S. Africa Police Whip, Gas Pupils in Anti-Bias Rally
Police used whips, tear gas and rubber bullets in clashes with mixed-race schoolchildren gathering for an anti-apartheid rally in Cape Town today.
Clashes in the Cape Town area in the last three weeks have been the most persistent since a nationwide uprising was crushed two years ago by security forces acting with emergency powers.
Teachers at the Glendale School in Mitchell’s Plain said police fired tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse pupils gathering for an anti-apartheid demonstration.
“Some of the children hid in a woman’s house. She locked them in a bedroom, but the police broke the door down and then they whipped the children as they came out,” said a woman teacher who asked not to be named. “One girl was badly hurt.”
She said police chased pupils through streets around the school and among houses.
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