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EventFormer member of the Mandela United Football Club, Katiza Cebekhulu appears before the TRC
… few days before his death, after accusations that he was a police spy. Another youngster, Lolo Sono, disappeared after …
EventMa Tambo dies in Johannesburg
… at the age of 10 after her grandfather was beaten by police. By 18, she was a branch chairman of the ANC and spent …
EventLindiwe Sisulu is detained
… detained for her involvement in political activities. The police suspected her of being in possessions of the then …
EventAn inquest into the death of Ernest Dipale finds no-one criminally liable for his death
… who had died in custody at the Johannesburg Security Police headquarters, John Vorster Square on 8 August 1982, …
EventUN and OAU take a stand against Apartheid policy
… where nearly 70 peaceful protesters were killed by the police on 21 March. The Security Council called upon the …
EventSeveral leading members of trade unions affiliated to the UDF are arrested
… marches over rent increases. This led to clashes between police and residents that left thirty people dead. By the end …
EventThe UDF launches the Million Signatures Campaign and by October collect just under 400 000 signatures.
… The organisation blamed the failure of the campaign on police harassment of its supporters and prospective …
Baleka Mbete: In The Centre Of The Maelstrom by Greg Nicolson (Daily Maverick), 17 February 2015, South Africa
… her night to go, she hid from her mother to save her from police questions. The 26-year-old crossed the Swaziland … parliamentary history, the forceful…
Testimony by Moosa Muhammed Moolla before the Ad Hoc Working Group of the Commission on Human Rights, Dar es Salaam, 22 June 1967
… by about four Special Branch members of the South African police and taken to Marshall Square, where I was warned that … questions to the satisfaction of the…
ANC statement on the death of Adelaide Tambo, 31 January 2007
… Her political life started at the age of 10 after a police raid following a riot in Top Location, in which a police officer had been killed. Tambo`s ailing…
’Under Investigation’ video material going live on facebook
… made exploring the death of Johannes Witbooi Spogter in police custody in Steytlerville in July 1985. • The film … died in custody in Steytlerville after…
Address by President Nelson Mandela to the summit on rural Safety and Security Midrand, 10 October 1998
… for there is no other way to succeed. The South African Police Service, the South African National Defence Force, the … crime does not pay. To that end we…
Postscript
… marches met by tear gas and rubber bullets from the police, and cruel whipping of men, women and children. There … thousand arrested. Most of those who died…
ArticleAbram Fischer Timeline 1908-1975
… a commission investigating treatment of Africans by the police. Is invited to become one of two Joint Council … to The Friend newspaper in Bloemfontein in…
ArticleKasturba Gandhi timeline 1869 - 1944
… Association protests against the taking of fingerprints by police to register Indians. March 11, Mass meeting at Gaiety … by M.K. Gandhi to protest the…
ArticleWomen’s resistance in the 1960s - Sharpeville and its aftermath
… March in Sharpeville where people had gathered to show the police that they did not have their passes – and thus to … general confusion and escalating…
The diary of Maria Tholo - September 20 - October 17 by Carol Hermer
… so little to do. It's funny how one becomes used to seeing police cars and crowds of children around. But people still … from going too far and also to…
ArchiveTimetable for Sasol's day of destruction, The Star, 4 June 1980
… Police hunt saboteurs as workers clear debris, The Star, 3 …
Dr. Pallo Jordan’s speech at the 20th anniversary of the Bisho massacre, 07 September, 2012
… maniac and sustained by mercenaries and a repressive police force. How will future generations account for this … It raises serious questions about the…
EventThe TEC decides on Bophuthatswana’s incorporation following major unrest
… into the Republic of South Africa and clashed with the police. South African troops in armoured vehicles were sent …
EventANC activists bribe warder and escape from prison
… and Charlie Jassat, escaped from the Johannesburg Central Police station after bribing a young warder. Wolpe and …
EventBishop Ambrose Reeves returns to South Africa
… and publicised his views internationally. He was seized by police two days after his return and deported to England. His …
EventDemonstrators strip to deter bulldozers
… government with their belongings loaded onto the back of police vans. After the removals Sophiatown was renamed Triomf …
EventJohannesburg Magistrate court is bombed
… more powerful charge minutes later. Mr Andre Duvenhage, a police officer at John Vorster Square at the time, was one of …
EventMxenge murder accused Dirk Coetzee found guilty
… her home in Umlazi. In 1990, Dirk Coetzee and his Security Police 'hit squad' was investigated by a Commission of …
EventWife of detained Nigerian president is killed
… Michael Adeshina managed to escape. He was taken to police station in the hope that he would be able to help in …
EventNelson Mandela arrives on Robben Island to serve his five-year sentence
… the Natal midlands town of Howick. It was alleged that the police were informed of Mandela’s movements by an American …
EventFirst president of Ghana, Kwame Nkrumah (62), dies in Bucharest.
… Nkrumah was on a visit to China, he was deposed by the police and military. He spent his later years in exile in …
EventA school bus with seventy-six learners plunges into the Westdene dam, killing forty-two
… and save the children, however, 42 of them died. It took police several hours to recover the bodies of the deceased …
EventPretoria High Court Judge, Nkola Motata, is arrested
… a house north of Johannesburg. He was found to be drunk by police and is said to have resisted arrest. The owner of the …