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...Under the Prisons Act, for example, it is a criminal offense to "misrepresent" conditions in South African jails-which the Verwoerd government, of course, adjudges to be always immaculate. Last week, a court in Durban agreed. After a four-month trial, Magistrate M. E. Goodhead found Harold Strachan, 40, a bearded art teacher who has served three years as a political prisoner, guilty of building an "edifice of lies" about prison brutality. To improve its case against Strachan, the government called 56 witnesses, confiscated defense documents, arrested five defense witnesses-including a prison warden-thereby intimidating most of the rest...
Schonfield, 64, became interested in Christianity at 17, when he was a student of New Testament Scholar R. H. Strachan at the University of Glasgow. In a career of publishing and writing, he has increasingly concentrated on Christ. In Passover Plot his thesis is that Jesus believed himself to be the "expected Messiah of Israel" and that he set out deliberately to fulfill the Old Testament prophecies of the rejection of the Messiah, his suffering as expiation of the sins of the world and his ultimate triumph over death. Jesus, says Schonfield, "carefully plotted" every step of his brief public...
...detectives did not say why they had revoked the passport. But it doubtlessly had to do with his campaign to expose the abuses in South Africa's prisons first reported to the Mail by ex-Prisoner Robert Harold Strachan (TIME, July 23). Last week Strachan, after two months of house arrest, was formally charged with violating the Prisons Act, which makes it a crime to provide false information about the jails. His trial is set for Sept...
Matter of Perjury? After Strachan's story appeared, Gandar ran a second article on prison tortures, witnessed by two warders and two ex-prisoners. Since then both prisoners have been rearrested, and one of the warders put under house arrest. The other, Gysbert Van Schalkwyk, 22, was given a three-year jail sentence fortnight ago, after pleading guilty to perjury, and explaining, in a statement read to the court by the state prosecutor, that he had lied when he said he had seen electric torture applied 15 to 20 times...
...soon as the first two installments of the three-part series appeared, the police put Strachan under house arrest, then dropped in on the Rand Daily Mail and confiscated the typescripts of the series. The final installment had already been set, and the paper courageously went ahead and printed it. When no other newspaper would touch the story, the Rand Daily Mail blandly noted: "There is no onus on any person who has copies of the three issues to dispose of them...