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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 VAN SCHALKWYK: And in the investigation against Nxiweni and Bhila, were statements taken from them with regards to Section 29 on Internal Security?
MR VAN SCHALKWYK: I will get to that Mr Chairman. You are aware of the fact that at the time, there was a thing such as a Section 29 questioning in terms of the Internal Security Act?
At first, Derby-Lewis refused to co-operate with the police. It was only after he was detained in terms of Section 29 of the Internal Security Act, and due to prolonged interrogation and undue pressure, that he made certain statements to the police. He gave false information in the statements, ...
... Catholic structures to expose world-wide what was going on in South Africa. International funding for development projects and anti-apartheid activities was channelled through our Bishops' Conference. But then we also began to reflect upon our own internal structures. For example, we ...
Thank you. Please continue. --- We were then arrested and told that we were being placed under section 29, the Internal Security Act, and we were then loaded into separate vehicles and taken to Sandton Police Station. They didn't really speak to us much. We were just held there until about 8 ...
MR PRINSLOO: Mr Derby-Lewis, were you indeed on that day, the 19th of April arrested by Colonel van Niekerk and placed in detention in terms of Section 29 of the Internal Security Act?
Bopape was in detention at John Vorster Square in accordance with Section 29 of Internal Security. I just have to add here that what lead up to the fact that Mr Bopape came to John Vorster Square. I received a call from the divisional commander of the West Rand. I think it was on the Friday the ...
almost immediately after his return to the country in 1986 and was charged and convicted of contravening certain provisions of the Internal Security Act. It is abundantly clear that the offences he was convicted of were of a political nature which fall under the provisions of Section 20 (1)(b) of ...
MR HATTINGH: Well you can accept it as given but we also know that on the 4th April he was according to the stipulations of Section 29, the Act of Internal Security, he was detained, did you know of that?
... the start of your review I was a journalist working in New York covering the United Nations. I spent most of my working hours there. I was a practising journalist in fact for nine years from 1955 to 1963 before moving to the management ranks of the Argus Company where I was a junior ...
Now Mr Chairman, in fact this alleged relationship between the Security Branch and Mr Ninela also is contradicted by the evidence of Mrs Ninela who said that a week after his arrest, she had gone to C R Swart Square police station and asked to see her son, where a uniformed policeman told her that ...
least a section of the community, as it had a bias in favour of the IFP. The deceased’s sister, Thabetha Ngozo, testified that the deceased was in fact working for Alert Industries Security Company, which was assisting the police in gathering information and tracking down people involved in car ...
least a section of the community, as it had a bias in favour of the IFP. The deceased's sister, Thabetha Ngozo, testified that the deceased was in fact working for Alert Industries Security Company, which was assisting the police in gathering information and tracking down people involved in car ...
MR P DU PLESSIS: Maybe we can just go a little bit further back and I want to put it, I don't think it came out clearly on the record, you were arrested in accordance with Section 29 of the Internal Security Act in December 1989, in January 1990, am I correct?
MR PRINSLOO: Mr Derby-Lewis, without going into any detail, you were then subsequently, on Monday detained in terms of the provisions of Section 29 of the Internal Security Act, is that correct?
Not only were we presented with certificate in terms of Section 66 of the Internal Security Act, barring access these documents, but we were also advised by letter, that the Minister wanted us in writing to set out the questions that we wanted to put to Commandant Henn, so that he could decide ...
In 1986 it was discovered that the ANC had established an Area Political Military Committee (APMC) in Natal that committed a number of acts of violence, terror and sabotage in Natal.  The unit, under the command of the 7th Applicant, successfully uncovered their operation, conducted under ...
MR LAX: And you know if you wanted to stop a bunch of bombers from carrying on with their activities and give them a huge fright, surely you could have got them arrested under Section 29 of the then Internal Security Act? That would have put them out of business immediately, they would have spent ...
WITNESS: Thank you. I was arrested under Section 29 of the Internal Security Act. That is just a different language used. I was held at Jeffrey's Bay. At that time propaganda was at its peek. I was held at solitary confinement. These policeman was living happily at Kwamagxaki. No one knew ...
MR ENGELBRECHT: That is a section that was used for internal security to detain a person on his own and to interrogate him and to withdraw him from the community and to get the necessary information from him.
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