Image Number: APN151849
Title: d1961_3
Path:
african.pictures /
Bailey's African History Archive /
Drum Social Histories
Description: APRIL 1961 WARMBATHS STRIKES. SAED:APARTHEID:STRIKES:POST APRIL 7 1961 Warmbaths Strikes 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. Warmbaths 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 ââ¬â¢Van Coller must go, we dont want him hereââ¬Å. Several people ho didnt 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.
Collections: Baileys African History Archive
Subcollections:
Drum Social Histories
Orientation: landscape
Pixel Size: 5850 x 3795
Media Id: 69_311
Credit: Drum Social Histories / Baileys African History Archive / Africa Media Online
Model Release: No
Property Release: No