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The Many Faces of Apartheid Repression
… to house arrest, with time off to report twice daily to a police station. By comparison with straightforward detention … predictability of their movements in…
ArticleList of uMkhonto weSizwe Operations
… between 1976 - 1982 30/11/76 Skirmish with South African Police (SAP): Eastern Transvaal Two SAP killed as arrested … hanged 24/02/77 SAP buildings: …
ArticleThe History of Education: 1658 to present
… that if the student protests did not end immediately, police would move onto campuses. The protests were called off … and white English-language universities…
South African Youth Revolutionary Council (SAYRCO)
… students were called upon to march to John Vorster Square Police Station to demand the release of political detainees. … from different points in Soweto to…
ArticleStates of Emergency in South Africa: the 1960s and 1980s
… march by Pan-Africanist Congress (PAC) supporters to the police station – in protest against the pass laws and calling … wage of 35 pounds – was turned into…
Re-Emergence of Congress Activity 1980s
… 1980, an MK cache and ANC leaflets were discovered by police in a township near Springs on the East Rand. Later in … launched a rocket and grenade attack on…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1980-1989
… Bank after realising they were being tailed by the police. They hold 25 civilians hostage and after a series of negotiations a police unit storms the back…
ArticleThe Anti-Pass Campaigns 1960
… their passes at home and offer themselves for arrest at police stations. The protest was of a non-violent nature, but turned violent in Sharpeville where…
Re-emergence of resistance, 1980-89
… 1986 the youth of Apel/Nwana marched to Masha, where the police responded by firing on them. A disabled boy, Solomon … arrests and protests ensued. The UDF’s…
Biography of Heinz Klug by Ashley Rogers
… areas of Durban for different races within the nation. [vii] Klug notes that growing up, he realized that “the … ↵ [v] Maharaj 1997, 135-154. ↵ [vi] Schensul…
Township Uprising, 1984-1985
… march for 3 September 1984, which led to clashes with both police and township councillors, and left thirty people dead. … of 1984, and only started to get…
The Mountain Committee
… dropped tear-gas and smoke bombs on the crowd, and police vehicles approached from two directions. The Africans … flag to show that their meeting was a…
ArticleGeneral Factory Workers Benefit fund (GFWBF)
… Workers Union for operation free of charge. It experienced police raids and intimidation. On the 31 January 1974, its … and intimidation from officials. On…
ArticleThe 1913 Women’s anti-pass campaign in the Orange Free State
… published new rules for the enforcing the passes and police were given instructions of how to enforce the … who were protesting “Women Terrorists”. In May…
ArticleArmed Struggle, the anti-apartheid struggle accelerates 1984-1990
… black-on-black violence, and many others were killed by police suppression. Consumer boycotts, which proved … he was visited by Kobie Coetsee, the Minister…
ArticleThe Sedition Trial 1946 - 1948
… the government deployed a contingent of 1,600 white police to put down the strike. As a result of confrontations between workers and the police nine people…
The people armed, 1984-1990
… 1983 killed 19 and injured over 200 SADF and South African Police (SAP) personnel. This was the first time the ANC and … were executed for their part in an…
Article1960 - 1994: Armed Struggle and Popular Resistance
… 1983 killed 19 and injured over 200 SADF and South African Police (SAP) personnel. This was the first time the ANC and … were executed for their part in an…
ArticleThe Western Cape Farm Workers Strike 2012-2013
… by late October 2012, where a number of clashes between police and farmworkers took place. De Doorns was the centre … living conditions, a moratorium on…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1970-1979
… a window on the tenth floor of the John Vorster Square Police Office. The government claimed that he “committed … to protest against compulsory use of…
The Freedom struggle in Rustenburg
… referred to as the "PAC-Poqo menace", they panicked. The police and army were mobilised from 17 March 1963 to 15 April … more clandestine political…
ArticleSouth African National Students Congress (SANSCO)
… the Black townships. In Durban and Port Elizabeth riot police were called in. At Elsies River, near Cape Town , police fired on Coloured children, killing…
Women’s Resistance Against the Pass Laws
… women demonstrators fought pitched battles with the police, who were mounted on horses. Women, as well as … sure as to whether or not she would not be caught…
Political assassinations 1974 - 1994
… Bongani Khumalo Student activist (COSAS) Shot dead by police. 1985 - Vryburg Gasuebe Hubhuli Activist Shot dead. 14 … Found shot dead the day he was picked…
Article1946 African Mineworkers Strike
… the strike for a week in the face of the most savage police terror, in which officially 1,248 workers were wounded … large number - officially only 9 - were…
Article1960-1966: The genesis of the armed struggle
… the person's 'homeland' and prosecution of the employer. Police vans patrolled White areas to round up 'illegal' … as many as 20 000 with the larger figures…
ArticleAlbertina Sisulu Timeline 1918 - 2011
… to the march, because of the financial costs as well as police measures to stop this. Albertina was one of the … leaders who had to ensure that women…
ArticleResponse to the June 16 Soweto Youth Uprising by organisations in exile
… mass rally on this date turned violent, as the police responded with bullets to stones thrown by the angry … Many Black people felt in danger of being…
Article1913 Satyagraha Campaign Resumes
… them alone in Volksrust. But by Sunday 21 September the police had lost their patience and decided to deport them. The police took the group to a bridge on…
ArticleA History of the Bulhoek Massacre
… ECA Welsh, visited Ntabelanga accompanied by 100 police officers under the command of Major Hutchons from Grahamstown. The police force set up their tents…