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government. He would also challenge the white opposition parties for their lack of firm opposition to
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forbade newspapers from discussing conditions in prisons, forbidding interviews with prisoners, ex-prisoners, and administrators of the facilities, with a possible prison sentence of one year for breaching the act if in defense one could not prove the allegations in court.
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He retired to the south coast of Natal and played golf and invested in the stock-market. His wife Isobel died in 1989. His son Mark died in 1998, and is survived by his wife Jenny, his step daughters, Collette and Sally, and his son Owen. Laurence Gandar died in
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