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This resource is hosted by the Nelson Mandela Foundation, but was compiled and authored by Padraig O’Malley. It is the product of almost two decades of research and includes analyses, chronologies, historical documents, and interviews from the apartheid and post-apartheid eras.

1955. Criminal Procedure Act No 56

Mentioned extensively by Dugard (1978: 422f). It was amended several times, for instance, in 1958, 1965, 1968 and probably later as well. It was eventually superseded by the (new) CRIMINAL PROCEDURE ACT of 1977.

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