The International Defence & Aid Fund (President: Canon L. John Collins) has the following objects: (i) to aid, defend and rehabilitate the victims of unjust legislation and compressive and arbitrary procedures; (ii) to support their families and dependants; (iii) to keep the conscience of the world alive to the issues at stake. Focus is published by the Fund to inform international opinion about repression in Southern Africa, and in support of the call for the release of all political prisoners in South Africa, Namibia and Rhodesia (Zimbabwe). Material can be freely quoted or reproduced.
Sources and abbreviations: "Africa" — monthly, London; BBC — British Broadcasting Corporation monitoring service; CT — Cape Times; Debates — House of Assembly, Cape Town, (Hansard); GG — Government Gazette, Pretoria; GN — Guardian, London; MS — Morning Star, London; NM — Natal Mercury, Durban; RDM — Rand Daily Mail, Johannesburg; RH — Rhodesia Herald, Salisbury; SAIRR — South African Institute of Race Relations; SM — Sunday Mail, Salisbury; ST — Sunday Times Johannesburg; Star — The Star, Johannesburg-(overseas weekly edition); Tel — Daily Telegraph, London; Times — The Times, London; WA — Windhoek Advertiser; World — The World, Johannesburg.
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