Schoolboy arrested, Cape Town, 1987

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Title: Schoolboy arrested, Cape Town, 1987
Creator: Mendel, Gideon
Subject: Student protesters, Youth--Political activity, Political prisoners, Apartheid, Political history--South Africa, Beyond the Barricades
Description: A schoolboy is arrested during protests against the 1987 white parliamentary elections in Athlone township, Cape Town, May 1987. In 1986, some 25,000 people were imprisoned without trial under the Emergency regulations. Of that number, 10,000 were children under the age of eighteen. In April 1987, the government stated that only 1,400 children were still in detention.
Publisher: University of Cape Town. Libraries
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Date: 1987-05
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Format: still image, documentary photographs, black-and-white photographs, Image/jpeg
Identifier: islandora:880
Source: mss_barricades_used_29.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.