SOUTH AFRICAN VICTIMS JUDGED INSANE
Two "detainees" under South Africats 90-day law have been sent to Valkenberg Mental Hospital for observation," according to the Cape Times [November 18]. They are Mr, T. Tsotso and Mr. M. Msingizane.
Under this fascist~-like law, the police are free to arrest anyone they
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please, hold suspects for ninety days for "interrogation" without benefit of counsel, deny them visitors, keep them in solitary and feed them as they please, If the suspect is deemed to be unco-operative, he can be held for another ninety days, and so on indefinitely.
In response to an inquiry from the Ca Times, Cape Town Security Police Chief Col,E,.G.McIntyre said, "As soon as these two, Tsotso and Msingizane, showed signs of apparent insanity, we called in the district surgeon and he examined them, He consulted a second doctor in terms of the law and application was made through a magistrate in each case for them to be committed to Valkenberg,"
Minister of Justice Vorster denied over the telephone from Pretoria that the two detainees had gone insane while in detention,
- He claimed that there had been cases where prople held under the 90-day law had feigned insanity. One of them,. Mrs. Eleanor Anderson, even’ succeeded in escaping from the country after successfully convincing the doctors that she had gone mad. ;
THE MYSTERIOUS