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JAFFER, ZubeidaAge 22 Description ... on the torture methods used on women specifically by the security forces. We hear the stories of three women detainees: Kate Serokolo, Zubeida Jaffer and Shirley Gunn. ... 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 ... 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 ... He came and he said that he knew exactly how he was going to get me to cooperate and that they’d prepared a chemical for me to drink to kill the baby and he was going to burn the baby from my body. They were just ranting and raving on the telephone about it, about how I have written about the police in a negative way, and you know when he came from the phone he just beat me right across the room into the wall and I was just flung across the room. I hit the wall and I was shuddering and ... By the second detention I think I understood, I thought about that and I understood what had happened, what methods they’d used to humiliating me, break me down. So when they said to me, when they discovered that I was pregnant, I knew immediately that they were going to try and use this and they ... He came and he said that he knew exactly how he was going to get me to cooperate and that they’d prepared a chemical for me to drink to kill the baby and that he was going to burn the baby from my body. They were just ranting and raving on the telephone about it, about how I have written about the police in a negative way, and you know when he came from the phone he just beat me right across the room into the wall and I was just flung across the room. I hit the wall and I was shuddering and ... When they discovered that I was pregnant I knew immediately that they were going to try and use this and they did. At one stage they asked one of the men to rape me. He didn’t actually do it but he did come towards me as if he was going to do it. It was all part of a game that they were playing. He came and he said that he knew exactly how he was going to get me to cooperate and that they’d prepared a chemical for me to drink to kill the baby and that he was going to burn the baby from my body. By the second detention I think I understood, I thought about that and I understood what had happened, what methods they’d used to humiliating me, break me down. So when they said to me, when they discovered that I was pregnant, I knew immediately that they were going to try and use this and they ... ... brutality and oppression. As the Truth Commission attempts to piece together the past, women again grab again the sharp end. Kate Serokolo, Zubeida Jaffer and Shirley Gunn are three such women. Their powerful histories, lashed with pain, echoed the experiences of many others across the ... ... brutality and oppression. As the Truth Commission attempts to piece together the past, women again grab again the sharp end. Kate Serokolo, Zubeida Jaffer and Shirley Gunn are three such women. Their powerful histories, lashed with pain, echoed the experiences of many others across the ... |
