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Anti-apartheid demonstration in Darling Street, Cape Town



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During a lunchtime anti-apartheid demonstration in Darling Street, Cape Town, people lined the street in front of the General Post Office to protest petty apartheid policies in post offices in the Cape Peninsula. The Cape Times newspaper described the approximately 1000 demonstrators as communists.



September 14, 1949

Collection: Cape Times Collection

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