Raids, Resistance, and Retribution
South Africa's Cato Manor Killings, 1960–1
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8979014 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Gary Kynoch (0000-0001-9562-4438, Dalhousie University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 64 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 422-436 |
| Publication date | 2023-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of African History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-8537 • E-ISSN: 1469-5138 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0021853723000671 |
| OpenAlex | W4389676096 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 10 |
On 24 January 1960 nine police were killed in the African settlement of Cato Manor when residents turned on officers conducting a liquor patrol. On 5 September 1961, nine men convicted of the killings were hanged in Pretoria's Central Prison. These deaths produced contrasting narratives, one by the apartheid state and then decades later, another by the current African National Congress government. Apartheid police and judicial authorities vilified the accused as the worst kind of killers who wantonly slaughtered the representatives of law and order. Sixty years later, these murderers of the apartheid period were resurrected as martyrs and their remains were interred at Heroes Arch, a resting place for many antiapartheid activists. Moving past these binary versions allows us to consider a more mundane story that underscores the South African state's commitment to a model of policing that generated an unmatched degree of persecution in colonial Africa
Colonialism · Criminology · Imprisonment · Persecution · Political science · Politics · Prison · Resistance (ecology · Settlement (finance · Sociology · State (computer science · African studies and sociopolitical issues · Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics · History · Law · South African History and Culture
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The Making of Apartheid 1948–1961
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Hooligans, Spivs and Loafers’
Ambiguous Spaces
Law, Violence and Penal Reform
The Imposition of Pass Laws on the African Population in South Africa 1916–1984
Twentieth-Century South Africa
Pass Controls and the Urban African Proletariat in South Africa
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2026 - 2026 (1) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |