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1918-1982

Bartholomew Hlapane

… key underground activists in the ANC and Communist Party,police used him as a prosecution witness in many later …

B-0008160

1969

Solomon Modipane

… held under section 6(1) of Terrorism Act at the Silverton police station.He died three days later in the HF Verwoerd …

B-0149614

1901-1967

Alpheus Madaba Madiba

… detained under section 6 of the Terrorism Act,died in police cells on 9th September 1967.He was the first person to … a camp in Ovamboland.On 26 August 1966…

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1946-1987

Phindile Mfeti

… to a Brigadier A. M. Llas of the South African Police at Ulundi, requesting information regarding Mfeti’s … Commissioner J S M Venter of the South African…

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1932-1997

Abdool Karrim Essak

… of those arrested in 1964, and detained at the Amanzimtoti Police Station. His arrest was a signal for a sizeable … detained and word was spread that he had…

B-0008052

1847-1914

Jacobus Herculaas de la Rey

… Johannesburg to allay suspicions, they came across several police patrols and accelerated away despite signals to stop. Ironically, the police activity was…

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1918-1974

Margaret Gazo

… from Payneville and as they approached town, soldiers and police started shooting at the women. Fearing for their …

B-0096556

1922-2003

Fatima Seedat

… twin sister, Rahima always confused the security branch police as the two were identical. In 1964, Fatima and her …

B-0068443

1948

Timothy Peter Jenkin

… to them, they were by this time under surveillance by police.[14] Arrest and prison At 3 am on 2 March 1978, Jenkin … their own dwelling. They were never…

B-0008202

1940-2023

Professor Hoosen Mahomed "Jerry" Coovadia

… the revelations of complicity by doctors in the security police torture and subsequent death of  Steve Biko . Like most political activists, the police…

B-0007958

1937-1998

Ernest Malgas

… in jail as a teenager because of misidentification by police,who were looking for a neighbor.he joined the African …

B-0149165

1929-2008

Billy Nair

… 28 of the Internal Security Act at the Brighton Beach Police station. This followed the presentation of a … wife brought a supreme court application…

B-0008740

1922-2011

Dorothy Cleminshaw

… she could. She was kept under surveillance by the security police and her house was raided. She was later convicted for … of her input in the report entitled…

B-0149290

1929-2014

Sadie Forman

… support herself and her children. However, the apartheid police did not make this easy for her. She endured continuous … and print shop owner, offered her…

B-0080054

1918-2009

Elizabeth Mafekeng

… 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…

B-0008367

1908-1993

Manonmoney "Ama" Naidoo

… being harassed, Ama took care of their children, defying police intimidation, and enrolled them in a Coloured school … Zeni and Zindzi Mandela were happy at…

B-0068196

1934

Reverend Mcebisi Osman Xundu

… On 27 August 1985, Xundu went to the CR Swarts Square Police Station to make a statement concerning the murder of … killing he had witnessed.  Xundu was…

B-0068895

Connie Mofokeng

… connection with the resignation of the local councils. The police arrived at her door demanding she stop the stay-away, …

B-0008595

1958

Zubeida Jaffer

… detained her for two months in 1980 after exposing police killings. During her detention, she was held in …

B-0008193

1931

Matsobane Morris Matsemela

… to testify against them he refused to cooperate with the police. He was sentenced in 1964 to seven years and …

B-0068679

Anna Tempo

… House’. The house looked after people sent there by the police, health clinics and by the Child Life Protection …

B-0009128

1910-1984

Annie Silinga

… and after a series of appeals was banished and sent under police escort to the Transkei. In a phrase used by Annie …

B-0009054

Siva Pillay

… However, due to one of their members (Bruno Mtolo), a police spy, the group of 19 was betrayed and subsequently …

B-0123671

Traci Mackie

… Nieuwoudt , a former member of the apartheid security police who was notorious for having a hand in numerous … to an angry mob stoning her car outside the…

B-0150305

1925-1987

Stanley Basil Lollan

… to Swaziland which was still a British protectorate.SA police followed him there and assaulted him.He acquired …

B-0141662

1945

Reverend Allan Aubrey Boesak

… him. The Star [a newspaper] accused the Security Police of being behind a smear campaign against Boesak. … Subversion charges were however dropped, but the…

B-0007862

Reverend Makhenkesi Arnold Stofile

… Border region. In 1986 he was arrested by the then Ciskei police for his political activities. Convicted under the … on alleged accomplices, but ended up…

B-0068486

1891-1922

Samuel Alfred (Taffy) Long

… Africa in February 1920. He applied to join the Mounted Police in Pretoria, but was turned down because he could not … had been found guilty by the Strike…

B-0067743

1929-2001

Johannes (Joe) Modise

… the brutal crushing of the campaign by the South African police. Modise played a key role in recruiting people for  … 1963 MK ordered Modise to leave South…

B-0067967

1946-2011

John James Issel

… 1986, he was imprisoned many times. He was held at many police stations, detained at various prisons, often in … he chaired the committee overseeing the work…

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