Police made thorough checks of mourners vehicles to prevent cameras being taken in to the funeral in Alexandra. Funerals were ways in which protest could take place.
Archbishop Desmond Tutu addresses mourners at a mass funeral for victims of the Langa Massacre in Uitenhage At least 20 people were reported to have been killed. The massacre was on a Sharpeville commemoration day. Picture shows Black Sash members on podium with Tutu. April 1985.
A car of a suspected police informer being burnt during an anti-apartheid riot in Duduza township, after a funeral held for four anti-apartheid activists that were victims of hand-grenade blast from police.
A man kicks away a tear gas canister fired by South African Riot policemen during rioting which broke out in Duduza township on 18 May 1985. People said the unrest was provoked by the police who fired tear gas at some of the thousands of people returning from the funeral of a young unrest victim. Later police fired rubber bullets to disperse groups of stonethrowers.