Whip marks from vigilante attack, Welkom township, 1985

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Title: Whip marks from vigilante attack, Welkom township, 1985
Creator: De Vlieg, Gille
Subject: Vigilantes, Political violence, Youth--Wounds and injuries, Apartheid, Political history--South Africa, Beyond the Barricades
Description: A Thabong youth shows the whip marks left by vigilantes in Welkom township, Orange Free State (now Free State Province). Gangs of vigilantes, very often supported by police, terrorised residents and anti-apartheid activists.
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:893
Source: mss_barricades_used_42.jpg
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