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James Thomas "Jimmy" Kruger (1917 — May 9, 1987) was a South Africa
South Africa

The Republic of South Africa, also known by Official names of South Africa, is a country located at the southern tip of the continent of Africa....
n politician
Politician

A politician is an individual who is involved in influencing public decision making through the influence of politics or a person who influences the way a society is governed....
 who rose to the position of Minister of Justice and the Police in the cabinet of Prime Minister John Vorster
B.J. Vorster

Balthazar Johannes Vorster , better known as John Vorster , served as the Prime Minister of South Africa from 1966 to 1978 and as President of South Africa from 1978 to 1979....
 from 1974 to 1979. He was also President of the South African Senate from 1979-1980.

Kruger was born in Wales and was adopted by Afrikaner
Afrikaner

Afrikaners are Afrikaans-speaking people who have been established in Southern Africa since the 17th century and are mainly of northwestern European ethnic groups descent....
 parents; he was part of the conservative National Party
National Party (South Africa)

The National Party was the governing party of South Africa from June 4, 1948 until May 9, 1994, and was disbanded in 2005. Its policies included apartheid, the establishment of a republic, and the promotion of Afrikaner culture....
 government which championed apartheid. He was responsible for the ban
Ban (law)

For the policy on Wikipedia, see Wikipedia:Banning policy.A ban is, generally, any decree that Prohibitions something.Bans are formed for the prohibition of activities within a certain political territory....
ning of Black Consciousness Movement
Black Consciousness Movement

The Black Consciousness Movement was a grassroots anti-Apartheid activist movement that emerged in South Africa in the mid-1960s out of the power vacuum created by the decimation of the African National Congress and Pan Africanist Congress leadership, by jailing and banning, after the Sharpeville Massacre in 1960.....
 leader Steve Biko
Steve Biko

Stephen Bantu Biko was a noted anti-apartheid activist in South Africa in the 1960s and 1970s. A student leader, he later founded the Black Consciousness Movement which would empower and mobilize much of the urban black population....
; when Biko died while in police custody, Kruger's response was "It leaves me cold." (A literal translation of the Afrikaans "Dit laat my koud") At first, Kruger maintained that Biko had died during a hunger strike
Hunger strike

A hunger strike is a method of non-violent resistance or pressure in which participants fasting as an act of political protest, or to provoke feelings of guilt in others, usually with the objective to achieve a specific goal, such as a policy change....
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James Thomas "Jimmy" Kruger (1917 — May 9, 1987) was a South Africa
South Africa

The Republic of South Africa, also known by Official names of South Africa, is a country located at the southern tip of the continent of Africa....
n politician
Politician

A politician is an individual who is involved in influencing public decision making through the influence of politics or a person who influences the way a society is governed....
 who rose to the position of Minister of Justice and the Police in the cabinet of Prime Minister John Vorster
B.J. Vorster

Balthazar Johannes Vorster , better known as John Vorster , served as the Prime Minister of South Africa from 1966 to 1978 and as President of South Africa from 1978 to 1979....
 from 1974 to 1979. He was also President of the South African Senate from 1979-1980.

Kruger was born in Wales and was adopted by Afrikaner
Afrikaner

Afrikaners are Afrikaans-speaking people who have been established in Southern Africa since the 17th century and are mainly of northwestern European ethnic groups descent....
 parents; he was part of the conservative National Party
National Party (South Africa)

The National Party was the governing party of South Africa from June 4, 1948 until May 9, 1994, and was disbanded in 2005. Its policies included apartheid, the establishment of a republic, and the promotion of Afrikaner culture....
 government which championed apartheid. He was responsible for the ban
Ban (law)

For the policy on Wikipedia, see Wikipedia:Banning policy.A ban is, generally, any decree that Prohibitions something.Bans are formed for the prohibition of activities within a certain political territory....
ning of Black Consciousness Movement
Black Consciousness Movement

The Black Consciousness Movement was a grassroots anti-Apartheid activist movement that emerged in South Africa in the mid-1960s out of the power vacuum created by the decimation of the African National Congress and Pan Africanist Congress leadership, by jailing and banning, after the Sharpeville Massacre in 1960.....
 leader Steve Biko
Steve Biko

Stephen Bantu Biko was a noted anti-apartheid activist in South Africa in the 1960s and 1970s. A student leader, he later founded the Black Consciousness Movement which would empower and mobilize much of the urban black population....
; when Biko died while in police custody, Kruger's response was "It leaves me cold." (A literal translation of the Afrikaans "Dit laat my koud") At first, Kruger maintained that Biko had died during a hunger strike
Hunger strike

A hunger strike is a method of non-violent resistance or pressure in which participants fasting as an act of political protest, or to provoke feelings of guilt in others, usually with the objective to achieve a specific goal, such as a policy change....
. This account was challenged by Donald Woods
Donald Woods

Donald James Woods, Order of the British Empire was a white South African journalist and anti-apartheid activist.As editor of the Daily Dispatch from 1965 to 1977, he befriended Steve Biko, leader of the anti-History of South Africa in the apartheid era Black Consciousness Movement, and was banned by the government soon after Biko's d...
. Kruger later began to recant his earlier statements, while claiming that Biko had authored pamphlets calling for "blood and body in the streets." Woods came under increasing scrutiny for his articles, and finally, following the publication of an article calling on Kruger to resign, he was banned under direct orders from Kruger. Not long afterwards, Woods and his family fled the country for a life of exile in England
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
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In response to international pressure, the South African government ordered an inquest to investigate the cause of Biko's death; the presiding magistrate concluded that Biko had died of brain damage caused by head injury; however, no one was held responsible for, or prosecuted for, Biko's death. Even so, it was the end of Kruger's career. Having decided that his performance had severely compromised the country's credibility abroad, the government ordered him to resign, and he lost not only his cabinet post, but his membership in the ruling party
National Party (South Africa)

The National Party was the governing party of South Africa from June 4, 1948 until May 9, 1994, and was disbanded in 2005. Its policies included apartheid, the establishment of a republic, and the promotion of Afrikaner culture....
, as well. Kruger spent the rest of his life in political obscurity.

In the film Cry Freedom
Cry Freedom

Cry Freedom is a 1987 in film feature film directed by Richard Attenborough, set in the late 1970s, during the apartheid era of South Africa....
, Kruger was portrayed by John Thaw
John Thaw

John Edward Thaw Order of the British Empire was an England actor, who made his television d?but in the military police drama Redcap , and subsequently appeared in a range of television, Theatre and Film roles, his most popular being police and legal dramas such as The Sweeney, Inspector Morse and Kavanagh QC....
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