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Wits protests

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.

Wits protests

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

Wits protests

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

Wits protests

SB stands for Special Branch. They were the secret police, to whom no laws applied, and many of them infiltrated the protest, some very noticeable, some not. This one was being questioned by students.

Wits protests

Brigadier Schroeder with a loud hailer. He was punished for trying to stop the police violence by being transferred out of Johannesburg soon afterwards.

Wits protests

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.

Wits protests

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

Wits protests

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

'No bail for 66', newspaper clip

News clipping from The Star newspaper, listing the names of the people arrested on the 9 June 1972, including the two journalists Caroline Clark and Larry Butchins. The students were later acquitted and the two journalists were fined R50 each.

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