Father Michael Lapsley, Cape Town, 1997

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Title: Father Michael Lapsley, Cape Town, 1997
Creator: Edelstein, Jillian
Subject: Apartheid--South Africa, Political violence--South Africa, South Africa--Social conditions, War crimes investigation--South Africa, Lapsley, Michael, Truth and Lies
Description: Father Michael Lapsley, Cape Town, 1997. A New Zealander, he arrived at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in 1973 and deported to Lesotho in 1976 where he joined the ANC and trained Anglican priests. In April 1990, after the release of Nelson Mandela, he received a letter bomb believed to have been sent by a government death squad. He lost an eye and both hands.
Publisher: University of Cape Town. Libraries
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Date: 1997/02/16
Type: StillImage
Format: portrait photographs, documentary photographs, black-and-white photographs
Identifier: islandora:785
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Coverage: South Africa--Western Cape, Province of the--Cape Town
Rights: Copyright held by the photographer, Jillian Edelstein. Please contact the Special Collections at the University of Cape Town Libraries for further information about using and/or publishing this photograph.