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EventArchbishop Desmond Tutu is arrested
… while leading a protest march (one of many) against the death sentence of the 'Sharpeville Six'. Tutu was freed a few … outcry, because they were convicted…
They will answer to God - Ahmed Timol’s brother, News24 in Politics Web online, 27 June 2017
… had a second chance to tell the truth about his mysterious death. "We will not know who was responsible for his interrogation and his death, until the…
ArchiveBiography of Joyce Sikhakhane-Rankin by Victoria Sedeno
… was taken to a narrow empty solitary confinement cell on death row in the isolation wing. There was a steel outer door … Students Organization which was…
EventAuthor of the book, Born Free, Joy Adamson, is killed
… bush. Initially it was reported that she was attacked to death in the bush by a lion, but further details emerged that she was stabbed to death by her…
ArchiveDeborah Matshoba’s fight against Apartheid by Alec Russo
… Institute who trained her and fellow activists like Steve Biko , Welile Nhlapo, Saths Cooper , and many other future … movement Matshoba trained for with…
ArchiveWhy The EFF Is A Fascist Political Party by Gareth van Onselen, 26 March 2018
… will they claimed to embody. At home, icons like Steve Biko – who wrote much about what does and not define a "real … This cult of heroism is strictly linked…
EventJacob Thabo Lengane is murdered in Soweto
… Soweto home by a group of armed men the night before his death. The incident occurred two days after the killing of … shock at the killing, there were…
EventKing Mwanga of Uganda signs a contract with the British East Africa Company
… Mwanga II, was Kabaka of the kingdom of Bungada after the death of his father, Muteesa I in 1884. Upon ascending to the … power and influence. Those who…
ArticleSharpeville Timeline
… Africanist Congress is attacked by police leading to the death of 69 people. Moments before the shooting began, … 5 000 protestors gathered in Langa. This…
ArticleHow did it influence the rise of Nazism?
… all been in vain. In vain all the sacrifices. In vain the death of two million soldiers. Had they died for this, so … of Jews were killed in the gas chambers…
Salim Essop takes centre stage during first day of Ahmed Timol inquest by Amanda Khoza (News24.com), 27 June 2017
… on Monday during the first sitting of the inquest into his death. Salim Essop recounted painful memories of the torture … after he and his friend were held…
2004 Gruber Justice Prize: Arthur Chaskalson
… of his best known judgments is a 1995 decision against the death penalty. In it he wrote, "It has not been shown that the death sentence would be materially…
EventRiots erupt in Soweto
… homes of local Black councillors. They blamed them for the death of one of the councillors who was hacked to death. Black militants denied the allegation but…
EventClayton Sithole, the last political activist to die in Apartheid police detention
… her son, who was less than a year old at the time of his death. He was found hanging by a belt and shoelaces from a water pipe in the shower. His death was…
EventHajara Ibrahim appears before a Nigerian Islamic court to launch an appeal against her conviction for adultery
… In 2003, an Islamic court of law sentenced her to death by stoning. The following year, in the Bauchi state of … Hajara Ibrahim was sentenced to a public…
The strangulation of activity
… an international outcry from a world still shocked by the death in detention of Steve Biko in September 1977. At the same time many of the leaders … meetings…
ArticleAccount of events: Rand Rebellion 1922
… men would go to the gallows, and that another fourteen had death sentences commuted. He concluded with the claim that …
People Against Gangsterism and Drugs
… laid charges of intimidation after they allegedly received death threats as a result of the operation. …
ArticleTimeline: Father Trevor Huddleston
… of the Province of the Indian Ocean. 1981 April, With the death of Bishop Ambrose Reeves, Huddleston is elected …
ArticleCape Youth Congress (CAYCO)
… That same year an entire CAYCO executive narrowly escaped death and injury when a bomb exploded at the Early Learning …
ArticleCongress of the People and the Freedom Charter
… Bill. The strike resulted in police violence, and the death of 18 people. On 20 June 1950 the CPSA was forced to …
EventSipho Malaza allegedly dies in detention
… day thirty years ago while in Security Police custody. His death was the twenty-first in detention since March 1976. An … 16 November 1977. Another document…
EventPercy Qoboza, influential anti-Apartheid journalist, dies
… after the June 16 Uprisings in Soweto . At the time of his death, Qoboza was editor of the weekly newspaper City Press. … notable that this day in history…
EventHendrik Witbooi, Chief of the Nama, dies
… group, which was a title that Hendrik inherited upon the death of this father. After a number of skirmishes with the … *A different source gives 28 October…
EventPrime Minister Verwoerd’s assassin transferred from prison to a mental asylum
… challenging the ruling of the Courts and held him on death row for nearly 25 years. On 30 June 1994, the African … Sterkfontein Mental Asylum, where he…
EventMolly Blackburn, political activist and civil rights campaigner is killed in a car accident
… very unpopular with the police and they received numerous death threats. Blackburn, was killed in a car accident near … Bishop. Brian was also killed in the…
ArticleXenophobic violence in democratic South Africa
… brothers were trapped inside their house and burnt to death. Nguiji Chicola, 23, and Mario Gomez Inacio, 25, were … by several men who then ran away. The…
ArticleTimeline 20 years of Democracy 1994 to 2014
… to the 1977 murder of Black Consciousness leader Steve Biko , and have made a formal amnesty application. 4 … police officers charged with the fatal beating…
ArticleYouth and the National Liberation Struggle
… They were followed in the 1970s by leaders such as Steve Biko and Rick Turner, who inspired the thousands of young … punish students. The parent was hunted…
EventANC calls on International community to save lives
… with aggravating circumstances. They were sentenced to death while six others were given prison sentences. The … men. On 2 June 1982 President Marais Viljoen…