Raymond Tucker must have been on the fire hydrant when he took this photo. The cops liked VW Beetles.

There are three batons in this photo. During the trial of the students, which lasted four and a half months, the police and their representatives repeatedly claimed that there had been no batons, even though lots of photos of them bashing students with batons had been published in the newspapers.

Plain-clothes cops.

This is a bigger enlargement of the previous photo, accentuating the hand holding the end of the hidden baton.

The fire hydrant faced Jan Smuts Ave, with a sloping lawn and a few trees behind it. That lawn is now covered with the Oppenheimer Life Sciences Building.

This picture is slightly fuzzy because it is an enlargement, showing how the plain-clothes cop in the middle is holding the end of a baton which is hidden in his clothes.

The man on the left is Brigadier Schroeder. Next to him is Caroline Clark of the Sunday Times, and next to and slightly behind her is Larry Butchins of the Sunday Tribune. Later in the day both Caroline and Larry were arrested, and they had to endure a long trial, which ended with them each having to pay a fine of R50. In the middle is Prof Bozzoli, the Vice-Chancellor of Wits University. The man with horn-rimmed spectacles just behind Bozzoli's left shoulder is Adam Klein, who was a member of the Students Representative Council. Adam left South Africa four years later while the security police were looking for him hoping to hand him a banning order. The man on the right in a white T-shirt is Jasper Mortimer, who was arrested later that day. He became a journalist, and now lives in Turkey and reports for France 24.

Security police on the island in the middle of Jan Smuts Ave early in the day.

By now Rand Afrikaans university students had gathered on the wall across the road. They shouted abuse at the protesting students. The wall was on the boundary of Lion Brewery. The two sticks in the picture are different to the batons that were used to bash students.

Police trespassing on Wits university property.