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D1.02.1 :: Video clip of part one of the interview with Penelope Baby Twaya

Call Number: D1.02.1
Identifier: AL3282_D1.02.1
Title: Video clip of part one of the interview with Penelope Baby Twaya
Date: 26 May 2007
Subject: Activist; Arrests; Penelope Baby Twaya; Detention; Interrogation; John Vorster Square - JVS; June 16; Morris Isaacson Secondary School; Torture; Tymon Smith; Solitary confinement; Sunday Times Heritage Project - STHP
Description: This is a video clip of part one of the interview with Penelope Baby Twaya conducted by Tymon Smith on 26.05.2007 at the Johannesburg Central Police Station (previously John Vorster Square) as part of the Sunday Times Heritage Project - a joint project between SAHA and the Sunday Times. Penelope Baby Twaya was only 16 when she was arrested in 1977 as part of the student leadership in the weeks leading up to the first anniversary of June 16th. She was detained at John Vorster Square from June to December 1977. Part/s of this interview may have been included in "Between Life and Death: Stories from John Vorster Square" - a DVD produced as part of this project. Included in SAHA online exhibition - 'Between Life and Death: Stories from John Vorster Square', 2012.
Contributor: The South African History Archive (SAHA), Sunday Times, DOXA
Creator: Tymon Smith and Penelope Baby Twaya
Type: Video
Format: Access file - mpg
Preservation file - AVI
Source: SAHA collection AL3282
Language: English
Coverage: Johannesburg, South Africa
Rights: The South African History Archive (SAHA)