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The International’s English-language periodicals: World Outlook, Inprecor and their companions, 1958–1994

Alexander Case Witnesses Charged with "Sabotage"

World Outlook Vol. 2, No. 24, 12 June 1964 · pp 20-21 · 187 words

CHARGED WITH "SABOTAGE"

Witnesses in the case of Dr. Neville Alexander, who refused to testify in behalf of the prosecution, are being martyrized by the fascist-like South African government. They, too, now face charges of committing "sabotage,"

This was the charge levelled against two Coloured teachers, Gerald Hamilton Ross, 30, and Achmat Ajam, 24, when they appeared before J, Van Rensburg in the Cape Town Magistrate Court May 5,

The hearing was adjourned to May 20 and they were granted bail of R250 Lone rand = $1. to] each on condition that they report daily to specified police stations between 7 a,m. and 7 p.m,

Three others appeared on the same charge. They were Gerald Herman Giose, 52, a Coloured teacher; Cyril Wallace Jacobs, 25; Yusuf Lueas, 19,” and Dorothy Adams. .

Giose was first charged on February 5. The others were charged on December 1 and bail of R250 each was granted on December 27, It was the thirteenth time the hearing had been adjourned, The witnesses, who refused to testify against their friends, were originally held under the infamous 90-day detention clause, -

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