APPEAL DENIED IN ALEXANDER CASH
Permission. to appeal against the convictions and prison sentenees imposed on Dr, Alexander and ten others for allegedly conspiring to overthrow the government of South Africa was refused May 27 by. the judge involved in the case, Justice H,A.van. Heerden,
The appeal was made on the basis of irregularitics committed by the prosecution,
The judge did allow "special cntries" to be made on certain irregularities, however, and these can constitute the basis of another effort at appeal. This requires a large amount of money which the defendants -- who have been kept in prison since their arrcst == have becn unable to raise up to now,
Meanwhile some of the families of the defendants are in difficult circumstances, The following account of what’ faces the mother of the most prominent prisoner is taken from the City Post, a Capes © town weekly TApril 26]:
"A woman who needs all her bravery to keep going is Mrs. Dombeta Alexander =- her son, Neville, is on. Robben Island, sentenecd to ten years! imprisonment for conspiring. to overthrow tho State by violent revolution, Her daughter, Dorothy, is in Rocland Street — jail, serving five years for the same reason,
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"She still seems able to be philosophical and cheerful about this great personal tragedy, though she is now the sole support of the family. Her husband lost a leg in the last war and is drawing a disability pension and she has a l@=yeareold son, Mrs, Alexander teaches at a primary school in Mowbray, but will soon be forced to . retire on account of her age,
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