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Article50 Facts on Africa
… was the first female president in Africa. Cleopatra VII (c. 68 BC - 30 BC). Cleopatra was the last ruler of the …
Article1960s: The Civil Rights and Black Power movements
… him, and joined the protests. Protests were often met with police and public violence. Many people died, but Dr. King … expected to give up her seat. She…
Excerpts from Priscilla Jana’s book 'Fighting for Mandela' that relate to Solomon Mahlangu
… as they were climbing into a taxi to travel to Soweto, police had found an AK-47 assault rifle. The two men – Mondy … and disappeared into the crowd. They…
ArticleMiriam Makeba: Activist on Two Fronts by Connor Kirkpatrick
… and sold her own beer. When their house was raided by police Zenzi was sent to jail for six months. At the time … Makeba became pregnant with a man named…
ArticleNelspruit Timeline 1815-1996
… plantation in the Eastern Traansvaal. May, A new enlarged police station is opened. The Nelspruit Laerskool (primary … MK cadres are killed in a skirmish…
ArticleAlbertina Sisulu and the organisations she was connected to
… work with the UDF was a contributing factor to continued police surveillance of her in the 80’s and early 90’s The … at the time. The ‘evidence’ was used by…
Address by ANC President, Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela, to the OAU Ad Hoc Committee for Southern Africa Arusha, 28 April 1992
… of people murdered every month. The partiality of the police, the lack of arrest or conviction, confirm mounting … They expressed astonishment at the lack of…
Event1 575 people are detained under a state of emergency
… where they were confronted by a force of the South African Police (SAP) under Col. I.B.S. Terblanche. The intervention … 95% of the African work force in the…
Killings at Ntshanga, 29 December 1996
… upon the people in the area to co-operate fully with the police. The perpetrators of this heinous crime must be … and for any reason may not be willing to…
PlaceHector Pieterson Memorial and Museum, Soweto
… all of those that marched through Soweto and shot at by police on the 16 June, 1976! Which has now become Youth Day, … at important scenes - including…
EventSouth African man walks from England to France through Channel Tunnel
… old South African man, Lance Dyer, was arrested by French police on 09 October 2005 after he walked through the Channel … He was arrested on the spot and…
EventGovernment admits responsibility for Mdluli’s death
… by Mdluli's widow against the minister of justice and police was settled out of court. She received the amount of … a chair. A pathologist presented evidence…
EventKhotso House is bombed
… which resulted in nineteen people injured, was executed by police led by Colonel Eugene de Kock. During the 1996 Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC)…
EventStudents at Durban
… students who had not paid their fees at the University. Police entered the campus and sprayed the students with … for a full university assembly to be held…
EventState of Emergency follows Sharpeville massacre
… Town and Sharpeville, in the Transvaal. At Sharpeville, police opened fire on the demonstrators and killed 69 and … to Parliament, but dispersed after…
South African Tragedy: Jail Part Lovers by Joseph Lelyveld (New York Times), 5 January 1983
… came early one morning 13 months ago and the security police burst in, their working lives were suspended and time … close together before they were parted…
I - Introduction
… known to have died under interrogation by the security police in South Africa since the first 'no-trial' detention … inquiry been held; nor has any member of…
ArchiveAppendix 7 South Africa, the transition to democracy and the banning of torture, by Denis Goldberg
… our infamous 90 days law (later 120 days) that allowed police to arrest people and hold them without contact with anyone except the security police for the…
Chapter 13. General Strike, 1932
… to accept the terms they offered. Scabs were promised police protection. The employers also made efforts to … of the argument. Within a few minutes, a lorry…
Appeal for action against Apartheid - Statement issued jointly by Chief Albert Luthuli and Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr,10 December 1962
… Bantustan in the Transkei - with the aid of emergency police regulations; LEGALLY DEFINED protest against apartheid … Africans killed at Windhoek and 40…
Chapter V - Acts of conscience
… subjected to tight control of his visitors by the security police. Even after this death the iron hand of the Prisons … school children who marched in…
Address by ANC President, Nelson R. Mandela, to the Ruth First tenth anniversary commemoration trust Cape Town, 17 August 1992
… - as well as the continued occurrence of deaths in police custody. We are asked to believe that the Boipatong … erased by mistake. But if this is true, the…
ArchiveChapter 6 Underground in Joburg by Denis Goldberg
… difficult and the state was clearly determined to give the police and the prosecutors the advantage. On a finding of … the death penalty. The 90-day law…
EventRobert Sobukwe is sentenced to three years’ imprisonment
… pass laws. Sobukwe led a peaceful Black march to Orlando police station in Soweto on 21 March 1960, the same day a … took place in Sharpeville, to hand over…
EventTwelve ANC supporters are killed in eSikhawini
… on previous experience. They called upon the KwaZulu Natal Police (KZP), the South African Police (SAP) and the South African Defence Force (SADF) to …
EventMagnus Malan and Constand Viljoen deny knowledge of mass graves
… Namibia at the time. Viljoen said burying guerrillas was a police function as fighters killed by the South African army … by law had to be handed over to the…
EventEllis Park soccer stampede kills 43
… said there were many thousands more inside the ground. A police spokesman put the figure at 120,000. In addition, … interested in tickets than safety of the…
EventDemonstrating Clergymen are arrested in central Johannesburg
… spread to universities, rural areas and the homelands. Police were on high alert in Durban and Port Elizabeth as the … gained momentum. At Elsies River, near…
EventPassbook laws relaxed
… times and failure to present a passbook on demand by the police was no longer a criminal offense. From the mid-1950s … a protest against the pass laws in…
Chapter XV - House arrest
… I was compelled to report to the Central Johannesburg police station every day between midday and two o'clock, … last hour getting myself into the city to…