“I Saw a Nightmare…”
Doing Violence to Memory: The Soweto Uprising, June 16, 1976
by Helena Pohlandt-McCormick

Table of Contents


AcknowledgmentsReaders' Guide
IntroductionThe NarrativeOfficial StoriesThe ParticipantsAfrikaansMemory and ViolenceFinal ThoughtsArchive
AbbreviationsGlossary

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Archive Home ... Browse by Exhibit ... K345 Volume (Box) 190: Police statements, photographs and other documents

Letter (13 October 1971) by JL Boshoff to the Student Dean, Rector [Univ. of the North], page 2. Source: SAB K345, vol. 190, exhibit 82
Handwritten statement (23 October 1976) by Bafunani Joseph Mokoena (19), page 1. Source: SAB K345, vol. 190, exhibit 92
Typed statement (23 October 1976) by Bafunani Joseph Mokoena (19). Source: SAB K345, vol. 190, exhibit 92
Handwritten statement (23 October 1976) by Stephen Maila, schoolteacher (30). Source: SAB K345, vol. 190, exhibit 92
Typed statement (23 October 1976) by Stephen Maila, schoolteacher (30). Source: SAB K345, vol. 190, exhibit 92
4 photos (undated and not identified) from police evidence; graffiti: "Black Power." Source: SAB K345, vol. 190
4 photos (undated and not identified) from police evidence with graffiti. Source: SAB K345, vol. 190
Photograph taken by Sergeant Van der Walt showing slogans at Pinagare school: "Colour Doesn't Count." Source: SAB K345, vol. 190
Burning police vehicle in Mafeking. Source: SAB K345, vol. 190
Destroyed trucks, Mafeking. Source: SAB K345, vol. 190
Burned truck SAP, Mafeking. Source: SAB K345, vol. 190
Burned truck, Mafeking, "Voertuie aan die brand gesteek voor die winkelsentrum" [vehicles set on fire in front of shopping center]. Source: SAB K345, vol. 190
Burned car, Mafeking. Source: SAB K345, vol. 190
Government building, Mafeking. Source: SAB K345, vol. 190
Arson at Barolong school. Source: SAB K345, vol. 190
Hole in a wall, Mafeking. Source: SAB K345, vol. 190
Government building, Mafeking. Source: SAB K345, vol. 190
Government building, Mafeking. Source: SAB K345, vol. 190
Classroom doors and windows, Mafeking school. Source: SAB K345, vol. 190
Fire inside cupboard with note: "Brandstigting by Barolong Skool" [Mafeking Arson Attempt]. Source: SAB K345, vol. 190
Pinagare skool, Taung, with note: "Poging tot brandstigting by Bathlaping Skool" [Arson Attempt]. Source: SAB K345, vol. 190
Police statement (2-8 June 1976) by Capt. Salomon Jacobus Jacobs. Source: SAB K345, vol. 190
Police statement (8 August 1976) by Johannes Hendrik O'Callaghan. Source: SAB K345, vol. 190
Statement (6 November 1976) by Onica Mithi, handwritten. Source: SAB K345, vol. 190
Typed list of incidents and damages outside Soweto with reference to testimony Vol. 49/7213, evidence no. 131. Source: SAB K345, vol. 190
Policeman and Crowd. Source: SAB K345, vol. 190
Street and Crowd. Source: SAB K345, vol. 190
Students with cardboard sign: "We Don't Fight." Source: SAB K345, vol. 19
Students with second sign in background: "We Want Our Brother Sipho Majola Released." Source: SAB K345, vol. 190
Students on road. Source: SAB K345, vol. 190
Students on road. Source: SAB K345, vol. 190
Students on road (close-up). Source: SAB K345, vol. 190
Students on road (close-up). Source: SAB K345, vol. 190
Stones on road. Source: SAB K345, vol. 190
Police [army?] armed with clubs marching towards students. Source: SAB K345, vol. 190
Interior of Tshiya Training College. Source: SAB K345, vol. 190
Ambagskool [vocational school], interior: desk with firedamage. Source: SAB K345, vol. 190
School books, Itemoheleng. Source: SAB K345, vol. 190
School door, Itemoheleng. Source: SAB K345, vol. 190
School desk, Itemoheleng. Source: SAB K345, vol. 190
School office, Itemoheleng. Source: SAB K345, vol. 190
School typewriter, Itemoheleng. Source: SAB K345, vol. 190
School desk, Itemoheleng. Source: SAB K345, vol. 190
High school, paint cans and fire damage, Manthatisi. Source: SAB K345, vol. 190
High school supplies: kitchen, Manthatisi. Source: SAB K345, vol. 190
High school supplies cupboard, Manthatisi. Source: SAB K345, vol. 190
Fire damage Lekgulo Junior Secondary School window. Source: SAB K345, vol. 190
Lekgulo Junior Secondary School, shelves with evidence of arson, open window. Source: SAB K345, vol. 190
School desk, Lekgulo. Source: SAB K345, vol. 190
Dikwena Sekondêre Skool [secondary school], fire damage and broken roof. Source: SAB K345, vol. 190
High school fire damage, Mampoi. Source: SAB K345, vol. 190
High school shelves, Mampoi. Source: SAB K345, vol. 190
High school fire and window, Mampoi. Source: SAB K345, vol. 190