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Paper presented by Attorney Nicholas Haysom of the Centre for Applied Legal Studies at the Seminar on the Legal Aspects of Apartheid, co-sponsored by the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law and the Individual Rights and Responsibilities Section and the Standing Committee on World Order Under Law of the American Bar Association. Contents: THE FUNERALS AND NOTICE OF PUBLICATION • THE ADMINISTRATION AND EQUIPMENT OF THE POLICE • THE POLICE VERSION • THE COMMUNITY VERSION • THE COMMISSION'S TREATMENT OF THE EVIDENCE • THE STONE ATTACK • WAS THE CROWD ARMED? • THE BOY ON THE BICYCLE • WHAT WAS THE IMPLICATION OF THE BOY ON THE BICYCLE? • PETROL BOMBS • THE REPORT AS A WHOLE • The paper discusses Justice Kannemeyer, The Report of the Commission Appointed to Enquire into the Incident which occurred on 21 March 1985 at Uitenhage, township residents' protests, conditions in the townships, attitudes and aspirations of Black residents, police conduct, a Government-created municipal council, political rights, opposition to community councils, elections, Coloured and Indian communities, the new tri-cameral Parliamentary system, the crisis in Black education, the Eastern Cape, apartheid, factories, multinationals, Volkswagen, Goodyear, Borg-Warner, Kwanobuhle, Langa, the Conservative Party, the Herstigte Nasionale Party, the recession, the motor car industry, unemployment, political organizations, the United Democratic Front (UDF), bus fares, rentals, schooling, housing, education, violence, a petrol-bomb attack on the house of a Black activist, Fikile Konese, policemen, community councilors, the shooting of eight youths, Black Sash, Norman Kona, an all-night vigil, the South African Catholic Bishops' Conference (SACBC), affidavits, the Report On Police Conduct During Township Protests August-November 1984, Police Conduct in The Eastern Cape, the Internal Security Act, the local Security Police Commander, churches, banning, Casspirs (armoured vehicles), the Minister of Law and Order, opening fire on a crowd of mourners, lethal firearms, shotguns, S S G cartridges, petrol bomb attacks, Lt. Col. Pretorius, Major Kuhn, Lt. Fouche, non-lethal methods, Captain Goosen, a prohibition against holding funerals, Lt. Fouche, Maduna Road, Moses Bucwa, a stay-away, freedom songs, shooting, ambulances, witness Mathebeli, Billy Ruiters, Sergeant Rudman, Sergeant Stumke, hospital records, witness Berry, ambulance-drivers, Uitenhage Provincial Hospital, photographic evidence, women, children, and social justice.

African Activist Archive

The Lanqa Shootinqs and The Kannemever Commission of Enquiry

SEMINAR ON THE LEGAL ASPECTS OF APARTHEID

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