei bantustan, and the execution of ANC guerrillas. It provides updates on extensive political trials including Oscar Mpetha, Cedric Mayson, Siphiwe Makhathini, and Angula Mwaala (SWAPO). The issue contains a special review of state witnesses, torture allegations, and continuing evidence of apartheid legal manipulation and brutality.

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

No further accruals expected.

Chronological, within the IDAF Focus series.

Open for public access.

Reproduction allowed with proper citation of IDAF as source.

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OCR-scanned PDF; readable and complete.

Originals held by the South African History Archives.

Digital copy available through the PWP projects and other Archives.

Issues 1–46, Trial records of Mpetha, Mwaala, Mayson, Mandela prison conditions documentation, SWAPO court records.

Focus', Issue No. 47. International Defence and Aid Fund, July–August 1983.

Includes comprehensive coverage of forced removals, state torture, major trials, and review of manipulation of state witnesses by security forces.

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

A key issue highlighting the continued brutality of the apartheid regime through executions, detentions, political trials, and forced removals. Strong evidentiary value regarding prison conditions and witness manipulation.