The Detention Weapon
… semblance of legality (all detentions are made in terms of legislation); it can be aimed not only at individuals, but at … without trial in South Africa dates back to the early 1960s. The first State of Emergency, declared in 1960, … exceptions of 1970,1972 to 1975,1979, and 1989. During the 1960s there was a period of 6 years in which there was a …