1922: DEFENCE & POLICE CAUSALITIES

Name Date Location Casual ties Notes

Germisto n taxi rank bombing 1994-04-25 Germiston 10 killed, 8 injured A pipe bomb was placed inside a trailer and driven to the taxi rank in Germiston and was detonated at around 10am in the morning by members of the AWB

Sizzler’s massacre 2003-01-20 Sea Point, Cape Town 9 killed, 1 injured

Marikana massacre 2012-08-16 Lonmin Mine, Marikana 34 – 47 killed

Life Esidimeni deaths 2015 - 2016 Gauteng 144 to date; 62 still not accounte d for. Eight still missing as of 11 March 2020. The victims were murdered at a gay massage parlour on Graham Road by Adam Roy Woest and Trevor Basil Theys. The Marikana massacre was the single most lethal use of force by South African security forces against civilians since 1960. The shootings have been described as a massacre in the South African media and have been compared to the Sharpeville massacre in 1960. Controversy emerged after it was discovered that most of the victims were shot in the back, and many victims were shot far from police lines.

1,300 psychiatric patients were relocated from Life Esidimeni centres to mainly unlicensed NGOs by order of the Gauteng Department of Health.

To date the Mfecane massacre with 1 to 1.5 million Africans killed over a ten-year period by order of Shaka, the Zulu chief, is the massacre with the highest number of fatalities in South Africa. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_massacres_in_South_Africa

Sourced - 20 October 2021