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ArchiveA story of a memorable photograph, and why it matters by J Brooks Spector, (Daily Maverick), 18 May 2018
… High School, in the midst of the demonstrations and the police reaction. Antoinette Pieterson’s face is contorted in … anguish when her brother became the…
Address by the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, at the Freedom Day celebrations, Bisho Stadium, Eastern Cape, 27 April 2007
… people, civic bodies, political organisations and the police to form and strengthen partnerships, to join community police forums, to create street and areas…
EventGeneral Koos de la Rey, buried in Lichtenburg amid a very tense atmosphere.
… did not stop at a roadblock set up for the Foster gang and police opened fire on the car and de la Rey was killed by a …
Descom Bulletin
… to die in the detention under the custody of the security police. It was after his death that with the increase of …
EventThe passive resistance movement begins with a mass meeting of 2000 Africans
… hired constables to ensure this was upheld. However, police used force on the crowd and arrested hundreds. When …
Interview with Oliver Tambo to Newsweek, 01 August 1980
… plant at Sasolburg, and there have been attacks on police stations and a bank. Does this mean that South Africa … believe you can overcome South Africa`s…
Address by President Mandela on receiving the freedom of the city of Cape Town Cape Town, 27 November 1997
… With increasingly active support from the community, the police are getting to the bottom of it. As arms are confiscated and arrests made in special police…
Post-detention weapons
… as well as obliging him or her to report periodically to a police station. It may go further by restricting the person … In 1962 the General Law Amendment…
Interview with Oliver Tambo by Zimbabwe Television (ZTV), 05 August 1983, Harare
… is trying to turn Frontline States like Zimbabwe into police stations guarding its borders, the President of the … Zimbabwe had to do the explaining, not the…
Azikhwelwa on Monday. Flyer by Soweto Students’ Representative Council calling for a stay-away from 13 September 1976
… are being killed at John Vorster (John Vorster Square police headquarters). Parents, you should rejoice for having … women strangled and battered to near…
Document 71 - Spartacus Club October Revolution Celebrations Oddfellows Hall, 70 Loop Street, Cape Town, 6 November 1937
… town, a church entrance. Characters: A white man, Lukosi, Police sergeant. Scene 4. In a mine. Characters: Lukosi, … gathered to protest against Lukosi's…
Chapter VIII - The Mandela’s – family extraordinary
… the street. There are two Dutch Reformed churches and a police station. It is a place for whites. Blacks must enter … stage of her journey she would have to…
ArchiveChapter 15 The World is my Oyster Life Number 7 1985-1994 by Denis Goldberg
… martial law, some 30,000 people have been detained by the police and military forces of the regime. The Detainees … Torture is the norm in the interrogations…
ANC statement on incident at Luthuli House, 29 February 2008
… and taken into custody by the Johannesburg Metropolitan Police. No-one was hurt in the incident and damage was …
PlaceConcordia
… of 250 men, consisting mostly of mine employee sand local police, obligingly laid down their weapons. The Boers …
EventANC President Albert Luthuli banned
… Lower Tugela, Natal. He was to report frequently to the SA Police in the area. After his part in leading the 1952 …
EventA group of White men attack and assault Indian Passive Resisters
… their premises in South Africa. During that evening the police arrested 13 Resisters. The hooligans launched another …
EventChief Mhlabunzima Maphumulo is shot dead
… that the murder had been planned by the Pietermaritzburg police, and that the assassins were paid R5000 each. Judge …
EventRSA introduces more press restriction
… from reporting about incidents relating to unrest and police activities. Botha also labelled the alternative media, …
EventMax the gorilla is shot
… time. He grabbed the man, who shot him three times. The police also jumped into the enclosure. A gunfight ensued in …
EventFormer Chief of the South African Defence Force (SADF), General Jannie Geldenhuys is born in Kroonstad
… Appearing before the TRC, he admitted to knowing about police involvement in the murders and did nothing. He however …
EventWinnie Nomzamo Madikizela-Mandela is sentenced to six years
… kidnapping and beating of four youths suspected of being police informers. One of the youths, 14-year old Stompie …
Chapter 28. I Fight Back - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
… 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…
IX - The Doctors
… no effective medical treatment was given. But, like the police, the doctors giving evidence presented testimony that … Biko on 7 September in the offices of…
EventUDF activist Toto Dweba's mutilated body is found
… had confirmed that it was indeed his hands, Dweba's uncle, police officer Maxwell Dweba, was contacted by the Empangeni police station and told to fetch his…
ANC statement on the passing of Epainette Mbeki, 7 June 2014
… Govan Mbeki due to incarceration and hiding from the police MaMBeki had to single handedly raised their kids who …
Event80 Women arrested for anti-pass protest
… and finances of these women, they took to the Waaihoek police station in the evening. There they tore up and burnt …
EventNelson Mandela receives a hero’s welcome in New York
… to reports, the security for Mandela included 12 000 city police officers, 4 super-insulated bomb trucks, 16 teams of …
EventSouth African Journalist, Zwelakhe Sisulu is abducted.
… Order, Adriaan Vlok. However the Minister denied that the police were masked when they abducted Sisulu but was arrested …
EventVuyisile Mini, Trade unionist and uMkhonto we Sizwe (MK) activist is hanged
… be executed by the government. Prior to his execution, the police tried to turn him against his colleagues in the …