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The Detention Weapon
… The Detention Weapon …
The Detention Weapon
… of eliminating political opponents has never been the main weapon, but rather the weapon of last resort when all other methods have failed. Apartheid's big…
Post-detention weapons
… State edited by Max Coleman As we have seen in Chapter 3, detention without trial, besides serving to withdraw … their removal and even to make it permanent…
BiographyVuyani Mabaxa
… activism resulted in Mabaxa spending many periods of detention without trial. He was also active in the Diepkloof … Thereafter, his comrades fired off an AK…
List of deaths in detention
… weapons that the government used to quell resistance. As detention was a legal weapon that could see an individual, a group or even an … it became more…
ArchiveA Crime Against Humanity - Analysing the Repression of the Apartheid State edited by Max Coleman
… of apartheid repression 2. The legal veneer 3. The detention weapon 4. Post-detention weapons 5. The strangulation of activity 6. …
BiographyChief Hendrik ‘Hennie’ van Wyk
… student activism. This was Van Wyk’s first experience of detention, one which he describes as traumatic. He was … he was afraid to walk home alone. During…
BiographyPatric Tariq Mellet
… killing of anti-Apartheid cleric, Imam Abdullah Haron, in detention. This was also the first step in his journey of … refused to salute, and when they tried…
BiographyChris Hani
… objections to the government's notorious policy of detention without trial. He was subsequently charged under … . When dissident ANC members, who were being…
ArticleApartheid Legislation 1850's-1970's
… that African trade unions would be used as political weapon to create chaos. He added that in his opinion “We [the … for reasons of public safety . It…
Address to a Joint Session of the Parliament of Pakistan Islamabad, 4 May 1999
… be free, and we think in particular of those who died in detention: Babla Saloojee;Ahmed Timol;Imam Haroun;and Dr … can never be exaggerated. Peace remains…
Chapter III - The world outside
… Laws Amendment Act, which went far beyond the Act of 1962. Detention without trial was introduced as a permanent … any need for the declaration of a State of…
BiographyMakhanda Nxele
… group of them climbed out while the others were getting weapon supplies. Smidt went to another room where he fought … the cattle as shields. [91] There Smidt…
ArticleState of Emergency - 1985
… and political interests. Sabotage became an effective weapon of resistance against the apartheid government. … circumstances, with most deaths arguably…
Postscript
… gaol on condition that he renounce violence as a political weapon. She looked so young that day, in her jeans and yellow … attacks, by the long trials of…
BiographyJacob Gedleyihlekisa Zuma
… North West Province). Zuma was detained under the 90 day detention law in solitary confinement at Hercules police … to investigate human rights abuses that…
Statement at the meeting of the Special Committee against Apartheid in observance of the International Day of Solidarity with the Struggling People of South Africa (Soweto Day), 16 June 1989
… candidates were behind bars. Despite lengthy periods in detention, we refused to be cowed into submission. We rose … above those dehumanizing and humiliating…
The Many Faces of Apartheid Repression
… of Emergency has been declared) and confers wide powers of detention without trial, banning of persons, organizations, … arisen to invoke this Act. Formal…
Undelivered statement by Albert Luthuli at the time of his Trial for burning his pass, 05 July 1960
… and humiliation of us as a people, a badge of slavery, a weapon used by the authorities to keep us in a position of … tell only half the tale. The physical…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1980-1989
… is arrested under security laws that provide for unlimited detention without trial. 31 July, Joe Gqabi , journalist and … Helen Suzman , calls for the whole…
Liberation organisations
… torture, the disappearance of activists, deaths in police detention, and murder. Necklacing refers to the practice of … unions joined the federations. A…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1960s
… 12 May, The General Law Amendment Act provides for detention of people for twelve days without bail, and trial … General Law Amendment Act No 39:Provides for…
ArchiveChapter 7 Arrest at Liliesleaf by Denis Goldberg
… declined to take it because it was merely the body of the weapon, without any of its inner workings and I did not trust … to buy as a cover for the weapons…
Concluding Remarks
… and its publications, was banned. The violent death in detention of SASO's first president, Steve Biko, occurred in … oppressed. Culture, it was resolved,…
Segregationist Legislation Timeline 1950-1959
… that African trade unions would be used as political weapon to create chaos. He added that in his opinion ?We [the … for reasons of public safety . It…
The Many Faces of Apartheid Repression
… of Emergency has been declared) and confers wide powers of detention without trial, banning of persons, organizations, … arisen to invoke this Act. Formal…
Oration by the President of the Republic of South Africa, Kgalema Motlanthe, at the funeral service of the late Cleopas Mododa Nsibande, 3 January 2009, Benoni
… contemporaries in the ANC, with whom he stoically faced detention, harassment, banning, harassments, beatings and … today- that they can use their trade…
Article1976-1983: Mass Democratic movements
Introduction
ArticleMass Democratic movements, 1976-1983
… MK structures in Mozambique provided military training in weapon usage and in guerrilla tactics to its recruits. The … movement, imprisoned objectors and…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1990-1999
… of the situation in South Africa, the continued detention of Mac Maharaj and the arrest of leaders of COSATU. … inhumane treatment of its opponents in the…