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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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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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