A case study of aspects of the political life of Advocate Benjamin Magson Kies (1917 - 1979) and of "The Torch" newspaper with which he was closely connected, showing how the criminal justice system in South Africa was employed in an attempt to silence political and ideological opposition to the apartheid regime

Charles van Onselen( 1) writes that in his biography of Nongoloza Mathebula "we , can ,see ..... the story of one man's search for justice within the context of the most important labour repressive institutions that developed during the South African industrial revolution. He states that he has prov...

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