Imprisoned: the experience of a prisoner under apartheid
This extraordinary account of imprisonment shows with exacting clarity the awful injustices of the system. Sylvia Neame, activist against apartheid and racism and by profession a historian (see the three-volume, The Congress Movement, HSRC Press, 2015), has not written a classical historical memoir....
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| Zusammenfassung: | This extraordinary account of imprisonment shows with exacting clarity the awful injustices of the system. Sylvia Neame, activist against apartheid and racism and by profession a historian (see the three-volume, The Congress Movement, HSRC Press, 2015), has not written a classical historical memoir. Rather, this book is a highly personal account, written in an original style. At the same time, it casts a particularly sharp light on the unfolding of a police dominated apartheid system in the 1960s. The author incorporates some of her experiences in prisons and police stations around the country, including the fabricated trial she faced while imprisoned in Port Elizabeth, one of the many such trials which took place in the Eastern Cape. But her focus is on Barberton Prison. Here she was imprisoned together with a small number of other white women political prisoners, most of whom had stood trial and been sentenced in Johannesburg in 1964-5 for membership to an illegal organization, the Communist Party. It is a little known story. Not even the progressive party MP Helen Suzman found her way here. Barberton Prison, a maximum security prison, part of a farm jail complex in the eastern part of what was then known as the Transvaal province, was far from any urban center. The women were kept in a small space at one end of the prison in extreme isolation under a regime of what can only be called psychological warfare, carried out on the instructions of the ever more powerful (and corrupt) security apparatus. A key concern for the author was the mental and psychological symptoms which emerged in herself and her fellow prisoners and the steps they took to maintain their sanity. It is a narrative partly based on diary entries, written in a minute hand on tissue paper, which escaped the eye of the authorities. Moreover, following her release in April 1967 - she had been altogether incarcerated for some three years - she produced a full script in the space of two or three months. The result is immediacy, spontaneity, authenticity; a story full of searing detail. It is also full of a fighting spirit, pervaded by a sharp intellect, a capacity for fine observation and a sense of humour typical of the women political prisoners at Barberton. A crucial theme in Sylvia Neame's account is the question of whether something positive emerged out of her experience and, if so, what exactly it was--Back cover |
| Beschreibung: | Includes index |
| Beschreibung: | 472 Seiten Illustrationen 23 cm |
| ISBN: | 9781431427345 1431427349 |
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| 505 | 8 | |a In the death cell in Pretoria -- On the way to Pretoria to Barberton Prison -- I join my fellow trialists -- Introduction to the routine -- The authorities' campaign of provocation -- I am charged with using indecent language -- We are classified as highly dangerous convicts -- Night-time lock-up -- Are we stoics? -- Washing laundry -- The doctor -- I have a goal visit -- Our organization, their disorganization -- The prison experience -- An easing up begins -- A prisoner breaks down -- Behavior of prison officials, including Matron Bester -- I move from a single to a communal cell -- Christmas 1965 -- New Year -- Captain Broodryk turns up -- Rehabilitation -- Excursion to the local hospital -- A visit from Judge Boshoff -- I receive news of Kathy -- We share information and letters -- Flashbacks -- Three chameleons join the tortoise in captivity -- My appeal : the authorities play cat-and-mouse with me -- A new phase in our washing duties -- I win my appeal -- Letting off steam -- | |
| 505 | 8 | |a We meet the Rev. Canon Langley -- The prison look -- My second hospital outing -- Condition of our prison clothing and other matters -- I have a depression -- I write as a form of therapy -- Something of the life of Black prisoners in Barberton -- The prison service -- Prison symptoms -- More diary entries -- Ann writes poetry -- Venetian blinds -- Judge Ludorf visits -- Ann complains about Matron Bester -- Judge Hiemstra on a visit -- Brigadier Viljoen -- We win a battle -- Early release : anmesty 31 May? -- Aucamp comes with a high prison official -- The screws are on and Matron Bester breaks down -- Further extracts from my diary -- Our alcohol industry -- Reclassification from "C'' to ''B'' group -- Viljoen and a conflict : Prisons/Security Branch -- Leslie Schermbrucker and Violet Weinberg joins us -- Mark Weinberg dies -- The tortoise and I -- Brid watching -- Preparing for the art exhibition -- Objectivity, subjectivity and Canon Langley -- The prison board comes -- | |
| 505 | 8 | |a Cultural concerns -- The tempest -- The psychologically complex question of escape -- My own attempt at escape -- The festive season, 1966 -- Gate-fever -- The prison board on on another visit -- The prospect of release -- The prisoner's problem of space and location -- Author's note | |
| 520 | 3 | |a This extraordinary account of imprisonment shows with exacting clarity the awful injustices of the system. Sylvia Neame, activist against apartheid and racism and by profession a historian (see the three-volume, The Congress Movement, HSRC Press, 2015), has not written a classical historical memoir. Rather, this book is a highly personal account, written in an original style. At the same time, it casts a particularly sharp light on the unfolding of a police dominated apartheid system in the 1960s. The author incorporates some of her experiences in prisons and police stations around the country, including the fabricated trial she faced while imprisoned in Port Elizabeth, one of the many such trials which took place in the Eastern Cape. But her focus is on Barberton Prison. | |
| 520 | 3 | |a Here she was imprisoned together with a small number of other white women political prisoners, most of whom had stood trial and been sentenced in Johannesburg in 1964-5 for membership to an illegal organization, the Communist Party. It is a little known story. Not even the progressive party MP Helen Suzman found her way here. Barberton Prison, a maximum security prison, part of a farm jail complex in the eastern part of what was then known as the Transvaal province, was far from any urban center. The women were kept in a small space at one end of the prison in extreme isolation under a regime of what can only be called psychological warfare, carried out on the instructions of the ever more powerful (and corrupt) security apparatus. A key concern for the author was the mental and psychological symptoms which emerged in herself and her fellow prisoners and the steps they took to maintain their sanity. | |
| 520 | 3 | |a It is a narrative partly based on diary entries, written in a minute hand on tissue paper, which escaped the eye of the authorities. Moreover, following her release in April 1967 - she had been altogether incarcerated for some three years - she produced a full script in the space of two or three months. The result is immediacy, spontaneity, authenticity; a story full of searing detail. It is also full of a fighting spirit, pervaded by a sharp intellect, a capacity for fine observation and a sense of humour typical of the women political prisoners at Barberton. A crucial theme in Sylvia Neame's account is the question of whether something positive emerged out of her experience and, if so, what exactly it was--Back cover | |
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| contents | In the death cell in Pretoria -- On the way to Pretoria to Barberton Prison -- I join my fellow trialists -- Introduction to the routine -- The authorities' campaign of provocation -- I am charged with using indecent language -- We are classified as highly dangerous convicts -- Night-time lock-up -- Are we stoics? -- Washing laundry -- The doctor -- I have a goal visit -- Our organization, their disorganization -- The prison experience -- An easing up begins -- A prisoner breaks down -- Behavior of prison officials, including Matron Bester -- I move from a single to a communal cell -- Christmas 1965 -- New Year -- Captain Broodryk turns up -- Rehabilitation -- Excursion to the local hospital -- A visit from Judge Boshoff -- I receive news of Kathy -- We share information and letters -- Flashbacks -- Three chameleons join the tortoise in captivity -- My appeal : the authorities play cat-and-mouse with me -- A new phase in our washing duties -- I win my appeal -- Letting off steam -- We meet the Rev. Canon Langley -- The prison look -- My second hospital outing -- Condition of our prison clothing and other matters -- I have a depression -- I write as a form of therapy -- Something of the life of Black prisoners in Barberton -- The prison service -- Prison symptoms -- More diary entries -- Ann writes poetry -- Venetian blinds -- Judge Ludorf visits -- Ann complains about Matron Bester -- Judge Hiemstra on a visit -- Brigadier Viljoen -- We win a battle -- Early release : anmesty 31 May? -- Aucamp comes with a high prison official -- The screws are on and Matron Bester breaks down -- Further extracts from my diary -- Our alcohol industry -- Reclassification from "C'' to ''B'' group -- Viljoen and a conflict : Prisons/Security Branch -- Leslie Schermbrucker and Violet Weinberg joins us -- Mark Weinberg dies -- The tortoise and I -- Brid watching -- Preparing for the art exhibition -- Objectivity, subjectivity and Canon Langley -- The prison board comes -- Cultural concerns -- The tempest -- The psychologically complex question of escape -- My own attempt at escape -- The festive season, 1966 -- Gate-fever -- The prison board on on another visit -- The prospect of release -- The prisoner's problem of space and location -- Author's note |
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| spelling | Neame, Sylvia Brereton Verfasser aut Imprisoned the experience of a prisoner under apartheid Sylvia Neame Imprisoned 1. published Auckland Park, South Africa Jacana Media 2018 472 Seiten Illustrationen 23 cm txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes index In the death cell in Pretoria -- On the way to Pretoria to Barberton Prison -- I join my fellow trialists -- Introduction to the routine -- The authorities' campaign of provocation -- I am charged with using indecent language -- We are classified as highly dangerous convicts -- Night-time lock-up -- Are we stoics? -- Washing laundry -- The doctor -- I have a goal visit -- Our organization, their disorganization -- The prison experience -- An easing up begins -- A prisoner breaks down -- Behavior of prison officials, including Matron Bester -- I move from a single to a communal cell -- Christmas 1965 -- New Year -- Captain Broodryk turns up -- Rehabilitation -- Excursion to the local hospital -- A visit from Judge Boshoff -- I receive news of Kathy -- We share information and letters -- Flashbacks -- Three chameleons join the tortoise in captivity -- My appeal : the authorities play cat-and-mouse with me -- A new phase in our washing duties -- I win my appeal -- Letting off steam -- We meet the Rev. Canon Langley -- The prison look -- My second hospital outing -- Condition of our prison clothing and other matters -- I have a depression -- I write as a form of therapy -- Something of the life of Black prisoners in Barberton -- The prison service -- Prison symptoms -- More diary entries -- Ann writes poetry -- Venetian blinds -- Judge Ludorf visits -- Ann complains about Matron Bester -- Judge Hiemstra on a visit -- Brigadier Viljoen -- We win a battle -- Early release : anmesty 31 May? -- Aucamp comes with a high prison official -- The screws are on and Matron Bester breaks down -- Further extracts from my diary -- Our alcohol industry -- Reclassification from "C'' to ''B'' group -- Viljoen and a conflict : Prisons/Security Branch -- Leslie Schermbrucker and Violet Weinberg joins us -- Mark Weinberg dies -- The tortoise and I -- Brid watching -- Preparing for the art exhibition -- Objectivity, subjectivity and Canon Langley -- The prison board comes -- Cultural concerns -- The tempest -- The psychologically complex question of escape -- My own attempt at escape -- The festive season, 1966 -- Gate-fever -- The prison board on on another visit -- The prospect of release -- The prisoner's problem of space and location -- Author's note This extraordinary account of imprisonment shows with exacting clarity the awful injustices of the system. Sylvia Neame, activist against apartheid and racism and by profession a historian (see the three-volume, The Congress Movement, HSRC Press, 2015), has not written a classical historical memoir. Rather, this book is a highly personal account, written in an original style. At the same time, it casts a particularly sharp light on the unfolding of a police dominated apartheid system in the 1960s. The author incorporates some of her experiences in prisons and police stations around the country, including the fabricated trial she faced while imprisoned in Port Elizabeth, one of the many such trials which took place in the Eastern Cape. But her focus is on Barberton Prison. Here she was imprisoned together with a small number of other white women political prisoners, most of whom had stood trial and been sentenced in Johannesburg in 1964-5 for membership to an illegal organization, the Communist Party. It is a little known story. Not even the progressive party MP Helen Suzman found her way here. Barberton Prison, a maximum security prison, part of a farm jail complex in the eastern part of what was then known as the Transvaal province, was far from any urban center. The women were kept in a small space at one end of the prison in extreme isolation under a regime of what can only be called psychological warfare, carried out on the instructions of the ever more powerful (and corrupt) security apparatus. A key concern for the author was the mental and psychological symptoms which emerged in herself and her fellow prisoners and the steps they took to maintain their sanity. It is a narrative partly based on diary entries, written in a minute hand on tissue paper, which escaped the eye of the authorities. Moreover, following her release in April 1967 - she had been altogether incarcerated for some three years - she produced a full script in the space of two or three months. The result is immediacy, spontaneity, authenticity; a story full of searing detail. It is also full of a fighting spirit, pervaded by a sharp intellect, a capacity for fine observation and a sense of humour typical of the women political prisoners at Barberton. A crucial theme in Sylvia Neame's account is the question of whether something positive emerged out of her experience and, if so, what exactly it was--Back cover Apartheid / South Africa Anti-apartheid movements / South Africa Government, Resistance to / South Africa Political activists / South Africa / Biography Women political activists / South Africa / Biography South Africa / Biography Anti-apartheid movements Apartheid Government, Resistance to Political activists Women political activists South Africa Biography |
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