ANAPIX: Historical images of riots in 1970 &1980’s

1/19: Richard van der Ross.Prof Richard van der Ross, Rector of the University of the Western Cape, faces a barrage of eggs and catcalls as he appeals to students for calm when riots flared on the universitys Bellville campus in 1976. Picture: Willie de Klerk

2/19: Teargas in Wale StreetCrowds scatter at the corner of Cape Towns Adderley and Wale streets in 1972 as a protester throws a teargas grenade back at police during attempts to occupy St Georges Cathedral in a protest against apartheid education policies. Picture: Jim McLagan

3/19: St Georges DemoPolice brandishing quirts tackle an activist during student protests in the centre of Cape Town during 1972, in which UCT students unsuccessfully sought to occupy St Georges Cathedral in protest against apartheid education. Picture: Robin Brown

4/19: Student riots 11.8.1976The heavy-handed arm of the law detains a young man for questioning during the nationwide student uprisings of 1976. Student riots spread from Soweto throughout the country in protest at the enforced use of Afrikaans as a medium of instruction in schools.Picture: Dana le Roux

5/19: Riots 25.08.1976.jpgRiot police prepare to fire teargas canisters at Bonteheuwel demonstrators protesting in sympathy with black comrades during the wave of rioting and lawlessness that spread across the country after police shootings of peaceful demonstrators in Soweto on June 16, 1976. Picture: Jim McLagan

6/19: Riots Sept 4.jpgVanloads of riot police, gas masks covering their faces, are oblivious to the clouds of teargas with which they dispersed rioters in Adderley Street, Cape Town, during the 1976 riots. Picture: John Paisley

7/19: Riot-car burns:A crowd forced the driver of this car to abandon it before setting fire to the vehicle in Valhalla Park during a fresh wave of rioting in the Western Cape in 1980. By that time it had begun to seem that violence and forced removals were becoming a feature of daily life. Picture: Willie de Klerk

8/19: Riot stoning 1976Its windscreen shattered by rioters stones, this furniture lorry and its crew were lucky to escape. As rioting intensified in Cape Towns troubled townships, lorries were often looted and torched and their drivers assaulted.Picture: Mike Mackenzie

9/19: Riots Aug 8Police in riot gear, accompanied by a plain-clothes detective, drag away a demonstrator arrested in the wave of violent protest that hit the Western Cape in August 1976. Rioting soon spilled over into the central city, with office workers dodging missiles and teargas almost daily.Picture: Andrew Pratt

10/19: Riots-Police fire shots.jpgA plain-clothes policeman fires on stone-throwing student demonstrators in Bonteheuwel during the lawlessness that flared in August 1976, two months after a peaceful march against the forced use of Afrikaans as an instruction medium in Transvaal schools was met by a hail of police fire. Picture: Jim McLagan

11/19: Riots-Building Burns.This complex of shops and beer halls in Langa was set alight during renewed student rioting on August 5, 1976. The complex, like many, was completely gutted. Firemen who battled to control such blazes were often threatened or assaulted, and had to flee for their own safety.Picture: Dana le Roux

12/19: Riot DeathTeenage demonstrator Christopher Truter, felled by a police bullet to the head during student riots in August 1976, lies dying in the Bonteheuwel dust, watched by his weeping sister. Picture: Jim McLagan

13/19: Riots-Police fire shots.jpgA plain-clothes policeman fires on stone-throwing student demonstrators in Bonteheuwel during the lawlessness that flared in August 1976, two months after a peaceful march against the forced use of Afrikaans as an instruction medium in Transvaal schools was met by a hail of police fire. Picture: Jim McLagan

14/19: Riots-Building Burns.This complex of shops and beer halls in Langa was set alight during renewed student rioting on August 5, 1976. The complex, like many, was completely gutted. Firemen who battled to control such blazes were often threatened or assaulted, and had to flee for their own safety.Picture: Dana le Roux

15/19: Riot DeathTeenage demonstrator Christopher Truter, felled by a police bullet to the head during student riots in August 1976, lies dying in the Bonteheuwel dust, watched by his weeping sister. Picture: Jim McLagan

16/19: 1976 Student protest: Conciliatory messages chalked on blackboards with these Langa students assembled peaceably in 1976 in an attempt to persuade police to release detained comrades. They failed, and rioting broke out in the peninsula a few days later. CAPE ARGUS.

17/19: Riot smokeEpitomising courage and refusal to be intimidated, this woman appears unafraid of whats going on around her as she strolls imperturbably past a barricade of burning tyres. Picture: Hannes Thiart

18/19: City baton chaseA member of the police riot squad chases a protester during one of the riots that became a feature of life in the centre of Cape Town during the mid-1970s. Picture: Mike Mackenzie

19/19: 07.09.76: Riots in Cape Town. Picture: Andrew Pratt.