SocialistAction 1983–88

The paper of the Socialist League, formerly the International Marxist Group, 1983–88

Repression

Socialist Action No. 83, 21 December 1984 · p. 12 of the scan · 283 words

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page 12 of the scan

The most notorious case of this repression was the Durban Six the six taiers of the UDF who first released detention and then served with new detention orders they temporarily escaped by taking cruge in tne brush coll suiate in Durban.

Although the 'Durban SiT were originally detain.

Not their tivities in organising the election boycott a campaign in which the only violence came the forces of 'law and order' they now face much more serious charges. They have now been charged with treason, which carries the possibility of the death penalty.

The state plans to call more than 150 witnesses in trial a procedure recalis 11 -famous treason trial of wien black leaders, including Nelson Mandela, charged.

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This trail dragged on for four years before collapsing for lack of evidence.

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