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Lowering of coffins, Queenstown, 1985
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Title
Lowering of coffins, Queenstown, 1985
Creator
Mendel, Gideon
Subject
Funeral service, Police shootings, Police shootings, Apartheid, Political history--South Africa, Beyond the Barricades
Description
Coffins are lowered at the funeral of people killed in the "Queenstown massacre" when police opened fire after a meeting called to plan a consumer boycott, December 1985. The t-shirt of one of the mourners declares "Bullets won't stop us".
Publisher
University of Cape Town. Libraries
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Date
1985-12
Type
Format
still image, documentary photographs, black-and-white photographs, Image/jpeg
Identifier
islandora:901
Source
mss_barricades_used_50.jpg
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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.
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