CHILDREN IN DETENTION

Duration: 13 minutes

 

A report on detentions in South Africa during the second

state of emergency.

Focusing on the detention of children over the Christmas

period of 1986, the report looks at some of the implications

for a society that finds it necessary to detain children on a

mass scale.

 

Includes interviews with:

 

Gregory Cindi - a sixteen year old detainee;

Daphne Mashile - Advisor for the Detainees Parents Support

Coimnittee;

Ruth Zwi - Psychiatrist for the Detainees Counselling

Service;

Gill de Vlieg - member of the "Free the Children" campaign.