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The police set their trained dog on the protesters, who responded by killing it. [21] The police then began to shoot directly at the children. Among the first students to be shot dead were the 15-year-old Hastings Ndlovu and the 12-year-old Hector Pieterson, who were shot at Orlando West High School. [22]
Zolile Hector Pieterson (19 August 1963 – 16 June 1976) was a South African schoolboy who was shot and killed at the age of 12 during the Soweto uprising in 1976, when the police opened fire on black students protesting the enforcement of teaching in Afrikaans, mostly spoken by the white and coloured population in South Africa, as the medium of instruction for all school subjects.
The apartheid-era police records indicate that 69 people were killed, including 10 children, and 180 injured, including 19 children. This figure has subsequently been shown to have been greatly under-estimated. New research has shown that at least 91 people were killed and more than 238 people wounded. [11]
People Killed by the Police During Protests. The worst instance of lethal police violence in response to protest since the end of the apartheid era in South Africa is the shootings of 34 striking miners at Marikanan near Rustenburg, which have come to be known as 'The Marikana Massacre', during the Marikana miner strike on 16 August 2012.
South Africa: Frederick John Harris [2] African Resistance Movement activist 1 April 1965 Mthuli ka Shezi [3] Black People's Convention activist 1972 Germiston: Steve Biko [4] Black Consciousness activist 12 September 1977 Pretoria: Rick Turner [5] Durban Moment activist 8 January 1978 Durban: Clemens Kapuuo [6] SWANU activist 27 March 1978 ...
Being killed by the Apartheid era Security Branch of the Police while being held in detention without trial. Neil Aggett (6 October 1953 – 5 February 1982) was a Kenyan and South African doctor and trade union organiser who was killed, while in detention, by the Security Branch of the Apartheid South African Police Service after being held ...
Steve Biko is widely believed to have been killed by police as a result of anti-apartheid demonstrations in South Africa. [8] 1981: three people were killed by plastic bullets fired by the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) in Northern Ireland during the 1981 Irish hunger strike protests, [9] [10] and many others were badly injured.
The name 'Black Weekend' comes from the fact that the KwaNobuhle township community had chosen that weekend to bury four people killed by the apartheid police earlier in March 1985. Police said that three petrol bombs were thrown at a police vehicle in Langa during this weekend. Police also shot and killed a young man on 17 March 1985.