Word: prisoners
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...thoroughly well-performed fable that would make Moliere smile. The rather abbreviated one-act play revolves around the activities of one Brother Jeroboam, a self-proclaimed prophet of the Lord and small-time religious hustler. Soyinka, a Yoruba playwright, novelist and poet who spent three years in a Nigerian prison for alleged subversion during the tragic Biafran civil war, puts broad satirical strokes and rapid-fire dialogue to clever use to parody the frailties of the human race...
...brought up by van [750 miles from the prison in Port Elizabeth to Pretoria]. He got into the van himself and was made comfortable. He was ill at various stages, but that was after [we had requested] medical advice as to whether he could travel and they said he could. [In Pretoria], he was put in a prison cell because that was the warrant and they immediately tried to get hold of a doctor. But the soonest they could reach him was early afternoon, so Biko was left [in prison] and treated there; that evening he died. I have never...
...been unpleasantly affected by political realities. Anthony Keating is recuperating from a heart attack. A go-go property speculator during the flush '60s, he has been left teetering near bankruptcy by the collapse of land prices. His friend and financial adviser, Len Wincobank, is serving a four-year prison term for fraud. Kitty Friedmann loses a foot and her husband in a random terrorist bombing. Keating's lover, Alison Murray, has a teen-age daughter jailed for reckless driving in a Balkan Communist state. "England was a safe, shabby, mangy old lion now," she mused. "Anyone could tweak...
...MYSTERIOUS DEATH in a South African prison five weeks ago of Stephen Biko, a prominent leader of the anti-apartheid "Black Consciousness Movement" among South African blacks in the past decade, has justly provoked an international furor. But the Biko case must not serve simply as a short-lived cathartic outlet for anger and moral outrage. Rather, it should be seen as just the latest and most visible reminder of the larger pattern of ongoing government repression in South Africa--a pattern that has grown increasingly pervasive and brutal since the outbreak of anti-apartheid demonstrations in South Africa...
...Biko's death and the Vorster regime's response have only highlighted issues that have become sadly routine in South Africa. Biko was the 43rd black South African since 1963 and the 21st in the past 18 months to die while being held in prison under the Detention Act, which allows the government to imprison dissidents without specifying charges. The South African Institute of Race Relations, an organization that opposes apartheid, recently issued a report challenging the official police versions of nine of these last 21 deaths. The report also lists 662 political prisoners currently being detained in South African...