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 It is the product of almost two decades of research and includes analyses, chronologies, historical documents, and interviews from the apartheid and post-apartheid eras.

Erasmus, Gerrit

Appointed as a Warrant Officer in the Security Branch in 1964, Erasmus was known as a sadistic torturer. He retired as Police Commissioner for the Witwatersrand in the early 1990s.

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