Image Number: APN152013
Title: d1961_44
Path:
african.pictures /
Bailey's African History Archive /
Drum Social Histories
Description: SAED:APARTHEID:STRIKES:POST APRIL 7 1961 à Warmbaths Strikes à Warmbaths came to the boil for three days municipal cops and advisory board men slept in bushes in fear of their lives. Business came to a standstill in this dusty platteland town. And men fell to police bullets. And all over one man Martinus Wessel Van Coller. WarmbathÃs labour force, 5000 strong from Bela-Bela township went on strike over the reappointment of Van Coller as a Manager of Non-European Affairs. More than 40 people have been arrested following the Sunday stampede. And all over Van Coller. The entire township was non-torn on Sunday afternoon as young men went from house to house, street by street, chanting ÃVan Coller must go, we donÃt want him hereÃ. Several people ho didnÃt join the marchers were beaten up. Bela-Bela residents decided to dump all their permits at Municipal offices. Those who defied the strikers were assaulted on their return from work. Their homes were attacked. (Photograph by Dru
Collections: Baileys African History Archive
Subcollections:
Drum Social Histories
Country: South Africa
Orientation: landscape
Pixel Size: 5828 x 3816
Media Id: 69_401
Credit: Drum Social Histories / Baileys African History Archive / Africa Media Online
Keywords:
Drum Magazine,
black and white image,
Africa,
South Africa,
historical,
horizontal,
April,
1961,
1960s,
Warmbaths,
Bela Bela,
Limpopo Province,
strikes,
anti-apartheid,
,
Model Release: No
Property Release: No