: In response to the spike in sentences, the Anti-Apartheid Movement (AAM) and Southern Africa the Imprisoned Society (SATIS) launched major international campaigns to stop the hangings.
The use of the death penalty during the apartheid era (1948–1994) represents a intersection of judicial state-sanctioned violence and political repression. By 1986, South Africa was under a heightened State of Emergency, and the use of the death sentence as a weapon against anti-apartheid activists reached a critical peak. 1. The Judicial Weaponization of Execution Death Sentence - Anti-Apartheid (1986)
: Between 1960 and 1989, approximately 134 political prisoners were executed by the apartheid government. : In response to the spike in sentences,
: Many political executions were carried out in secret at Pretoria Central Prison, often without full public disclosure of the trials. Death Sentence - Anti-Apartheid (1986)
Comprehensive Anti-Apartheid Act of 1986 99th Congress (1985-1986)