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Queenstown Massacre

4

 

Queenstown Spur Bombing

4, 16, 32

 

Rape

14, 55, 64

 

Reconciliation, Justice and Forgiveness

1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 8, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 21, 23, 24, 28, 29, 31, 32, 34, 35, 37, 42, 46, 47, 49, 51, 52, 54, 56, 57, 60, 63, 67, 69A, 70A, 70B, 71A, 72, 74, 76, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 84, 85

 

Refugees

6, 23, 29, 31

 

Register of Reconciliation

78, 79

 

Religious groups, involvement in politics

6, 12, 14, 22, 24, 30, 31, 42, 56, 59, 62, 7, 76

 

RENAMO (Mozambique)

24, 71B

 

Reparations, cash

20, 24, 46, 71B, 86

 

Reparations, community reparation

71B

 

Reparations, costs of

71B

 

Reparations, counseling

20

 

Reparations, disability compensation

15

 

Reparations, free education

15, 20, 46

 

Reparations, general discussion

20, 21, 25, 31, 38, 42, 54, 71B, 73A, 74

 

Reparations, housing

45

 

Reparations, institutional reform

71B

 

Reparations, justice

20

 

Reparations, medical care

20

 

Reparations, memorials and monuments

20, 38, 41, 71B

 

Reparations, Presidents Fund

86

 

Reparations, procedures

71B, 74, 86

 

Reparations, SASRIA fund

71B, 74

 

Reparations, symbolic reburial

6, 20, 21, 23, 32, 34, 40, 42, 45, 51, 54, 58, 60, 67, 71B, 73B

 

Reparations, urgent interim relief

71B, 73A, 86

 

Reparations, wealth tax

74

 

Returned Exiles Committee

64

 

Right-wing politics

10, 11, 15, 21, 41, 62, 82

 

Right-wing violence

10, 11, 15, 21, 23, 41, 47, 53, 60, 62, 64, 71A, 78, 82, 86

 

SADF-Police Collusion

69A, 69B

 

Sasol Oil Refinery Sabotage

73B

 

Sebokeng Massacre

14

 

Security Force records on activists, destruction of

68B

 

Self Defence Units (SDU)

4, 13, 14, 34, 49, 53, 55, 62, 83

 

Seven Days War

29, 31

 

Seychelles Coup

74

 

Sharpeville Massacre

14, 16

 

Sharpeville Six

22, 58

 

Shell House killings

20, 45

 

Shooting

1, 2, 3, 4, 7, 9, 13, 14, 17, 18, 21, 23, 30, 34, 35, 37, 38, 39, 41, 47, 50, 55, 64, 67, 69B, 73A

 

Silverton Bank Siege

15, 16

 

Sophiatown

29, 83

 

South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC)

66

 

South African Communist Party (SACP), history

20, 29, 53, 58, 62, 83

 

South African Council of Churches (SACC)

4, 14, 68B

 

South African Defence Force (SADF)

25, 28, 34, 40, 47, 51, 53, 54, 59, 60, 63, 64, 68B, 69A, 69B, 71B, 74, 80

 

South African History, general

16, 70B, 74, 79, 82

 

South African Students Congress (SASCO)

47

 

South African Students Organisation (SASO)

2

 

South West Africa People's Organisation (SWAPO)

3, 6, 24, 30, 47, 59, 64, 83

 

Soweto Uprising (June 16 1976), background

4, 16, 24, 30, 46, 52

 

Soweto Uprising, effects in Cape

3

 

St. James Church Massacre

3, 32, 56, 57, 58, 69A, 86

 

Stabbing

1, 12

 

Stalinist Camps

20

 

State of Emergency, mentioned

5, 7, 8, 11, 13, 16, 17, 18, 21, 23, 40, 69A, 73A

 

State Security Council

2, 16, 25, 28, 47, 60, 66, 68B, 69A, 69B, 70A, 70B, 74, 83

 

State witness, forced

6

 

Swaziland

37, 39, 51, 81

 

Taxi violence

49

 

Thabazimbi death farm

85

 

Third Force Activities

2, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 18, 20, 23, 25, 29, 30, 34, 35, 39, 47, 49, 69A

 

Three Million Gang

4, 9, 47, 64

 

Toasters Gang

30

 

Torture

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 11, 13, 14, 15, 16, 19, 22, 23, 35, 37, 38, 40, 45, 46, 50, 51, 53, 54, 55, 57, 64, 65, 68A, 69B, 71A, 74, 78, 82, 84, 86

 

Torture, acid

1

 

Torture, assault

1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 9, 10, 14, 23, 37, 55, 57, 69B, 71A, 74, 78

 

Torture, diaries of

5

 

Torture, drowning

1, 6, 23

 

Torture, electric shock

1, 2, 8, 10, 23, 37, 40, 46, 55, 57, 69B, 82

 

Torture, forced abortions and threats thereof

64

 

Torture, helicopter method

1, 54, 69B

 

Torture, of women

14, 40, 64

 

Torture, rape

14, 64

 

Torture, sleep deprivation

69B

 

Torture, solitary confinement

68A, 72

 

Torture, suffocation

1, 4, 5, 8, 37, 57, 74

 

Torture, tubing

1, 40, 57

 

Torture, wet bag method

57, 71A

 

Total Onslaught, mentioned

7, 8, 9, 25, 69B, 70A, 79, 81

 

Traditional medicine ( muti), role of

70B

 

Train violence

20, 23, 34, 49, 52

 

Transkei

7, 16, 18

 

Transvaal Indian Congress

58

 

Treason Trials, general

22, 58

 

Tribal politics

5, 29

 

Trojan Horse Killings

49, 72

 

Trust Feed Massacre

13, 22, 24, 32, 46, 85

 

Ubuntu

8, 55

 

Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK), armed wing of the ANC

3, 4, 7, 12, 14, 15, 16, 18, 21, 22, 23, 28, 34, 39, 42, 45, 47, 49, 50, 51, 53, 55, 57, 58, 60, 63, 68A, 69B, 71A, 73B, 74, 85

 

UNITA (Angola)

23, 24, 28, 71B

 

United Democratic Front (UDF)

1, 3, 13, 16, 17, 18, 20, 21, 22, 23, 29, 30, 31, 35, 46, 49, 52, 62, 65, 70A, 73A, 73B, 76F

 

Uppington 26

22

 

Venda

22

 

Victim support, discussed

1, 21

 

Victims, of liberation movements

1, 2, 3, 7, 9, 10, 12, 15, 16, 18, 20, 21, 22, 23, 32, 34, 40, 41, 50, 51, 52, 56, 58, 63, 65, 67, 69A, 72, 76, 79, 86

 

Vigilantes or Gangs, acting with police collusion

3, 4, 8, 9, 10, 17, 18, 20, 23, 30, 31, 35, 41, 49, 52, 64, 73B

 

Violence by liberation movements

1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 9, 10, 12, 13, 15, 16, 18, 20, 21, 22, 23, 27, 28, 32, 34, 40, 41, 50, 51, 52, 56, 63, 65, 67, 69A, 72, 76, 79, 80

 

Violence by traditional leaders (chiefs)

11, 29, 31

 

Vlakplaas, hit squads

1, 2, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 15, 16, 18, 20, 23, 24, 25, 27, 28, 29, 30, 32, 34, 37, 38, 39, 40, 45, 50, 51, 68A, 68B, 69A, 73A, 74, 80, 81, 84, 86

 

Voortrekker Monument

20

 

Vrye Weekblad

19, 27

 

Western Cape

3, 8, 14, 24, 25, 30, 39, 49, 50, 52, 55, 56, 57, 71A, 72

 

Wimpy Bar Bombing

34

 

Witchcraft, political role of

11

 

Witdoeke, vigilantes

3, 49, 52

 

Women, specific focus on

14, 40, 64

 

Zambia

28

 

Zimbabwe

6, 13, 28, 34, 38, 59, 64, 71B, 81