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Solome Mair, left, who attributes Amnesty International, for her sister Gertrude Fester being released after spending two years in a South African jail for speaking out against apartheid. They are pictured in Timaru in 1990.
A small place can make a big difference, as the Timaru branch of Amnesty International has shown. The organisation is set to celebrate its 60th anniversary, with one of its finest moments in 1988 when the small branch kicked into action overdrive when a South Canterbury woman’s sister and African National Congress member imprisoned for treason in South Africa in 1988.