SAHO global search
3,171 records
Article1970’s: Poetry Timeline
… 1976 June 16 Soweto Uprising . 100 students shot dead by police. A nationwide rebellion lasts for three months. Sipho …
ArticleNational Youth Uprising
… thought, but it is known that they were aware of the extra police patrols that were set up in the townships following …
Bantu Women’s League
… staged protest marches, sang slogans and fought with the police. Many were arrested in Jagersfontein, Winburg and …
EventAfrican National Congress guerilla is shot and killed in Orange Free State.
… African National Congress guerilla was shot and killed by police in a township called Ficksburg in Orange Free State on 2nd June 1986.The South African…
Address by President Nelson Mandela at the National Day of Safety and Security Vosloorus, 15 October 1994
… To deal with crime and violence, a partnership between police and communities is central. This will also afford the police better conditions to do their work…
EventViolence erupts in Paarl
… two groups, one to attack the prison and the other the police station. The latter group approached the police station and began attacking police patrol vans…
EventNine policemen are killed in Cato Manor riots in Durban, shortly before the infamous Sharpville Massacre
… Manor in Durban . The incident happened after a raid by police searching for illicit liquor. This was at a time when … by both Africans and Indians. Tensions…
EventThe Trojan Horse Massacre
… On the day of the incident, Security and Railway police worked together to crush a gathering of youth who were … the back with the middle unloaded to create…
ArticleYusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1960 - 1969
… South Africa takes place at Sharpeville, Transvaal . The police open fire on an unarmed crowd, killing 69 men, women … and children and wounding 186. In…
PlaceFort Cunynghame
… Territories, was manned by the Frontier and Mounted (FAM) Police. It was named after Lieutenant Cunynghame who was in … its command. Such offices were deemed…
EventMthunzi Njakazi, ANC member, is killed in shooting after returning from exile
… and chest at Warwick Junction taxi rank near the Berea police station, Durban . This was allegedly done by askari … ) members after his return from exile…
ArticlePretoria Timeline 1800-2009
… are established First fruit shop opens in Pretoria. Police barracks and Charge office erected on the south west … an Afrikaner Volkswag rally in Pretoria…
Poqo political trials and the execution of its operatives in the 1960s
… security agencies. Immediate targets in this campaign were police constables and local government officials whose duties … with terrorism for their part in…
EventMourners are shot at Ntuli’s funeral in Thokoza
… The incident led to renewed charges of South African Police complicity as the injured identified two attackers as policemen and police Casspirs were…
ArticleTowards a people’s culture - Art and Resistance under Apartheid
… viewed her husband's body twisted into a lifeless bulk by police gun fire, opposite the Sharpeville police station. (Photograph © BAHA) Much of the art…
EventDurban magistrate rules the death of Dr Haffejee accidental
… death of a young dentist, Dr. Hoosen Haffejee, who died in police custody in August 1977. It was ruled that he had … suicide. The death of Dr Hoosen Mia…
EventThe Rivonia Trialists are charged with sabotage and attempting to violently overthrow the state
… South African government. This after a raid by security police at Lilliesleaf farm on 11 July 1963, the police arrested many prominent leaders of the African…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1920-1929
… they had been squatting for over a year. When a reinforced Police Unit is sent led by Police Commissioner Colonel Theodore Truter, the Israelites … clubs,…
ArticleRivonia Trial 1963 - 1964
… dock. Outside, as on the preceding day, large numbers of police, some with dogs, stood ready to control the crowds and … banners – "We Are Proud of Our…
Legislation, Dissent, and Violence in Sophiatown under Apartheid
… of locals was sometimes interrupted by gangsters or the police (Baines, 43). The Western Areas acquired an array of … to Johannesburg escalated into armed…
Timol: Salim Essop testifies of beatings, torture following arrest, News24, in Politics Web online, 27 June 2017
… torture he endured in the hands of the apartheid security police after he and his friend were held in custody. Timol’s … who flickered a torch signalling…
ArticleDrafting of the Final Constitution
… decisions and it astonished almost all of the observers. [vii] Additionally, the emergency regulations concerning the … from http://www.country-data.com/frd…
Extraordinary ministerial meeting of The Co-ordinating Bereau Of The Non-aligned Countries on the question of Namibia -1985
NEW DELHI: 19 TO 21 APRIL 1985 DRAFT FINAL DOCUMENT IN PURSUANCE of a decision taken by the co-ordinating Bureau of Non-Aligned Countries at its meeting of…
EventPaedophile Gert van Rooyen and mistress commit suicide
… commit suicide in Pretoria while being pursued by the police. Paedophile Gert van Rooyen and his accomplice and … Pretoria. Gert killed Joey and committed…
EventPoqo members arrested
… Armed Poqo members were intercepted by the police while on their way to assassinate Chief Kaiser Matanzima. An armed clash between the police and Poqo…
ArticleThe banning of the South African Students Organisation (SASO) and student politics in the 1980s
… were closed and year-end examinations were cancelled. Police harassment intensified, forcing hundreds of students … people were killed and more injured…
Salim Essop takes centre stage during first day of Ahmed Timol inquest by Amanda Khoza (News24.com), 27 June 2017
… torture he endured in the hands of the apartheid security police after he and his friend were held in custody. Timol’s … who flickered a torch signalling…
How the Ahmed Timol case was reported on at the time by South African Institute of Race Relations (Politicsweb), 28 June 2017
… previous day in a fall from a tenth-floor window at the police headquarters at Jan Vorster Square, Johannesburg. He … 30 years of age. Brigadier P. Kruger of…
ArchivePostscript Ante by Howard Barrell
… South African government had unbanned the ANC, security police in Durban raided a local house. An informer had tipped … in which one breakthrough now led…
EventViolence erupts in Bophuthatswana Townships and Kathlehong
… Violence erupted when 50 000 (or 100 000 according to police) residents from GaRankuwa, Mabopane, Soshanguve and … grievances at the Odi magistrate's court…