Image Number: APN331897
Title: Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Rev Allan Boesak speak to the crowd from the verandah of the city hall,after leading over 30 000 people through the streets of Cape Town with the mayor Gordon Oliver in support of Peace and demanding an End to Apartheid, Cape Town, 13 September 1989.
Description: On 13 September 1989, 30 000 Capetonians from a diverse cross-section of the city marched in support of peace and the end of apartheid. The event, led by Mayor Gordon Oliver, Archbishop Tutu, Rev Frank Chikane, Moulana Faried Esack, Allan Boesak, and other religious leaders, was held in defiance of the State of Emergency which banned political protests and apartheid laws which enforced racial segregation.
"We have scored a great victory for justice and peace," Tutu told the many protestors.
"We Shall Overcome," was sung by the marchers as they walked arm in arm from St. George's Cathedral through the city centre behind Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Mayor Gordon Oliver and the Rev. Allan Boesak, president of the World Alliance of Reformed Churches.
"Peace in Our City!" and "Stop Killing Our People!" was on banners.
The march ended at City Hall where Allan Boesak and Archbishop Desmond Tutu addressed the crowd on the parade.
"The marchers were incensed that 23 people had been killed by
Collections: Independent Contributors
Subcollections: Sue Kramer
Country: South Africa
Orientation: portrait
Pixel Size: 2797 x 4133
Media Id: UNSECURED-21537
Credit: Sue Kramer / Independent Contributors / Africa Media Online
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