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EventThe South African Bureau of State Security (BOSS) is established
… correlate and interpret national-security intelligence information. BOSS was also supposed to propose a "policy … forced to resign after his alleged…
BiographyLetlapa Mphahlele
Letlapa Ngoato Mphahlele was born on 8 December 1960 in Rosenkrantz, Northern Transvaal (now Limpopo) to Radikubu and Nkone. He grew up in the village of…
BiographyMolefi Paul Sefularo
… 1992 and 1993. Sefularo also served as the Publicity and Information Secretary the African National Congress (ANC) of …
BiographyTwalimfene Joyi
… detained under security legislation, and unless further information was made available it was impossible to ascertain …
EventEschel Rhoodie’s assets frozen
… government froze the South African assets of the former Information Secretary, Dr. Eschel Rhoodie, and was reported … in private accounts outside the country…
BiographyNontsizi (Cizama, Imbongikazi yakwaCizama) Mgqwetho
… praises often employ hyperbole and caricature, some information about Mgqwetho can be gleaned from a poem about …
BiographyJohannes Jane Tane Kekana
… white missionaries, farmers and the government. Valuable information has come to the fore regarding the pressure of …
BiographyOscar Dumisani Dhlomo
… 1987 Dhlomo met with Thabo Mbeki, then ANC director of information, in New York, in an effort to reduce tension …
BiographyJohn Kgwana Nkadimeng
… is Nkadimeng's belief that this was an attempt to obtain information from him regarding the whereabouts of Walter …
EventControl of communication bureau is placed under Foreign Affairs
… rumours of mismanagement of funds by the Department of Information, Prime Minister B.J. Vorster announced that while … Communications (BNIC), which replaced…
EventP.W. Botha becomes Prime Minister
… he earned as a Minister of Defence and the well publicised Information Scandal that had rocked the Department of Information. The scandal in the department…
BiographyBilly Lesedi Masetlha
… Service Oversight Act for allegedly withholding information from Inspector General of Intelligence Zolile …
BiographyBoas Moiloa
Boas Moiloa, from Linokana Reserve (Zeerust), Marico District, Transvaal [North West Province] is described by Advocate George Bizos’ as ‘a dignified, elderly…
BiographyAbraham Mogale
… refers to a clerkin the NC’s office suspected of passing information to Shulamith Muller that provided evidence of …
BiographyTheophilus Tshangela
… [Northern Cape, now North-West Province]. Having received information that he was on a death list, he moved his partner …
BiographyColin Wells Eglin
… and discussion group, which became an important tool for information and contact across the colour bar. In 1974 the PP …
BiographyDr Hoosen Mia Haffejee
… to slap and punch him when he refused to divulge any information. Captain Du Toit joined in later and the assault …
Richard Victor Selope Thema
… the politicisation of the urban African. It gave detailed information about the ANC, but was simultaneously a …
BiographyDavid Joseph Webster
… the families of detainees together, to share relevant information in order to obtain news and to track down the …
BiographyJohannes (Joe) Modise
… South Africa because the police wanted to detain him. This information was garnered from captured and exiled MK members …
BiographyAnne-Marie Wolpe
… escape, Ann-Marie was arrested in an attempt to extract information about her husband. The authorities were furious …
ArchiveIntroduction to the National Security Management System: Paper Presented at National Conference 1987
… on 13 March 1987 discussing State Security Council, Information scandal, propaganda, militarisation, structure of National …
BiographyChristopher “Dali” Daluxolo Mpofu
… Some police officers were sent to search their homes for information and to arrest them. Mpofu said his detention was … the Group Executive Director for…
EventDr. E. Rhoodie is arrested at the French Riviera resort Juan les Pins
… Rhoodie was one of the key players in the 1978-79 ‘Information Scandal’. He served as the Secretary of the Department of Information from 1972, while Dr…
George Botha
… suicide, Major Snyman said he may been scared that the information he had given them would be used against him. A …
BiographyBheki Mlangeni
… and the firm suspected wiretaps were used to obtain that information. Eugene de Kock, a former Commander of Vlakplaas …
BiographyMalcomess Johnson Mgabela Kondoti
Malcomess Johnson Mgabela Kondoti was born in 1924 in the Kwalera district of the Eastern Cape. Very soon after he was born, his father moved to East London to…
BiographyMadi Gray
… Winter, a notorious spy, approached her and demanded information about contacts that she had made in London. Gray … cutting them out, and putting together…
BiographyViolet Weinberg
… her to contact her daughter. [37] The ANC did not want information transferred between family members, as letters could contain confidential political…
BiographyTodd Tozama Matshikiza
… broadcasting to become music archivist for the Zambian Information Service in 1967, travelling extensively to …