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Moloise was executed at Pretoria Central Prison around 7 a.m. on 18 October 1985. His parents waited in a car across the street until they were informed of their son's death, with no significant crowds or vigils marking the event. [13] Reflecting on the ordeal and the treatment by the prison staff, Pauline Moloise lamented the government's cruelty.
Pretoria Central Prison, renamed Kgosi Mampuru II Management Area by former President Jacob Zuma on 13 April 2013 [1] and sometimes referred to as Kgosi Mampuru II Correctional Services [2] is a large prison in central Pretoria, within the City of Tshwane in South Africa. It is operated by the South African Department of Correctional Services.
Solomon Kalushi Mahlangu (10 July 1956 – 6 April 1979) was a South African freedom fighter, struggle activist and operative of the African National Congress (ANC) militant wing, uMkhonto weSizwe (MK).
The former Pretoria Central Prison now known as Kgosi Mampuru II (who was hanged at the prison on 22 November 1883 for public violence and revolt, as well as the murder of rival leader Sekhukhune), was the official site for capital punishment in South Africa before the end of apartheid, frequently meted out against opponents of the apartheid ...
John Phuko Kgabi (1944 – 6 February 1980), known as The Ritual Killer, [1] was a South African serial killer and a former police officer who murdered between six and at least eleven young girls in Atteridgeville and Limpopo.
Ngobeni was convicted and hanged at Pretoria Central Prison on 14 November 1989. In 1990, President F. W. de Klerk declared a moratorium on the execution of capital sentences. In June 1995, in the case of S v Makwanyane, the Constitutional Court of South Africa held that capital punishment was an unconstitutional form of punishment.
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 ...
The Axe Killer (1910 – 10 February 1956) was a South African serial killer who was convicted in 1955 of 15 murders and sentenced to death by hanging. His victims all came from the Umkomaas and Umzimkulu valleys of Natal .