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Title: Man walks in the rain with his make-shift weapon at the ready, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Weather, Protection
Description: The cruel tools of two worlds come together at Crossroads as a combatant armed with sticks in the rain passes a few metres of new barbed wire that fences now-vanquished squatter communities.
Identifier: islandora:16117

Title: Students shows his injuries inflicted by the Police, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Youth, Education, Law enforcement
Description: Five Bonteheuwel pupils were taken to hospital and at least 16 others treated by doctors after being sjambokked by police at Arcadia Senior Secondary School. Police denied pupils were injured. A policeman was slightly injured by a stone, SAP liaison officer Lieutenant Attie Laubscher said. He said police sjambokked pupils in the school grounds and stopped doing so when the pupils entered the building. Police searched the classrooms for placards, he said.
Identifier: islandora:16093

Title: Police lashes out of a protester with his weapon, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Civil unrest, Violence, Demonstrations, Weapons, Law enforcement
Description: Onlookers and passers-by duck for cover as a riot policeman lashes out with his truncheon near Greenmarket Square today when unrest flared up in Cape Town again today.
Identifier: islandora:16281

Title: Standard 9 pupil does his homework by candlelight, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Cape Town (South Africa), Cities and towns, Students
Description: Candlelight: Ihram Rahiman, 16, a Standard 9 pupil, does his homework by candlelight.
Identifier: islandora:18140

Title: Man inspects damage done to his house by a petrol bomb, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Civil unrest, Violence, Vandalism, Weapons
Description: Mr Cyril Mandindi looks through the broken windows of his house, which had been attacked with petrol bombs on Monday night.
Identifier: islandora:16294

Title: Mr Faghrie Patel of the Stellenbosch Civic Alliance is held high by jubilant supporters after his crucial victory, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Politics, Post-apartheid era
Description: Victorious: Mr Faghrie Patel of the Stellenbosch Civic Alliance is held high by jubilant supporters after his crucial victory in a nine-way fight in Cloetesville. Mr Patel was initially an African National Congress (ANC) nominee, but after a dispute - against him. He is still an African National Congress (ANC) member.
Identifier: islandora:18056

Title: Driver inspects his smashed windscreen, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Civil unrest, Violence, Vandalism, Motorcars
Description: Mr Arthur Samuel Vlotman, driver of a hydraulic refuse truck, peers through his smashed windscreen. He had dropped workers at their homes in Guguletu yesterday when he was stoned by a large crowd of youths along NY1. Nobody was hurt.
Identifier: islandora:16291

Title: Spoornet employee after his vehicle was stoned, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Demonstrations, Townships
Description: Shaken ... Spoornet employee Mr E.M. Laubscher after his vehicle was stoned by youths in Landsdowne Road near Gugulethu and Crossroads. His assistant was not hurt.
Identifier: islandora:17826

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