International Defence and Aid Fund (IDAF) Papers
International Defence and Aid Fund (IDAF)
International Defence and Aid Fund (IDAF)
File: 1977
File of Newsclippings: S.A. part 1 Prisons- 39, including Reporters that Nelson Mandela would serve full life term and maximum security prisoners being kept apart
from other prisoners Reports of Mandela facing disciplinary charges on Robben Island reportedly having called a warder a pig
The views of mainly white warders and families about conditions for political prisoners - article written
after 1977 media visit
Profile of Major Gen. Jannie Le Roux as the general who treats prisoners as real people Prisons - 40
Articles on Robben Island press visit by WORLD correspondent and others (SA newspapers), some
photographs
Lots of propaganda and some international papers very critical of conditions there
**** NB Cape Times; Many photographs included in the Star, that were not seen
Prisons 41
News articles re: Robben Island treatment of prisoners and the denial of assaults on prisoners by
prison authorities
( Documents very fragile)
1977-1979
https://atom.nelsonmandela.org/za-com-mm-313
313
https://atom.nelsonmandela.org/uwc-robben-island-mayibuye-archives
UWC Robben Island Mayibuye Archives
Cape Town
Contact location for access