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NAIDOO, Shanthavothie ‘Shanti’

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A member of the Natal Indian Congress who was detained on 13 June 1968 and tortured in Johannesburg and Pretoria. Ms Naidoo was sentenced to two months’ imprisonment for refusing to become a state witness. She spent her entire sentence in solitary confinement. During the 1970s and early 1980s she was subjected to a campaign of intimidation and harassment by the Witwatersrand Security Branch. A Witwatersrand Security Branch operative was granted amnesty for the harassment (AC/2001/005).

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