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BiographyNarriman Gadija Bazier Samuels
Narriman Gadija Bazier Samuels, affectionately known as "Ma G" throughout Mitchells Plain, grew up during the height of apartheid in South Africa. While her…
BiographyAdam Small
… to the apartheid government; however, while the security police did make his life miserable, his fame as an Afrikaans …
BiographyLivingstone Mqotsi
… Research (CSIR). Within a month of his appointment the police sent a report to the Head of the Council demanding …
PlaceWynberg Park, Southern Suburbs
… fountain commemorating the coronation of King Edward VII. On weekends it’s a popular spot for children’s parties, …
BiographyCecil John Rhodes
… imperial and colonial powers as it was allowed to create a police force, fly its own flag, construct roads, railways, … troopers of the newly formed British…
ArticleSilverton Siege
… route, ‘the Trio’ realised they were being tailed by the police. In an attempt to escape, they took refuge in a branch … Maputo. After a series of…
ArticleSouth African major mass killings timeline 1900-2012
… beyond the borders of South Africa by members of security police as they became known as cross border raids. Other … itself when 34 mineworkers were shot and…
Biography of Miriam Makeba by Narcy Negrete
… Africa gave [her] legions of fans but also some enemies” [vii] (Barnett, 2007). Although many South Africans struggled … of resistance in Soweto took a turn…
The Convention for a Democratic South Africa (CODESA): CODESA 2
… Mass action and Boipatong Massacre on 17 June Rumours of Police Involvement and ANC break off Multilateral Talks at … including the choice of community…
ArticleMarikana Massacre - 16 August 2012
… On 16 August 2012, the South African Police Service (SAPS) opened fire on a crowd of striking … mineworkers at Marikana, in the North West Province . The…
BiographySindiso Mfenyana
… pass laws. Sixty nine peaceful protesters were murdered by police that day, precipitating the declaration of a national … from South Africa left in droves to…
ArticleThe Empire of Mali (1230-1600)
… conquered the Malinké people in the early 13th century [vii] . The King known as Sundiata (also spelt Sunjata) … African History, IV, 3 (I963), pp. 34I-353…
ArticleHow Unique was Slavery at the Cape?
… not carried out during the hottest times of the year. [vii] As is commonplace in most slave societies in the world, … and J. Hoge, Volume 3 (Cape Town, 1921…
BiographyZanemvula Kizito Mda
… 1960s, while he was still a pupil at primary school, the police would take him in to interrogate him about his father …
BiographyPhyllis Naidoo
… trade unionist and a member of MK was on the run from the police and she helped to hide him from their attention. …
BiographyHendrik Frensch Verwoerd
… out in a nationwide protest against the Pass Laws. The police opened fire on peaceful demonstrators at Sharpeville, …
List of deaths in detention
… 10. Yan, Ah 11. Madiba, Alpheus 05/01 09/09 63 ? Silverton Police Sta. Namibia 37 1 1968 12. Tubukwa, Jundea 13. Unknown … 01/06 17/06 10/09 27/09 ? ? ? ? ? …
BiographyZuleikha Mayat
… and his wife Fatima. When the Meers were under security police surveillance and needed safe houses for apartheid …
Statement by Denis Goldberg, ANC at the meeting of the Special Committee against Apartheid in observance of the Day of Solidarity with South African Political Prisoners
… martial law, some 30,000 people have been detained by the police and military forces of the regime. The Detainees … Torture is the norm in the interrogation…
ArticleWestern Cape Youth Uprising timeline 1976
… 1976 16 June, Extra police patrols are deployed. 24 June, The Principal's office … who are determined to keep order. Students are also under police…
ArticleSharpeville
… pass books at home and thereafter gather peacefully at police stations nearest their homes, and demand that the police arrest them for not carrying passes. …
ArticleSharpeville Massacre, 21 March 1960
… their passes at home on the appointed date and gather at police stations around the country, making themselves … Pan Africanist Congress surrendered…
Increasing repression and the turn to the armed struggle
… by the PAC organised in 1960 that ended in bloodshed as police fired on unarmed protesters resulting in the death of … in Langa. Members of this group began…
June 17
… was marked by uncontrollable fury and burning hostility...Police also assumed another attitude. They shot at random, … amongst township youth had free reign…
ArticleIndian South Africans timeline 1900-1909
… carried at all times and must be produced on request to a police officer under penalty of a fine or imprisonment. The … against the discriminatory taking of…
Safety and security issues
… abuse and often the incidents are not reported to the police or sometimes even to their mothers. If the incident is … the child's mother, she would often not…
ArticleThe African Mine workers strike of 1946
… that lasted barely five days, and were crushed by a brutal police force. The strike was undertaken by workers who … mineworkers on strike at Langlaagte…
ArticleSharpeville Timeline
… conference, Robert Sobukwe informs the Commissioner of Police, Major General Rademeyer, that the Pan Africanist … pass books at home and give themselves…
Eyewitness accounts of the Sharpeville massacre 1960
… realise that death was near”¦Fortunately for me, they (the police) could not shoot on the side where I was standing. … they saw the blood and dead people,…
ArticleSilverton and Soekmekaar trial
… Administration Board; and an attack on the Soekmekaar police station. The accused were charged with treason; two … and of planning to attack the Pretoria…