Students disrupt a lecture on 'Politics of siege societies' delivered by Irish academic and political diplomat Conor Cruise O'Brien, in keeping with the call for an academic boycott of South Africa. Police or campus security attempt to keep them out. Photograph possibly at UCT

Police arrive to disperse students after scuffles broke out between neighbouring right-wing student organisations Student Moderate Alliance (SMA) /Nasionale Studente Front (NSF), and progressive students.

Students from Wits University march in protest of police action against peaceful demonstrators the previous day. These include Wits Student Representative Council (SRC) President, Claire Wright, Black Student Societies (BSS) President Dali Mpofu and the Deputy Vice Chancellor, Prof. Shear. 30/5/86

The protest was against Republic Day celebrations set for the next day and police broke up the protest. A policeman grapples with demonstrating University of Cape Town (UCT) students in central Cape Town. Students hang on to a student the policeman was attempting to arrest. Five people were arrested.

Policeman arrests a University of Cape Town (UCT) student that was protesting against Republic Day celebrations set for the next day. Five people were arrested.

Police break up a University of Cape Town (UCT) protest against elections in front of Jameson Hall. A student is being escorted by a policeman wearing a gas mask. Another policeman is pointing a gun which shoots teargas.

Men flee police bullets during a conflict that erupted after the funeral of a young boy, shot by police the previous week.

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.

Defiant funeral crowds in Duduza township ignore armed soldiers behind them on a Ratel.

Police cordon after Johannesburg bomb blast.