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União Nacional para a Independência Total de Angola soldier opens fire on Police
Angola--History--Civil War, 1975-2002,
Television footage of a UNITA soldier opening fire on Angolan Police, 12 October 1992.The footage goes worldwide and plunges Angola is in a state of shock.
Stop police violence, protest, Cape Town
Apartheid--South Africa, South Africa--Politics and government--1978-1989, South Africa--History--1961-1994, Demonstrations--South Africa, Political activists--South Africa,
Sign at anti-apartheid rally reads, STOP POLICE VIOLENCE. Cape Town.
Police reload at funeral, Duduza, 1985
Police shootings, Funeral service, Political violence, Apartheid, Political history--South Africa, Beyond the Barricades
Policemen reload their guns after firing at mourners during the funeral for the young activists killed in the "grenade incident" in Duduza township, Transvaal (now Gauteng), July 1985. Deaths followed funerals with sad predictability.
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Police firing at ANC supporters, South Africa, 1992
Apartheid--South Africa--Boipatong, Political violence--South Africa--Boipatong, History--Political aspects--South Africa--Boipatong, South African Police, History--Political aspects--South Africa--Boipatong, Best of Marinovich
South African police fired on African National Congress (ANC) supporters as they tried to check the identity of a man shot dead by police in this Boipatong field on June 20, 1992. Forty-five ANC supporters, including women and children, were massacred by Zulu supporters of the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) the night before.
Riot police confront workers, Johannesburg, 1985
Police--Special weapons and tactics units, Labor union members, May Day (Labor holiday), Apartheid, Political history--South Africa, Beyond the Barricades
Riot police block the way of workers leaving a May Day meeting at Khotso House in Johannesburg, May 1985. Khotso House was owned by the South African Council for Churches (SACC) and was the headquarters for many progressive organisations, including the United Democratic Front (UDF). It was destroyed in a massive explosion in August 1988.
Police fire at rioters, Crossroads, Cape Town
Crossroads (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Squatter settlements, South African Police, Apartheid, Riots
Police fire at rioting squatters today at Crossroads.
Pagad members clash with police, Cape Town
Pagad (Organization), Vigilantes, Law enforcement, ,
Pagad members clash with police, Cape Town.
Police carry protestor out of Parliament Gates, Cape Town
South Africa. Parliament, Governments, Demonstrations, Law enforcement, ,
Parliament building.
Riot police off-duty
rural areas, gunsWeapons, Children, Women, South Africa--Rural conditions
Riot police off-duty.
Police stop Graeme Bloch from protesting, Cape Town
Bloch, Graeme, Political activists, South African Police, Demonstrations, Apartheid era
Graeme Bloch protesting agains Section 29
Police in camouflage at ready, early 1973
Police--South Africa, Men--South Africa, Military clothing--South Africa,
A group of policeman stand at ready position, South Africa, 1973.
UDF leader arrested by security police, Johannesburg, 1985
Mohamed, Ismail, Civic leaders, Trials (Treason), Apartheid, Political history--South Africa, Beyond the Barricades
Professor Ismail Mohamed, a United Democratic Front (UDF) leader, reaches out to his daughter, Elaine, as he is arrested by South African security police. Mohamed was detained and charged with treason along with fifteen others in the Pietermaritzburg Treason Trial. Eventually all were exonerated.
Police arrest UWO members, Cape Town, 1985
Women political activists, Demonstrations, Arrest (Police methods), Apartheid, Political history--South Africa, Beyond the Barricades
Leaders of the United Women's Organisation (UWO) are turned back from parliament and arrested during a march to protest against the massacre in which police killed twenty-two people in the Eastern Cape township of Langa. Eyewitnesses maintained that the police shot innocent people, part of a funeral procession, without provocation.
A Camel Thorn tree in front of the Witdraai Police Station
San (African people)--Botswana and South Africa--Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, Khomani (African people)--Botswana and South Africa--Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, San (African people)--Social life and customs, Khomani (African people)--Social life and customs, Acacia erioloba---Botswana and South Africa--Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, Trees--Botswana and South Africa--Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, Indigenous peoples--Land tenure--Africa, Southern, ,
In 1937, |Una Rooi and her grandparents were forced to move to Upington, South Africa. They learnt that their homes were burnt and all their possessions and land taken. They were forced to live in the limestone grottoes at Witdraai in the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park. When |Una's father, Ari, reported this to the police at the Witdraai Police Station, he was violently beaten and left for dead.
Dr. Allan Boesak walks past police officers, Cape Town
Boesak, Allan Aubrey, 1946-, Political activists, South African Police, Apartheid era
Allan Boesak
Police, Central Durban, 1973
Police--South Africa, Social conditions--South Africa, Apartheid--South Africa,
Three white policemen walk down a road in front of a local pharmacy in Central Durban, while a group of local black people look on, 1973.
Police watch mourners, Alexandra township, Johannesburg, 1986
Funeral service, Police, Police shootings, Apartheid, Political history--South Africa, Beyond the Barricades
Police watch as mourners carrying an African National Congress (ANC) flag pass by during the funeral of eight youths killed during clashes between police and residents in Alexandra township. Off-duty township police allegedly killed three in reprisals following attacks on the policemen's homes, and five were killed by police during subsequent protests against vigilante action.
Riot police facing student demonstrators, Johannesburg, South Africa
Political history--South Africa--Johannesburg, Demonstrations--South Africa--Johannesburg, Student movements--South Africa--Johannesburg, Education--South Africa--Johannesburg, Apartheid--South Africa--Johannesburg, Youth--South Africa--Johannesburg
Riot police stand at the ready as students from the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) stage an illegal demonstration against apartheid and for peace outside their campus in Braamfontein, Johannesburg, South Africa, 21 August 1989.
Municipal Police in the Eastern Cape: Paper Presented at National Conference 1987
Municipal Police in the Eastern Cape: Paper Presented at National Conference on 13 March 1987 discussing assaults by police, torture, human rights abuses, civil actions, forced removals, housing, State of Emergency, training and pay for police.