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EventAzanian People’s Liberation Army kills three policemen in Katlehong violence
… Three South African Police members are killed and three wounded when their … Associated Press, (1993), Articles about Police Murders in South Africa , from…
ArchiveMinutes of the Black Sash National Conference held at Cape Town 1979
… Conference, Freedom of Press, Criminal Laws Amendment Act, Police and Prisons, Education, Advice Offices, housing, …
ArchiveCrisis News
… human rights violations, detentions, torture, violence and police brutality are reported together with theological …
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…
ArticleEastern Cape Wars of Dispossession 1779-1878
… Gcalekas. They were later joined by some rebellious 'black police' and some Khoikhoi from the Kat River settlement under … the Ninth (and last) Frontier War…
PlaceSettler Houses, 10-12 Castle Hill, Port Elizabeth
… The two buildings, originally owned by Police Constable Sterley, date from about 1840, and together …
EventState Security Council Approves Cross
… countries. The Departments of Foreign Affairs, Defence and Police draw up the memorandum, which contains provision for: …
EventCOMSA calls on SA to move towards election
… world. COMSA, a fifteen-member team, which consisted of police, military, legal and political experts, further …
EventAmnesty application of Gideon Nieuwoudt fails
… Commission refused amnesty to the notorious former police officer Gideon Nieuwoudt, for his role in the death of …
ArchiveSouth African Church leaders confront the Sstate
… Within minutes the leading clergy were bundled into police vehicles and the march was broken up with water …
The Many Faces of Apartheid Repression
… to house arrest, with time off to report twice daily to a police station. By comparison with straightforward detention … predictability of their movements in…
Statement by Mfanafuthi Makatini in the Plenary Meeting of the General Assembly, 27 November 1981
… of the South African Workers Union, who was shot by the police, seem to point to a new pattern that includes the … not only urge the Security Council to…
ArchiveThe arch agitator of the Union by Shula Marks, 31 January 2019
… school not far from Durban, before entering the police force. After a spell on the Rand, he served as a … Nomazembe Cele, persuaded him, however, “to leave…
Draft Report of the National Executive Committee of the ANC, submitted to the Annual Conference, December 15-17, 1950
… a step further towards tyranny and the establishment of a police state by introducing two most notorious laws namely … and four others.... RIOTS: On the…
ArticleThe Khoisan
… border unit was stationed at Kenhardt, but the handful of police and burghers were too few to protect a 330 km stretch … of 1869 and 1878. In 1869, the…
ArticleCongress of South African Students (COSAS)
… Emma Sathekge was killed and scores were injured when police clashed with pupils boycotting classes as they were … the organization included: The withdrawal…
ArticleResponses in South Africa to the outbreak of WWI: The Afrikaner Response and the 1914 Rebellion
… senior army officers. However, de la Rey was killed by a police patrol bullet when their car failed to stop at a police roadblock. de la Rey’s death…
ArticlePass Laws and Sharpeville Massacre
… within Sharpeville led to the confrontation between police and anti-pass demonstrators on that fateful day. The … lines as Sophiatown and was also…
Congress of the People - I was there
… and interference, about 3,000 delegates pierced the police cordon and arrived at Kliptown, just outside … day surrounding the whole gathering with their…
ArchiveNational Indian Council another trap
… its people of the dangers of accepting the formation of police reserves and that this warning was warmly received and …
EventCalvin Thusago is stabbed to death
… ANC Youth League turned over suspects in the killing to police the following day. …
EventChris Ntuli is stabbed to death
… murder, happened on his return from reporting to Inanda police station in compliance with his restriction orders. …
EventInternational Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
… inspired by events that took place six years earlier, when police shot and killed 69 people at a peaceful demonstration …
The strangulation of activity
… anti-apartheid. 1977 In October 1977 the security police swooped on activists country-wide and banned la … magisterial district, for a period up to 48 hours…
To All Fathers and Mothers, Brothers and Sisters, Friends and Workers, in All Cities, Towns and Villages in the Republic of South Africa. Flyer in English and Sesotho by the Soweto Students’ Representative Council, 15 October 1976
… to pay respect to all students and adults murdered by the police. 2. We are to pledge our solidarity with those detained in police cells and are suffering…
Chapter 28. I Fight Back
… forward to speak. Scarcely ten minutes later, some fifty police rushed from an entrance in the City Hall behind the … of my supporters held on to my legs and…
EventCOSATU issued a statement on Marikana Massacre
… tragic event. It was and is the single largest case of police brutality since the advent of democracy. The statement …
EventSA Policeman Wins 90km Comrades Marathon
… A member of the South African Police Services (SAPS) from Mafikeng in North West, Andrew …
EventChurch bombing kills 15 people in Nigeria.
… Nigeria. Mohammed Ladan, the Bauchi State Commissioner of Police, confirmed the incident. About 15 people were …
ArticleThe history of labour movements in Namibia
… to search for a new assignment without action by the police; permission to take family members to the place of …