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Wits protests

The people standing on the pavement are journalists and other non-students. Many of the students were sitting down. A rumor had arisen that if you were sitting down the police would arrest you without bashing you.

Wits protests

Photo of part of the crowd of protesters taken from the other side of Jan Smuts Ave.

Wits protests

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

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 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.

'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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