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PlaceThaba Tshwane or Voortrekkerhoogte
… The SANDF, veteran associations (like SAMVO), police, and civilians participate. Ceremonies: Include …
EventThami Mazwai, former journalist and anti-apartheid activist, is jailed for two years
… was banned, would inevitably have come under the security police's scrutiny. And as journalists they are known to have …
EventAnti apartheid activist Dr. Richard Turner is assassinated
… was still mourning the death of Steve Biko who died in police custody on 12 September 1977. …
EventGeneral H. Van Den Bergh blames the SACP for anti
… the government, they were exposed by the South African Police. Van Den Bergh was interviewed in a weekly slot called …
EventThe South African Bureau of State Security (BOSS) is established
… with Hendrik van den Bergh, the head of the South African Police Security Branch. At this meeting, Van den Bergh …
EventThabo Mbeki is elected 2nd President of a democratic South Africa
… anniversary of the 1976 Soweto uprising, in which white police officers fired on black pupils taking part in a …
EventMzwakhe Mbuli is sentenced to 13 years in jail
… in 1996 and he believes that, after complaining about the police's lack of action regarding the issue, he was tricked …
EventFreak storms create havoc in the Eastern Cape and President Mandela narrowly escaped injury
… for safety. The president was whisked to the central police station where he was kept until the storm calmed down …
EventMandela signs SA Constitution into law
… that laid the foundation for apartheid. On 21 March 1960 police opened fire on a crowd demonstrating against pass laws …
EventuMkhoto weSizwe (MK) launches its first acts of sabotage
… Pretoria and Johannesburg. Looksmart Ngudle, who died in police detention in 1963 and Fred Carneson were senior MK men …
Document 50 - Socialist League of Africa , “South Africa: Ten Years of the Stay-at-Home”, International Socialism, 5, Summer 1961
… crowds collected at street corners in Sophiatown and the police appeared and started firing. 18 people were killed, … stress is on the leaders surrendering…
ArticleThe International Criminal Court: Origins, Jurisdiction and the ‘African Bias’
… term, may refer a case to the ICC invoking Chapter VII of the UN Charter. Additionally, the UNSC may defer an …
PlaceVlakplaas, Pretoria
… here under the arm of a division of the South African Police, headed by Brigadier Schoon. These unit comprised of … here under the arm of a division of the…
ArchiveJock Strachan: Artist, guerilla, fighter pilot, bomb maker, fisherman, humourist, writer, hero
… his young wife Maggie between them and white apartheid police pointing Sten guns, only days after the massacre at Sharpeville 60 years ago. The police had…
ArticleIndustrial and Commercial Union Timeline 1919-1989
… by the ICU's original sponsors and he is regarded by the police as being connected with the International Socialist … and Commercial Union (ICU) leaders, the…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1910-1919
… disciplined and organised and an alarmed government throws police cordons around each of the compounds, preventing … with bayonets fixed, killing 3 and…
ArticleChanging Perceptions of Nelson Mandela
… on the radar of the apartheid government’s secret police. Mandela was nicknamed the ‘Black Pimpernel’ at this … time, and repeatedly frustrated the efforts…
Closing Address of Comrade Nelson R Mandela, Deputy President of the ANC 16 December 1990
… when they outlined to me the actions of the South African Police. Although it was late in the evening I immediately … in the townships. He came over with a…
1. The Way to Fox Street
… about the political situation in the country. When the police arrived to arrest Shields, he counselled the crowd to remain calm. 'These police are telling me…
Article1960's Diaries of Nelson Mandela on his trip through Africa
… his instruction was carried out. Yet it wasn’t. During the police raid on Liliesleaf this archive was uncovered amongst …
ArticleThe People’s Liberation Army of Namibia (PLAN)
… the Namibian Defence Force, the presidential guard and the police service units. In the 1990s, the government faced …
ArticleThe Namibian struggle for independence – 1966 – 1990 – a historical background
… against rebel bases in safe havens instead of trying to police a huge and isolated border. SWAPO showed the classic …
ArticleFootball in South Africa
… valuable entertainment and granted temporary relief from police harassment and grinding poverty. The inter-war years …
ArticleThe Influenza epidemic
… for the deaths of close relatives. The Commissioner of Police of the Transkei Division stated in his annual report …
The appointment of Judges
… to develop the common law, in this case concerning duty of police to prevent sexual violence against women Van Rooyen v …
ArchiveHugh Lewin obituary by Peter Hain (www.theguardian.com), 21 January 2019
… African National Congress. Frustrated at the ruthless police state repression, Hugh joined the clandestine African … pylons. ARM members were soon…
Africa’s photojournalists: The wars are not over by Greg Marinovich (Daily Maverick), 25 June 2013
… soil? His attitude saw him being shadowed by the secret police in 2001. Within weeks, he was also jailed with trial, … knew some people in Mathare, so when…
EventWinnie Madikizela-Mandela's bodyguards arrested in connection with the death of Stompie Seipei
… sentence on appeal. Seipei's body, which according to the police had been stabbed through the neck and dumped at a …
ArchiveCHAPTER 8 - Leading from behind Virtue and necessity, April 1984-June 1985 by Howard Barrell
… August 1984, some eight scholars had died in clashes with police. 7 Azaso and Cosas, which led some of the protests, … clashed in some Transvaal and Cape…
ArticleNamibian Timeline
… mortality rates. 9000 Owambo migrants left to work in the Police Zone, central and southern regions of the country, … reserves and game parks are established…