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ArticleTransition to Armed Struggle by Norman Levy
… and take responsible precautions against the security police gathering information of our every move. Argument … its being regularly seized by the Special…
“Message to Those Staying At Home”: Joint Statement by Dr G. M. Naicker and Chief Albert J. Luthuli, April 1958
… manner. 1. Whatever provocations you meet from the police or any other source, observe rigidly the policy of … for their safety, in order to avoid…
EventThomas Titus Nkobi is born
… Sharpeville Massacre resulted in arrest by the security police. He was detained and tortured by the security police and later he was transferred to a police…
Chapter I - Learning to live a half life
… like me, would walk with their children to the police station to report. I would get there at the same time, … restrictions, I did not escape attention from…
Chapter VI - HEAR US!
… night after a very late start, interminably delayed by the police searches. Those of us who lived in Johannesburg had … symbols of protest. There was…
The diary of Maria Tholo - October 18 - November 1 by Carol Hermer
… Tupperware party last night. All the talk was about the police, who have been beating up any children they see in the … Groote Schuur and they are trying to…
EventLadybrand Four story told at the TRC
… Mashiya was abducted with her one-year old baby but the police returned the baby to Mashiya’s parents in the Orange … Shaw and Mike Jantjie and Daniel Thulo,…
ArticleRemembrance of Albertina Sisulu through the Work of Cartoonists
… refused to carry her pass and was jailed (by the apartheid police). She was later acquitted, thanks to her lawyer, …
ArticleBlack Consciousness Movement (BCM)
… leader Steve Biko died while in the custody of security police. The period leading up to his death, beginning with …
EventState of emergency declared after Sharpeville Massacre
… the government had free reign to suspend civil liberties. Police could detain anyone for reasons of "public safety", … to be a peaceful demonstration against…
Statement by Oliver Tambo on death sentences passed on three members of ANC and Umkhonto We Sizwe, 20 August 1981
… incriminating statement virtually dictated by the fascist police. In sentencing them to death the judge relied solely on these police statements, which he…
Document 4 - “The Great Native Strike”, “ The International, 27 February 1920
… this number of native workers must have refused work. Police and military have poured on to the Reef, but there has … little definite organisation as between…
EventIconic musician, John Lennon, was shot dead outside his New York apartment
… driveway when the gunman opened fire. He was rushed in a police car to St Luke's Roosevelt Hospital Center, where he … read a copy of Catcher in the Rye as…
EventAnton Fransch, ANC guerrilla, killed by the special forces of the apartheid regime
… [CT03204/FLA] died after a six-hour gun battle with the police on 17 November 1989 at a house in Athlone, Cape Town. … before it was thrown, there was a…
ArticleYusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1950 - 1959
… from Indians and Coloureds in South Africa's history. Police open fire in Alexandra Township and other areas on the … 44 of 1950, passed on 26 June comes…
ArchiveChapter 5 Last resort: armed resistance by Denis Goldberg
… Peaceful protests brought increasing use of force by the police. For example, African women in 1953 marched in protest … petition against the pass laws to…
EventThe Bethal Treason Trial resumes
… Treason Trial), four of those awaiting prosecution died in police custody. Namely; Naboath Ntshuntsha, Samuel Malinga, … to escape from custody. He later…
EventJohn Lawrence, Winnie Mandela’s bodyguard, dies after a shoot
… had an altercation with a pedestrian. According to a police spokesperson, Lawrence allegedly pointed his pistol at … Mrs. Mandela seemed to confirm the…
EventAlleged Mk members are killed
… The South African Police (SAP) and the South African Defence Force (SADF) … stopped at the designated place, shooting between the police and Mk members…
Ruth First Untold by Jerry Saena
… of any household with suspicion of any laws being broken, police claimed to have found illegal books in Ruth`s home. … jail workers or ‘wardress’ (First 1988…
ArticleuMkhonto weSizwe (MK)
… Langa, 3 people were killed and 27 injured in clashes with police over the burning of passes. The states’ heavy-handed … meeting was secret and held at night…
ArticleAzanian People’s Organization (AZAPO)
… a few activists attracted the attention of the security police. They fled Soweto as the hunt for them by the security police intensified. Three of them,…
Chapter II - More of the same
… because no one ever knocked on my door except the security police. I opened the door to the two men standing there, but … other restrictions, another five…
ArticleThe Landless People’s Movement
… in silence for the next five years.” [13] The police heavily repressed protests outside the voting stations … increase in attacks on LPM members by ANC…
ArticleThe Destruction of Sophiatown
… would be filled with explosives and rolled towards the police. Two days before the removals were scheduled to take place, 2000 police, armed with automatic…
ArticleApartheid crumbles, Women in the turmoil of the 1980s
… turmoil everywhere and South Africa had in effect become a police state. When Botha suffered a stroke in 1989 and FW de … launched rent boycotts and also…
ArticleAnti-pass campaigns, 1910s
… being brandished. The women reputedly shouted at the police: ‘We have done with pleading. We now demand!' Unrest … freedom of movement and had to be produced…
Why protect rights of gays and lesbians?
… people were harassed and blackmailed (frequently by the police), often denied employment and refused custody of their … bizarre and notorious anti-gay laws…
Article”People’s Power!”, 1986
… This repression did not only come from security police, but also from vigilante groups that were often … to either homeland leaders or township councillors…
The Mass Democratic Movement, February 1988 - January 1990
… 1990s. The State of Emergency gave a framework for state police and military attacking activists. Poster: Silkscreen, … Parliament . F.W. De Klerk , the new…