Upbeat : Issue No. 5, 1990

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Title: Upbeat : Issue No. 5, 1990
Creator: See all items with this value South African Committee of Higher Education (SACHED)
Date: 1990
Description: Mbulelois 14 and Adelaide is 12. They live in Pabaleilo, a township outside Upington. They have not seen their mother, Evelina de Bruyn, for more than a year. They would love to see her. But they can't. She is far away in a jail in Pretoria, waiting to die. Evelina was one of the accused in the Upington 25 murdertrial. In May 1989, Evelina, her husband Gideon Madlongolwane and 11 other people from Pabaleilo were sentenced to death for the 'common purpose murder' of Lucas Sethwala, a policeman. The judge said that Evelina de Bruyn did not actually take part in the physical attack on Lucas Setwala. B ut she was part of the crowd that marched on to the policeman's house and killed him. The crowd had a 'common purpose', and that was to kill the policeman. And so Evelina was sentenced to death. Many people think that the idea of a common purpose is wrong. Father Mkhatswa of the Human Rights Commission told Upbeat that people criticise this law because it is so serious. 'In mass funerals or meetings thousands of people come together. When violence starts you can't say that people planned the action. People are angry and upset. Also, how do you decide who was involved? Everyone present cannot be responsible.'
Publisher: See all items with this value South African Committee of Higher Education (SACHED)
Language: English
Subject: Youth—South Africa—Periodicals; Literacy; Vocational guidance; People's History; Alternative education—South Africa
Archive: Cory Library for Humanitites Research
Rights: South African Committee of Higher Education (SACHED)
Rights Holder: South African Committee of Higher Education (SACHED)
Type: text
Extent: 34 pages
Format: pdf
Provenance: The item is held at the Cory Library for Humanities Research, Rhodes University, on behalf of the Labour Research Service
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/118946
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Item sets: Upbeat Magazine Collection

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