Zone d'identification
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Date(s)
- July–August 1984 (Création/Production)
Niveau de description
Étendue matérielle et support
1 newsletter (multi-page, printed text)
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Histoire archivistique
Preserved within the IDAF Focus newsletter collection documenting the apartheid-era resistance and repression.
Source immédiate d'acquisition ou de transfert
South African History Archive (SAHA)
Zone du contenu et de la structure
Portée et contenu
Issue 53 details unequal prison conditions between male and female political prisoners, focusing on the treatment of Barbara Hogan and Dorothy Nyembe. It reports detentions, including youth activists, trade unionists, and ANC affiliates; describes major political trials involving ANC members and community leaders; and explores repression in Transkei, Venda, and the Ciskei. Also covered are education protests, the election boycott campaign, censorship battles over the Freedom Charter, and the release of Namibian political prisoners from Robben Island. The issue also includes coverage of SWAPO harassment, student resistance, and university unrest.
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 series within the Focus newsletter archive.
Zone des conditions d'accès et d'utilisation
Conditions d'accès
Open for public and academic access.
Conditions de reproduction
Reproduction allowed with proper citation of IDAF as source.
Langue des documents
anglais
Écriture des documents
Notes de langue et graphie
Caractéristiques matérielle et contraintes techniques
OCR scanned and machine-readable.
Instruments de recherche
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 1–52, Hogan v. Prison authorities case file, Cradock education protests, UDF election boycott campaign, SWAPO Namibian detentions.
Note de publication
Focus', Issue No. 53. International Defence and Aid Fund, July–August 1984.
Zone des notes
Note
Includes detailed political detainee list, trial reports, educational resistance, SWAPO monitoring, and gendered analysis of political imprisonment.
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Mots-clés
Mots-clés - Sujets
Mots-clés - Lieux
Mots-clés - Noms
- Barbara Hogan (Sujet)
- Dorothy Nyembe (Sujet)
- Nelson Mandela (Sujet)
- Walter Sisulu (Sujet)
- Raymond Mhlaba (Sujet)
- Andrew Mlangeni (Sujet)
- Fort Calata (Sujet)
- Matthew Goniwe (Sujet)
- Rufus Nzo (Sujet)
- Sipho Hina (Sujet)
- Derek Hanekom (Sujet)
- Patricia Hanekom (Sujet)
- Roland Hunter (Sujet)
- Frank Rashaka Ratshitanga (Sujet)
- Robert Ratshitanga (Sujet)
- Gwen Lister (Sujet)
- Hendrik Witbooi (Sujet)
- Herman Toivo ja Toivo (Sujet)
- Patrick Lekota (Sujet)
- Allister Sparks (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
A landmark issue spotlighting gendered prison conditions, systemic torture, educational uprisings, SWAPO harassment, and election resistance.