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section 29 of the Internal Security Act No 74 (198

Explanation
a piece of legislation created to allow for indefinite detention for the purposes of interrogation. Detainees were held in solitary confinement. Many detainees were tortured while held under section 29. See states of emergency.

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MR LAX: And that Section pertains to activities in terms of the Internal Security Act, but activities which, to use the old terminology, would have been terrorism.
MR THEJANE: They were not coming to recruit me, they were coming to take me, to arrest me at Welkom police cells and then give me papers of Section 29, of Internal Security Act.
... assaulting Forbes more than once. The assaults damaged Forbes' ear drum. During his detention in terms of section 29 of the Internal Security Act, Forbes was kept awake for long periods and subjected to lengthy interrogation. He conceded that Forbes had tried to commit suicide because of ...
following that myself and Comrade John as well as the other ones I am sitting with, we were detained under Section 50, that is the Internal Security Act. We were told that we were furthering the aims of a banned organisation. We stayed there for 14 days in detention. Some of us were tortured, ...
... you about my detention. In 1985 I was detained and taken to Denosa Police Station and they charged me under Section 29 regarding Internal Security Act. There I was assaulted by Templeton Sibake who was my neighbour and a police at the time. I was assaulted so severely that my private parts ...
you've heard during these hearings about the process of the police to which they are really - that really should be their function, court procedural actions, was seriously eroded, we've heard evidence about that, Mr Chairman and you've heard that from General Coetzee who referred you to amendments ...
... or family, by even lawyers, and in terms of which you could legally hold him for an indefinite period until he has answered questions to the satisfaction of his detentors generally. That was the general position in terms of Section 6 of the then Terrorism Act and for subsequently Section 29 of ...
brought back to South Africa and in terms of section 29 of the old Internal Act was detained for a while and that Mr Sedibe in this time was dealt with by a Warrant Officer Freek Pienaar and apparently Warrant Officer Freek Pienaar succeeded in convincing Mr Sedibe to work for the South African ...
... to the English. Varney alleges that the training of the Inkatha members was per se unlawful. It is necessary to refer briefly to the legal and factual position in this regard. In terms of section 1 (1) of the Bantu Homelands Constitution Act, Act No 21 of 1971, the KwaZulu-Natal was a ...
MR VLOK: That is correct. And also maybe for Section 29, with regards to Internal Security.
... whilst in the custody of the police. His family were informed that he had been exempted from the provisions of Section 29 of the Internal Security Act, i.e. that he had been released from custody. ...
he was a member of the Orde Boerevolk and he therefore signed a declaration of war. During his detention, under Section 29 of the Internal Security Act, there was also a charge of high treason investigated against him. It’s probably as a result of the magnitude and the seriousness of the crimes ...
... - I lie, there was a new section which started looking at people who refused to join the Army, they were looking at ANC personalities, facilities, activities, within the borders of the country which belonged to Security Force Headquarters. They were primarily responsible for that. At one stage ...
... interrogated by your junior officers, people under your command. After that he was then detained in terms of Section 29 of the Internal Security Act. Now all of this before this major meeting with Mr Kleynhans, Captain Kleynhans, yes? Is that ...
I was obligated to do my duties as they are in Section 5 of the Police Law, 7, of 1958 and those duties included the maintaining of law and order as well as the protection of internal security and stability.
MR VAN DEN BERG: At that stage the people were detained in terms of Section 50 of the Internal Security Act after the state of emergency was announced they were detained because there was unrest. Such action took place as a result of the information we had where people were identified as culprits ...
When Section 7 of the previous Police Act, that is the original Act, Mr Chairman, 14 of 1912, was amended by substitution with the Police Act, 8 of 1957, the Police duties were amended by the incorporation into Section 5 of the Police Act, to include the maintenance of internal security.
"I have to inform you that Mr Bopape was exempted from the provisions of Section 29 of the Internal Security Act"
... the Cronje case at page 9 where it was found that that conflict of the past, escalated into a full-scale war, although never a declared war. The fact that it was not a declared war against an external enemy, caused the Government to involve the Police Force to act against their co-citizens. ...
... regarding the amnesty application of Clive Derby-Lewis and Janus Walusch, a similar aspect arose, this was with regard to the Section 29 of the old Act of Internal Security, which was scrapped. Mr Bizos, on behalf of the Communist Party, presented the statements made under the old Section 29 to ...
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