Special Report Transcript Episode 45, Section 4, Time 15:36

Student protests against apartheid and against the KwaZulu homeland dominated the Durban township of KwaMashu in the 1980s. Police were hunting for what they called ‘agitators,’ but quiet even studious young men who went to church did not fit the general perception of blood thirsty terrorists. ‘The Swimmers’ looked so respectable and law abiding that soldiers would wave them through roadblocks.

Notes: Student protest, KwaMashu, 1980s

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