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ArticleA History of South African Literature, timeline 1824-2005
… Dry White Season was published, it focused on the death in detention of a black activist, and caused great irritation to … life in Sophiatown, and its…
New tactics in the revolt
… of Police, J. Kruger, introduced 'indefinite preventative detention' to break the Revolt. There were signs of an unholy … for unity, nor had they been…
ArchiveBiography of Ruth First by Cole Deal Ruth Demissie
… The apartheid government enacted laws such as the 90-day Detention Act and the Suppression of Communism Act to legally … gives us a personal and honest…
ArchiveCHAPTER 8 - Leading from behind Virtue and necessity, April 1984-June 1985 by Howard Barrell
… units without any internal command structure. And the detention of UDF leaders had netted members of the … when six senior UDF leaders sought sanctuary from…
ArticleJune 16 Soweto Youth Uprising timeline: 1976-1986
… gatherings, the restriction of persons to certain areas, detention of persons in custody and witnesses, large numbers … (SASO). Mr Steve Biko, became the…
ArticleStates of Emergency in South Africa: the 1960s and 1980s
… 1980s – an Emergency was declared. This resulted in the detention of thousands of political activists within a short … 1960s, including the General Laws…
EventWorldwide speculation begins that a bright flash detected over the southern Indian Ocean was a South African nuclear test
… acting jointly with Israel, had secretly tested a nuclear weapon. More than four decades later, the event, known as the … Sublette, C., "Report on the 1979…
Address by ANC Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa at Freedom Charter Forum, 29 September 2015, Pietermaritzburg City Hall
… which was to be used as a mobilising and organising weapon in the struggle for democracy. It called for a … men and women stubbornly and heroically resist…
Chapter 1: The 1971 Art South Africa Today Exhibition: Towards a Language of protest art
… the first detainee to die in prison in 1963, the year that detention without trial was introduced - Badsha's drawing is … play in which the so-called victims…
BiographyGeorge Gangen Ponnen
… When Billy Nair and Steven Dlamini were released from detention there was enough money to pay them wages for three … Ponnen was arrested and detained under…
Chapter 9 - People’s Education and People’s Power: Mobilisation and Collective Action
… a joint approach to issues (SAIRR, 1981: 543). With the detention of key COSAS officials in 1980, SANSCO activists … the offices of the state security police…
Apartheid power in crisis
… own hands and by their determined action forced open the detention cells. But they did more than that. They opened the … 1989 The largest ever protest by…
ArticlePaper abstracts and biographies of speakers
… of black organizations in the 1970s, and the deaths in detention of young black leaders. These included Mapetla … Nkomati Accord of 1984. At that stage I…
Article1967 Terrorism Act, No. 83 of 1967
… Act reported abuse by police forces. Others died in detention. As law professor John Dugard wrote in 1978: … passing laws which set and increased the…
ArchiveCHAPTER 5 - Armed Propaganda and Non-Colaborattion, Rationalising weakness, August 1979 - December 1980 by Howard Barell
… of black consciousness organisations Footnote and the detention of their leading activists in October 1977, a month after Steve Biko's death in detention,…
ArchiveChapter 4 Political activity 1950-1963 by Denis Goldberg
… actively opposed the call by Congress. “Boycott” was their weapon yet now they were boycotting the mass movement! When … I was arrested with many others and…
Afrikaner Newspapers and the newspaper industry from 1830
… Oost, began his duties mid-1916 after he was released from detention in The Fort for his stance against participation in … Verwoerd warned that they were…
EventPaarl Riots report submitted
… B. J. Vorster subsequently created a retroactive 90 day detention law, the General Law Amendment Act (No. 37 of …
Message by Oliver Tambo of the National Executive Committee of the African National Congress on the 71st anniversary of ANC, 08 January 1983
… cases of patriots being killed by the fascist police in detention are those of Moabi Dipale, Neil Aggett and others. … Also prominent in this enemy strategy…
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 71th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 1983
… cases of patriots being killed by the fascist police in detention are those of Moabi Dipale, Neil Aggett and others. … Also prominent in this enemy strategy…
EventMK hero cadre Solomon Kalushi (Khala) Mahlangu is executed
… to death. In addition, Motloung was so badly beaten in detention, that he suffered extensive brain damage and was …
ArchiveDeborah Matshoba’s fight against Apartheid by Alec Russo
… but so were police beatings and shootings, unjustified detention, and rape. Figures like Nelson Mandela , Oliver … of Communism act. Matshoba was not…
EventState of emergency declared in 27 townships
… the police and security forces wide powers of arrest and detention, but did not restrict the news-gathering activities …
Increasing repression and the turn to the armed struggle
… to the town’s prison to release fellow comrades in detention. The other group marched to attack the police … Square was tortured for 16 days. As result he…
His Life and Legacy - Oliver Tambo
… SACP, was also particularly responsive to this economic weapon. The campaign grew to include the boycott of South … in the townships. Assassinations,…
ArticleNon-European Unity Movement (NEUM)
… federal structure, and on the description of the boycott weapon as a 'principle'; he was also critical of Tabata's … accept the policy on non-collaboration…
Apartheid - The early 1980s
… during this period of time, many being tortured in detention and hundreds of people being killed either in detention, on the streets by police or through …
Chapter 7 - ‘We Are Also People’
… custody on 19 March 1976. William Tshwane was killed in detention on the 25 June 1976. Harry Gwala and 9 other ANC … that child. He laughed and told how he…
ArticleuMkhonto weSizwe (MK) in exile
… easily accessible from both Mozambique and Swaziland.’ Weapon consignments destined for MK in Natal regularly passed … in Port Natal played a critical role…
ArticleAfrican Resistance Movement (ARM)
… of the party between March 1961 and April 1966. The detention and banning of leading LPSA members - despite its … the National Committee of Liberation (NCL)…