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… author who received the Scheepers Prize for youth work, is born on Van Reenen’s F …

… Teresa, Nobel laureate known world wide for her charity work, receives the first state funeral accorded a private …

… Mission is founded in England. UFM missionaries today work primarily in Latin America, Europe and Afri …

… and the Pan Africanist Congress announce they are to work towards the formation of a patrioti …

… conference held in Sofia, Bulgaria. She was met by the police brutality upon her return from the conference. Police sought to know what was her business at the … make arrangements for their care, (and) wind up her work ... There was, of course, no trial, no public hearing …

… went on to do an honours degree in psychology. Gray had to work her way through university. She got a bursary for a couple of years but had to find part-time work so that she could continue to study. As a result, she … her mother knew that this call was from the security police. From time to time, they would follow her. In London, …

… at the Johannesburg Bar, he became well known for his work as a defence lawyer in political trials. He married Ruth … in June 1963 on an 'external mission', and a month later, police captured the remaining key figures on the high … together with their three daughters. Slovo continued to work for the ANC and the SACP abroad and in 1977 moved to …

… almost certainly brought on by torture at the hands of the police. …

… bloodshed was only avoided through the firm action of the police.’  While there was no evidence that Chief Maci was …

… incited murder and arson and violent armed attacks on the police. At the time that his banishment order was signed, he …

… to kidnap children from the Obekonda Primary School to work in his home; forced his indunas to pay him a yearly fee, … of torture and other unacceptable punishments.  After a police investigation into a torture case, Wilpard allegedly …

… A group of nine young activists is shot by the SA Police in a house in Vlaklaagte, KwaNdebele. …

… A clash between Bophuthatswana police and residents of Braklaagte and Leeuwfontein over …

… including high-ranking officers from military and police, a former Government Minister …

… Police report eight more deaths due to unrest in …

… Gen. Johan van der Merwe, former commissioner of the SA police, is born in Ermelo, Tvl. …

… Twelve Blacks are shot dead by police in Soweto, and a town councillor is hacked to death. …

… of ANC member Thembinkosi Dywshu, is found by the Ciskei police, shot five times. …

… explodes in a crowded square outside Algeria’s national police headquarters, killing 10 and injuring 15. …

… Zairian soldiers begin to police Rwandan refugee camps in Zaire as part of a UN …

… It is announced that Security Police have arrested the leader of the Soweto Students’ …

… Police obtain information that Sisulu is an office bearer of …

… the same time, Hepple was working with a few friends  to work out a new ideological position and strategy for … the 1960 Sharpeville massacre, outside Johannesburg, the police shot dead 69 Pan Africanist Congress demonstrators.  A … accused.  Whilst in detention, the notorious Security Police subjected him to severe physical and psychological …

… beginning of a long and fruitful friendship. Much of the work they did at the time was experimental and … beginning of a painful relationship with the South African police. In 1977 Kani began collaborating with Barney Simon … was stabbed 11 times. In 1985 Kani’s brother was killed by police while he was reciting a poem at the funeral of a young …

… some formal subjects. From an early age Manilal learnt to work in the printing press at Phoenix,His father, a newly … in marches across the Transvaal border in 1948, the police would not arrest the son of Gandhi.In 1951 he began an … apartheid, separate libraries and post offices but again police would not arrest him. He also embarked on fasts at …

… disenfranchised.   At the end of 1945, Carneson started work as manager, fund-raiser and editor of the  Guardian , … their banning orders and their house was under a 24 hour police surveillance. On one occasion, snipers fired into … head by a few inches.  On 8 December 1965, the Security Police arrested Carneson again. He was tortured, kept in …

… African National Congress (ANC) activities and had come to work at the Durban Commissioner’s Court, the administrative … remains were exhumed at his insistence after he challenged police claims that fewer than 11 people were killed. … revolt who had been seized in Lesotho by the South African Police (SAP). He was vociferous in opposing the move to the …

… strike. Thembinkosi was shot in the back of the head by police at scene 1. He left behind 2 brothers and 2 sisters. … According to his sister, Ntombekhaya Gwelani, "When the police started shooting at them, Thembinkosi was shot in the … head and Musa tried to lift him, but he couldn't and the police were fast approaching so he let him go and ran for his …

… on his way to a meeting, when he was killed in a hail of police gunfire. According to newspaper reports, the police claimed that Mabaxa was heavily armed and he shot at … However, eyewitnesses disputed this. They claimed that the police chased him on foot whilst shooting at him. Mabaxa was …

… a fine. On 20 January 1977, Malele died in detention. The police claimed he had hurt himself while trying to escape, … lying naked on the floor in a room at John Vorster Square Police Station in Johannesburg.  The police stated that Malele had fallen down and hit his head on …