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1947-1976

Mapetla Frank Mohapi

… July.  Twenty days later, on 5 August 1976, Mohapi died in police custody. Upon his death, police produced a "suicide note", claiming he had committed …

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1977

Samuel Malinga

… 22 February.She telephoned the Pietermaritzburg security police and was told that she could not see her husband since … Colonel J G Dreyer,divisional…

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1937-2019

Zubeida “Juby” "Sharon Davis" Mayet

… were detained for the night at the notorious John Vorster Police station and charged under the Riotous Assemblies Act … Security Act. She and her family…

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1961

Mhlupeki Hlongwane

… consequence of developments related to the killing of five police officers during a dagga raid in February 1956; 22 of … to death. According to Mdhluli, on…

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1953-2019

Bongani Mnguni

… one of many that had to endure the torture of apartheid police. He was beaten up, harassed and almost buried alive. … role as a witness to SA's transition…

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1952-1981

Robert Mokwena (George Sello)

… Reconciliation Commission (TRC) report, while inside the police minibus, Sello took a hand grenade out his pocket and it exploded, killing him and a police…

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1940-2013

Adrian Leftwich

… but anything up to the death sentence. When the security police arrived at his Cape Town flat on 4 July 1964, they … on his shelves at random. By chance, the…

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Benjamin Johnson Langa

… as much as possible. All this exposed him to the Security Police at the time. Following a student walkout at Fort Hare … interrogated. Under questioning, he…

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1957

Sakumzi (Saki) Justice Macozoma

… student activists were under pressure from the security police, and a number of them decided to leave the country. … who set up structures to facilitate…

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1957-1990

Teboho MacDonald “Tsietsi” Mashinini

… As they marched down in a throng, they came across a police barricade on their way to the assembly point. … march peacefully, to remain orderly and not to…

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1868-1928

Enoch Mgijima

… When government police ordered Mgijima's followers to remove their settlement from crown lands, they resisted and police opened fire, killing approximately…

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1963

Robert John McBride

… his parents. When 13, he was arrested for challenging the police beating of a youth. When older, while walking an … he freed his wounded MK commander in a…

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1951

Frank Chikane

… of Churches (SACC), replacing Dr. Beyers Naudé . The police then went to harass the SACC as their offices were … prison sentences for plotting to kill…

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1932

Amy Thornton

… Thornton was part of a delegation that was stopped by the police in Beaufort West on its way to Kliptown, Transvaal … Town to the Congress of the People ,…

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1946-1977

Stephen Bantu Biko

… in South Africa between the mid 1960s and his death in police detention in 1977. This was the period in which both … However, in April, Steve was taken into…

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1930

Stella Madge Damos

… a protest meeting and was charged with assaulting the police and fined £20. She was a member of the South African …

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1937-1999

Marius Schoon

… . In 1964 Schoon helped plant a bomb at the Johannesburg Police Station. However, Schoon’s group had been infiltrated by a police agent who supplied the bomb…

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1916-1988

Pieter Arnoldus Beyleveld

… activism, he came under the scrutiny of the Security Police. They traced a connection between Beyleveld and the … members of the SACP in a 34-page statement…

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2012

Anele Mdizeni

… was killed at scene 2 after being shot in the hip by the police. Anele left behind his pregnant wife and two young …

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2012

Babalo Mtshazi

… 2012 Babalo was killed at scene 1. He was in the head by police. He left behind two young children, his mother and …

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2012

Ntandazo Nokhamba

… at scene two after being shot once in the back by the police. He was the breadwinner in his family and left behind …

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1934-1985

Sipho Samuel Hashe

… in the non-racial ideology of the ANC. As the security police were extremely hostile towards any form of student … Port Elizabeth Airport in 1985 by…

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1946

Ashlatha Rambally

… Moodley was arrested on the evening of 26 August 1977. The police had arrested Biko (who was banned at the time) and … of the equipment and publications were…

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1941-2013

Wendy Heather Woods

… her husband becoming a person of interest to the security police and this resulted in years of harassment, intimidation, and death threats. Security police…

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1953-1982

Dr. Neil Hudson Aggett

… of harassment by the Security Branch of the South African Police and the state labelled him a communist. In late 1981, … Prison and later transferred to John…

B-0007775

2003

Stanley Mabizela

… Dhlomo, Mbeki and Jacob Zuma were arrested by the Swazi police, detained at Mbabane maximum security prison and … In the early 1980s, following a shootout…

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1940

Gille De Vlieg

… of Johannesburg was often used as a hideout when the police were looking for COSAS activists. In June 1986, de … and taken to  John Vorster Square and then…

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1966

Hangula Shonyeka

… the detainee's name.In 1970,in parliament the minister of police said that Mr Hangula Shonyela had committed suicide on …

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