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EventDate set for start of Passive Resistance Campaign
… Resistance protests had engulfed Natal resulting in police brutality against the resisters. On 8 July 1946 …
EventThe National President of the Black People’s Convention, Kenneth Hlaku Rachidi, declares that riots have lead to a new era of political consciousness
… title, soon attracted the attention of the South African Police, and he was arrested and detained without charge in …
EventNelson Mandela is free
… problems, as doctors had to treat over a hundred people as police clashed with youths looting shops in various cities …
EventApartheid policemen apply for amnesty at TRC
… Eight former apartheid policemen, including former police commissioner, Lieutenant-General Johan Coetzee, former …
Education Feature from Frene Ginwala's Thesis
… the commencement of primary education before a Standard VII class was started. In Northern Natal an aided primary …
Dare you Ponder the Obvious: Of course Mbeki is Aloof by Thabo Mbeki, 1 February 2016
… (iv) big business, (v) black business, (vi) agriculture, (vii) the religious communities, and (viii) academia. The …
ArticleAzanian Students Organisation (AZASO)
… white lecturers, conservative university administrations, police and army invasion of campuses, student struggles were …
ArticleTreason Trial 1956 - 1961
… "What distance other occupations, lack of funds, and police interference had made difficult - frequent meetings - …
PlaceRainbow Restaurant and Jazz Club, Durban
… that the Rainbow remained very much on the Security Police’s radar. Despite this attention from the Apartheid … 1987, which attracted some 500 people…
David Goldblatt, TJ, 1948-2010 - review by Claire Guillot, 25 January 2011
… was restricted to the coloured neighbourhoods, because the police protected the whites. Nowadays everybody gets a … Goldblatt says. "How on earth could a…
PlaceSoweto, Johannesburg
… Youth Day , commemorating the students killed when police opened fire, sparking wider revolt and global … being taught in Afrikaans. The march began…
PlaceOrlando Stadium
… was the planned destination of protesting students , but police prevented marchers from reaching the stadium. The … of Afrikaans in schools. The tragic turn…
PlaceLiliesleaf Farm, Rivonia- Johannesburg
… emergency' at intermittent times. These times meant that police or other Government officials were legally allowed to … As the situation worsened, more…
ArticleThe Jacob Zuma Presidency - 2009 to 2017 (March)
… that of the Marikana Massacre, the greatest incidence of police brutality in the country since the fateful Sharpeville … 2012, the tragedy unfolded when a…
Segregationist Legislation Timeline 1950-1959
… record, tax payments, fingerprints and encounters with the police. Africans were expected to carry passes with them … they went. Failure to produce a pass on…
Zweli Mkhize denies Redi Tlhabi’s book allegations, says he hasn’t read it, 18 - September - 2017
… her phone going forward because they were now dealing with police. As time went on I received a call from Richard Mdluli … to interview me. I met with him…
Archive”I am Albertina Sisulu”, Interview from Blue Portraits
… we were released, and after that he was harassed by the police. So I feet that he must leave the country. So he … And when she was released at the end of the…
ArchiveEleanor Kasrils: From Detainment to National Liberation by Nathan Greenhaw
… where she underwent psychological analysis after the police’s failed interrogation attempts. With the help of her … [3] This development was due to a…
Into the Fifties: Defiance by Norman Levy
… on the movement. Together with a state of emergency, police raids and arrests – and new, more draconian … branch of the Criminal Investigation Department of…
ArchiveStaffrider Vol.8 No.1 1989
… Afrika; Lyric, Andrew Nixon; Cry Freedom, Kriben Pillay; Police Torture, Matthew Krouse; Old Road Camp, Tatamkulu …
EventPaarl Riots report submitted
… and spark a general uprising. The rioters attacked a police station, burned houses and businesses, and killed a …
EventCongress of the People starts in Kliptown
… were blocked on their way to attend the convention by the police, who were also present at Kliptown. The convention was …
EventAfrican Mineworkers’ strike starts
… three Indians, Dr Yusuf Dadoo, J.N. Singh and M.J. Vania. Police also arrested members of the District Committee of the …
EventThree people are murdered at Eikenhof
… parade and had made confessions of guilt to a police officer. The accused later pleaded their innocence and …
EventMigrant workers ransack Phola Park
… who were at the Catholic Church near the scene, that police vehicles provided migrants with back up and they also …
EventStompie Seipei’s murderer goes to jail
… young boys. Winnie Mandela also accused Seipei for being a police informer, a charge that carried a death penalty in …
EventMlungisi Sisulu dies.
… Albertina Sisulu was constantly harassed by the security police for her political activities. Lungi was part of the …
EventBophuthatswana is granted independence by the South African government
… political formations opposed to apartheid. The army and police dealt with the intruders, leaving scores of people …
Women’s Food Committees in Cape Town during the 1940s
… they arrived, they found the shops locked and guarded by police, but Gool reportedly gained access and found 30 bags …
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 3 Glossary
… Hitler. [9] Gestapo - This was the official secret state police of Nazi Germany. [10] Positive eugenics - Refers to …