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Title: School pupils watching police, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Athlone (Cape Town, South Africa), circa 1976, Civil unrest, Youth, Demonstrations, Law enforcement
Description: Students from high schools in Athlone combined on the grounds of the Alexander Sinton High School, Thornton Road, in a planned protest. Here they watch as Riot Squad police (left) cross the road with a loud hailer. The Riot Squad prepares to enter the school grounds of Alexander Sinton to disperse the students of the Belgravia High School and Sinton High schools. Students wisely remained inside the grounds to avoid action by the riot squad.
Identifier: islandora:16382

Title: Two policemen help injured comrade, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Law enforcement, Civil unrest, demonstrations, Protection, Weapons
Description: Injured: Policemen help Constable L. Cruickshank to his feet. His head was injured in a scuffle between police and protesters in Wale Street.
Identifier: islandora:15951

Title: Soldiers on a break watch a helicopter take off, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Civil unrest, Violence, Law enforcement, South Africa. South African Air Force
Description: Disturbances at Langa. Soldiers watch a SAAF helicopter taking off from a field near Langa late yesterday afternoon. Between spells of sentry duty, men relaxed on the grass.
Identifier: islandora:16301

Title: The remains of a road block erected by protesters, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Civil unrest, Violence, Demonstrations, Vandalism, Law enforcement
Description: Police clear a street in Tiervlei where eight people were reported injured after demonstrators erected a road-block and set it alight and police used shotguns and revolvers to break up a band of stone-throwing youths.
Identifier: islandora:16330

Title: Policeman holding protestor, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Cape Town (South Africa), Civil unrest, Violence, Demonstrations, Law enforcement, Animals
Description: Policeman holds onto a protester who sees to his dog, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:16406

Title: People sitting on the ground listening to a man speak, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Demonstrations, Civil unrest
Description: People sitting on the ground listening to a man speak, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:16227

Title: Man stands over his son sleeping in hospital, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Civil unrest, Violence
Description: Mr Lawrence Meyer visits his son, Paul, in an intensive care unit at Groote Schuur Hospital. Paul could not speak to his father yesterday as he was asleep after an operation.
Identifier: islandora:16322

Title: Policeman runs after fleeing protesters, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Civil unrest, Violence, Weapons, Law enforcement, Transport
Description: Riot police armed with sjamboks charge after about 130 City Tramways bus drivers in Mowbray yesterday.
Identifier: islandora:16224

Title: Police break up protest, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Cape Town (South Africa), circa 1972, Civil unrest, Demonstrations, Law enforcement
Description: Police break up a protest, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:16440

Title: A policewoman protects her eyes from the sun at a march, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Law enforcement, Protection, Civil unrest, Gender, Weapons
Description: Outnumbered: A woman member of the Police's Internal Stability Unit, left, keeps a watchful eye on events near the intersection of Plein and Roeland Streets during yesterday's mass march.
Identifier: islandora:15948

Title: Police fire teargas across road at students, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Civil unrest, Violence, Weapons, Law enforcement, University of Cape Town
Description: Police fire teargas across Rhodes Drive at students on the University of Cape Town (UCT) campus yesterday.
Identifier: islandora:16228

Title: Protesters, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Cape Town (South Africa), Civil unrest, Demonstrations, Law enforcement
Description: Police hustle demonstrators into a prison van.
Identifier: islandora:16441

Title: Policeman carrying ammunition, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Cape Town (South Africa), Civil unrest, Media, Law enforcement, Weapons
Description: Policeman carries a box of ammunition, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:16453

Title: Protesters with their firsts in the air, Cape Town
Subject: Langa (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Civil unrest, Violence, Demonstrations, Youth
Description: Riots - Langa, 1976
Identifier: islandora:16324

Title: Protest, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Cape Town (South Africa), Civil unrest, Violence, Demonstrations, Law enforcement, Weapons
Description: Police push protesters into a riot van, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:16410

Title: Policeman helps another put his gasmask on, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Civil unrest, Violence, Weapons, Law enforcement
Description: Two policemen don their gasmasks as a precautionary measure in case they have to use teargas against marching demonstrators.
Identifier: islandora:16280

Title: Mother in mourning, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Civil unrest, Violence, Grief
Description: On the night of August 11, Mrs Lutya's oldest son, Wiseman, didn't come home. She heard nothing more of him. She spent the next two weeks going from police station to hospital to mortuary, searching for some news of her son - the household's major breadwinner. Finally, she was advised to take a photograph of him with her from mortuary to mortuary. She found him at Salt River. She still doesn't know what happened. Mrs Lutya has nine other children, eight of whom are still at school.
Identifier: islandora:16292

Title: Protesters follow their leader, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Cape Town (South Africa), Civil unrest, Demonstrations
Description: Students at a court hearing, circa 1970.
Identifier: islandora:16375

Title: Man picks up a teargas canister that has been set off, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Law enforcement, Civil unrest, Violence, Weapons, Demonstrations
Description: A youth picks up a streaming teargas canister to throw it back at police in Athlone yesterday.
Identifier: islandora:16219

Title: Suspicious vehicle, UCT, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Rondebosch (Cape Town, South Africa), Civil unrest, Motorcars, Law enforcement, University of Cape Town
Description: This car, believed by students to contain policemen, has been seen on the University of Cape Town (UCT) campus over the past few days.
Identifier: islandora:16421

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