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Title: Pupil takes refuge in a doorway, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Civil unrest, Violence, Youth, Weapons
Description: A schoolboy, caught up in yesterday's unrest, takes refuge from the tear gas fumes in the sanctuary of a doorway in Adderley Street.
Identifier: islandora:16345

Title: El Alamein commemorative service, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Memorials, World War, 1939-1945, South African Defence Force, Civil society
Description: El Alamein: Military and civilian guests at the annual El Alamein commemorative service in 1986. Wreaths were laid by the Defence Force, service organisations and civilian dignitaries, while Major Lionel Murray, MC and Bar, delivered the address. An old soldier pays tribute to comrades who fell during the battle of El Alamein 44 years ago.
Identifier: islandora:16642

Title: Badly burnt protester, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Cape Town (South Africa), circa 1972, Civil unrest, Demonstrations, Wounds and injuries, Law enforcement, Weapons
Description: Mr Graham Wilson of Claremont, who was badly burnt when a teargas canister exploded on a wall.
Identifier: islandora:16437

Title: Protester takes on policeman, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Civil unrest, Violence, Demonstrations, Youth, Law enforcement
Description: A Black youth faces up defiantly to a uniformed police constable in Upper Plein Street on Saturday morning as police move in to break up the protest march.
Identifier: islandora:16350

Title: Youths inspect the damage done to their car by rioters, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Civil unrest, Violence, Demonstrations, Motorcars, Vandalism
Description: Youths who said they had come to town to join in the demonstrations returned to their car in the late afternoon to find it had been damaged by rock-throwers.
Identifier: islandora:16307

Title: Protesters flee from the teargas, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Civil unrest, Violence, Demonstrations, Weapons
Description: A teargas bomb explodes and disperses a crowd in a Guguletu field.
Identifier: islandora:16328

Title: Funeral, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Cape Town (South Africa), Civil unrest, Demonstrations, Death, Grief
Description: Funeral procession, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:16469

Title: Student protest: "Free all political prisoners" banner, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Cape Town (South Africa), Civil unrest, Demonstrations, University of Cape Town, Apartheid
Description: Student protest: "Free all political prisoners" banner, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:16387

Title: Police colonel walking amongst protesters, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Cape Town (South Africa), Civil unrest, Demonstrations, Media, Law enforcement
Description: Police colonel walks amongst the protesters, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:16460

Title: Protest, St. Georges Cathedral, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Cape Town (South Africa), Civil unrest, Demonstrations, Church buildings, Roads, Motorcars
Description: Protesters line the streets outside St George's Cathedral, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:16448

Title: Mother grieves for her injured son, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Civil unrest, Violence, Demonstrations
Description: A standard seven pupil at the Bonteheuwel High School, Christopher Truter, 15, was rushed to hospital with a serious head wound yesterday soon after detectives opened fire on an angry crowd at the height of yesterday's rioting in the township. It could not be established last night whether he was hit by a bullet or struck by a flying rock. His mother, Mrs Rebecca Truter - a nurse - was told that her son had been hit by a police bullet but police maintained that the only injury during the shooting incident was a slightly wounded ankle caused by a ricochet. The incident occurred just before 11am after riot police left the area of the Arcadia High School - where some of the worst violence took place. A car with four Coloured detectives arrived and drove among the crowd. Detectives arrested two boys. They were immediately surrounded by an infuriated crowd who demanded that the youngsters be released. They drove off the crowd with their batons but were quickly surrounded again. Stones began to thud against their car. Then the detectives produced pistols and shots were fired in the direction of the rioters. The young boy was bleeding from a severe wound on his left temple.
Identifier: islandora:16360

Title: Policeman takes down a protesters banner tied to a building, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Civil unrest, Demonstrations, Law enforcement, Signs and signboards
Description: Policeman takes down a protesters banner tied to a building, Cape Town
Identifier: islandora:16372

Title: Policeman hits protester with baton, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Cape Town (South Africa), circa 1972, Civil unrest, Violence, Demonstrations, Law enforcement, Weapons
Description: 1972: On "Black Friday" - June 2 - students and police clashed on the steps of St George's Cathedral, Cape Town, after a silent student protest.
Identifier: islandora:16401

Title: Police officials talk amongst themselves, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Civil unrest, Law enforcement
Description: Police officials talk amongst themselves, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:16285

Title: Smashed window of a truck which was stoned, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Civil unrest, Violence, Vandalism, Motorcars
Description: This bakery van was stoned in Gugletu yesterday. An employee of the company was pulled from the back of the van and beaten.
Identifier: islandora:16326

Title: Policeman watches a building being destroyed by fire, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Civil unrest, Violence, Vandalism, Law enforcement
Description: A riot-squad policeman watches as a fire rages inside part of the Nyanga East Community Centre today.
Identifier: islandora:16277

Title: Protesters wrapped in white sheets lie on the ground, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Cape Town (South Africa), Civil unrest, Demonstrations, Anti-apartheid activists
Description: While some onlookers grinned - and others growled - sheet-swaddled protesters, mostly from the UCT Drama School, yesterday afternoon prostrated themselves in Thibault Square and gave vent to loud groans which could be heard at a considerable distance. Protest about what? "To bring greater awareness to the public about prevailing political conditions in this country," explained an anonymous spokeswoman for the "guerrilla theatre" actors.
Identifier: islandora:16399

Title: Chaos ensues around a car as people flee, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Civil unrest, Violence, Motorcars
Description: Chaos ensues around a car as people flee, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:16335

Title: Policeman runs holding a baseball bat and gun, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Civil unrest, Violence, Demonstrations, Weapons, Law enforcement
Description: Partygoers interviewed this week said the objects they described as "baseball bats" or "pickaxe handles" were identical to the large truncheon held by one of the policemen in this Cape Times picture, taken during the riots of 1976.
Identifier: islandora:16354

Title: Langa riots
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Cape Town (South Africa), Civil unrest, Demonstrations, Law enforcement
Description: Police patrol the area, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:16468

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