Pollsmoor Prison March, Cape Town, 1985

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Title: Pollsmoor Prison March, Cape Town, 1985
Creator: Mendel, Gideon
Subject: Student protesters, Demonstrations, Police brutality, Apartheid, Political history--South Africa, Beyond the Barricades
Description: Police attack youths early in the morning on the day of the Pollsmoor Prison March. United Democratic Front (UDF) leaders had called upon people to march to Pollsmoor Prison in August 1985 to demand the release of Nelson Mandela and other political prisoners. The students were also protesting against the state's education system, which offered blacks inferior education.
Publisher: University of Cape Town. Libraries
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Date: 1985-08
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Format: still image, documentary photographs, black-and-white photographs, Image/jpeg
Identifier: islandora:890
Source: mss_barricades_used_39.jpg
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Rights: The photographer/creator holds the copyright. Licensed to the UCT Libraries for educational and/or research purposes only. Please contact the University of Cape Town Libraries Special Collections for more information about publishing and/or reproducing this photograph.