The others were shot Thursday as the violence continued. Unconfirmed reports late Thursday said that three more children have died in Guguletu and at a squatter camp at neighboring Nyanga.
The injured streamed out of Guguletu for treatment at nearby clinics. Most had been hit by shotgun pellets. Some had large lumps where they were hit by the three-inch-long hard rubber bullets. A woman had a gaping wound in her back where she was hit by a tear-gas shell, and she was badly burned.
Casualties treated at area clinics for injuries now total more than Police said Thursday afternoon that they had arrested about people but added that they had been too busy to fill out proper arrest reports on all of them. However, charges will be dropped against nine journalists detained Wednesday for allegedly obstructing police, it was reported Thursday.
Police fired tear gas grenades and rubber bullets at whatever groups gathered, and they used whips to beat students gathering at the burning shopping centers. Teachers at a church-run day-care center said their 60 preschool children were tear-gassed when police thought older youths had taken refuge there.
Dozens of arrests were made there, the residents added. In Bellville South, another Colored suburb, students from the nearby University of the Western Cape fought with police up one street and down another throughout the afternoon. Britain's first black council leader, Haringey's Bernie Grant, issued a statement condemning the police for the way they searched Mrs Jarrett's house. They were pelted with bottles and petrol bombs, cars were overturned and set alight as were shops and other buildings.
There was widespread looting. About police with shields, helmets and truncheons battled with rampaging youths who threw bricks, bottles and cans from walkways within the estate as fires turned the night sky red. By midnight 58 policemen and 24 other people had been taken to hospital.
At around several gunshots were heard and one officer was shot and seriously wounded in Griffin Road. Half an hour later, PC Keith Blakelock was stabbed in the neck, suffering serious injuries. He died later in hospital. Ten minutes after the stabbing another officer was shot and slightly wounded.
Armed mob 'killed officer' in riot. Blakelock murder trial date set. Image source, Getty Images. About police battled with rampaging youths who threw bricks and bottles from walkways in the estate.
In this way the UDF started playing a bigger role in the townships, and used funerals as an opportunity to address people.
School boycotts were another form of protest that appeared continually after the uprising. By the end of there were about children absent from school in various parts of the country. Parents become concerned with the situation, and the Soweto Parent's Crisis Committee was formed in to try and solve the problem. The UDF leadership, and in particular Popo Molefe , was against the continuation of the school boycott, and felt discussions should be started with the state on this issue.
Although many students returned to school in January , there were still as many as 70 boycotting in March. March saw the explosion of resistance in the Eastern Cape after the organisation of a 'black weekend' of consumer boycott and stayaway from March.
Once again the UDF played no role in the organisation of the event. Violence escalated, with police killing about 20 people on their way to a funeral on 21 March.
This resulted in more riots, the killing of a councillor and is family, and mass action around the funerals, which were attended by between 35 and 60 people. The UDF condemned the police violence and called for a day of mourning, but also called for non-violence on the side of the people, unless it was 'defensive violence'.
The government increased its attacks on the UDF, and arrested leaders in preparation for the Pietermaritzburg Treason Trial. The state stopped the UDF and some affiliates from holding indoor meetings, while outdoor meetings were already prohibited.
Molefe and Terror Lekota managed to avoid arrest until late April, when they were arrested together with Moss Chikane and detained until the Delmas Treason Trial.
Killings by the security police increased. The UDF continued to attempt to connect the local struggle to the national struggle, and to focus on organisation rather then on leading the people's riots.
Township Uprising,
0コメント