Doing Botha's Dirty Work Athlone, Cape Town Mitchell's Plain, Cape Town 1985
Duration: 00:21:04
Description: Segment taken of parents and students reopening school in Mitchell's Plain with police and army on guard. [00:01]
Images taken in Athlone of Belgravia Senior Secondary School parents and students leaving school premises. [01:48] Interview with a school teacher and images of a student protest. Students hold signs reading "Carter voetsek" (Jimmy Carter go to hell) and "Carter doen Botha se vuit werk" (Jimmy Carter is doing Botha’s dirty work). [02:11]
Footage of arrested students, police preparing and firing teargas, onlookers applauding the arrested comrades, people and media flee the teargas and some throw the teargas back at police. [04:11]