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EventPass laws are suspended in South Africa
… The South African Commissioner of Police announced that the pass laws, applicable to the … had been restored, following the Sharpeville Massacre. The Police…
ArticleWomen, employment and the changing economic scene, 1920s
… in the Qumbu district. In retaliation the traders had the police charge women who forcibly removed goods that anyone … and withhold it'. Violence erupted at…
ArticleTimeline of State Action Against the Press in the 1960s
… 3 and '/2 days for trying to cable a story about a police attack on Nyanga, Cape Town. The report had been … released after 48 hours, re-arrested when…
GEAR and Neo-Liberalism (Part 1) by Thabo Mbeki, 21 March, 2016
… what way do they constitute “structural adjustment”; and, (vii) (vii) in what way did the Government deviate from these …
Event’Purple rain’ used on women protesters
… The police in Adderley street, Cape Town used their new water … of the state of emergency, pull out of the townships. The police ordered the people to…
EventCrime statistics released
… The South African Police National Crime Information Management Centre released … a big improvement, as compared to 1994. National Police Commissioner George…
EventThe apartheid government reportedly pays compensation for death of Steve Biko
… questioned, detained and harassed by the apartheid police. Biko was arrested on 8 August 1977 under a law that … on arrival at a medical treatment facility…
EventGang leader Andre Stander is shot dead in the United States of America
… Andre Stander, former police officer, South African fugitive and leader of the … himself, was shot dead by a United States of America (USA) police officer,…
VI - The Inquest
… the magistrate in weighing the medical technicalities. The police and doctors who were presenting evidence on Biko's … to the theory, counsel for the state,…
Article20 Years of Democracy (1994 - 2014) - Profiles of the Presidents
South Africa’s advent to democracy was ushered through the 1993 Interim Constitution, drawn up through negotiations among various political parties,…
PlaceOld Post Office, Fleming Street, Port Elizabeth
… directly behind the City Hall. The Post Office/Courthouse/Police station were built by the Public Works Department and … Magistrate's Court (1885) onto which…
ArticleBlack Consciousness and 16 June – The birth of a new generation
… of Black students, Afrikaans was the language of the police and their employers, and an instrument for giving … held in detention without trial are released…
10 YEARS PROJECT
… under this provision local authorities and members of the police force have forcibly removed from their homes and … the African people into unnecessary…
EventBophuthatswana decide not to publish report of Smith Commission
… calm initially, but later became unruly. Bophuthatswana police, led by Colonel AM Molope, opened fire on the crowd, … attending an illegal gathering or with…
Documentry on the Life and Death of Ahmed Timol Premieres on SABC3, on 1 February 2015.
… activist who fell from the 10th Floor of the security police building in Johannesburg in 1971. The documentary is … Quest for Justice , and directed by Enver…
EventBheki Mlangeni, ANC human rights lawyer of Soweto, is killed by a walkman bomb meant for Dirk Coetzee.
… National Congress (ANC) in the 1990s. He and former police Captain Dirk Coetzee had worked together to expose the existence of a secret police unit based at…
EventSoweto students march against government’s language policy
… r education as good as that provided for white students. Police used teargas to disperse the crowd and students started throwing stones in retaliation…
The diary of Maria Tholo - September 4 - 19 by Carol Hermer
… the street. Others used whatever containers they had. The police were there very quickly but by the time they came the … had rolled the drums home were the…
EventAbolition of Internal Security Act
… It was also agreed upon that the new structure of the police and the South African Defence Force (SADF) was to be put in place. The South African Police (SAP…
XII - Unanswered Questions
… desperate journey for the dying man? ”¢ The flaws in the police story. This remains the most important question and … to Steve Biko while in the custody of…
How Zweli ‘misled’ Khwezi, 17 September 2017
… against prosecutor Charin de Beer’s advice, to enter the police’s witness protection programme instead of the one run … being cut and that it would be…
ArticleNo Land, No House, No Vote Timeline
… failures to receive adequate service delivery and heavy police repression, Abahlali BaseMjondolo once again decided …
General Factory Workers Benefit Fund (GFWBF)
… of workers. In May 1974, the Commercial Branch of the police confiscated the GFWBF’s records claiming that it was …
ArchiveIncident at Trafalgar High School
… children of Trafalgar High School, Cape Town by riot police from the South African Police Services. …
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1990-1999
… testimony at the South African Embassy in London, former police captain Dirk Coetzee, now a member of the ANC, said that he oversaw the 1981 killing by the…
EventFour political detainees escape from Pretoria Central prison in one of the most dramatic escapes in SA history
… and Charlie Jassat, escaped from the Johannesburg Central Police station after bribing a young warder on 11 August … escape of the four detainees but a…
EventCall for a stay-away in Black townships
… that 75 to 100 percent heeded the call for a stay-away. Police respond by setting up roadblocks at the entrance of … Sharpeville, and Boipatong, and buses…
EventDaily Dispatch editor, Donald Woods, arrives in Britain with his family
… laws and sentenced to jail for revealing Security Police brutality. After the death of his friend, Steve Biko, Woods was arrested by the Security Police and…
EventHarms releases his report
… of South African Defence Force Army and South African Police counter insurgency units. Supreme Court judge, Justice … found no evidence to back up the…
EventPeter Nchabeleng President of Northern Transvaal UDF dies
… of United Democratic Front in Northern Transvaal, dies in police cells in Schoonoord, Lebowa. It is alleged that he was … bomb. After he escaped this bomb…