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ArticleAhmed Mohamed Kathrada Timeline: 1929 - 2017
… (SACP) to discuss the killing of 19 people shot by the police following a general strike on Freedom, the issue is … on the Carnavon Castle. When the ship…
ArticlePolitical executions in South Africa by the apartheid government 1961 - 1989
… (PAC) organised and led a protest against the pass laws. Police fired on the crowd of unarmed protestors, killing 69 … delivering these messages, others were…
The Colonial Photographic Discourse and Censorship – Challenges for Resistance Photographers
… journalists. 54 After the uprising itself the security police intimidated journalists by "taking down their names; … cards and car keys; ordering journalists…
Article1970s: Black Consciousness Movement in South Africa
… repression, such as banning, arrests, stricter laws and police violence. In 1955, an important document called The … On 21 March 1960, thousands of people…
ArticlePopular struggles in the early years of Apartheid, 1948-1960
… that often turned violent as residents clashed with the police. In the Eastern Cape towns of East London and Port … centre led by the Anti-Tram Fare Action…
ArticleMoses Kotane Timeline
… other CPSA leaders is subjected to harassment by the police following his involvement in helping to organise the … high treason, earlier in the year he was…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1960-1969
… anti pass march led by the PAC at Sharpeville, the police open fire on the unarmed and peaceful crowd, killing … the Citizens Force have been mobilised to…
Protest Art
… activities, they also attracted the attention of security police who raided the premises and confiscated posters. With …
ArticleList of SADF raids into Neigbouring Countries
… Returned November August Seme, Lucas (ANC) From Swazi police cells 11 December Schneider, Daniel (Swiss) From … days later after interrogation in South…
Political executions
… (1978). Letsoare, Tsepo, 22 1988/03/18 Necklace murder of police informer Londe, Siphiwo 1988/03/29 Lucas, Michael, … Cape. Mngomezulu, Abraham, 23 1989/05…
ArticleIndian South Africans timeline 1960-1969
… comprising fasting and prayer. It irked the Security Police that during the prayer meeting a portrait of Dr Monty … the newspaper's photographer he was on…
ArticleBureau of State Security (BOSS)
… During the 1930’s, a special branch of the South African Police was created. In 1960, it became the official security … the security activities of both the…
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1960-1969
… anti pass march led by the PAC at Sharpeville, the police open fire on the unarmed and peaceful crowd, killing … the Citizens Force have been mobilised to…
ArticleWomen’s Rights and Representation
… woman. Despite the man's history of sexual violence, the police and the prosecutor had recommended his release without … But the High Court said she had not…
ArticleWomens Rights
… woman. Despite the man's history of sexual violence, the police and the prosecutor had recommended his release without … But the High Court said she had not…
Apartheid - The early 1980s
… a state of emergency . A state of emergency gives the police and state special powers over the people, and people … people being killed either in detention,…
ArticleRobert Mangaliso Sobukwe Timeline 1924 - 1978
… 16 March, Robert Sobukwe writes to the commissioner of police, Major General Rademeyer, stating that the PAC would … their passes at home and present…
ArticleTransvaal Indian Youth Congress (TIYC)
… the Suppression of Communism Act. The strike resulted in police violence that led to the death of 18 people across … He was held in solitary confinement at…
ArticleOn Trial: State versus Abram Fischer and Thirteen Others by Norman Levy
… confinement left me wary of everything connected with the police and prisons and the prolonged imposition of silence … trial finally took shape as the…
ArticleThe Cabinet Reshuffle of 2017
… Minister of Home Affairs Nathi Nhleko, former Minister of Police Thulas Nxesi, former Minister of Public Works Fikile … Mr Malusi Gigaba, replacing Pravin…
ArticleStudent protests in democratic South Africa
… development is that as protests have increased so too has police brutality towards the students. Protesters often come up against heavily armed police…
ArticleObituary: Sheila Weinberg
… and who grew up in an environment of house arrest and police harassment. Until the 1990s Sheila's life was always marked by bannings and police visits and…
ArticleA Luta Continua Dialogues
A Luta Continua Dialogues: The Struggle Continues is an international dialogue series, bringing together Black and Indigenous activists, community workers,…
The Black Face of Apartheid
… You exonerate the country from the blame that it is a police state.” An increasing number of Biko’s supporters … was launched in 1971. Almost immediately, it…
ArticleTimeline of the Labour and Trade Union Movement in South Africa 1881 - 1919
… concession stores on the East Rand in February 1918. Police break up the boycott by arresting picketing workers. … After a further 152 workers go on strike,…
Indian South Africans timeline 1990-1999
… 1990-1999 1990 23 July, Billy Nair was detained following police allegations of an uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) plot, …
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 2000 -2010
… sign an agreement to integrate the armed forces, the police and intelligence services of Burundi, in Pretoria … apprehended by the ANC activists and handed…
ArticlePartial State of Emergency, July 1985
… was the first State of Emergency since 1960, and gave the police powers to detain, impose curfews and control the media … the Western Cape, reaching a height…
ArticleAfrican Resistance Movement (ARM)
… Monty Berman were banned by the government and in 1961 the police searched Lang’s residence where letters requesting … ultimately led to its demise - came in…
ArticleTimeline 20 years of Democracy 1994 to 2014
… confirm newspaper reports that five former security police officers have confessed to the 1977 murder of Black … African National Congress. 1998 January, six…