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Special Report Transcript Episode 52, Section 5, Time 22:29‘The police however are actively engaged in restoring order and there is definitely no reason for any panic.’ // ‘This government will not be intimidated and instructions have been given to maintain law and order at all costs. Those educational institutions at which blacks are destroying their own amenities will be closed for an indefinite period.’ // ‘Music by Mzwakhe Mbuli & Roger Lucey’ Notes: ‘Resistance is Defence’; ‘No easy walk to freedom’; Scenes of police brutality, youth uprising; Nic Diederichs; John Vorster; SA sports, beauty pageant, cabinet; Vorster; Police & army brutality in townships, arrests. References select each tab to search for references GlossaryOn 16 June 1976, police opened fire on approximately 10 000 school students in Soweto during a protest against the compulsory use of Afrikaans as a medium of instruction in schools. The shootings provoked extensive unrest and protest throughout Soweto, spreading over the following months to several ... |