South African Police deploy teargas at the University of the Witwatersrand. Academics retreat during the three hours of running battles with demonstrating university students and the police.
320 policemen, fully armed with guns, recruited in Cape Town's black townships, had their passing out parade in Cape Town after only six weeks in training. They will return to patrol the townships as part of the South African government's response to the growing militant resistance to the state's apartheid structures.