INDEX
A
Acts of Parliament:
Bantu Education Act, 1953, 211
Criminal Procedure Act 56, 1955, 197
Criminal Procedure and Evidence Act, 1917, 231
General Law Amendment "Sabotage" Act, 1962, 191
Group Areas Act, 1950, 146 , 174 , 177
Immorality Act, 1927, 1950, 1957; 174 , 175 , 176
"Innes Act" (liquor laws), 63 , 137
Native Administration Act, 1927, 114 -19
Official Secrets Act, 1956, 243
Peace Preservation Act, 1878, 63
Population Registration Act, 1950, 148
Reservation of Separate Amenities Act, 1953, 142 , 143 , 146
Sea-shore Act, 1935, 149
South African Act, 1909, 132 , 144 , 163 , 248
Suppression of Communism Act, 1950, 191
Terrorism Act, 1967, 191 , 235 , 237
Addison, Magistrate, 91
Advocates, 19 , 38 , 46 -9, 123 :
in Boer War, 124 -5;
Early Cape, 46 -7;
Natal, 86 , 92 ;
Orange Free State, 72 ;
South Africa, 205 , 209 , 259
African law. See Tribal law
African National Congress, 165 , 209 , 210 , 211 , 213 , 214 , 216 , 217 , 223 , 225 , 226 , 228 , 229 , 242
Africans, 95 -120, 164 -6;
attitudes to lawyers, 201 -3;
attitudes to police, 203 -5;
Boer Republics, 69 , 70 , 73 -4, 77 , 114 ;
Cape Colony, 62 -3, 114 ;
Chiefs, the, 108 , 111 , 112 , 115 , 116 -17;
extermination of, 106 ;
lawyers, 209 -29;
Natal, 88 , 90 , 91 , 105 , 114 ;
post-Anglo-Boer War, 127 -8;
treatment of by white farmers, 30 , 35 , 37 , 40 -1, 51 , 58 , 60 , 61 , 70 , 71 , 100 , 102 , 103 , 106 , 109 .
See also African tribes; Courts; Criminal statistics; Masters' and Servants' laws; Pass laws; Prisoners; Race attitudes; Segregation; Slavery and slaves; Transkei; Tribal law; Votes; Whipping
African Tribes:
Bantu speaking, 12 , 53 , 55 , 103 , 119 , 120 ;
Basuto, 54 , 75 , 103 ;
Griqua, 43 . 54 , 55 ;
Khoi Khoi (Hottentots), 35 . 36 , 37 , 39 -40, 53 , 54 ;
Namibians, 234 , 244 ;
Ndebele, 69 ;
Pondoland, 43 , 45 , 111 -12, 115 -18;
San, 29 , 37 , 51 , 53 , 55 , 61 , 106 , 153 ;
Xhosa, 99 , 103 ;
Zulus, 68 , 69 , 86 , 87 , 90 , 93 , 96 , 103 , 104 , 106 , 109 , 157 , 206 , 240
Afrikaners, 30 , 34 -5, 123 , 126 , 127 ;
Jurists, 34 -5, 72 , 120 , 124 -5, 138 , 140 , 144 , 145 , 247 , 256 -7;
World War I, 157 ;
World War II, 167 , 242 .
See also Anglo-Boer War; Language; Military: commandos; Voortrekkers
Anglican Church, 47 , 64
Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902), 45 , 52 , 84 , 123 -7, 129 , 157 , 206 ;
The Times History of the War , 127 -8.
See also Whipping
Apartheid, 13 , 29 , 74 , 131 , 143 , 146 , 166 , 209 , 213 , 216 , 237 -8
Appeals, 47 , 52 , 65 , 85 , 87 -8, 93 , 113 , 115 , 119
Asians. See Indians
Attorneys, 19 , 38 ;
attitudes towards, 202 ;
early Cape, 49 -50;
Natal, 86
B
Bannister, Saxe, 36 -7, 266 , 267 , 281
"Bantu law". See Tribal law
Barristers. See Advocates
Barrow, Sir John, F.R.S., 22 , 100 , 266 , 267 , 276
Batavian Republic, 18 , 34 , 35 , 38 . See also Cape, the: Dutch Settlement
Bell, Sir Sydney Smith, Chief Justice, 44 , 267 , 268
Bell, W. H. S., 50 , 81 , 267 , 268 , 276
Berrangé, V., 215
Beyers, A., 257 -8
Beyers, Frederick William, Judge, 138 , 140
Bloemfontein, 72 , 126 , 130
Bodenstein, H., 124
Boer Republics, the, 69 , 70 , 86 , 93 . See also Orange Free State, Transvaal
Boer War. See Anglo-Boer War
BOSS. See Police, Security
Brand, J. H., President, Orange Free State, 72
Buchanan, James, Judge, 46 , 72 , 266 , 267 , 270
Burghers, Orange Free State and Transvaal, 70 , 73 , 77 , 83 . See also Military: commandos
Burton, Sir William Westbrooke, Judge, 38 , 41
Bushmen. See Africans: San
C
Calvinism, 70 , 73 , 75
Cape Colony, 32 -67. See also Africans; Courts; Judges; Native Affairs Departments; Pass laws; Police; Prisoners; Race attitudes; Votes
Cape, the:
Dutch settlement, 12 , 17 -30, 34 , 35 ;
First British occupation, 30 -1, 32 .
See also Batavian Republic; Fiscal; habeas corpus ; Punishment; Race attitudes
Cape Town, 28 , 30 , 32 , 34 , 40 , 43 , 48 , 49 , 56 , 60 , 61 ;
University, 165
Capital punishment:
Cape, the:
Dutch Settlement, 26 , 28 , 31 ;
Cape Colony, 28 , 48 , 57 -8;
in England, 31 ;
in Orange Free State, 73 ;
in Transvaal, 81 ;
international, 193 -5;
public executioner, 27 , 31 ;
South Africa, 191 -5, 154 -6, 163 , 263
Cattle stealing, 88 , 106 , 196
Centlivres, Albert van de S., Chief Justice, 143 , 145 , 159 -60, 248 , 254 , 269 , 270
Charters of Justice, 38 , 39 , 49
Chinese, 130 , 135 , 177
Churchill, Winston S., 105 , 268
Cloete, Hendrik, Judge, 44 , 85
Cole, Alfred Whaley, Judge, 34 , 46 , 60 , 266
Colenso, Bishop John William, 93
Colonial Office, 37 , 65
Coloured Representative Council, 164
Commandos. See Military
Communists, 166 , 209 , 241 , 242
Concentration camps, 126 , 127 , 206
Connor, Sir Henry, Chief Justice, 46
Constitutional crisis:
Orange Free State, 74 ;
Transvaal, 83 -4
Corder, H. L., 159 , 266 , 268 , 277
Courts:
Africans in, 96 -8, 99
Anglo-Boer War and post-war period, 125 , 126 , 127 -32
Appeal, Courts of, 45 , 84 , 123 , 130 -1, 135 , 136 , 137 , 138 -9, 144 -5, 146
attitudes to race, 132 -60
Black challenge to, 218 , 220
Cape Colony, 32 , 37 , 38 , 41 , 42 , 43 , 44 , 46 , 60 , 64 , 66 , 103 , 112
Circuit Courts:
Cape Colony, 35 , 42 , 112 , 116 ;
Orange Free State, 72 ;
Transvaal, 77
Colonial Treason Court, 157
convictions and race, 158
damages and race, 150
defamation, 150 -2
Dutch East India Company, 17 , 18 , 23
freedom of speech, 39 , 60 , 247 , 248
interpreters:
Natal, 85 ;
Orange Free State, 73
judicial notice, 153
Natal, 85 , 87 -8
Orange Free State, 70 , 71 -5
passports, 262
"Pondoland High Court", 117
rationality, 98 -9
segregation, 115 , 145 -6
sentencing and race, 153 -8
tolerance, 231
Transvaal, 70 , 76
tribal, 95 -6, 112 , 115 -17
United States Supreme Court, 142 .
See also Judges; segregation
Criminal Procedure, 12 , 231 -7;
appeals, 235 -6;
arrest, 232 ;
automatic review, 44 ;
bail, 38 , 232 ;
confessions, 234 ;
evidence, 12 , 38 , 41 , 73 , 235 , 254 ;
preparatory examination, 233 ;
trial, 233 -4;
witnesses, 38 , 234
Criminal statistics:
Cape Colony, 51 , 64 -5;
Natal, 89 -90;
Transvaal, 81 ;
South Africa, 155 -6, 158 , 167 -73, 173 -4, 184 -5;
Surveys 1911, 1967, 162 -3, 167 , 168
Criminology, 59 , 184 -6, 195 , 196 -7
Curfews, 63 , 202 , 203
Curlewis, John Stephen, Chief Justice, 46 , 124 , 129 , 141
D
Darwin, Charles, 104
de Groote, Hugo, 24
de Villiers, Etienne, Judge, 139
de Villiers, Jacob A. J., Chief Justice, 124 , 131 , 134
de Villiers, John Henry, Lord, of Wynberg, Chief Justice, 32 , 44 -5, 46 , 47 , 48 , 58 , 60 , 61 , 76 , 88 , 93 , 113 , 125 , 130 , 133 -4, 138 , 141 , 245 , 266 , 267 , 282
de Villiers, Melius, Chief Justice, 72 , 73
Devitt, H. Napier, 159 , 268 , 277
de Wet, Hon. Nicholas Jacobus, Chief Justice, 124 , 265
Dickens, Charles, 72
Diemont, M., 147 , 268
difaqane , 68 , 69 , 96
Dingane, Zulu Chief, 96
Dinizulu, King of Zulus, 93 -4
Dugard, J., 26o, 277
Dutch East India Company, 17 , 18 , 19 , 20 , 23 , 26 , 27 . See also Cape, the: Dutch Settlement; Fiscal
Dutch Reformed Church, 30 , 42 , 47 , 64
Dutch settlers, 12 , 17 , 20
Dwyer, Judge, 44 , 46
E
"East London Case", 61 . See also Juries
Ebden, Judge, 44
Education:
Cape, 47 , 62 .
See also Legal education; Missionaries and Missions; Segregation
Emergencies, 13 , 216 , 231 , 232 , 234 , 237 -9, 249 , 250
F
Fagan, Henry Allan, Judge, 143 -4
Firearms, 70 , 154
Fiscal, 19 , 22 , 24 . See also Cape, the: Dutch settlement
Fischer, Bram, Q.C., 228
Fitzpatrick, J. C., Judge, 46
Forensic Society (1893), 57
Forman, L., 214 , 215
Freedom Charter, 214 , 217
Freemasonry, 47
G
Gandhi, M. K., 48 , 71 , 80 , 92 , 105 -6, 128 , 130 , 190 , 205 -8, 209 , 266 , 267 , 268 , 270 ;
passive resistance leader, 130
Gardiner, Frederick George, Judge, 140 -1
Governor-General, Supreme Chief of all Africans, 114 , 164
Graham, Sir John James, 52
Grahamstown (Cape Colony), 43 , 61
Greenberg, Judge, L., 144
Griffiths, Advocate, 46
Guerillas, 229 , 234 , 244
Guzana, K., African attorney, 212
H
habeas corpus , 45 ;
Cape, the: 103 , 113 ;
Transvaal, 78 ;
South Africa, 232 , 242 , 245 , 249 -50, 255
Hall, C., no, 208
Hertzog, General J. B. M., Prime Minister, 72 , 73 -4, 84 , 127 , 209
Heymann, I., 256
Hintsa, Chief, of the Xhosa, 99
Hodges, Sir William, Chief Justice, 44 , 56
Hoexter, O., 144
Holland, 18 , 19 , 24 , 31 , 72 , 76 , 85
Holmes, N., 257
Holt, H. P., 109 , 267 , 268 , 278
Hook, Major, 51 , 266 , 278
Hottentots. See Africans: Khoi Khoi
Huddleston, Father Trevor, 229
I
Imperialism, British, 33 , 68 , 77 , 84 , 127 -8
Indian Advisory Council, 164
Indians, 137 , 139 , 141 , 164 , 165 , 166 , 169 , 177 , 190 ;
1awyers, 205 , 208 -9, 211 ;
Natal, 84 , 89 , 91 -3, 146 , 207 ;
Orange Free State, 74 ;
Transvaal, 79 -80, 128 , 130 , 206 .
See also Segregation
Industrial expansion, 33 , 107 , 161 , 169 , 173 , 176 , 200 , 230
Innes. See Rose-Innes, Sir James
International Commission of Jurists, Geneva, 250 , 259
J
Jabavu, Professor D., 109 , 202 , 203 , 247 , 268 , 270 , 271 , 279
Jabavu, John Tengo, 109
Jacobs, Simeon, 47
Jameson, Dr L. S., 78 , 81
Jameson Raid, 1895, 78 , 81 , 157
Jansen, S., 197
Johannesburg (Transvaal), 48 , 77 , 79 , 81 , 124 , 157 , 158
Jones, Sydney T., Judge, 61
Joseph, Helen, 217
Judges:
early Cape, 12 , 13 , 32 ;
Cape Colony, 38 -9, 44 , 86 , 113 ;
criticising laws, 253 -5;
criticism of, 259 -63;
evaluating conduct, 256 -63;
executive, and the, 42 , 83 -4, 244 -66;
Natal, 85 , 86 ;
Orange Free State, 70 , 72 ;
reputation, 12 , 32 -3, 41 -8, 245 , 250 ;
Transvaal, 70 , 76 , 83 -4.
See also Courts, and individuals
Juries:
Cape Colony, 60 -2;
Orange Free State, 73 ;
Transkei, 42 , 62 ;
South Africa, 233
Juitices of the Peace, 51
Justinian I. (c. 482-565), 22
K
Kat River Rebellion, 1851, 40
Kekewich, O., 38
Kennedy, Robert, 259
Khan, R. K. K., 92
Khoi Kboi (Hottentots), 18 , 19 , 23 , 27 , 28 -9, 30 , 35 , 37 , 39 , 53
Kimberley (Cape Colony), 48 , 107 ;
De Beers mines, 56 , 63
King, R., 46
Koegas Atrocities, 1879, 61 , 102
Kok, Willem, 45 , 266 , 271
Kotze, Sit John Gilbert, 24 , 76 -7, 78 , 80 , 83 -4, 134 , 137 , 245 , 267 , 279
Krause, F., 124
Kruger, President Stephanus Johannes Paulus, 76 , 78 , 80 , 83 , 84 , 124 , 129 , 268 , 271
L
Land Register, 41 , 52 -3
Land segregation, 119 , 152 , 162 , 164 . See also Segregation: Group areas; Acts of Parliament: Group Areas Act
Language, 132 , 141 ;
Afrikaans, 28 , 30 , 73 , 145 ,
in courts, 138 , 140 , 257 ;
Dutch in courts, O.F.S., 72 ,
in Transvaal, 77 , 78 ;
English in courts, Natal, 87 ,
Union of South Africa, 128 ;
South Africa Act, 129 , 132
Laurence, Sir Percival Maitland, Judge, 125 , 134
Legal aid, 236 -7
Legal education:
Africans, 119 -20;
Cape Colony 46 , 50 ;
Law Library, 49 ;
Natal, 86 ;
Orange Free State, 72 ;
South Africa, 123
Lembede, A. M., 211
Leonard, J., 48
Lesotho. See Africans: Basuto
Libel, 6l, 150
Liberal Party, 166
Liquor Laws, 63 , 110 , 137 , 164 , 165 , 168 , 169 , 171 -2
Literacy:
Cape Colony, 108 -9
London Mission Society, 36
Loveday, M., 104
Luthuli, Chief, 115 , 204 , 268 , 270 , 280
Lynching, 71
M
Maasdorp, Christian George, Judge, 130
McGregor, Alexander John, Judge, 72
McKeurtan, G., 86
Magistrates, 13 , 33 , 36 , 38 , 158 -9;
Black, 118 ;
early Cape, 33 , 40 , 50 -2, 55 ;
Natal, 90 ;
South Africa, 111 , 112 , 116 , 128 ;
Transvaal, 70 , 81 , 85 , 87 , 88 , 90 , 93 , 94
Malays, 135
Malherbe, Professor, 124
Mandela, Nelson R., 211 , 213 , 215 -17, 218 -28, 270 , 280
Mandela, Mrs Winnie, 228 -9
Mangena, Alfred, 209
Marais, Judge, 256
Marks, Shula, 104 , 109 , 267 , 268 , 270 , 280
Masters' and Servants' laws, 12 , 40 , 51 , 64 , 68 , 88 , 90 , 169 , 171 -2. See also Africans, treatment of by white farmers; Slavery and slaves
Matanzima, George, 212
Matanzima, Kaiser, 212
Matthews, A., 253 , 270 , 272 , 280
Matthews, Professor Z. K., 210
Mavrogordato, Col., 201
Mbeki G., 116 , 268 , 269 , 280
Menzies, William, Judge, 38 -9, 41 , 42
Military:
atrocities, 105 -6;
Cape Mounted Rifles (C.M.R.), 50 , 54 , 55 ;
commandos, 23 , 53 -4, 69 , 70 , 71 , 75 , 101 , 102 -3, 123 , 124 , 126 , 206 ;
Dutch garrison, 23 ;
"illegal orders", 125 -6;
Imperial troops, 53 , 102 , 105 ;
martial law, 237 , 247 -8;
Union Defence Force, 157 , 240 ;
Volunteers, 45 , 53 , 54 , 103 , 106
Mining:
De Beers mines, 56 ;
diamond, 33 , 48 , 63 , 107 ;
gold, 33 , 48 , 77 , 81 , 107
Missionaries, missions, 35 , 36 , 62 , 68 , 105 , 108 -9, 115 , 116 , 165 , 209
Modisane, Bloke, 96 , 204 , 267 , 270 , 280
Montshiwa, 99
Moshweshwe, 99
Moslems, 18 , 64 , 138
Mphahlele, Ezekiel, 204
Msimang, R. W., 210
Murder, 154 , 155 -6, 184 , 191 -2
N
Natal, 34 , 49 , 69 , 71 , 79 , 84 -94, 103 , 104 -5, 109 , 114 , 124 -5;
Law Society, 92 ;
Native Affairs Commission, 87 , 91 .
See also Indians; Passive resistance; Police
Native Affairs Departments:
Cape Colony, 111 , 112 ;
Natal, 90
Neighbourhood Law, 200
Nokwe, Duma, 211 , 217
O
Ogilvie-Thompson, N., Chief Justice, 257 , 258
Orange Free State (Boer Republic), founding of, 69 -70; 71 -5, 76 , 77 , 83 , 95 , 124 , 239 -40
Orange River Colony, 130 . See Orange Free State
Ossewabrandwag, 242
P
Pan African Congress, 165 , 217 , 218 , 225
Parliament, Sovereignty of, 65 , 132 , 142 -4, 247
Passive resistance, 130 , 142 ;
Natal, 207 ;
Transvaal, 206 -7;
South Africa, 208 -9, 213
Pass laws, 12 , 30 , 39 , 136 ;
Anglo-Boer War, 126 ;
Cape Colony, 39 , 63 , 110 ;
Orange Free State, 74 ;
Transvaal, 70 , 79 ;
South Africa, 162 , 164 , 165 , 166 , 169 , 171 , 172 , 176 , 202 , 203 , 204 -5, 263
Paton, Alan, 227
Pelser, P. C., 179 , 259
Penal Reform Commissions, 179 , 195 , 196
Philip, Dr John, 41
Pirow, Oswald, Jurist, 124
Police:
Cape Colony, 33 , 35 , 40 , 52 , 240 ;
Cape Police, 54 -5;
"local" and municipal forces, 55 ;
Mounted Police, 169 ;
native afiairs police, 55 , 240 ;
Kimberley Police, 169 ;
Rural Police, 169 ;
Urban Police, 169 ;
Transkei, 111 , 112 , 116 , 118 ;
Natal, 85 , 90 , 91 , 93 , 239 ;
Security, 242 , 252 , 255 -6;
Bureau of State Security 243 -4, 256 ;
South African Police (SAP), 118 , 167 , 229 , 231 , 237 , 239 -44, 249 ;
modernisation, 241 ;
traffic forces, 240 .
See also Military: commandos; Race attitudes
Porter, William, Attorney General, Cape Colony, 43 , 45 , 46 , 47 -8, 52 , 54 , 57 , 101 , 266 , 267 , 281
Portuguese, 95
Positivism, 120 , 131 , 132 , 219 , 239 , 260 , 261
Press, the, 39 , 44 , 52 , 60 , 102 , 176 ;
Cape Argus , 61 ;
Cape Law Journal , 33 , 43 , 45 , 46 , 47 , 53 , 73 , 74 , 78 , 83 , 96 -7, 103 , 110 , 111 , 112 , 113 , 114 . 123 , 124 -5;
W. H. S. Bell, 50 , 81 ;
becomes South African Law Journal (q.v.), 126 -7;
Colonial Gazette , 37 ;
International Comparative Law Quarterly , 259 ;
Natal Witness , 88 ;
South African Law Journal , 43 , 45 , 46 , 47 , 48 , 50 , 53 , 55 , 57 , 58 , 59 , 61 , 62 , 64 , 86 , 94 , 127 , 129 , 131 -2, 136 , 156 , 208 , 253 ;
Tydskrif , 208
Pretoria, 48 , 77 , 79 , 80 , 92 , 118 , 126 , 127 , 195
Prisoners:
Cape Colony:
civil debtors, 58 ;
at De Beers, 56 ;
on farms, 56 , 73 ;
statistics, 56 -7
Natal, 89 -90
South Afiica:
Africans 186 -7;
comparative, England and African States 187 -8;
short term, 57 , 179 -83;
England and Wales 181 , 190 ;
on farms, at mines, 183 ;
men, women, 190 -1;
black, white, 190 -1
Prison Officers, 34 , 56 , 58 . See also Race attitudes
Prisons:
Cape Colony, 55 -6, 59 ;
Natal, 85 , 89 -90;
Orange Free State, 73 ;
South Africa, 178 -91;
Transvaal, 81 -2.
See also prisoners; segregation
Progressive Party, 166
Punishment:
Cape, the; Dutch period, 22 -7, 31 , 55 ;
Cape Colony, 37 , 51 ;
Orange Free State, 73 ;
Transvaal, 79 , 81 .
See also Capital punishment; Courts; Prisoners; Torture; Whipping
R
Race and sex, 20 , 27 , 28 , 30 , 89 , 162 , 165 , 174 -6;
crimen injuria , 152
Race attitudes, 12 , 40 , 96 , 201 ;
Cape, the, Dutch Settlement, 20 , 28 -30;
Cape Colony, 99 -110, 111 -12;
and industrialisation, 161 ;
in judgements, 123 , 132 -6, 137 , 139 -41, 143 , 149 ;
Natal, 84 -94;
police, 185 , 241 -4;
prison officers, 186 ;
Voortrekkers, 68
Rademeyer, C., 242
Rand, the, 77 , 81 , 92 , 107 , 157
Rape, 154 , 155 , 191 , 192
Rebels, 263 ;
Black, 93 -4, 101 , 154 ;
White, 125 , 219 , 257 ;
punishment, 157
Reitz, Colonel Denys, 76 , 281
Reitz, F. W., 72 , 76 . 123
Rhodes, Cecil John, 77 , 78 . 112
Rivonia Trial, 224 -8
Robben Island, 23 , 228 , 270
Roman Dutch Law, 17 , 18 , 38 , 41 , 44 , 45 , 62 , 73 , 75 , 78 , 83 , 85 , 115 , 123 , 128 , 129 , 136 , 145 , 258
Roos, Tielman Johannes de Villiers, 114 , 124 , 138 , 268 , 271
Rose-Innes, Sir James, Chief Justice, 45 , 46 , 47 , 48 , 52 , 63 , 104 , 112 , 127 , 120 , 130 , 131 , 134 , 136 -8, 246 , 251 , 257 , 267 , 268 , 271
Royal Colonial Institute, London, 32 , 62 , 107 , 108 -9
Rule of Law, 143 , 160 , 237 , 258 , 259 , 261
Rumpff, Judge, 257
S
San, the. See Africans
Schreiner, O. D., Judge, 144 , 145 , 151 , 252
Schreiner, Olive E. A., 51 , 136 , 281
Schreiner, William Philip, Prime Minister, Cape Colony, 47 , 48 , 52 , 93 , 133 , 136 , 209 , 266 , 268
Scott, Sir Walter, 39
Security. See Police
Security Laws, 232 -8, 262 ;
'ninety day law', 250 -1
Segregation, 230 ;
in courts, 93 , 142 (U.S. Supreme Court), 146 , 162 , 164 -5, 216 , 258 ;
education, 132 -5, 162 , 165 ;
employment, 162 , 165 ;
Group areas, 146 -7, 148 , 165 , 174 , 176 -7;
judicial attitudes, 132 -3;
Natal, 84 , 87 -8, 89 -90, 91 , 93 ;
Nationalist Government, 142 ;
Orange Free State, 70 , 74 -5;
in police, 240 ;
police stations, 162 ;
prisoners, 183 ;
prisons, 89 -90, 162 -83;
public amenities, 77 , 138 , 142 , 148 , 162 , 165 -6, 174 ;
race classification, 148 , 162 , 165 ;
Segregation Statutes, 164 -77, 262 ;
Trade Union, 162 , 165 ;
Transvaal, 70 , 77 , 78 -9, 82
Seme, P. K., 210 , 211
Seymour, S. M., 186 , 267 -8
Shaka, Zulu King, 69 , 96 , 240
Sharpeville shootings, 172 , 216 , 217 , 218
Shippard, Sir Sidney G. A., Judge, 102 , 107
Sigcau, Chief (Pondo), 45 , 113
Simonstown Naval Base, 242 , 247
Sjambok, 22 , 90
Slagter's Nek rebellion, 35
Slavery and slaves, 12 , 18 , 19 -24, 25 -8, 30 , 31 , 36 , 37 , 39 , 46 , 68 , 69 , 91 , 93 , 127 ;
influence on agricultural development, 20 ;
influence on language, 28 , 30 ;
influence on race attitudes, 19 -20, 30 ;
legal position, 22 ;
manumission, 21 ;
populations: Cape and Americas, 20 -1;
punishments, 23 ;
social conditions, 21 -2
Slovo. J., 214
Smith, Judge, 93
Smuts, Field-Marshal J. C., 77 , 84 , 116 , 123 , 124 , 129 , 207 -8, 209 , 268
Sobukwe, Robert, 217 , 218
Soga, Rev. Tiyo, 109
Solicitors. See Attorneys
Solomon, J. A., 246
Solomon, Saul, 45 , 61
Solomon, Sir William Henry, 47 , 125 , 129 , 130 , 136
South African Defence and Aid Fund, 236
South African Indian Congress, 209 , 213
South African Native Affairs Commission, 1903, 201
South African Republic. See Transval
Steyn, Jan, 179
Steyn, Lucas Cornelius, Chief Justice, 145 , 146 , 208 , 253 -4, 255 , 257 , 258 , 272
Steyn, Marthinus Theunis, President, O.F.S., 72 , 127
Stratford, Judge, 139 , 247 , 271
Stuart, H. J., Judge, 72
Swart, C. R., 242 , 282
Syrians, 135
T
Tambo, Oliver, 211 , 213 -16
Tamplin, T., 109
Tax, Afticans, 62 , 63 , 93 , 115 . See also Segregation: Statutes
theft, 184 -5
Torture:
Bultfontein Case, 230 -1;
Dutch Settlement, 24 -7, 31 ;
Holland, 24 , 31 ;
South Africa, 252 ;
tariff-public executioner, 27 , 31 ;
tribal, 98
Transkei, 42 , 43 , 54 , 55 , 62 , 95 , 111 , 112 , 114 , 116 , 118 -20
Transvaal, 38 , 48 , 52 , 64 , 76 -84;
founding of, 69 ;
Transvaal Register of Deeds, 129 ;
Volkstaad, 84 .
See also Courts; Indians; Judges; Juries; Magistrates; Passive resistance; Pass laws; Segregation; Tribal law
Transvaal Law Society, 209
Treason Trials:
Cape, 125 , 126 , 157 ;
South Africa (1956-61), 214 -17, 225 , 250
Tredgold, Sir Clatkson Henry, 238
Trespass Laws, 171 , 172 , 176
Tribal law:
Cape Colony, 36 , 62 ;
Natal, 87 ;
Orange Free State, 75 ;
South Africa, 185 , 186 ;
traditional, 95 -6, 98 -9, 115 , 149 , 222 .
Transvaal, 82 -3.
See also Acts of Parliament, Native Administration Act, 1827
Trollope, Anthony, 76 , 108 , 267 , 268 , 282
Truter, Sir John, Chief Justice, 32 , 34 , 35
U
Umhalla, 202
Union:
South African states, 1910, 42 , 45 , 52
United Nations:
Capital punishment, 193 -194;
Charter, 208 ;
Declaration of Human Rights, 260 ;
Indian complaints, 208 ;
Rivonia Trial, 227
United States of America, 21 , 106 ;
Bill of Rights, 65 ;
courts, 221 ;
lynching, 71 ;
Supreme Court, 142 , 160
Upington, Sir Thomas, 46 , 48 , 52 , 61 , 102 , 266
V
Vagrancy Laws, 1809, 1819, 39
Van den Berg, General H. J., 242 -4, 265 , 266
Van den Heever, C., 144 , 186 , 248
Van der Linden, 24
Van Leeuwen, 24
Van Niekerk, B., 156 , 260 , 268 , 269 , 282
Van Zyl, C. H., 49 -50, 265 , 266
Venter, H. J., 30 , 195 , 265 , 266 , 267 , 269 , 282
Verloren van Themaat, H., 124
Verloren van Themaat, R., 119 , 267 , 268 , 269 , 282
Verwoerd, Dr H. F., 243 , 247 , 271
Violence, 225 , 229 , 231 , 238 -9
Von Moltke, Helmut, 136
Voortrekkers, 42 , 68 -9, 84 . See Afrikaners
Vorster, B. J., Prime Minister, 124 , 242 -3, 247 , 271
Vorster, Dominee D., 242 , 247
Votes, 40 , 48 , 60 , 205 ;
Cape Colony, 108 , 110 , 113 , 132 , 136 , 163 -4;
Natal 87 ;
Transvaal, 77 ;
Votes Cases, 143 -4, 248 , 257 , 262
W
Watermeyer, E. B., Judge, 44
Wessels, Sir Johannes Wilhelmus, Chief Justice, 129 , 130 , 141
Whipping (including flogging), 22 , 24 , 163 , 254 ;
Anglo-Boer War, 126 , 155 ;
Cape Colony, 36 , 37 , 40 , 51 , 55 , 58 , 60 ;
Natal 88 , 105 ;
Orange Free State, 73 ;
South Africa, 195 -9;
Transvaal, 79 , 81 ;
tribal law, 99
Witchcraft, 116 , 152
Witwatersrand University, 156 , 165
Wylde, Sir John, Chief Justice, 38
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