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South Africa: do you remember the days of Apartheid?

Categories: Sub-Saharan Africa, South Africa, Ethnicity & Race, Human Rights, Politics

Black Looks takes us back to South Africa's Apartheid era with a post about Prison Number 4 [1], where Ghandhi and Robert Sobukwe, the founder of the Pan-African Congress, were jailed: “TAUSER was the process of forcing black prisoners to strip naked, jump in the air in a scissor like move which would expose all parts of their bodies including the rectum. It was done in the open yard in front of all the other prisoners and the guards to check the prisoners were not hiding anything. Once political prisoners started entering the jail they began a protest to end the TAUSER.”