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The white people of South Africa approve of De Klerk's reforms in a referendum. 45 people are killed in the Boipatong Massacre, an attack committed by supporters of the Inkatha Freedom Party. 28 protestors demanding Ciskei be reincorporated into South Africa (and 1 soldier) are killed in the Bisho massacre.
Following the defeat of the Boers in the Second Anglo–Boer War or South African War (1899–1902), the Union of South Africa was created as a self-governing dominion of the British Empire on 31 May 1910 in terms of the South Africa Act 1909, which amalgamated the four previously separate British colonies: Cape Colony, Colony of Natal ...
Hanging was maintained as the preferred method, as in most post-independence cases of criminal law, following South Africa's independence as a republic in 1961.At the same time, South Africa saw mounting international criticism against purposely political executions of anti-apartheid activists convicted of violent crimes; mainly blacks, but occasionally whites, the case of Frederick John ...
South African criminal law is the body of national law relating to crime in South Africa.In the definition of Van der Walt et al., a crime is "conduct which common or statute law prohibits and expressly or impliedly subjects to punishment remissible by the state alone and which the offender cannot avoid by his own act once he has been convicted."
This article identifies the historical reform patterns of the South African prison system, focusing on specific actors, social movements, and underlying socio-political factors that precipitated reform before the apartheid struggle and after 1994, transitioning into the current reform challenges facing the South African prison system.
Murder rate South Africa. This is a graph of South Africa's murder rate (annual murders per 100,000 people) from 1915 to 2023. The murder rate increased rapidly towards the end of Apartheid. It then decreased until bottoming out at 30 per 100,000 in 2011, but steadily increased again to a record of 85 murders per 100,000 in 2023 .
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