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Special Report Transcript Episode 62, Section 3, Time 18:30

This is Bonteheuwel on the Cape Flats, a traditional coloured, working class area that became the crucible for militant anti-apartheid defiance in the Cape. Here, generations of hard lined activists, young street fighters and MK guerrillas fought the police and the state in a head on battle. In the 80s Bonteheuwel responded to ever increasing police action against them by forming the Bonteheuwel Military Wing, a self defence unit drawn mainly from school children, many of whom were on the run from police.

Notes: Bonteheuwel, police brutality in Bonteheuwel

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Glossary
A semi-formal clandestine group of mainly teenagers and school pupils who engaged in militant protest actions in Bonteheuwel, Cape Town.
armed self-defence units set up in the early 1990s by the ANC to protect neighbourhoods
 
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