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ArticleHistory of Women’s Struggle in South Africa
… being brandished. The women reputedly shouted at the police: ‘We have done with pleading. We now demand!' Unrest … freedom of movement and had to be produced…
Chapter 1 - The Promise of the Impossible Revolution: The Cape Town Industrial Socialist League, 1918 - 1921
… amongst black workers which forced the Commissioner of Police to comment that: "The equality of the coloured and … to organise a trade union ended "as a rout…
EventAbram Fischer is struck off the roll of advocates
… went underground early in 1965 and eluded the security police until his arrest in December of the same year. In 1966 …
EventGideon Nieuwoudt dies
… archive Gideon Nieuwoudt a former apartheid-era security police colonel, who was involved in the murder of several …
EventThe Angolan government announces a unilateral ceasefire
… into the Angolan Armed Forces (FAA) and Angolan police, a pending resolution of the Lusaka Protocol, which …
Constitution of the Republic of South Africa Act 110 of 1983
… Security act of 1972. The Internal Security Act gave police powers to arrest and detain people without trial for a …
ArticleIndustrial and Commercial Workers Union (ICU)
… Africa , Johannes Nkosi, was killed in a skirmish with the police. In the same year there was also a general strike of …
Yusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1910 - 1919
… four women, to cross the Transvaal border by train. The police arrest these resisters. They are imprisoned in …
EventSongwriter, film producer and actor Joe Mafela dies
… in Johannesburg. According to Edna Mamonyane, Metro police spokesperson, the accident occurred at around 10pm on …
EventThe government launches 'Operation Iron Fist' in townships
… of "special investigative units" to examine allegations of police misconduct in the township violence. …
BiographyHerbert Isaac Ernest Dhlomo
… street battles persisted for two days, the South African police and Navy suppressed the riots by opening fire on …
ArticleGayle: The Language of Apartheid South Africa’s Gay Underground
… Beaulah- beautiful man/woman Hilda- ugly Betty Bangles- police Cha cha- club Patsy- party In 2003, Ken Cage published …
ArticleYusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1940-1949
… the Secretary of the Transvaal NEUF. He is taken to the police station at Market Square, charged and released on his … on the evening of 18 and 19 June. On…
Address by the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, on the Occasion of the Honoris Causa Degree Ceremony, at the Salón de Diputados, Old Congress, Santiago, Chile, 7 June 2005
… example, Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany turned up at Edward VII's funeral dressed in the scarlet uniform of a British …
Passive Resistance in South Africa by O. R. Tambo - Extract from "Southern Africa in Transition by Davis, John A. and James K. Baker"(Pall Mall Press), London, 1966
… passes and were chased from pillar to post by the police. During World War II, Hitler became the hero, and … and urged them to withstand acts of…
Chapter 12 - Blind alley of guerrillaism
… campaign." I now wish to direct the same call to the police. If the intention of the police is to 'maintain law and order', I say, you can best do … placed…
70. The Durban riots, 1949
… taken on a sinister aspect for, despite the efforts of the police, and egged on by many Europeans (who subsequently … mid-day when Africans started swarming…
Chapter 6. A Daughter of the Free State - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
… and led by the Reformers. A fight ensued, and the police, as usual, protected the scabs, most of who were by no … At about nine o'clock, the sergeant in…
EventThe UN General Assembly adopts resolution 1881, requesting South Africa to release all political prisoners
… This led to a number of arrests and violent clashes with police, involving other political organizations such as the …
EventThe first detainees are held under the apartheid regime’s 90-day Law
… the General Law Amendment Act, the South African Security Police, or Special Branch, were given the authority to arrest …
EventThe trial of Dr Allan Boesak on charges of theft and fraud starts
… were allegedly transferred to a private trust fund. After police investigations, Boesak was charged with and found …
EventKing Moshoeshoe II, the paramount chief of Lesotho, is killed in an accident
… city of Lesotho. After four months of investigations the police reported that the King's driver was under the …
EventChief of the Zondi, Bambata is killed
… his campaign of resistance. In April 1906 he ambushed a police force near Greytown and killed four policemen, one of …
Document 72 - Letter from R. T. R. Molefe to London comrades, 21 February 1938
… is arrested. Comrade RL tried with means to trace which police station our member in, but all in vain, until he was …
Interview with Oliver Tambo by Stanley Uys, 01 August 1983, Londo
… as the years went by violence increased. We saw more armed police - with pistols at first, then sten guns. Then the … involved, we could not take it any…
My Spirit Is Not Banned - Introduction by Frances Baard and Barbie Schreiner
… (FSAW). Her work in these areas led to harassment and police interference, culminating in a jail sentence for … government declared a State of Emergency,…
Introduction - My Spirit Is Not Banned by Frances Baard and Barbie Schreiner
… (FSAW). Her work in these areas led to harassment and police interference, culminating in a jail sentence for … government declared a State of Emergency,…
PlaceMarikana, Bojanala Platinum District Municipality
… Massacre' occurred on August 16 2012, the South African police shot and killed 34 striking miners. … the Massacre occurred on August 16 2012, the South…
Images That Preserve History, and Make It : ‘Rise and Fall of Apartheid’ at Center of Photography by Holland Cotter (The New York Times), 20 September 2012
… the law requiring blacks to carry identifying passbooks, police killed 69 unarmed black protesters in the township of … Soweto, a black township that is now…
ArchiveThe Little Acknowledged Legacy of Steve Biko by Prithiraj Dullay, (Daily News), 08 Sept 2008
… era we must see it in the words of the then Minister of Police, Jimmy Kruger who told the Nationalist Party faithful … the then Prime Minister and Jimmy…