SABC News | Sport | TV | Radio | Education | TV Licenses | Contact Us
 

Special Report Transcript Episode 50, Section 4, Time 17:08

Julian Stubbs and Dee Dicks were detained with five other students in 1985. Charged with public violence they each spent a year at Pollsmoor Prison in Cape Town. Till today they do not know why. // At the time we were heroes and I didn’t feel as if it affected me at that time, but now it seems as if it’s getting worse now. So, all I want to do now is like cry and it angers me because I’m not in control of my crying and my self-esteem and confidence is really low at present. It’s very difficult for me and sometimes I’m still directionless and unfocused, which is always the experience that I lived through in the eighties, is forever in my mind. It’s become quite difficult for me to cope and it’s making me very angry because at that time I could and now I can’t.

Notes: TRC testimony: Dee Dicks

References select each tab to search for references

Hearing Transcripts TRC Final Report TRC Victims Glossary
A UDF supporter who was detained and beaten by SAP members in Wynberg, Cape Town, on 15 October 1985. He was later sentenced to a two-year prison sentence for public violence with six other teenagers, known as the Wynberg Seven.
Was detained in Wynberg police station, Cape Town, on 15 October 1985, after attending a protest rally for school pupils. She and six other youths, known as the Wynberg Seven, were sentenced to one year’s imprisonment.
 
SABC Logo
Broadcasting for Total Citizen Empowerment
DMMA Logo
SABC © 2024
>