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Special Report Transcript Episode 84, Section 8, Time 47:58There are sections of our community who have strong feelings against communists and the Communist Party. Yet even they have to admit that some of the leaders of the Communist Party had played an exceptional role in the liberation of South Africa. One such a leader was Bram Fischer. A book on his life had just been published and we thought it appropriate to rebroadcast this profile we prepared in 1996. Notes: Max du Preez References select each tab to search for references Hearing Transcripts TRC Final Report TRC VictimsPolitical trials 64 Political trials similar to the famous Treason Trial of 1956 continued throughout the 1960s and 1970s. During 1963 and 1964, a spate of trials effectively removed and imprisoned much of the leadership of the PAC, ANC, the South African Communist Party (SACP) and the ARM, ... ■ FINDINGS 31 The hearing and written submissions to the Commission touched on all the above matters and many more. In setting out the findings below, the Commission merely accentuates those issues that seem to be relatively generally acknowledged in legal circles today, in a post-apartheid ... Prisons and health 31 Several of the witnesses told the hearing of difficulties in receiving proper medical treatment while in prison. Mr Henry Makgothi, for instance, described the difficulties he encountered in receiving treatment for tuberculosis on Robben Island: It was very difficult to ... |
