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On 21 March 1985, on the 25th anniversary of the Sharpeville massacre, members of the South African Police opened fire on a crowd of people gathered on Maduna Road between Uitenhage and Langa township in the Eastern Cape, South Africa. The crowd had been attending a funeral of one of the six who had been slain by the apartheid police on 17 ...
In 1985, funerals were the site of massacres by police in Uitenhage and in Queenstown. [28] Thula Simpson writes: As the journalist Allister Sparks observed, during the uprising there was a funeral almost every weekend for people who had been killed in clashes with the authorities. At those funerals, police would open fire on demonstrators ...
Uitenhage (/ ˈ j uː t ən h eɪ ɡ / YOO-tən-hayg; [3] Afrikaans: [œitənˈɦɑːχə]), officially renamed Kariega, [4] is a South African town in the Eastern Cape Province. It is well known for the Volkswagen factory located there, which is the biggest car factory on the African continent.
The de Mist Commando, along with all other Commando units was disbanded after a decision by South African President Thabo Mbeki to disband all Commando Units. [1] [2] The Commando system was phased out between 2003 and 2008 "because of the role it played in the apartheid era", according to the Minister of Safety and Security Charles Nqakula.
Regiment Uitenhage was formed as an Afrikaans language based unit cadre unit in the South African Army's 1965 expansion and formed a Citizen Force infantry battalion by 1966. The regiment was not the first military unit in the area and was considered the descendants of the Uitenhage Volunteer Rifles and all other Volunteer Corps raised in ...
On July 20, 1985, the 24-year-old [1] Skosana was the first of a series of victims in South Africa to be filmed being killed by necklacing. Necklacing was a brutal practice that occurred in townships. [4] Skosana's death occurred in the township of Duduza, west of Nigel on the East Rand, Gauteng. Suspected of being a police informer, Skosana ...
In 2011, the plant in Uitenhage was the only non-European plant, besides the subsidiary in Mexico, that exported vehicles. [3] From 2008 to 2013, Volkswagen was the market leader in the South African passenger car market. [1] In 2015, Volkswagen of South Africa had 5600 employees. [5]
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