Political executions in South Africa by the apartheid government 1961 - 1989
… and sheer brute force. The period from the 1960s to the 1980s was punctuated by the enactment of security laws that … Prison. Two decades in particular – the 1960s and the 1980s – witnessed many political executions. While Pretoria … the exiled APLA remained largely ineffective until the 1980s and 1990s. The Bethal Trial of 1979, where 18 members …