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MEER, IC

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Was banned in 1976, allegedly because of his family`s opposition to apartheid. His wife, son and son-in-law were detained without trial for five months in the same year, following the Soweto uprising.

... where we hear testimonies from relatives of assassinated Durban academic, Doctor Richard Turner, and evidence of attempted assassinations on Fatima Meer and Harold Strachan. We also hear about incidents of police brutality in the Western Cape (from the Winelands HRV hearings, 14 to 16 October) ...
... a friend, Zwelini Nkoba and he preceded me by seconds or minutes to the door. He is a tall man; I am a short woman as is obvious. And he was shot twice on the shoulder and when I got to the door he was already lying there bleeding, and he said to me. Please go away, they are calling your name and ...
I think Rick was very vulnerable because of his innate honesty and the fact that he approached everything very frankly. He hid nothing about himself or about what he did. But more than that I think it was his profound gentleness that made him so vulnerable. The rest of us, we would fight back and ...
 
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