Contents: Recent Events • The Homelands, Forced Removals and Influx Control • Security Laws • Torture and Deaths in Detention • Limits on the Function of the Judiciary • Namibia • United States Policy • The report says once again, political unrest is sweeping South Africa and is being met with a brutal Government crackdown; in the past few months, community and political leaders have been detained in large numbers; in September, seven striking black gold miners were killed by police in the course of their efforts to win concessions from mine owners; more than 150 other people -- including children as young as six years old -- have lost their lives in recent months, with hundreds...
Contents: Recent Events • The Homelands, Forced Removals and Influx Control • Security Laws • Torture and Deaths in Detention • Limits on the Function of the Judiciary • Namibia • United States Policy • The report says once again, political unrest is sweeping South Africa and is being met with a brutal Government crackdown; in the past few months, community and political leaders have been detained in large numbers; in September, seven striking black gold miners were killed by police in the course of their efforts to win concessions from mine owners; more than 150 other people -- including children as young as six years old -- have lost their lives in recent months, with hundreds more injured, in clashes with the police in the black townships. The report discusses police, the armed forces, black townships, Sebokeng, Sharpeville, Boipatong, political activists, Coloureds, Asians, the new 1984 constitution, apartheid, racially separate parliaments, Black affairs, Indians, meetings, funerals, the Vaal Triangle, Johannesburg, tear gas, rubber bullets, birdshot, whips, billy clubs, hospitals, the Southern African Catholic Bishops' Conference, police brutality, bantustans, unemployed black laborers, pass law arrests, bulldozers, the village of Magopa, houses, schools, churches, diesel fuel, water, the Blacks (Urban Areas) Consolidation Act 25 of 1945, the Blacks (Abolition of Passes and Co-ordination of Documents) Act 67 of 1952, KaNgwane, KwaZulu, the Internal security Act No. 74 of 1982, the Minister of Law and Order, the Charter of the United Nations, the 1970 Declaration on Principles of International Law Concerning Friendly Relations and Cooperation Among States in Accordance with the Charter of the U.N., the Terrorism Act No. 83 of 1967, incommunicado detention, interrogation, Abel Dube, the Transkei Public Security Act, the Ciskei National Security Act, the Bophuthatswana Internal Security Act, illegal activity, banning orders, security legislation, gatherings, possession of banned publications, the International Covenant of Civil and Political Rights, customary international law, the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Declaration on the Protection of All Persons From Being Subjected to Torture, the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedom, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, political prisoners, the Criminal Procedure Act, Samuel Tshikhudo, Mxolisi Sipele, Johannes Ngalo, Ephraim Mthetwa, Justice Gustav Hoexter, a Commission of Inquiry, impartial justice, the International Court of Justice, Working Group Kairos, South African defense forces (SADF), Koevoet, disappearances, counter-insurgency, atrocities, the Defense Act, the United Nations Council for Namibia's Decree No: 1 for the Protection of the Natural Resources of Namibia, the exploitation of Namibia's natural and human resources, constructive engagement, members of Congress, business investment in South Africa, and diplomatic and economic sanctions.
