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Special Report Transcript Episode 3, Section 2, Time 02:39Detention without trial became a permanent feature of South African law in 1963. The General Law’s Amendments Act allowed detention for 90 days, then for 180 days. By 1990, 78 000 had been in custody of whom 73 died and when they died cause of death was investigated and established by the courts. In 33 instances inquests proclaimed these deaths suicides. ”Sometimes fairies are found falling from a window, sometimes fairies are found falling down the stairs,” is how poet Essop Patel describes it. // Suliman Saloojee, the law said, did just that: fell to his death from a seventh floor window. He was 32, an attorney’s clerk, who had been detained in July 1964. By September 9 of that year he became a statistic, the fourth to die in detention. // Rokaya Saloojee, his widow, learnt about fairies and falling the hard way. Notes: Inside cell; Photograph of Suliman Saloojee; Saloojee’s funeral References select each tab to search for references Hearing Transcripts TRC Final Report TRC VictimsDeaths of detainees held in terms of security legislation 166 The Commission was told of a number of cases where the victim died while detained under security legislation. ‘Suicides’ 167 In the following cases the police said the death was the result of suicide: a Mr Looksmart Ngudle ... Deaths in detention 51 Abdullay Jassat’s description of his torture provides a clue as to what may have happened to thirty-two-year-old Mr Suliman Saloojee who died in detention in September 1964, two months after being detained under the ninety-day detention law. Suliman Saloojee, the fourth ... |
