Wednesday 14th of April 1926 (-) — Murderer Andries Van Niekerk is executed by hanging
Wednesday 14th of April 1926 (-) — Murderer Edward Markus is executed by hanging
Friday 30th of December 1932 (-) — Trained nurse and triple murderess Daisy de Melker is executed by hanging
De Melker poisoned her husband and son with arsenic. Two other husbands and four children had died suspiciously.
Monday 10th of June 1957 (-) — Murderer Clarence van Buuren is executed by hanging
Wednesday 20th of June 1962 (-) — Murderer Marthinus Rossouw is executed by hanging
Rossouw was led away to the gallows singing Nearer my God to Thee.
Monday 12th of September 1977 (-) — Anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko dies of a brain hemorrhage from massive injuries to the head
Biko was arrested at a police roadblock under the Terrorism Act No 83 of 1967 and interrogated and tortured in a coma for 22 hours by police officers Harold Snyman and Gideon Nieuwoudt in Police Room 619 in Port Elizabeth Walmer Police Station on 18 August 1977. On 11 September police loaded Biko in the back of a Land Rover, naked and restrained in manacles, and began the 1100 km drive to Pretoria to take him to a prison with hospital facilities. Biko was nearly dead owing to the previous injuries and died shortly after arrival at the Pretoria prison.
Monday 16th of January 1978 (-) — Child killer and would-be serial killer Ronald Cooper is executed by hanging
In his diary Cooper had written: "I shall not kill all the boys the same way. Some I shall strangle with my hands. Other boys I shall strangle with a piece of cord or rope. Others again I shall stab to death and others I shall cut their throats. I can also suffocate or smother other boys".
Thursday 9th of June 1983 (-) — African National Congress member Thelle Mogoerane is executed by hanging
Thursday 9th of June 1983 (-) — African National Congress member Jerry Mosololi is executed by hanging
Thursday 9th of June 1983 (-) — African National Congress member Marcus Motaung is executed by hanging
