On 22 May Policemen carry the coffin at the funeral of fellow constable, 20 year old Weyers Botha, victim of a car bomb that exploded outside the Magistrates Court in downtown Johannesburg.
A service held in Soweto for Matola Raid victims. Uncertain whether raid of 1981 or 1983. On the podium signs with text "To gun down defenceless men women and children in their sleep is dastardly cowardice"
During the height of apartheid, security forces carried out a raid on ANC houses in Matola, Mozambique, where 16 South Africans and one Portuguese national were killed. Most of the victims were members of Umkhonto We Sizwe in 1981. In a SADF raid on Matola in 1983 at least 6 people died including 2 children and 26 people wounded.
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 military procession for the funeral of Simon Shoshana, the first prime minister of the homeland KwaNdebele. The coffin is being driven down a guard of black soldiers holding guns with white soldiers walking alongside the coffin.
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
A funeral march for Emma Sathekge, a 15 year old school girl who died in a hospital after being run over by a police vehicle at a school protest D.H. Peta High School in Atteridgeville. Atteridgeville, Pretoria 1984.
A funeral march for Emma Sathekge, a 15 year old school girl who died in a hospital after being run over by a police vehicle at a school protest D.H. Peta High School in Atteridgeville. Atteridgeville, Pretoria 1984.