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Wits protests

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

Wits protests

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

Wits protests

Wits protests

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

Wits protests

Wits protests

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.

Wits protests

Wits protests

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

Wits protests

Wits protests

Late in the day ten “paddy wagon” police vans and hundreds of uniformed police were brought to the scene.

Wits protests

Wits protests

A cop carrying the banner and some placards away from the uni. The legs in the top left corner of the photo are of police standing on the grass on university property. The main reason why the students were acquitted after four and a half months was that the police had been trespassing when they arrested the students.

Wits protests

Wits protests

Glenn Moss addressing the students with a loud hailer. Uniformed police can be seen in the background. They only arrived to conduct attacks after a few rounds of attacks by plain-clothes police. Two people standing on something high in the distance to get a view of the attacks.

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