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ArticleCouncil of Non-European trade unions (CNETU)
… large crowds and delivery vans were stoned and set alight. Police also came into physical confrontation with … Johannesburg had done. Unfortunately in this…
ArticleSouth African Communist Party (SACP)
… at Home”, the government banned all meetings and sent police reinforcements to Johannesburg. However, the protest went on and on 1 May the police attacked…
ArticlePeople involved in Rivonia Trial 1963-1964
… (arrested but escaped) Liliesleaf Raid Johan Coetzee (police security officer) Gerard Ludi (agent infiltrated into …
ArticleTruth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC)
… charged. As well as ordinary citizens, members of the police could be charged and, most notably, members of the …
EventB.J Vorster steps down as Prime Minster
… In 1961, Vorster was appointed as Minister of Justice, Police, and Prisons and he used the law to vigorously suppress political opponents by deploying the…
EventHuman Rights Day is celebrated for the first time in South Africa
… South Africans protesting the Pass Laws turned into a police-led bloodbath. The day marked a turning point for the … for liberation, which intensified in its…
EventMass arrests in Pondoland
… African Defence Force (SADF) was present in support of the police during at least part of this period, it is clear that it was the police who had primary…
EventTrial of nine BPC and SASO leaders ends
… were driven from Pretoria to Cape Town in the back of a police van, and from there taken to Robben Island. The nine were first detained by Security Police in…
EventEleven people are killed in eSikhawini township
… National Congress (ANC) J1 section marched to the local police station to protest against Kwa-Zulu Police behaviour. The killers, dressed in similar clothing…
EventMandela suspends talks in the wake of Boipatong Massacre
… action. That plan included mobilisation of the army, the police and police reservists. Mandela requested the United Nations (UN) …
EventNotorious ‘SOWETO’ policeman dies
… most feared interrogators of the South African Security Police, dies in Roodepoort. Brigadier Swanepoel is notorious for ordering the police to shoot at…
EventThe inquest into the death in detention of Dr. Neil Aggett is adjourned
… Vorster Square, Major Arthur Cronwright that the Security Police withheld statements by Dr. Aggett. The police claimed to have done so because the statements…
EventThe Security Council begins deliberations on the situation in South Africa
… staged an anti-pass demonstration outside Sharpeville police station near Vereeniging. They handed over their … pass laws. However, the march ended in…
EventMore than 2,250 people are arrested in the township of Sebokeng
… Police arrested 2,300 people in the township of Sebokeng in … boycott and protest marches. This led to clashes between police and township residents that…
PlaceHangberg, Hout Bay
… after prolonged negotiations it was decided to send the police in to tear down the houses, on the firebreak. The South African Police Service fired rubber…
ArchiveThe defiance campaign
… And it was such a smart new jail too! They had to send police from other parts of the country to look after us there … going on for some time things got very…
On trial for treason
… dawn on 5 December, 1956, the security branch of the police entered the homes of 140 people and arrested 156 … didn't let us sleep; they just took us…
Address by President Nelson Mandela at the Investment Against Crime Seminar 19 August 1998
… by apartheid. And they include the transformation of a police force and a justice system which were designed to look … meant rooting out the minority of…
EventSAP fighting in Zimbabwe
… It was officially disclosed that the South African Police (SAP) were in Rhodesia (later renamed Zimbabwe) … to read Nicole (Nicky) Van Driel's thesis on…
EventTwenty die in an armed assault in a mosque in Khartoum, Sudan
… in Khartoum, Sudan. Abbas was eventually gunned down by police after he refused to surrender. It was generally … the Islamic sect Al- Sunna Al-mohammediyya …
EventSteve Biko, a pioneer of the Black Consciousness Movement, is born
… Cape on 18 August 1977 and taken to the apartheid security police headquarters in Port Elizabeth . He was accused of … and "inciting unrest" among the black…
EventDonald James Wood journalist and Anti apartheid activists is born
… in the newspaper. In 1975 Woods met the Minister of Police James "Jimmy" Kruger requesting the easing of Steve … orders and as a consequence he was placed…
EventThe Boipotong massacre takes place
… by the Third Force, a conservative element of the police force and government colluding with members of the … any involvement in township violence. However,…
EventNavanethem (Navi) Pillay is born
… Naidoo who was charged for failing to report to the police station as a banned person. In 1971, she represented … her husband Gaby Pillay who was detained by…
International Boycott of Apartheid Sport by Mary Corrigall
… leave South Africa as he was detained by the South African police and his passport was withdrawn." A new element had … Despite the diligent efforts of the…
ArticleUnited Nations and Apartheid Timeline 1946-1994
… Assembly of the United Nations adopted resolution 616(VII) establishing a three-member Commission to study the … thatit expressed "deep regret and concern"…
EventCourt go-ahead for United Democratic Front meetings
… Minister of Law and Order and Divisional Commissioner of Police to go ahead with a meeting to launch the ‘Unban the … the June 16 Soweto uprising.The UDF…
EventANC revolutionary propaganda leaflets exploded in Cape Town, Johannesburg, and Durban
… a tape recorder with ANC slogans was found by security police at the Parade. In Johannesburg, pamphlets were … Daily Mail building. During an interview with…
EventThami Mnyele, SA artist and member of MK, is killed in Gaborone
… a portfolio were taken by the SADF. A week later, Security Police Major Craig Williamson displayed the portfolio and the … these works have not been…
EventThe SACBC urges that lawful means be used to resist Apartheid
… objectors, expressing disturbance over reports of police cruelty and deaths in detention. Bishops called for an … protests against the provision of legal…