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DEMONSTRATION BY AFRICANS

CROWD DISPERSED WITH BATONS

CAPE TOWN. Oct. 21. Police With batons today dispersed a crowd of 300 Africans demonstrating outside the Kimberley Magistrate's Court during the hearing of cases against 44 resisters in the campaign against the Government’s racial laws. The resisters, including 17 women, were fined £2 each, with an alternative of one month’s imprisonment, for breaking the pass laws. The demonstrators outside sang the African anthem, and some of them booed and hicsed the police. No one was injured when they were dispersed. The police soon restored order. In the Magistrate’s Court at Germiston. a railway town near Johannesburg. 23 resisters were each fined £2, with an alternative of 14 days’ imprisonment, for entering a location without permits. Four women with babies in their arms were cautioned and discharged, and three youths were remanded to the Juvenile Court.

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Press, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 26869, 23 October 1952, Page 9

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DEMONSTRATION BY AFRICANS Press, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 26869, 23 October 1952, Page 9

DEMONSTRATION BY AFRICANS Press, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 26869, 23 October 1952, Page 9

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