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Contents: Introduction • AN EVALUATION OF THE JUDICIAL RESPONSE TO THE AREAS OUTLINED ABOVE • CIVIL LIBERTIES AND THE NEW SOUTH AFRICAN CONSTITUTION • SUPREME COURT CHALLENGES TO THE VALIDITY OF PARLIAMENTARY ACTS • FOOTNOTES • Paper by Advocate Priscilla Jana at the Seminar on the Legal Aspects of Apartheid sponsored by the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, the Section of Individual Rights and Responsibilities of the American Bar Association and the Standing Committee on World Order Under Law of the American Bar Association. The paper discusses discriminatory laws, the Constitution Act, the Supreme Court, the Enabling Act, subordinate legislatures, administrators and administrative tribunals, the Public Safety Act, the Prohibition of Political Interference Act, the Unlawful Organizations Act, the Riotous Assemblies Act, the Internal Security Act, the General Law Amendment Act of 1963, the so-called 90-day clause (arrest and detain in custody for periods of 90 days), the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court, Loza ys. The Police Station Commander, Durbanville, the power to hold detainee in isolation or solitary confinement, interrogation, Rossouw vs. Sachs 1964 (2) SA 551 (AD), the security of the state, a fundamental deprivation of the rights of the detainee, political prisoners, security laws, the Prisons Act, the Prisons Regulations, the Commissioner of Prisons, the Department of Prisons, Corbett J.A., common law, Schermbrucker ys. Klindt, maltreatment, the Rules of Court in the Transvaal, Court of First Instance, the Full Bench of the Transvaal, Rumpff J.A., Nxasana vs. Minister of Justice and Another, ill-treatment, Didcott J., Cooper and Others vs. Minister of Police and Another, Trengove J., detention, the Terrorism Act, Nkondo vs. Minister of Police and Another, the Lesotho Airways Corporation, Maseru, Bloemfontein, Lesotho, habeas corpus proceedings, international law, the Suppression of Communism Act No. 44 of 1950, "banning orders," S vs. Keer and Another, individual rights, the Republic of Ciskei, a trade union, a prohibited organization, Kruse v. Johnson, elections, Gumede and Others v. Minister of Law and Order and Another, Amnesty International, a Law Lord from the United Kingdom, public interest, powers of the Attorney General, Ramgobin and Others, high treason, Schreiner J.A., the Senate, academic commentators, Bophuthatswana, fundamental human rights, a Bill of Rights, State vs. Marwane, Yaraya and Others vs. President of SA Medical and Dental Council, State vs. Meer, Rassouw vs. Sachs, Goldberg vs. Minister of Prisons, Schermbrucker vs. Klindt N.O., South African Defense and Aid Fund and Another vs. Minister of Justice, the Supreme Court in Namibia, Kauluma and Others vs. The Minister of Defense and Others, State vs. Hlekani, and S vs. Ismail and Others.

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Security Legislation in South Africa: Response to Legislation Impacting on Civil Liberties

SEMINAR ON THE LEGAL ASPECTS OF APARTHEID

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