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Title: A policeman talks to a protester while others look on, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, De Klerk, F. W. (Frederik Willem), Law enforcement, Demonstrations
Description: A policeman talks to a protester while others look on, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:16090

Title: Army official squints into the light while firing a smoke gun, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Law enforcement, Weapons, Demonstrations
Description: Army official squints into the light while firing a smoke gun, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:16194

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 stands guard over a burning vehicle, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Law enforcement, Vandalism, Motorcars, Weapons
Description: Bakkie Fire: A policeman guards a burning bakkie on the N2 near Crossroads after it left the road when it was stoned today. The vehicle was set alight after the driver fled.
Identifier: islandora:16096

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: Convoy of army trucks with smoke in the background, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Law enforcement, Weapons
Description: Convoy of army trucks with smoke in the background, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:16213

Title: Police van outside building, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Law enforcement, Motorcars
Description: A police van stands outside the Ecumenical Centre in Mowbray. Police officers can be seen in the doorway of the building, which houses various organisations that were today declared "unlawful".
Identifier: islandora:16042

Title: People crouch to help a man injured, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Weapons, Law enforcement, Wounds and injuries
Description: A man grimaces in pain as he is given first aid after being wounded by riot police when they opened fire on a crowd stoning a truck in Halt Road. Elsie's River, yesterday afternoon. The man was discovered a few blocks from the scene in Faure Street, where he collapsed. He gave his name as Mr Louis Fisher, of Alard Street, Clarke's Estate, Elsies River.
Identifier: islandora:16182

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: Policemen stand on the pavement with sticks, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Law enforcement, Weapons, Protection
Description: Policemen stand on the pavement with sjamboks, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:15942

Title: Riot Police stand to the side watching a march, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), circa 1987-08, Demonstrations, Law enforcement
Description: Riot Police stand to the side watching a march, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:16088

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: 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: Muslims with Yasser Arafat placards argue with police, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Law enforcement, Demonstrations, Religion, Palestine Liberation Organization
Description: Muslims with Yasser Arafat placards argue with police, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:16070

Title: Two soldiers take refuge under a bush, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Squatter settlements, Law Enforcement, Human security, Protection
Description: An odd assortment of shelters and "pondokkies" has sprung up around Langa and Nyanga. Soldiers guarding these African townships have built them as shelters against the cold and rain. Here two of them snuggle in a "pondokkie" made of branches of Port Jackson bush.
Identifier: islandora:16056

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: Policemen gather in preparation of a search for suspects, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Law enforcement, Police
Description: General views at Mozoka showing the large number of police who were drafted into the area while the search for suspects was on.
Identifier: islandora:16055

Title: Police fire smoke canisters, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Law enforcement, Weapons, Demonstrations, Squatter settlements
Description: Police fire smoke canisters, Cape Town, 1976.
Identifier: islandora:16196

Title: Woman speaks at a protest against police brutality, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Law enforcement Demonstrations, Violence
Description: Woman speaks at a protest against police brutality, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:16104

Title: Crowd watches as police in armoured vehicles arrive, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Law enforcement, Protection, Weapons, Motorcars
Description: Crowd watches as police in armoured vehicles arrive, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:15953

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