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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

Title: Protest, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Cape Town (South Africa), Civil unrest, Violence, Demonstrations, Law enforcement, Weapons
Description: Police push protesters into a riot van, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:16410

Title: Policeman helps another put his gasmask on, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Civil unrest, Violence, Weapons, Law enforcement
Description: Two policemen don their gasmasks as a precautionary measure in case they have to use teargas against marching demonstrators.
Identifier: islandora:16280

Title: Police break up a protest, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Demonstration, Law enforcement
Description: Golden Acre, protest marchers
Identifier: islandora:16185

Title: Man picks up a teargas canister that has been set off, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Law enforcement, Civil unrest, Violence, Weapons, Demonstrations
Description: A youth picks up a streaming teargas canister to throw it back at police in Athlone yesterday.
Identifier: islandora:16219

Title: Suspicious vehicle, UCT, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Rondebosch (Cape Town, South Africa), Civil unrest, Motorcars, Law enforcement, University of Cape Town
Description: This car, believed by students to contain policemen, has been seen on the University of Cape Town (UCT) campus over the past few days.
Identifier: islandora:16421

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: 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: Protests fall on top of one another to get away from flying bullets, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Communities, Law enforcement
Description: Under fire: a group of panicking demonstrators scampering for cover in front of a take-away restaurant on the Grand Parade.
Identifier: islandora:16198

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: 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: 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: 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: Paramedic helps injured protester, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Civil unrest, Demonstrations, Law enforcement, Wounds and injuries
Description: Riots, Langa.
Identifier: islandora:16474

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: Riot police stand in a row in front of armoured vehicles, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Law enforcement, Weapons, Protection, Demonstrations
Description: Riot police stand in a row in front of armoured vehicles, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:16106

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: 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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