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ArticleA Spiral of Trials by Norman Levy
… cheap labour system and if all else failed, to order its police force physically to beat the strikers back to work. … from the Chamber, on whose behalf Smuts…
ArticleSocio-economics in Sophiatown
… - guards - who stood outside to look out for the police while their mothers brewed beer. Township children …
ArticleUnited Women’s Congress (UWCO)
… children against the South African Defence Force or police brutality. In 1986, the United Women's Congress joined …
Article“Bantu Education or the Street” by Norman Levy
… elsewhere. It began more than two hours late because the police had arrested Z.K. (still the acting ANC president) on … from custody.59 He was seemingly…
10 YEARS PROJECT
… between the offence and the objective pursued). (vii) The question whether the act was committed in the …
ArticleSophiatown timeline 1899-1955
… that would scupper the NRB’s plans. 1955 end of January, Police are deployed in Sophiatown in anticipation of a major …
The Centenary Celebration of the February Revolution 8-12 March 2017
… of tension saw workers engage in running battles with police, who largely refrained from using live ammunition at … participating. Armed encounters began to…
ArticleGangsterism in Sophiatown
… about two to three hundred, owned more guns e local police station, and they used them effectively...They … trailers. They often exchanged gunfire with the…
ArticleRobert Mcbride timeline
… do karate training together at a local gym opposite the police station. Their trainer is a Black man named Enoch … aged 13, is arrested while challenging the…
Article1970’s: Poetry Timeline
… 1976 June 16 Soweto Uprising . 100 students shot dead by police. A nationwide rebellion lasts for three months. Sipho …
ArticleNational Youth Uprising
… thought, but it is known that they were aware of the extra police patrols that were set up in the townships following …
Bantu Women’s League
… staged protest marches, sang slogans and fought with the police. Many were arrested in Jagersfontein, Winburg and …
ArticleYusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1960 - 1969
… South Africa takes place at Sharpeville, Transvaal . The police open fire on an unarmed crowd, killing 69 men, women … and children and wounding 186. In…
ArticlePretoria Timeline 1800-2009
… are established First fruit shop opens in Pretoria. Police barracks and Charge office erected on the south west … an Afrikaner Volkswag rally in Pretoria…
Poqo political trials and the execution of its operatives in the 1960s
… security agencies. Immediate targets in this campaign were police constables and local government officials whose duties … with terrorism for their part in…
ArticleTowards a people’s culture - Art and Resistance under Apartheid
… viewed her husband's body twisted into a lifeless bulk by police gun fire, opposite the Sharpeville police station. (Photograph © BAHA) Much of the art…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1920-1929
… they had been squatting for over a year. When a reinforced Police Unit is sent led by Police Commissioner Colonel Theodore Truter, the Israelites … clubs,…
ArticleRivonia Trial 1963 - 1964
… dock. Outside, as on the preceding day, large numbers of police, some with dogs, stood ready to control the crowds and … banners – "We Are Proud of Our…
Legislation, Dissent, and Violence in Sophiatown under Apartheid
… of locals was sometimes interrupted by gangsters or the police (Baines, 43). The Western Areas acquired an array of … to Johannesburg escalated into armed…
ArticleDrafting of the Final Constitution
… decisions and it astonished almost all of the observers. [vii] Additionally, the emergency regulations concerning the … from http://www.country-data.com/frd…
ArticleThe banning of the South African Students Organisation (SASO) and student politics in the 1980s
… were closed and year-end examinations were cancelled. Police harassment intensified, forcing hundreds of students … people were killed and more injured…
ArticleDesmond Mpilo Tutu Timeline
… government speaks rubber bullets, live bullets, tear gas, police dogs, detention, and death" Sunday Times Magazine UK … those few months. It was called the…
ArticleWomen’s Role in the Negotiations by Nicole Dellaportas
… actions regarding the pass laws. They decided to go to police stations around the country without carrying their … 5,000 women and men sang and protested at…
ArticleDefiance Campaign timeline 1948-1952
… the Suppression of Communism Act of 1950. July 30 , The police raid the homes and offices of the African National … are registered prior to the elections of…
ArticleKora
… 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…
South African and World leaders
… activities and she was constantly harassed by the Security Police. In the 1960s the ANC moved toward the armed struggle. … to forfeit bail, and to go…
ArticleGrey Street Complex timeline 1800-1999
… the part of the Security Branch supported by the ordinary police when between 50 and 60 police officers raided non-white homes. No arrests however … by…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1960s
… results in the death of nine policemen. Commissioner of Police subsequently testifies that South African police are meeting increasing hostility from…
ArticleMetal and Allied Workers Union (MAWU)
… by Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) members. The security police also began harassing workers meeting at the church …
ArticleBlack Consciousness Movement of Azania (BCMA)
… getting wind that he was sought after by the security police. While in Botswana, Tiro is known to have continued to … could pose a threat in future, the…