ANGRY SCHOOL CONFRONTATION [DAY 2]:
re: Clergi visiting Ruyterwacht area afterì
rightwing residents have been protesing againstì
Record ID:
892657
ANGRY SCHOOL CONFRONTATION [DAY 2]: re: Clergi visiting Ruyterwacht area afterì rightwing residents have been protesing againstì
- Title: ANGRY SCHOOL CONFRONTATION [DAY 2]: re: Clergi visiting Ruyterwacht area afterì rightwing residents have been protesing againstì
- Date: 16th February 1995
- Summary: ANGRY SCHOOL CONFRONTATION [DAY 2]: re: Clergi visiting Ruyterwacht area afterì rightwing residents have been protesing againstì
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- City: RUYTERWACHT CT
- Country: South Africa
- Reuters ID: 95FEB16V02
- Story Text:ANGRY SCHOOL CONFRONTATION [DAY 2]:
re: Clergi visiting Ruyterwacht area afterì
rightwing residents have been protesing againstì
township pupils occupying the local empty school &ì
after a student had been stabbed to death
00.17.14 ESTABLISHING SHOT OF EMPTY SCHOOL
00.18.28 FEW RESIDENTS ON PAVEMENT
00.18.54 CLERGI WALKING DOWN STREET TO SCHOOL
00.19.47 WALKING SCHOOL GROUNDS
00.20.03 INT REV COURTNEY SANAPSON, WESTERNì
PROVINCE COUNCIL OF CHURCHES: JUST WANT TO COMEì
AND FIND OUT FOR OURSELVES WHAT'S TAKING PLACEì
HERE
00.20.30 "People have a right to education...inì
our new society have to find other ways ofì
resolving conflict...want to ensure that this kindì
of situation doesn't take place anywhere else"
00.21.17 "I think the whole racism issue is a veryì
scary one something we can hardly afford"
00.21.54 PUPILS ENTERING SCHOOL YARD
00.23.06 RESIDENTS WATCHING
00.26.22 CLERGI TALKING TO RESIDENTS
00.27.22 RESIDENT EXPLAINING [Afrikaans] THATì
RUYTERWACHT HAS ABOUT 6000 RESIDENTS; NECC DROPPEDì
OVER 4000 PUPILS OFF AT THE SCHOOL WHICH IS BEINGì
ILLEGALLY OCCUPIED
00.27.35 INT REV KOOS VAN RENSBURG, LOCAL CHURCHì
MINISTER:
00.28.05 'What we are doing here is not based onì
racial discrimination or any other discriminationì
that just is because we are selfish."
00.28.16 "This is about real real fears, realì
problems & the things that we are concerned aboutì
is that the 3500 people came & they just bardgedì
into our community without any notice and the theyì
just riot through our communities. Theyì
intimidated our old people, they went into theì
properties of the people and told them if theyì
don't give them food they will kill them & burnì
their houses"
00.28.57 ...TOTAL UNDEMOCRATIC SITUATION OFì
PEOPLE'S WHO DON'T HAVE THE RIGHT - DEPT OFì
EDUCATION DIDN'T GIVE THEM THE RIGHT TO COME TOì
THIS SCHOOL...
00.30.11 "We are not against the right of everyì
child to have a school...we will fight for theì
right of every child, but to drop the whole westì
Cape education problem on this sensitive communityì
that is seeking confrontation between racialì
groups. I think that is exactly what the peopleì
wanted to do...'
00.30.37 "They wanted to create racialì
confrontation so we can be the bad guys...weì
sorted our elements who did do some things wrongì
agaginst the press and also the other pupils..."
00.32.11 POLICE AT GATE OF SCHOOL
00.33.43 BLACK PUPILS MARCHING TOI-TOI
00.35.15 RESIDENTS WITH DOGS
00.35.45 POLICE ESCORTING PUPILS TO STATION
00.36.10 PUPILS WAVING PEACE SIGNS AS THEY MARCHì
THROUGH WHITE RESIDENTIAL AREA
00.36.21 WHITE WOMAN WAVING PEACE SIGN AS WELL
00.38.22 MARCHING PUPILS ARRIVING AT GOODWOODì
STATION
00.38.55 HUGE CROWD OF STUDENTS GATHERED INì
STREETS IN FRONT OF CAPE PROVINCIAL ADMINì
BUILDINGS
00.40.04 PUPILS TOI-TOI
00.41.54 POSTER "No to one racist education dept"
00.42.41 CLARENCE MAKWETU [PAC MP] WELCOMED BYì
CROWD OF STUDENTS
00.43.43 POLICE IN STREETS - Copyright Holder: Visnews