Key term for OCR GCSE History A, used in South Africa 1960–1994.
The legal power to arrest and hold someone without charging them with a crime, used to stop potential political agitators.
Preventive Detention appears in OCR GCSE History A revision content for Non-British Depth Studies, especially South Africa 1960–1994 and Resistance and Repression c.1970s.
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