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JAFFER, Zubeida

Age 22

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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 for six weeks while pregnant. The life of her unborn child was threatened by a named member of the Security Branch.

... it all, during a torturous interrogation session … a three year old Afrikaner toddler was brought in to remind me of Nkosinathi. 32 Ms Zubeida Jaffer, in an early stage of pregnancy, was told that she would be assaulted until she lost her baby. 33 Some of the women who had been threatened ...
that it’s also a question of it being a gender thing. There’saman who is physically picking you up and shoving you into a wall.1671 Ms Zubeida Jaffer recalled how, when the security police came to detain her at her parent’s house, Warrant Officer ‘Spyker’ van Wyk said to me as we were ...
... my mind. And it has become quite difficult for me to cope and it makes me very angry, because at that time I could and now I cannot”. Ms Zubeida Jaffer who, after sustained torture, signed a statement, said that “it completely made me feel like I was worthless, that I had gone against ...
and/or a desire to forget a terrible experience.40 Others might have kept silent because they felt there were not ready listeners. Thus Ms Zubeida Jaffer described how most people react:They'll smile at me and say: “Oh, you’re the journalist, you were detained…” Then they'll say to me: ...
... Frans Mostert became known for his methods of intimidation, assault, and particularly sexual threats directed at female detainees. Ms Zubeida Jaffer stated that he threatened the life of her child while she was pregnant in detention. He was the subject of a court interdict by Ms June Esau ...
school students, five teachers, seven lecturers, over ten trade unionists and several community workers were detained in 1980. Journalist Ms Zubeida Jaffer [CT00776], who had given substantial coverage to those killed in the 1980 violence, was detained and was subjected to mental, physical and ...
... torture and gave evidence against their former comrades. Often such detainees remained silent because of feelings of intense guilt. 96 Ms Zubeida Jaffer [CT00776/HEL] described her guilt and shame after she revealed a single piece of information: They said “Zubeida, if you don’t co-operate ...
... distort the picture as the Eastern Cape is known as an area in which treatment in prison was particularly brutal. The testimony of Ms Zubeida Jaffer (referred to below) about her torture while held in Eastern Cape prisons is illustrative. 5 The Commission also attempted to amend its ...
... Sebenzile Jackson JACOBS, Shahied JACOBS, Thandiwe Alinah JACOBS, Thembekile John JACOBSON, Peter Maurice JADA, Lungelo Michael JADA, Vuyani Ernest JAFFER, Zubeida JAFTA, Benjamin Sipho JAFTA, Kholiwe JAFTA, Mkosana Alfred JAFTA, Noxolo JAGGER, Stella JAKO, Shumikazi Sarah JAKOBA, Leah JAKWE, ...
 
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