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Title: Pupils carry the coffin od a friend, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Civil unrest, Violence, Demonstrations, Youth, Grief
Description: Members of the Langa Haarlem Boys' Boxing Club were pallbearers at the funeral of a schoolboy, Xolile Mosi, 18, who was killed in the recent rioting.
Identifier: islandora:16355

Title: Aerial view of people gathering for a funeral, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Civil unrest, Violence, Grief
Description: Crowd which gathered at the location for the funeral of the three killed in the Langa Riots. View of a small part of the huge crowd which gathered at Langa yesterdayfor the funeral of the Africans who were killed in the riot in the township. The photograph was taken before the funeral procession moved off to Langa cemetery, about a mile away.
Identifier: islandora:16296

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: Mourners follow a horse-drawn hearse, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Demonstrations, Grief, Communities
Description: Horse-drawn hearse carrying the coffin of Themba Memani for his funeral in Guguletu today.
Identifier: islandora:16197

Title: Police officials carry away a dead body, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Grief, Vandalism, Law enforcement, Squatter settlements
Description: Policemen carry away the body of an elderly man who was killed in the fire after arsonists torched shacks in Section Three, Crossroads.
Identifier: islandora:16203

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: Pupils carry the coffin of their friend, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Youth, Grief
Description: Death of a promising pupil...Eleven-year-old Ricardo Levy, who was shot dead in Kalksteenfontein during unrest on election night last week, was described at his funeral yesterday as a "promising pupil" by his principal, Mr R.J. Hendricks. His classmates from Montana Primary School carried the coffin from the Ned Geref Sending kerk in Bishop Lavis, where about 1 500 people attended the service.
Identifier: islandora:16212

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: Father holds portrait of his daughter, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Grief, Youth
Description: The youngest known victim of the unrest on the Cape Flats last week, nineteen-month-old Belinda Moore, was buried yesterday. Here, her father, Mr Peter Moore, holds a portrait of Belinda over her coffin. His wife, Mrs Anne Moore, is on his left and they are surrounded by friends and relatives.
Identifier: islandora:16191

Title: Funeral procession of an ANC member, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Civil unrest, Law enforcement, Grief
Description: Police stopped the funeral procession of alleged African National Congress (ANC) member Mr Samuel Mjobo on the outskirts of Mbekweni to search the hearse for flags. Mr Mjobo, killed with six other men in a shootout with police in Gugulethu on March 3, was buried in Mbekweni, near Paarl, yesterday. Mr Tian van der Merwe, Progressive Federal Party MP for Green Point, who attended the funeral, criticised the police action which held up the procession of more than 100 cars and buses.
Identifier: islandora:16235

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: Allan Boesak speaks at a funeral service, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Grief, Youth, Law enforcement
Description: Dr Allan Boesak, the student chaplain at the University of the Western Cape, addresses the congregation at the funeral service for Bernard Fortuin and William Lubbe, who were shot dead by police last Wednesday.
Identifier: islandora:16187

Title: Students raise their fists in respect to a fallen comrade, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Demonstrations, Grief, Youth
Description: Students give clenched-fist salutes as they follow the cart bearing the coffin of higher-primary pupil Temba Lennox Memani.
Identifier: islandora:16178

Title: Men look at the sign "Elsies River Mourns", Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), circa 1980, Grief, Communities
Description: Riots, Cape Town
Identifier: islandora:16183

Title: A bus so full, that people are sitting on the roof, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Civil unrest, Violence, Weapons, Law enforcement, Grief
Description: Part of the 20 000-strong crowd which went to the Gugulethu Stadium to pay their respects to the nine. Two people died in unrest after the funeral when police fired on mourners with birdshot, teargas and rubber bullets.
Identifier: islandora:16233

Title: Funeral procession, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Grief, Communities, Religion
Description: Funeral procession, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:16199

Title: Men walk to the funeral of fallen comrades, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Grief, March, Demonstrations
Description: Long procession of Natives shout slogans as they near Langa after a trek from all parts of the Peninsula. Thousands streamed into the township to take part in the funeral of three Natives shot in last week's disturbances. Another picture, Page 4.
Identifier: islandora:16060

Title: Man writes the name of a fallen comrade on a tombstone, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Religion, Islam, Funerals, Grief
Description: Man writes the name of a fallen comrade on a tombstone, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:16221

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

Title: Grieving mother is comforted by family, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Grief, Youth
Description: 12 000 mourn Halt Road deaths: Mrs Elizabeth Fortuin, the mother of Bernard Fortuin, is comforted by family members at the graveside yesterday
Identifier: islandora:16186

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