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Riot squad police war anti-election protestors to disperse



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South African police giving orders to disperse to a crowd protesting the Tri-cameral Parliament adopted as part of the 1983 Constitution. The police then led a baton charge. (The protests took place outside a Labor Party meeting in Ravensmead.)



August 18, 1984

Collection: Cape Times Collection

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