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Title: Police inform families of executions, Pretoria, 1987
Subject: Political prisoners, Executions and executioners, Apartheid, Political history--South Africa, Beyond the Barricades
Description: A prison official approaches the families of death-row prisoners, Wellington Meilies and Moses Jantjies, to inform them that the two men were hanged earlier that morning. In 1987, when Meilies and Jantjies were executed, thirty-two political prisoners remained on death row in Pretoria Central Prison, and South Africa had the highest number of hangings in the world.
Identifier: islandora:855

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