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Pretoria Central Prison

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Pretoria Central Prison (official name: Kgosi Mampuru II Correctional Centre) is a large prison in Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa, operated by the South African Department of Correctional Services. [1]

22 relations: Air India, Apartheid, Capital punishment in South Africa, Death squad, Denis Goldberg, Department of Justice and Correctional Services, Eugene de Kock, Gallows, Gauteng, Independent Online (South Africa), Mad Mike Hoare, Oscar Pistorius, Pretoria, Prison, Radovan Krejčíř, Robben Island, South Africa, South African Police, Supermax prison, Tim Jenkin, United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, Winnie Madikizela-Mandela.

Air India

Air India is the flag carrier airline of India.

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Apartheid

Apartheid started in 1948 in theUnion of South Africa |year_start.

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Capital punishment in South Africa

Capital punishment in South Africa was abolished on 6 June 1995 by the ruling of the Constitutional Court in the case of S v Makwanyane, following a five-year and four-month moratorium since February 1990.

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Death squad

A death squad is an armed group that conducts extrajudicial killings or forced disappearances of persons for the purposes of political repression, genocide, or revolutionary terror.

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Denis Goldberg

Denis Goldberg (born 11 April 1933) is a South African social campaigner, who was active in the struggle against apartheid and was imprisoned along with other key members of the anti-apartheid movement.

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Department of Justice and Correctional Services

The Department of Justice and Correctional Services is the justice ministry of the South African government.

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Eugene de Kock

Eugene Alexander de Kock (born 29 January 1949) is a former South African Police (SAP) colonel, torturer, and assassin, active under the apartheid government.

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Gallows

A gallows (or scaffold) is a frame, typically wooden, used for execution by hanging.

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Gauteng

Gauteng, which means "place of gold", is one of the nine provinces of South Africa.

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Independent Online (South Africa)

Independent Online, or IOL is a news and information website based in South Africa.

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Mad Mike Hoare

Thomas Michael "Mad Mike" Hoare (born 17 March 1919) is a British-Irish mercenary leader known for military activities in Africa and his attempt to conduct a coup d'état in the Seychelles.

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Oscar Pistorius

Oscar Leonard Carl Pistorius (born 22 November 1986) is a South African former sprint runner who was convicted of murdering his girlfriend in 2013.

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Pretoria

Pretoria is a city in the northern part of Gauteng, South Africa.

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Prison

A prison, also known as a correctional facility, jail, gaol (dated, British English), penitentiary (American English), detention center (American English), or remand center is a facility in which inmates are forcibly confined and denied a variety of freedoms under the authority of the state.

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Radovan Krejčíř

Radovan Krejčíř (born 4 November 1968) is a Czech former organized crime boss and convicted criminal who is serving a prison term in South Africa and is being sought for extradition by the Czech government.

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Robben Island

Robben Island (Robbeneiland) is an island in Table Bay, west of the coast of Bloubergstrand, Cape Town, South Africa.

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South Africa

South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa.

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South African Police

The South African Police (SAP) was the national police force and law enforcement agency in South Africa from 1913 to 1994; it was the de facto police force in the territory of South West Africa (Namibia) from 1939 to 1981.

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Supermax prison

Supermax (super-maximum security or administrative maximum (ADX)) is a term used to describe "control-unit" prisons, or units within prisons, which represent the most secure levels of custody in the prison systems of certain countries.

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Tim Jenkin

Timothy Peter Jenkin is a South African writer, former political prisoner and prison escapee, and a monetary activist.

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United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime

The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC; French: Office des Nations unies contre la drogue et le crime) is a United Nations office that was established in 1997 as the Office for Drug Control and Crime Prevention by combining the United Nations International Drug Control Program (UNDCP) and the Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Division in the United Nations Office at Vienna.

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Winnie Madikizela-Mandela

Winnie Madikizela-Mandela (born Nomzamo Winifred Zanyiwe Madikizela; 26 September 1936 – 2 April 2018), also known as Winnie Mandela, was a South African anti-apartheid activist and politician, and the ex-wife of Nelson Mandela.

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Central prison of Pretoria, Kgosi Mampuru II Correctional Centre, Kgosi Mampuru II Management Area, Kgosi Mampuru II Prison, Kgosi Mampuru II jail, Pretoria Central Gaol.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretoria_Central_Prison

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