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Special Report Transcript Episode 26, Section 5, Time 28:36

About four or five people died on that day of the 15th. We then continued to, throughout the night and on the following day on Sunday, there was still street battles in Alexandra between the youth and the police and the army. And then, that was the second day. The third day, on a Monday there was a stay away called in Alexandra to say people should not go to work, because their children are being killed by the police and the army.

Notes: Obed Bapela Regional MP, interviewed

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An ANC member from Alexandra, Johannesburg, who was detained in Johannesburg by members of the SAP on 1 January 1982. Along with several others, he was charged with sedition. After a long trial, he was acquitted. On 31 December 1988 the house where he was staying was petrol-bombed.
 
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