Mother holding bloodstained shirt, Tembisa township, Transvaal, 1985

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Title: Mother holding bloodstained shirt, Tembisa township, Transvaal, 1985
Creator: De Vlieg, Gille
Subject: Police shootings, Political violence, Apartheid, Political history--South Africa, Beyond the Barricades
Description: A mother holds up the bloodstained shirt of her son, shot in the back by police. According to government statistics, 381 people were killed in "unrest" incidents between September 1984 and April 1985. The government's own statistics acknowledged that three quarters of these victims died as a direct result of police action.
Publisher: University of Cape Town. Libraries
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Date: 1985-06
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Format: still image, documentary photographs, black-and-white photographs, Image/jpeg
Identifier: islandora:874
Source: mss_barricades_used_22.jpg
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Rights: The photographer/creator holds the copyright. Licensed to the UCT Libraries for educational and/or research purposes only. Please contact the University of Cape Town Libraries Special Collections for more information about publishing and/or reproducing this photograph.