Two of the three SWAPO combatants serving prison sentences after their trial under the Terrorism Act in 1982 went on hunger strike for eight days, from 3 to 11 March 1983. Malambo, who is serving an 11 year sentence, and Sagarias, sentenced to nine years, were reported to have refused food in protest at being kept apart from one another in Windhoek Central Prison. Allegations that they were being kept in solitary confinement in the death cells was denied by the Commissioner of Prisons, who claimed that they were kept apart for 'disciplinary reasons', and that this had not changed as a result of their hunger strike. Jason, the third SWAPO guerilla who is serving a nine year sentence, did not apparently participate in the protest (WO 10.3.83; FOCUS 40 p.8, 41 pp.1, 4).
Issue 47 · article
Hunger Strike
Report on a hunger strike by SWAPO combatants in Windhoek Central Prison.
