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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 It is the product of almost two decades of research and includes analyses, chronologies, historical documents, and interviews from the apartheid and post-apartheid eras.

1959. Prisons Act No 8

This "made the unauthorised reporting of conditions in prisons illegal" (Davenport 1987: 404).

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