Dutch and British settlers introduced the death penalty. Since 1900 there have been just under 400 executions in South Africa. The last execution took place on 12 June 1995, when James Stuart was hanged for the rape and murder of a teenage girl.
They introduced it in 1900 and abolished it in 1995
You might be surprised to learn that it wasn’t until the 1980s that it officially abolished the death penalty in South Africa. It had been legal for less than a century before being eliminated.
Between 1900 and 1950, South Africa was the only country in the world with a rising rate of death sentences handed down by the courts[19]. No other party in South Africa supports the death penalty.
Which parties in South Africa support the return of the death penalty?
The Pan Africanist Congress and the Vryheidsfront Plus (Afrikaner Freedom Front) are both pro-death penalty parties. The Pan Africanist Congress is a political party in South Africa that was founded by Robert Sobukwe on the 17th of June 1959 to fight for black people’s rights in apartheid South Africa. It was banned in 1960 and its members went underground to fight against apartheid until 1994 when Nelson Mandela became president of South Africa.
