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HARRIS, John

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A member of the Armed Resistance Movement (ARM) who was sentenced to death and executed on 1 April 1965 for his role in an explosion at the Johannesburg station, which left one person dead and several injured.

... of death for sabotage in 1962. A number of people were subsequently executed as a result of their involvement in acts of sabotage. 78 Mr John Harris10, a teacher and member of the ARM, was arrested for placing a bomb in the concourse of the Johannesburg railway station on 24 July 1964. One ...
... by the Supreme Court in East London on 17 November 1964. On 10 December 1964, Washington Bongco was executed. 27 On 1 April 1965, Mr John Harris, a member of the African Resistance Movement (ARM), was executed for placing a bomb at the Johannesburg main railway station, resulting in one ...
... Naomi van Kerke [CT00405], Ms Sandra Joyce Adams [CT00122], Mr Thandinkosi Sidwell Dondi [CT00220], Mr Sonnyboy Willie Zantsi [CT00707], Mr Ronald Harris [CT00312], Mr Ronald October [CT00721] and Mr Abdurahman Allie [CT00123]. Migrant Backlash 86 In October, township youth launched a ...
received by the Commission about gross human rights violations in the armed campaigns of this period came from a victim of a bomb planted by Mr John Harris, a member of the ARM. As noted above, Harris was subsequently executed for his involvement in the bombing of the Johannesburg station 14 Tom ...
... M. Cherif Bassiouni, Thomas Buergenthal, William S. Dodge, John Dugard, RichardFalk, Gregory H. Fox, Thomas M. Franch, Claudio Grossman, David J. Harris, Cynthia Crawford Lichenstein, Elliot Milstein, Steven R. Ratner, Anne-Marie Slaughter, Ronald C. Slye, Henry Steiner, Ralph G. Steinhardt, ...
... Zinakile Mkaba — are executed following their conviction on charges of sabotage and the killing of an alleged police informer. ARM member, John Harris, bombs Johannesburg station in July. A woman is killed and twenty-three people injured. (Harris is hanged at Pretoria Central Prison in April ...
... the other hand, remembered some kindness. She remembered a 19-year old warder “with uncommon sensitivity” who took the risk of telling her John Harris had been hanged. She remembered the then matron of Kroonstad Prison, Ms Erica van Zyl, who “sent the special branch away. She sat down with ...
 
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