FREDERICK EMMANUEL HUFKIE
My treatment, I was not subjected to any form of torture, but the whole experience was for me very humiliating and very distressful because I had a responsible position and I was merely taken away from my school.  I still had very important matters to attend to but the security police were not interested in that at all, and that is why I felt very frustrated, very demoralised, and it was an experience of extreme distress for me during my detention.  I remained in prison for seven months, it extended over the Christmas vacation, New Year, they would not release me, the security police at Oudtshoorn, under whose jurisdiction Graaf Reinet fell at the time.  They maintained that I was a source of danger to the community, I had to be taken completely away from the community and it was only the intervention of the security police of Cape Town who visited the Victor Verster Prison regularly and I maintain it was because of good conduct that they declared that I had to be released in the new year.