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Title: Protest, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Cape Town (South Africa), Civil unrest, Demonstrations
Description: Prominent people stand behind a placard that reads "We protest", Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:16392

Title: Protesters flee from a smoke canister, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Civil unrest, Violence, Demonstrations, Demonstrations, Weapons
Description: Protesters flee from a smoke canister, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:16363

Title: Policeman looks at a motor vehicle that has been set alight, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Vandalism, Law enforcement, Civil unrest, Violence, Roads
Description: Riot police sealed off part of Belgravia Road in Athlone yesterday after youths had set this car alight.
Identifier: islandora:16223

Title: Convoy of riot vans, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Civil unrest, Violence, Motorcars, Vandalism, Law enforcement
Description: Riot vans in Adderley Street.
Identifier: islandora:16308

Title: Protest, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Cape Town (South Africa), Civil unrest, Demonstrations, Government, Resistance to, Justice, Administration of
Description: Protesters hold a banner that reads "Our courts have been castrated", Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:16380

Title: Protest, St. George's Cathedral, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Cape Town (South Africa), Civil unrest, Demonstrations, Church buildings, Law enforcement, Weapons
Description: Protesters disperse as a smoke canister explodes outside St George's Cathedral, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:16444

Title: Injured man sits on ground, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Civil unrest, Violence, Motorcars
Description: Building contractor Mr Frederic Jansen, 46, his burnt-out bakkie in the background, waits for an ambulance to arrive after the vehicle had been overturned and set alight in Klipfontein Road adjoining Crossroads yesterday.
Identifier: islandora:16239

Title: Riot policemen smiles as he walks, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Civil unrest, Violence, Demonstrations, Law enforcement
Description: Major F.J. Mostert, head of the Fraud Squad and former Murder and Robbery squad chief, joined riot police on Adderley Street to assist a force badly hit by widespread rioting across the Peninsula. Here he enjoys a light moment during a brief let-up in the unrest.
Identifier: islandora:16357

Title: Policeman drags man caught looting, Cape Town
Subject: Nyanga (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Civil unrest, Violence, Law enforcement, Robbery
Description: A constable drags a prisoner to the patrol van after police surprised looters at a burnt Nyanga bottle store yesterday.
Identifier: islandora:16348

Title: Two policemen take a break and play cards, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Civil unrest, Violence, Demonstrations, Law enforcement
Description: The situation in Cape Town's three Black townships, Langa, Nyanga and Gugulethu was quiet at the weekend following sporadic riots during the week in which at least 30 people were killed and many injured. These two policemen, on standby at the Guguletu police station yesterday, whiled away the time by playing cards. Others sat around chatting on the lawns round the police station.
Identifier: islandora:16257

Title: Protesters fighting, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Cape Town (South Africa), circa 1972, Civil unrest, Demonstrations, Law enforcement
Description: Protesters fight amongst themselves, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:16445

Title: Riot policemen approach protesters, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Civil unrest, Violence, Demonstrations, Law enforcement, Weapons
Description: Riot policemen in Greenmarket Square, where crowds were dispersed with teargas.
Identifier: islandora:16365

Title: Protesters fighting, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Cape Town (South Africa), Civil unrest, Demonstrations, Law enforcement
Description: Protesters fight amongst themselves, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:16447

Title: Property damaged by the recent riots, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Civil unrest, Violence, Demonstrations, Vandalism
Description: Gugulethu.
Identifier: islandora:16361

Title: Anti-Apartheid banners, Jameson Hall, UCT, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Rondebosch (Cape Town, South Africa), Civil unrest, Apartheid signage, Demonstrations, University of Cape Town
Description: Anti-Apartheid banners outside Jameson Hall, University of Cape Town, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:16451

Title: Policeman restrains his dog from chasing protesters, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Civil unrest, Violence, German shepherd dog, Demonstrations, Law enforcement
Description: Policeman restrains his dog from chasing protesters, Cape Town, 1976.
Identifier: islandora:16260

Title: POPCRU members march, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Demonstrations, South African Police, Labor unions, Police and Prisons Civil Rights Union (South Africa)
Description: Police and Prison Civil Rights Union (POPCRU) members march, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:17746

Title: Riot police face protesters, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Civil unrest, Violence, Demonstrations, Law enforcement, Weapons
Description: Riot police face protesters, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:16323

Title: Policemen march up a road, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Civil unrest, Violence, Weapons, Demonstrations, Law enforcement
Description: Determined policemen with gas masks slung across their chests advance up Burg Street in an attempt to clear rioters from the city centre.
Identifier: islandora:16255

Title: Police officials talk to one another, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Civil unrest, Violence, Demonstrations, Law enforcement
Description: Top police officers confer in Adderley Street during the height of the unrest yesterday. They are, from left, Colonel A.P. van Zyl, head of the Riot Squad, Colonel P.A. Cerff, staff officer to the Divisional Commissioner, Colonel D.A.L. van Lill, District Commandant for Cape Town, and Major Koos Le Roux, at present with the Riot Squad.
Identifier: islandora:16362

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