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The Johannesburg Central Police Station is a South African Police Service police station in downtown Johannesburg, South Africa. From its unveiling in 1968 until September 1997, it was called John Vorster Square , after Prime Minister B.J. Vorster .
Ahmed Timol (3 November 1941 – 27 October 1971) was an anti-apartheid activist in the underground South African Communist Party.He died at the age of 29 from injuries sustained when he fell from the top floor of John Vorster Square police station in Johannesburg. [1]
Frederick John Harris (4 July 1937 – 1 April 1965) was a South African schoolteacher and anti-apartheid campaigner who turned to terrorism and was executed after a bomb attack on a railway station. He was Chairman of SANROC (the South African Non Racial Olympic Committee), which in 1964 petitioned the International Olympic Committee to have ...
Balthazar Johannes "B. J." Vorster (Afrikaans pronunciation: [ˈbaltɑːzar juəˈhanəs ˈfɔrstər]; 13 December 1915 – 10 September 1983), better known as John Vorster, was a South African politician who served as the prime minister of South Africa from 1966 to 1978 and the fourth state president of South Africa from 1978 to 1979.
Jeppestown, 1888. Jeppestown was established in or after 1886 by C.E.G. Julius Jeppe [], who formed the Ford and Jeppe Estate Company with his son, who was also called Julius Jeppe [], and L.P. Ford. [2] In 1893, the Masonic temple was completed. [3]
The Durban Borough Police created in 1854, later to become the Durban City Police, and now the Durban Metro Police, to police the city of Durban: the force was headed by a Chief Constable and was modelled on British police forces. [1] "Municipal police forces" were also established in some cities in the 1980s, during the apartheid era.
Johannesburg Park station opens. Johan Zulch de Villiers becomes the first mayor. 1898 – St John's College was founded. 1899 – Fort built. 1900 – 31 May: ...
The fire department and ambulances, the metropolitan police and traffic control, museums, art galleries, libraries and heritage sites are all controlled by separate departments. Some of the key city service functions are supplied by separate, self-contained entities, each run on business lines with its own CEO.