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Special Report Transcript Episode 62, Section 4, Time 30:25

Rishka has just had her 11th birthday. Her mother is Zubeida Jaffer, journalist and a former unionist. Zubeida was a few months pregnant with her when she was detained in 1985. It was her second experience with the law. Her first detention was in 1980 when as a cub reporter with the Cape Times she had written an article on police shootings on the Cape Flats where most of the casualties were women and children.

Notes: The Jaffer home, The Percy Qoboza Foreign Journalist Award Zubeida received in 1994; Article ‘Families tell of Cape Flats riot deaths’

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A journalist who was detained in July 1980 for reporting on police unrest shootings in Cape Town. During her forty two days of detention, she was interrogated, drugged, tortured and denied sleep for several days at a time. Ms Jaffer, also a trade union activist, was again detained in December 1985 ...
 
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