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Apartheid - A Crime Against Humanity: The Unfolding of Total Strategy 1948-1989
… particularly within the security forces (defence and police) and within the judiciary, even to the extent of … van der Merwe, former Commissioner of the…
ArticleFreedom Charter timeline 1948-1961
… stays at home. The day ends tragically however, when police intervention in clashes between returning workers and … under the Suppression of Communism Act 10…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 2011 - 2020
… be disbanded. In 2008, Parliament passed the South African Police Service Amendment Bill that replaced the Scorpions … Investigation (Hawks), located within…
ArticleSouth Africa in the 1970s
… where workers were demanding a wage increase of R3 a week. Police were called by the Management and 100 workers were … 1973, Mine workers at Western Deep…
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1980-1989
… Bank after realising they were being tailed by the police. They hold 25 civilians hostage and after a series of negotiations a police unit storms the back…
Article‘Liberated’ Slaves? by Joline Young
… lack, as the tap was being closed on further supply. [vii] However this tap did not shut completely and the ‘prize … know is that the said Feder-Cerff had…
ArticleUnited Democratic Front timeline 1983-1990
… confrontation between civic protesters and state police forces. February, the UDF holds its biggest ever … voiced the widespread belief that the government…
ArticleForced Removals in South Africa
… 1925 Areas Reservation Bill sought to restrict Indians). [vii] However, it was the Group Areas Act of 1950 that … People Project report. Surplus People…
ArticleBizana and the Pondoland Revolt 1946 - 1962
… murder. On 6 June, 1960, at Nguza Kop in Pondo-land, the police fired on a number of insurgents and eleven were …
ArticleMahatma Karamchand Gandhi Timeline 1920-1929
… 1929 March 4, Gandhi: Arrested in Calcutta for defying Police Commissioner's order and lighting bonfire of foreign …
ArticleCosatu timeline
… After several violent incidents between mineworkers and police in which 9 mineworkers and 2 police officers were killed, police officers open fire on a large…
ArticleThe Durban strikes and the resurgence of the trade union movement in 1973
… & Co, went on strike, demanding an increase of R3 a week. Police were called in and the workers were told to return or … companies that fired workers for…
ArticleStudent protests in democratic South Africa - Timeline
… Cape Province, protested over the closure of the campus. Police fired rubber bullets to disperse protesting students. … damaged campus property and set waste…
ArticlePublic Protest in Democratic South Africa
… anti-apartheid struggle days. Since the beginning of 2014 police revealed that Gauteng alone had experienced more than … protester Andries Tatane allegedly…
ArticleTimeline of the 1973 Durban Strikes
… company, strike, demanding an increase of R3 a week. Police are called in and workers are told to return to work … levels on strike against poverty wages are…
ArticleThe 1913 Mineworkers’ Strike
… 1911. But they were brutally forced back to work by police and white miners. Many were jailed under the Masters … Strikers urged the scab workers to join the…
ArticleGrade 9 - Term 3: Turning points in South African History, 1960, 1976 and 1990
… of differing racial backgrounds to be tracked down by the police who were suspected of being in a relationship. Homes … called Soweto. In 1955, army trucks…
ArticleThe Anti-Apartheid Movement (AAM)
… of 69 peaceful African protesters in Sharpeville by the police on 21 March. The Council called upon the government to …
The African Resistance Movement (ARM): An Organisational History
… Monty Berman were banned by the government and in 1961 the police searched Lang’s residence where letters requesting … ultimately led to its demise – came in…
ArticleTutu and his role in the Truth & Reconciliation Commission
… (1976) among other resistance activities. Because the police sometimes resorted to the use of live ammunition, a … able to forgive." Take the Cradock Four,…
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1950-1959
… for defying the unjust laws of the land. 8 November, Police fire on demonstrators in Kimberley. Fourteen are killed and 39 wounded. A flyer entitled ‘ Police…
ArticleSouth Africa Cabinet Members 2009 to 2010
… Radebe Labour Membathisi Mdladlana Mining Susan Shabangu Police Nathi Mthethwa Public Enterprises Barbara Hogan Public …
ArticleSouth Africa Cabinet Members 2014
… Maphatsoe State security David Mahlobo Ellen Molekane Police Nkosinathi Nhleko Maggie Sotyu Water & Sanitation …
ArticleGrade 4 - Term 4: Communication through time
… factories running. It helps people in trouble to contact police, fire departments, ambulances and doctors. Our …
ArticleRand Rebellion 1922
… power station, but they met with stout resistance from the police, and the day ended in fights between white strikers … pitched battles were raging between…
Indian South Africans timeline 1970-1979
… Trial' from 1975. This drew attention from the security police, and Phyllis Naidoo was forced into exile. With the … a month after his banning order had…
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 1 Glossary
… the Dumas Provisional Government One-party totalitarian police state : Secret police meant to protect the political power of a dictator. …
ArticleThe World and South Africa when Nelson Mandela was born
… led by Friedrich Ebert who controlled the Government and police. The SDP formed an alliance with rightwing elements in the military and police, to crush…
Article1976-1983: Mass Democratic movements
Introduction
ArticleMass Democratic movements, 1976-1983
… of the Black Consciousness Movement , at the hands of the police on 18 August 1977 increased tension in the political … in custody in Pretoria as a result of…