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People Against Gangsterism and Drugs
… a notorious Cape Flats drug dealer. PAGAD felt that the police were not doing enough to stop drug related crimes in … someone threw a firebomb at him and he…
ArticleCape Youth Congress (CAYCO)
… In October the government deployed special constables to police and patrol the area, but they began raiding, … were brutally assaulted and tortured at the…
ArticleXenophobic violence in democratic South Africa
… criminals, and they should not have access to services and police protection. Foreigners are also blamed for their … migrants and marched the individuals…
ArticleANC and the early development of apartheid 1948-1950s
… to the call. The day however, ended tragically when police started shooting, killing 19 and injuring 30. The ANC … the campaign was that jails would become…
BiographyPeter Hlaole Molotsi
… of Kamuzu Banda, who was to become Malawi's president. The police were looking for them all over because the South …
BiographyPravin Jamnadas Gordhan
… of Corrupt Activities Act , was to be opened with the police in Pretoria against Gordhan. However, an investigation …
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1990s
… knew as early as 1987 of a secret "hit squad" made up of police officers which was used to kill opponents of … unit, accused of political assassinations. 26…
ArticleDefeat of the Liberation struggle
… schools. In the ensuing two-year countrywide uprising, the police killed many protesters including schoolchildren. In … were killed in political violence –…
Formation and launch of the UDF
… forces led by a Vlakplas based unit of the South African police shot and killed seven members of MK, the armed wing of … in Cape Town during a protest march…
The Ideology of the Black Consciousness Movement
… against the apartheid system, and in that period police reportedly killed many protesters, including … schoolchildren. Workers then mobilised to protest…
ArticleWomen’s Revolts in Natal: 1959
… even though they were subjected to violent attacks by the police. On 27 August 1959 Naicker produced an article called … Conference (a week after Naicker’s…
Biography of Can Themba by Aisha Ahmed
… Memorial Scholarship to the University of Fort Hare. [vi] [vii] In 1947, at the age of 23, he graduated with an English … apartheid rule sent to find him. …
ArticleuMkhonto weSizwe (MK) Timeline 1961-1990
… across the border in Morocco. 1963-1964 20 March, 1963, Police obtain information that Sisulu is an office bearer of … including the sabotage of railway…
Lobenguela’s izinDuna by Martin Plaut (Quarterly Bulletin of the National Library of South Africa ), 2016
… him to resist proposals by whites to mine for gold. [vii] On Friday, 1st March they went to the Colonial Office … p. 146 – 147. ↵ [vi] Lucy Cavendish, op cit…
ArticleNew light on ‘76 uprising
… Party Cabinet's "complicity in the ensuing atrocities". "Police were taught that if deadly force was to quell a mob, … "It was thus highly likely that the…
ArchiveGeneral History of Africa Collection
… the effects of the abolition of the slave trade. Volume VII - Africa under Colonial Domination 1880-1935 Africa was …
Why is sexual violence so endemic in South Africa and why has it been so hard to combat? by Jessica Clarke
… has normalised violence and entrenched mistrust of the police services, the latter being one of the main obstacles … of traditional tribal cultures and…
ArticleA Charge of Treason by Norman Levy
… the justice minister, the prime minister and chief of police, who made it clear that something extraordinary was … the situation. The regime’s threats were…
ArticleBlack Consciousness Movement Timeline 1903-2009
… passes at home and present themselves to be arrested by police, ends with police opening fire on the crowd in Sharpville, killing 69 … Poqo member and jailed…
ArticleKingdom of Kongo 1390–1914
… marriage alliances and cooperation rather than conquest [vii] . Later territorial expansion in the Kingdom came to a … conflict) Alfonso II of the House of…
ArticleSouth African General Timeline 1976
… 19 March, Samson Lukhele is arrested by the South African Police. 20 March , Security policemen arrive at Joseph Mdluli … in Lamontville and tell his wife…
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1970-1979
… a window on the tenth floor of the John Vorster Square Police Office. The government claimed that he “committed … to move to the Transkei , which he refuses…
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…