SALOOJEE, Rokaya

Age 28

Description
Was psychologically and mentally ill-treated by a named member of the SAP on 9 September 1964 in Johannesburg, Transvaal when she was told that her husband, who was in police custody, had jumped out of Grey’s building and was in hospital. Her family subsequently found his body at the mortuary.

TV Series Hearing Transcripts TRC Final Report Glossary

Transcript of episode 3, section 2, starting at: 02:39

... fairies are found falling from a window, sometimes fairies are found falling down the stairs,” is how poet Essop Patel describes it. // Suliman Saloojee, the law said, did just that: fell to his death from a seventh floor window. He was 32, an attorney’s clerk, who had been detained in July ...

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Transcript of episode 3, section 2, starting at: 03:36

... to my husband but I didn’t, because maybe I didn’t want to believe it. There was a press fellow by the name of Terry and he said to me, ‘Mrs Saloojee, he says, I’d like a statement from you’. So I said ‘Terry, how can I make a statement, when I don’t even know where my husband ...

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Transcript of episode 3, section 2, starting at: 04:05

On the inquest, when I did take the clothing, the inquest lasted about five minutes. The magistrate, or whoever it is, when I went up to the witness stand, I could only mention my name and where I stay, and who was my husband. When I said ‘I’d like to say something, I’d like to know why is ...

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