Youths at a mass funeral in Port Elizabeth, display a poster. The End Conscription Campaign supports Philip Wilkinson Apartheid War Resistor, "I cannot serve in an apartheid army fighting fellow South Africans" ECC; protestor wearing release mandela t-shirt
Crossroads residents bury six-month-old Amanda Fanisa, asphyxiated by tear gas fired during police action in Crossroads, Cape Town. The South African security forces used tear gas as a standard means of "crowd control". Tear gas can be lethal, and it is especially dangerous when inhaled by young children.
Politician Frederik Van Zyl Slabbert at 'Call to whites' meeting organised by the United Democratic Front (UDF). He was leader of the official opposition, the Progressive Federal Party (PFP), in the House of Assembly.