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… that would scupper the NRB’s plans. 1955 end of January, Police are deployed in Sophiatown in anticipation of a major …

… 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 unperturbed by the police harassment he had suffered the previous night and from … from their parents and were quite undaunted by the mounted police who towered over them as they marched six-abreast …

… of tension saw workers engage in running battles with police, who largely refrained from using live ammunition at … participating. Armed encounters began to ensue with police, resulting in a small number of deaths and injuries on … what turned out to be futile resistance from the police and some sections of the army along the way. Although …

… 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 railway police who suffered considerable losses as a result of theft. … and belonging. They were also a real challenge to the police and the authorities who found them difficult to …

… 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 beating by police of a youth in their charge office. 1977 Robert McBride … a youth of about 18. He reports the matter to the local police station. 1984 Robert McBride and Gordon Webster decide …

… thought, but it is known that they were aware of the extra police patrols that were set up in the townships following …

… staged protest marches, sang slogans and fought with the police.  Many were arrested in Jagersfontein, Winburg and …

… 1976 June 16 Soweto Uprising . 100 students shot dead by police. A nationwide rebellion lasts for three months. Sipho …

… the Dumas Provisional Government One-party totalitarian police state :  Secret police meant to protect the political power of a dictator. …

… 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 Langa, Western Cape, police open fire and five people are killed and hundreds are … against the pass laws. March 27, The Commissioner of Police announces that the Pass Laws are to be suspended until …

… are established First fruit shop opens in Pretoria. Police barracks and Charge office erected on the south west … an Afrikaner Volkswag rally in Pretoria. 1985 March, Police station in Mamelodi is destroyed by a limpet mine. 9 … are killed outside Pretoria. 1987 13 March, four municipal police officers are killed and one injured in Atteridgeville. …

… security agencies. Immediate targets in this campaign were police constables and local government officials whose duties … with terrorism for their part in the murder of Munsieville police constable, Johannes Mokoena.     The four first … delivering these messages, others were apprehended by the police. On 14 October 1962, Poqo members killed one of Chief …

… 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 produced …

… 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 him removed by the police and lodged in the prison for safety, thereafter … at the Cape (Social Dynamics 26:2 (2000), pp. 31/32 ↵ [vii] Christopher Saunders, Between Slavery and Freedom, …

… 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, assegais and swords. They are fired upon by the police and more than 180 people are killed, 100 wounded and …

… 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 Leaders" – which the police seized. All except Goldberg, the one white, were flown … the leadership and undermine the liberation struggle. Police efforts included the use of informants to infiltrate …

… of locals was sometimes interrupted by gangsters or the police (Baines, 43). The Western Areas acquired an array of … to Johannesburg escalated into armed conflict with the police. On 29 January 1950, a mob spirited a man out of the hands of the police during his arrest for illegal possession of alcohol. …

… were closed and year-end examinations were cancelled. Police harassment intensified, forcing hundreds of students … people were killed and more injured during clashes between police and rioting students. As police repression intensified, Mlangeni and Moremi, along …

… 1925 Areas Reservation Bill sought to restrict Indians). [vii] However, it was the Group Areas Act of 1950 that … People Project report. Surplus People Project. p 31. ↵ [vii]Mabin, A. 1992. Comprehensive Segregation: The Origins of …

… 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 1953. August , Police arrest twenty national and Transvaal leaders of the Defiance Campaign. South African Security Police conducts widespread raids on the offices and homes of …

… government speaks rubber bullets, live bullets, tear gas, police dogs, detention, and death" Sunday Times Magazine UK … those few months. It was called the Defiance Campaign. The police violence, which was normally confined to black … Cathedral went to a judge to seek an order to stop the police from beating people up indiscriminately on the …

… 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 the Sharpeville police station. The march was going smoothly and it was successful, until a police officer claimed to be stoned by one of the protesters. …

… 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 Frontier Armed and Mounted Police and a small detachment of the Royal Artillery arrived …

… by Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) members. The security police also began harassing workers meeting at the church …

… 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 underground. Apartheid Security Police visited Walter Sisulu's house and found that he had … under the General Laws Amendment Act. The Act gave the police the power to hold suspects in detention for 90 days …

… 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 members of the Special Branch of the South African Police at his surgery on Monday. The ban takes effect …

… results in the death of nine policemen. Commissioner of Police subsequently testifies that South African police are meeting increasing hostility from Africans in the … and arson in Pondoland. 21 March, At Sharpeville the police open fire on the unarmed and peaceful crowd, killing …

… 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 South African security police conspired to eliminate him. And in February 1974 Tiro … itself in exile. The majority of students fleeing police harassment soon after the outbreak of the Soweto …

… of Black students, Afrikaans was the language of the police and their employers, and an instrument for giving … held in detention without trial are released and that “police harassment” of schools should end ...the SSRC seems to …