Death, Detention and Disappearance
A lawyer's battle to hold power to account in 1980s Namibia| By: | David Smuts |
| Publisher: | NB Publishers |
| Print ISBN: | 9780624088790 |
| eText ISBN: | 9780624088806 |
| Edition: | 1 |
| Copyright: | 2019 |
| Format: | Reflowable |
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In Namibia, the 1980s were a dark decade of human rights abuses by South African security forces. Justice David Smuts, then a young Windhoek lawyer, felt compelled to take on the system. His gripping memoir details several dramatic cases, including the freeing of detainees held secretly for six years, proving that torture was used to extract ‘confessions’ and that Koevoet knowingly killed citizens. He also takes a new look at the assassination of his close friend, SWAPO activist Anton Lubowski.