This was very early in the day, before police and Rand Afrikaans University students had gathered on the pavement opposite the protest. There is one lone RAU student sitting on the wall, waiting to watch the spectacle. By lunch time the student leaders and Prof Bozzoli had persuaded the protestors to stay on university property.

The people standing on the pavement are journalists and other non-students. Many of the students were sitting down. A rumor had arisen that if you were sitting down the police would arrest you without bashing you.

Photo of part of the crowd of protesters taken from the other side of Jan Smuts Ave.

The students were careful to stand on university property because it was illegal to stand on the pavement.

This was early in the day. Most of the protesters attended class in the morning then joined the protest at lunch time.

Three plain-clothes cops capturing a student. One is looking back at Raymond Tucker who is taking the photo. The baton in the hand of a cop to the left is not being used, perhaps because they knew Raymond was there with his camera. Many photos that were published in the newspapers showed the batons being used to bash students.

A cop carrying the banner and some placards away from the uni. The legs in the top left corner of the photo are of police standing on the grass on university property. The main reason why the students were acquitted after four and a half months was that the police had been trespassing when they arrested the students.

Uniformed cops waiting for the next order to attack. RAU students were still observing from the brewery wall.

Late in the day ten “paddy wagon” police vans and hundreds of uniformed police were brought to the scene.

This picture is taken from the other side of the road, of the part of the lawn that was north of the fire hydrant. By now the protesters had fallen back because of repeated attacks by the police, but there were still more than a thousand protesters. Each time the police attacked, some protesters would stand their ground, while others would run. Each time the police retreated with their quarry, those who had run would move forward again.