... , were severe during these times. And, during the states of emergency, which continued intermittently until 1989, a low-level police official for up to six months could detain anyone without a hearing. Throughout apartheid thousands of individuals died in custody, frequently after gruesome acts of torture. Those who were tried by the South African judicial system were typically sentenced to death, banished ... , or given life imprisonment, like Nelson Mandela. But, it was during the 1960s that a period of peaceful revolution began within the black community. Protest songs, praise poems, a...

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