On 15 November 1988, a man named Barend Strydom carried out a shooting spree at Strijdom Square in Pretoria, South Africa, near Johannesburg, killing eight people and injuring 16 others. Strydom was later convicted and sentenced to death for the attack. It was one of many shootings during the apartheid struggle. The square itself has since been renamed Lilian Ngoyi Square.[1]
xGeneral Lothar Paul Neethling 29 August 1935, East Prussia – 11 July 2005 was chief deputy commissioner (second-in-command) of the South African Police in the apartheid era. A highly qualified scientist, General Neethling was alleged to have used police forensic laboratories for the production of poisons to kill anti-apartheid activists, and to have developed chemical and biological weapons for use against the black population in South
James Thomas Kruger 20 December 1917 – 9 May 1987 was a South African-born politician who was part of the conservative National Party government which championed apartheid. He rose to the position of Minister of Justice and the Police in the cabinet of Prime Minister John Vorster from 1974 to 1979. He was also President of the Senate from 1979 until 1980, when it was abolished. Contents 1Background
Clive John Derby-Lewis 22 January 1936 – 3 November 2016 was a South African politician, who was involved first in the National Party and then, while serving as a member of parliament, in the Conservative Party. In 1993 he was convicted of conspiracy to murder South African Communist Party leader Chris Hani and sentenced to
Eugene Alexander de Kock born 29 January 1949 is a former South African Police colonel, torturer, and assassin, active under the apartheid government. Nicknamed “Prime Evil” by the press, De Kock was the commanding officer of C10, a counter-insurgency unit of the SAP that kidnapped, tortured, and murdered numerous anti-apartheid activists from the 1980s to the early 1990s.
Dirk Coetzee 15 April 1945 – 7 March 2013 was co-founder and commander of the covert South African Security Police unit based at Vlakplaas. He and his colleagues were involved in a number of extra judicial killings including that of Griffiths Mxenge. Coetzee publicly revealed the existence of the Vlakplaas death squads in 1989, making
Wouter Basson born 6 July 1950 is a South African cardiologist and former head of the country’s secret chemical and biological warfare project, Project Coast, during the apartheid era. Nicknamed “Dr. Death” by the press for his alleged actions in apartheid South Africa, Basson was acquitted in 2002 of 67 charges, after having been suspended from
Tony Sithembiso Yengeni born 11 October 1954 is a South African politician. He was an anti-Apartheid activist and joined the African National Congress (ANC) in 1976 and later its armed wing, Umkhonto we Sizwe. From 1994 until 2003 he served as member of the South African parliament for the ruling ANC party, including service as
Alfred Bathini Xuma, OLG, commonly referred to by his initials as AB Xuma 8 March 1893, Transkei – 27 January 1962, was the first black South African to become a medical doctor, as well as a leader, activist and president-general of the African National Congress (ANC) from 1940 to 1949. He was a member of the African American founded Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity.
Khoisan X 4 March 1955 – 13 October 2010, formerly Benny Alexander, was a South African political activist born in Kimberley, South Africa. Contents 1Early life 2Labour activist 3Political career 4Indigenous rights and business interests 5Death and legacy 6References 7See also Early life Bennett Alexander was the third child of Estelle and Johann Alexander, a labourer