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

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Shops with broken windows, Diepkloof. Source: SAB K345
Burned out shops, Diepkloof. Source: SAB K345
Orlando East beer hall. Source: SAB K345
Destroyed post office, Phiriwa. Source: SAB K345
Back of shop, Diepkloof. Source: SAB K345
Front of shop, Diepkloof. Source: SAB K345
Woman walking past front of shop, Diepkloof. Source: SAB K345
WRAB building with broken windows, Diepkloof. Source: SAB K345
Matjile's bottle store, Orlando East. Source: SAB K345
Makholokoe trading store, Orlando East. Source: SAB K345
Small crowd in front of Makholokoe trading store, Orlando East. Source: SAB K345
WRAB building with collapsed roof, Orlando East. Source: SAB K345
Damaged WRAB building, Orlando East. Source: SAB K345
Destroyed WRAB building, Dube. Source: SAB K345
Destroyed clinic, Diepkloof. Source: SAB K345
Destroyed clinic, view from street, Diepkloof. Source: SAB K345
WRAB building with fire damage, Diepkloof. Source: SAB K345
WRAB building with fire damage (close-up), Diepkloof. Source: SAB K345
WRAB damaged cars under collapsed garage. Source: SAB K345
WRAB fire-damaged building. Source: SAB K345
Library with broken windows (close-up), Diepkloof. Source: SAB K345
Truck, crushed by fallen tree, in front of house 1787. Source: SAB K345
Bottle store, Orlando West. Source: SAB K345
Damaged Ntsele general store, Orlando East. Source: SAB K345
Damaged WRAB building and overturned car, Orlando East. Source: SAB K345
Damaged building and telephone booth, Orlando West. Source: SAB K345
Damaged drankwinkel [bottle store]. Source: SAB K345
Bottle store, Dube. Source: SAB K345
Destroyed desk in WRAB office. Source: SAB K345
Directly Opposite 2217: Dube Electrical Substation. Source: SAB K345
Destroyed WRAB office interior, Dube. Source: SAB K345
Fire damage to WRAB office exterior, Dube. Source: SAB K345
Destroyed WRAB office interior, Dube. Source: SAB K345
Broken windows of WRAB office exterior, Dube. Source: SAB K345
Barclays bank with collapsed roof and fire damage, Dube. Source: SAB K345
Street with truck and houses, Dube. Source: SAB K345
Dube Street, closer view. Source: SAB K345
Bottle store, Orlando West. Source: SAB K345
Diepkloof Hostel shop. Source: SAB K345
Orlando West clinic, damaged (Exterior View). Source: SAB K345
Clinic, close-up with fence, Orlando West. Source: SAB K345
Clinic exterior, Orlando West. Source: SAB K345
Burnt-out clinic bus, Orlando West. Source: SAB K345
Clinic bus, close-up, Orlando West. Source: SAB K345
Severely damaged clinic and bus, Orlando West. Source: SAB K345
WRAB office, Orlando West. Source: SAB K345
Burning building, Alexandra. June 1976. Source: SAB K345
Smoking building, Alexandra. June 1976. Source: SAB K345
Destroyed bottle store, Alexandra. June 1976. Source: SAB K345
Smoking building, Alexandra. June 1976. Source: SAB K345
Looted store, Alexandra. June 1976. Source: SAB K345
Firemen attending to burning building, Alexandra. June 1976. Source: SAB K345
Destroyed school, Alexandra. June 1976. Source: SAB K345
Street scene, aerial view, Alexandra. June 1976. Source: SAB K345
Mimosa Cafe, damaged, Alexandra. June 1976. Source: SAB K345
Destroyed building, Alexandra. June 1976. Source: SAB K345
People viewing damage to bottle store, Alexandra. June 1976. Source: SAB K345
Destroyed shacks, Alexandra. June 1976. Source: SAB K345
Alexandra police watching building burn, Alexandra. June 1976. Source: SAB K345
Burning school, Alexandra. June 1976. Source: SAB K345
Street scene, Alexandra. June 1976. Source: SAB K345
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
Building with broken windows, Mabopane. Source: SAB K345, vol. 190
Burning building, with school busses and person in foreground, Mabopane. Source: SAB K345, vol. 190
Building with broken windows, double storey, government building? Mabopane. Source: SAB K345, vol. 190
Smashed toilet, Mabopane. Source: SAB K345, vol. 190
Building damage, Mabopane. Source: SAB K345, vol. 190
Wall-mounted box with dangling wires, possibly phone? Mabopane. Source: SAB K345, vol. 190
Smashed toilet, Mabopane. Source: SAB K345, vol. 190
Building interior damage, Mabopane. Source: SAB K345, vol. 190
Smashed sink, Mabopane. Source: SAB K345, vol. 190
Beer hall windows, Mabopane. Source: SAB K345, vol. 190
Beer hall, Mabopane. Source: SAB K345, vol. 190
Hostel, Meadowlands. Source: SAB K345, vol. 326
Hostel, burnt-out with lamppost, Meadowlands. Source: SAB K345, vol. 326
Hostel, partially collapsed roof with 3 fir trees in the background, Meadowlands. Source: SAB K345, vol. 326
Hostel, partially collapsed roof with 3 fir trees in the background, Meadowlands. Source: SAB K345, vol. 326
Hostel, partially collapsed roof with 3 fir trees in the background, Meadowlands. Source: SAB K345, vol. 326
Hostel, severely damaged, Meadowlands. Source: SAB K345, vol. 326
Iketlo post office with severe interior damage, Meadowlands. Source: SAB K345, vol. 326
Iketlo post office, exterior view, Meadowlands. Source: SAB K345, vol. 326
Iketlo post office, rear view with man (possibly police investigator?), Meadowlands. Source: SAB K345, vol. 326
Iketlo post office, interior view, collapsed roof, Meadowlands. Source: SAB K345, vol. 326
Iketlo post office, mail bins, Meadowlands. Source: SAB K345, vol. 326
Dube Hostel, with people. Source: SAB K345, vol. 326
Bottle store, Dube. Source: SAB K345, vol. 326
Klipspruit Hostel, shops. Source: SAB K345, vol. 326
WRAB offices, fire damage, Meadowlands. Source: SAB K345, vol. 326
Hostel door, Dube. Source: SAB K345, vol. 326
Dube Hostel, windows damaged. Source: SAB K345, vol. 326
Dube Hostel, windows damaged, interior. Source: SAB K345, vol. 326