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Everyone must take responsibility, 21 August, 2012 - Sahra Ryklief
… On Thursday August 16, 34 striking miners were shot dead by police at Lonmin’s platinum mine in Rustenburg. It is not yet clear why the police were using…
The diary of Maria Tholo - Augusts 25 - September 3 by Carol Hermer
… these freedom songs. It frightens you. You're scared the police will come because you are not supposed to sing freedom … there were groups of them all the…
Marikana and the New Politics of Grief, 20 August, 2012 - Jon Soske
… occupation a few days before 34 miners were killed by police gunfire. “I pleaded with them,” the Mail & Guardian … for justice and accountability, as if a…
ArchiveMarikana: The blame game - A special report by Niren Tolsi and Paul Botes
… Introduction On August 16 2012 the South African police shot and killed 34 striking miners at the Lonmin … the families of the deceased miners and those shot…
ArchiveViolence Researchers Report: Report Presente
… 1992 discussing research, liaison between monitors and police, violence, interviews with Minister of Law and Order and police officials, community visits. …
EventThe schools boycott spreads to the Black townships
… to the Black townships. In Durban and Port Elizabeth riot police were called in. At Elsies River, near Cape Town, police fired on Coloured children, killing…
EventStander gang hits 3 banks
… was a group of three men led by Andre Stander, a former police detective. While still a detective, Stander would rob … less than an hour. Later that month…
EventPAC leader Robert Sobukwe is born
… He intended to give himself up for arrest at the Orlando Police Station in the hope that his actions would inspire … South Africans. Along the eight…
ArchiveWe will not move: the struggle for Crossroads
… (NUSAS) covering the period 1975 to 1978 detailing police raids and the intended closure of Crossroads. Includes map, interviews with squatters, support…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1950-1959
… laws and for full franchise rights for all is held. Police open fire in the Alexandra Township and other areas on … the stay at home protest given the…
ArchiveViolence Now: Haphazard or Orchestrated?: Paper Presented at the Black Sash National Conference 1991
… homelands, tribalism, detention and torture, deaths in police custody, harassment and police action, hostels, hit squads and vigilantism, case …
ArchiveJustice for Tunay campaign
… of Tunay Hassan. Died in the custody of the Dalston Police, United Kingdom. Picture of the police station. Notice of a Public Meeting at Hackney Town …
X - Counsel’s Submission on behalf of the Biko Family
… in good health. He did 26 days later. What the security police themselves admit they subjected during this period is … reasons he was moved from the prison…
ArticleElizabeth Davenport: A teacher and member of the Black Sash by Cole Morgan
… of 1961 for the relocation of the Black population. The police were removing the people from their homes and forcing … ‘the funerals were so overwhelmingly…
BiographyAlfred Milner
… maladministration, stealing of public monies, a police force which did not protect British citizens and in …
ArchiveThe Childrens Emergency (with particular ref
… Conference on 15 March 1986 discussing children's rights, police brutality, state of emergency, juvenile detentions, … taking of substitute siblings into…
Article2016 in Review
… rubber bullet during the FMF protests by the South African Police. “I am very lucky to have only been shot in the … was shot multiple times in the back with…
ArticleSouth African Student Organisation (SASO)
… society in the making. With this change came increased police surveillance and state repression. The Repression of … to pursue its objectives. The killing of…
ArticleLiberal Party of South Africa (LPSA)
… disallowed to hold gatherings and harassed by the security police. In Northern Natal, the police interrupted the funeral of a LPSA member. In 1962, BJ … and…
EventSRC president Ngwako Ramalepe dies
… (SRC) at Modjadji Teacher Training College, died in police custody after first being assaulted by police at the Kgapane station, Lebowa, in the Northern …
ArticleReactions to Silverton Siege 1980
… nature the guerrillas would match the ruthlessness of the police by killing all the hostages'. However, MK leaders – … that the Silverton Trio had probably…
Nelson Mandela Timeline 1910-1919
… disciplined and organised and an alarmed government throws police cordons around each of the compounds, preventing … with bayonets fixed, killing 3 and…
EventEuropean Community observers arrive in SA
… group of European Community (EC) observers, including some police officers, lawyers and economists, arrived in South … (ANC) and Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP)…
ArchiveLetter from Duncan Innes, President, NUSAS, to SRC Presidents and National Executive
… between a delegation from NUSAS and the Minister of Police and the Interior. Discussion centred around student protests, intimidation of students by the…
2007 ANC National Policy Conference: Report of the Commission on Peace and Stability, 30 June 2007, Gallagher Estate
… adopted at the 51st Conference be finalised. SINGLE POLICE SERVICE 6. the constitutional imperative that there be a Single Police Service under the command…
Thirty years ago by Raymond Suttner (extract from 'Inside Apartheid's Prison')
… Selected Poems, 1967.) JOHN VORSTER Square, the notorious police headquarters in Johannesburg, is a terrible place. It … Ahmed Timol in the 1970s and Neil…
Chapter V - South Africa belongs to all who live in it
… meetings, always held in great secrecy, for fear of police raids or other interference, and there were always … we saw four senior members of the security…
They will answer to God - Ahmed Timol’s brother, News24 in Politics Web online, 27 June 2017
… on Monday said he believed that the surviving security police, who detained his brother in 1971, now had a second … for his interrogation and his death,…
Timol Inquest: He was murdered but culprits are dead, court rules
… diaspora.” Dozens of anti-apartheid activists died in police detention, with no one held accountable by the system which protected police officers and…
Grade 4 Term 2 Timeline: Mahatma Gandhi
… Movement 1922 A Nationalist mob sets fire to a police station, prompting Gandhi to call off the …