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Title: Three boys stare defiantly at the camera, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Langa (Cape Town, South Africa), Civil unrest, Youth, Demonstrations, Law enforcement
Description: 250 Blacks held after a dawn swoop in Langa: Three of the boys detained in the police pass swoop yesterday. They were not charged.
Identifier: islandora:16383

Title: Crowds of people run from gas fired by police, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Civil unrest, Violence, Youth, Law enforcement, Weapons
Description: Crowds fleeing disturbances on the parade face a curtain of gas while trying to cross Lower Strand Street.
Identifier: islandora:16317

Title: Eviction in Athlone,Cape Town
Subject: Athlone (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Apartheid, Coloured people (South Africa), Poverty, Youth
Description: Family evicted from their home in Athlone, Cape Town
Identifier: islandora:16717

Title: Student demonstrations, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Youth, Demonstrations, Apartheid, Politics, Student protestors
Description: Students protesting, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:17661

Title: School pupils congregate on a field, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Civil unrest, Violence, Demonstrations, Youth
Description: Hundreds of restless high school pupils mill about the rounds of the Alexander Sinton High School in Athlone yesterday, uncertain of what course to take in their combined protest. / Belgravia High School students being asked to come inside the Alexander Sinton High School grounds, its safer.
Identifier: islandora:16332

Title: Queuing, Atlantis, Cape Town
Subject: Atlantis (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Apartheid, Local government, Youth, Women
Description: Queuing at government offices in apartheid-era Atlantis, the dormitory suburb built for Coloured people outside Cape Town
Identifier: islandora:16712

Title: Girl throws petrol onto burning tyre, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Demonstrations, Youth, Weapons, Vandalism
Description: Riots, Cape Town. (Person setting alight a tyre while others watch).
Identifier: islandora:16211

Title: Protest meeting, Atlantis, Cape Town
Subject: Atlantis (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Apartheid, Youth, Trade unions, State of Emergency (South Africa)
Description: Frank Wewers of the Atlantis Youth Congress addresses a protest meeting in Atlantis
Identifier: islandora:16707

Title: June 16 - Teacher demonstrations, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Demonstrations, Education, Youth, Teachers
Description: June 16 - Teacher demonstrations, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:17801

Title: UCT students placard demonstration, Cape Town
Subject: Rondebosch (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Politics, Apartheid, Elections, Youth, Demonstrations
Description: University of Cape Town (UCT) students held a placard demonstration on De Waal Drive and on the steps of Jameson Hall at rush hour yesterday.
Identifier: islandora:18070

Title: Mother of murdered son collapses, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Demonstrations, Youth
Description: Grief-stricken - Mrs Martha De Bruyn collapses after her son, David, was shot dead.
Identifier: islandora:18105

Title: Pupils tie a placard to the gate of their school, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Youth, Civil unrest, Demonstrations
Description: Pupils tie a placard to the gate of their school, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:16279

Title: Riot police chase after school children, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Civil unrest, Violence, Youth, Demonstrations, Law enforcement, Weapons
Description: Anti-riot police charge through the smoke of an exploded teargas grenade in Bonteheuwel yesterday as schoolchildren escape the fumes by running through the gap in the fence surrounding the school buildings. Police quelled a demonstration at the school after a baton charge and after the teargas was used.
Identifier: islandora:16316

Title: Young students march in protest, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Demonstrations, Youth, Education
Description: Young students march in protest, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:16085

Title: Students burn Republic Festival flag on the steps of 'Jammie' Hall, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Rondebosch (Cape Town, South Africa), Demonstrations, Flag burning, Youth, Politics
Description: Times to group: U.C.T. [University of Cape Town] students burn a Republic Festival flag on the steps of Jameson Hall after yesterday's Anti-Republic Festival meeting on campus.
Identifier: islandora:14994

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: Freedom in our time, Cape Town
Subject: Mitchell's Plain (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Politics, Youth, African National Congress, Freedom, Liberation
Description: Youths hold aloft a homemade placard demonstrating their support at a Mitchell's Plain rally featuring African National Congress (ANC) Deputy President Mr Nelson Mandela, SA Communist Party chief Mr Joe Slovo and ANC Secretary-General Mr Alfred Nzo
Identifier: islandora:15912

Title: Student demonstration, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Politics, Demonstrations, Youth, School children
Description: Pupils approach bulldozer driver, Mr Piet Marais, on the Walmer Estate site of six proposed houses for Deputy Ministers in the House of Representatives. About 500 pupils today demonstrated against the building of the houses.
Identifier: islandora:17671

Title: Students from University of Western Cape join protests, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Demonstrations, Education, Youth, Student protestors, University of Western Cape
Description: Money row: Students from University of the Western Cape (UWC) join others in a protest outside IDT offices in Keerom Street over the "unfair" allocation of funds.
Identifier: islandora:17786

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