The South African Civil Society Information Service

Life in a Concrete Cube: Albie Sachs Recalls Apartheid
4 Feb 2010

At a recent event hosted by the Open Society Institute in New York, former constitutional court judge and anti-apartheid activist, Albie Sachs, talks about being detained in solitary confinement for 168 days by the security police in apartheid South Africa.

He describes his psychological torture at the hands of the apartheid police during the 1960's as the worst moments of his life, even worse than losing his arm two decades later in a bomb blast orchestrated by the apartheid regime's security agents. 

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