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Title: Alliance for Radical Change meeting, Cape Town
Subject: Mowbray (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Politics, Apartheid, Elections, Youth
Description: Mr Jack Curtis (left), who was the main speaker at the Alliance for Radical Change meeting in Mowbray on Thursday night. The meeting was attended by about 250 people. Mr Curtis, father of the banned student leader Mr Neville Curtis, addressed students at the University of Cape Town (UCT) yesterday.
Identifier: islandora:18065

Title: Bishop Lavis Drive, Cape Town
Subject: Bishop Lavis (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Townships, Apartheid, Youth, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Coloured people (South Africa)
Description: Bishop Lavis Drive in Bishop Lavis township, Cape Town
Identifier: islandora:16852

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: Young boy pretends to be a riot policeman, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Civil unrest, Violence, Youth, Law enforcement
Description: The peaceful ebb of weekend life returned to Cape Town's riot-torn townships today. Here, a small Guguletu boy dressed in a camouflaged suit parodies riot police as he marches down the quiet main street.
Identifier: islandora:16366

Title: Capdema youth, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Demonstrations, Politics, Youth
Description: Capdema youth, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:17772

Title: Crying school pupil is escorted by two men, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Youth, Civil unrest, Demonstrations
Description: Crying school pupil is escorted by two men, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:16283

Title: Passer-by clasps the hand of a detainee through the bars, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), circa 1985, Prisons, Segregation, Race discrimination, Education, Youth
Description: Clasped hands, a show of solidarity between a detained student and a passer-by during today's symbolic attempt to reopen coloured schools in Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:16220

Title: Political detainees and house arrest, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Political prisoners, Apartheid, Youth
Description: Political detainees, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:17919

Title: UWC march to DET offices, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Demonstrations, Education, Youth, University of Western Cape, South Africa. Department of Education and Training
Description: University of the Western Cape (UWC) march to the Department of Education and Training (DET) offices, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:17799

Title: Pupils hold posters and protest, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Civil unrest, Violence, Demonstrations, Youth
Description: Pupils at the Grassy Park High School demonstrate yesterday, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:16331

Title: Security forces manned Nonqubela station in Khayelitsha, Cape Town
Subject: Khayalitsha (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Demonstrations, Education, Youth
Description: Tight security: Members of the security forces manned Nonqubela station in Khayelitsha yesterday, barring protesting school pupils from boarding trains.
Identifier: islandora:17782

Title: Police dog bites school girl, Mowbray school, Cape Town
Subject: Mowbray (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Demonstrations, Education, Youth, School children
Description: Police dog bites school girl at Mowbray school after illegal occupation.
Identifier: islandora:17790

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: Policeman keeps students at bay outside the gates to Parliament, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Demonstrations, Education, Youth, Student protestors
Description: Hold it: A policeman keeps students at bay outside the gates to parliament. The students were addressed by the education minister who said the government had allocated R1 billion to help them.
Identifier: islandora:17780

Title: Demonstations and protests, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Demonstrations, Politics, Youth
Description: African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL) protest, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:17889

Title: Students in silent protest, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Youth, Demonstrations, Apartheid, Politics
Description: A student gives her name to a police major during yesterday's confrontation with police, while other students stand by, gagged in silent protest.
Identifier: islandora:17656

Title: Gangsters, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Cape Town (South Africa), Gangsters, Crime, Youth, Violence
Description: Gangs and gangsters, Cape Town
Identifier: islandora:15155

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: UCT student civil rights campaign, Cape Town
Subject: Rondebosch (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Demonstrations, Youth, Apartheid, Politics, University of Cape Town
Description: As part of the University of Cape Town (UCT) student civil rights campaign, students are holding a vigil on the UCT Summer House below De Waal Drive. The vigil began shortly after lunch-time on Wednesday this week, and will continue until about the same time on Wednesday August 23. Students are standing in relays which are interrupted only between the hours 1 am and 6 am each day.
Identifier: islandora:17645

Title: Themba Mthembu and Mandla Sibisi, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Political prisoners, Apartheid, Youth
Description: Themba Mthembu, left, and Mandla Sibisi.
Identifier: islandora:17939

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