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Title: Policemen march up a road, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Civil unrest, Violence, Weapons, Demonstrations, Law enforcement
Description: Determined policemen with gas masks slung across their chests advance up Burg Street in an attempt to clear rioters from the city centre.
Identifier: islandora:16255

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: Police officials talk to one another, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Civil unrest, Violence, Demonstrations, Law enforcement
Description: Top police officers confer in Adderley Street during the height of the unrest yesterday. They are, from left, Colonel A.P. van Zyl, head of the Riot Squad, Colonel P.A. Cerff, staff officer to the Divisional Commissioner, Colonel D.A.L. van Lill, District Commandant for Cape Town, and Major Koos Le Roux, at present with the Riot Squad.
Identifier: islandora:16362

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: Two policemen help injured comrade, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Law enforcement, Civil unrest, demonstrations, Protection, Weapons
Description: Injured: Policemen help Constable L. Cruickshank to his feet. His head was injured in a scuffle between police and protesters in Wale Street.
Identifier: islandora:15951

Title: Soldiers on a break watch a helicopter take off, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Civil unrest, Violence, Law enforcement, South Africa. South African Air Force
Description: Disturbances at Langa. Soldiers watch a SAAF helicopter taking off from a field near Langa late yesterday afternoon. Between spells of sentry duty, men relaxed on the grass.
Identifier: islandora:16301

Title: Convoy of police vehicles, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), circa 1980, Law enforcement, Motorcars
Description: Riots, Cape Town
Identifier: islandora:16184

Title: Marines walk down a street with rifles at the ready, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Law enforcement, Weapons
Description: Marines armed with rifles move on foot patrol through an Athlone street yesterday.
Identifier: islandora:16222

Title: People protest for the release of political prisoners, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Demonstrations, Law enforcement
Description: People protest for the release of political prisoners, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:16118

Title: The remains of a road block erected by protesters, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Civil unrest, Violence, Demonstrations, Vandalism, Law enforcement
Description: Police clear a street in Tiervlei where eight people were reported injured after demonstrators erected a road-block and set it alight and police used shotguns and revolvers to break up a band of stone-throwing youths.
Identifier: islandora:16330

Title: Policeman holding protestor, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Cape Town (South Africa), Civil unrest, Violence, Demonstrations, Law enforcement, Animals
Description: Policeman holds onto a protester who sees to his dog, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:16406

Title: Police in riot gear stand next to armoured truck, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Law enforcement, Protection, Weapons
Description: On guard: Defence Force soldiers, right, guard the back of the Reserve Bank building in Burg Street as marchers attempt to occupy the Telkom office in nearby Hout Street.
Identifier: islandora:15947

Title: Policeman runs after fleeing protesters, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Civil unrest, Violence, Weapons, Law enforcement, Transport
Description: Riot police armed with sjamboks charge after about 130 City Tramways bus drivers in Mowbray yesterday.
Identifier: islandora:16224

Title: Police break up protest, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Cape Town (South Africa), circa 1972, Civil unrest, Demonstrations, Law enforcement
Description: Police break up a protest, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:16440

Title: People watch a car partially submerged in water on fire, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Vandalism, Law enforcement, Squatter settlements
Description: People watch a car partially submerged in water on fire, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:16107

Title: A policewoman protects her eyes from the sun at a march, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Law enforcement, Protection, Civil unrest, Gender, Weapons
Description: Outnumbered: A woman member of the Police's Internal Stability Unit, left, keeps a watchful eye on events near the intersection of Plein and Roeland Streets during yesterday's mass march.
Identifier: islandora:15948

Title: Police fire teargas across road at students, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Civil unrest, Violence, Weapons, Law enforcement, University of Cape Town
Description: Police fire teargas across Rhodes Drive at students on the University of Cape Town (UCT) campus yesterday.
Identifier: islandora:16228

Title: Protesters, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Cape Town (South Africa), Civil unrest, Demonstrations, Law enforcement
Description: Police hustle demonstrators into a prison van.
Identifier: islandora:16441

Title: Policeman carrying ammunition, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Cape Town (South Africa), Civil unrest, Media, Law enforcement, Weapons
Description: Policeman carries a box of ammunition, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:16453

Title: A riot policeman stands near an overturned car that was set alight, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Law enforcement, Weapons, Vandalism
Description: An overturned vehicle smoulders in Belgravia Road, Athlone, yesterday as a member of the security forces takes up position.
Identifier: islandora:16246

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