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| Title: | Deaths in detention |
| Author: | Anonymous |
| Year: | 1969 |
| Periodical: | The African Communist |
| Issue: | 39 |
| Pages: | 90-103 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic term: | South Africa |
| Subjects: | death detention intelligence services |
| Abstract: | A reprint from the Rand Daily Mail, June 28, 1969. The new BOSS legislation will make the secrecy, in which the activities of the Security Police have been shrouded, complete. Since 1963, 11 people are known to have died while detained by the Security Police under the 90-day clause, the subsequent 180-day clause and the Terrorism Act. Some facts about these deaths- and many unanswered questions about Security Police methods-have become part of public record and knowledge only because they were raised in inquest courts. Under BOSS, it may be impossible for such questions to be raised again. That they need to be raised and resolved can be drawn from the records of some of these cases: James Lenkoe, arrested 5 March 1969, after 5 days found dead hanging by a belt; 'Looksmart' Solwandle Ngudle, detained for alleged A.N.C. activities, was found hanging from the cord of pyama trousers and a jersey, on 5 September 1963; Nicodimus Kgoathe, held under the Terrorism Act, was taken to hospital on 21 January 1969, and died 14 days later; Suliman Saloojee fell 60 ft. to death from the seventh floor of Security Police headquarters on 9 September 1964; Ah Tan, detained under the 180-day clause, died 5 January 1967. The cases of Gabriel Mbindi and Stephanie Kemp are noticeable as instances of allegations of Security Police torture ofdetainees. |