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Title: Young boy pretends to be a riot policeman, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Civil unrest, Violence, Youth, Law enforcement
Description: The peaceful ebb of weekend life returned to Cape Town's riot-torn townships today. Here, a small Guguletu boy dressed in a camouflaged suit parodies riot police as he marches down the quiet main street.
Identifier: islandora:16366

Title: Woman holds a tissue as she cries over the loss of her son, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Demonstrations, Grief, Youth, Law enforcement
Description: Mrs Elizabeth Fortuin weeps over the death of her son Bernard, 15, who was shot dead by police in Halt Road, Elsie's River, yesterday. Bernard, a standard five pupil, was one of two youths shot dead when police opened fire on a stone throwing crowd.
Identifier: islandora:16179

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: Woman and children protest over police brutality, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Demonstrations, Youth, Law enforcement
Description: Woman and children protest over police brutality, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:16110

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: Father and mother reunited with their son, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Youth, Law enforcement, Jails, Prisons
Description: Home again - Mr Showqie Enous reunited with his parents, Mr Ebrahim and Mrs Majeda Enous after he and five other Wynberg pupils were released from Pollsmoor Prison after serving eleven months of their twelve month prison sentence.
Identifier: islandora:16214

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: A policeman chases school children in Bonteheuwel yesterday as they run from an exploded gas canister.
Identifier: islandora:16315

Title: Policemen play soccer with kids, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Civil unrest, Violence, Youth, Law enforcement, Soccer
Description: Riot police enjoy a game of soccer with Black youths in the Nyanga township today where all was reported to be quiet. Brief violence flared in Gugulethu today, but the crowds were dispersed by police using teargas and batons.
Identifier: islandora:16367

Title: Men carry the coffin of a dead youth, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Grief, Youth, Law enforcement
Description: About 1 500 people attended the funeral service yesterday for Miss Shirley September, 14, who was allegedly shot last Tuesday by a policeman acting as an armed guard to an ambulance. Here, the coffin is carried through the crowd which overflowed into the street outside St Paul's Church in Lavender Hill, Retreat.
Identifier: islandora:16190

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: 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: 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: Teenagers put their fists in the air as they are led to prison, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Youth, Law enforcement, Jails, Prisons
Description: Wynberg Seven: Six of the seven Wynberg teenagers who will go to prison today (from left) Venetia de Klerk, De Dicks, Igshaan Amlay, Naasir Masoet, Shoukie Enous and Julian Stubbs. Wayne Jordaan did not attend. On the far right is Venetia De Klerk's father, Mr William De Klerk.
Identifier: islandora:16208

Title: Grandmother comforts her grandson, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Grief, Youth, Weapons, Law enforcement
Description: "They knew those bullets will kill," said Mrs F. September. Confined to a wheelchair for 30 years, she now has to care for her grandchild, Randall, 5, whose father died on the night of June 17.
Identifier: islandora:16181

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