“I Saw a Nightmare…”
Doing Violence to Memory: The Soweto Uprising, June 16, 1976
by Helena Pohlandt-McCormick

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Police statement (25 June 1976) by Marthinus Johannes Hattingh. Source: SAB K345, vols. 85-86
Police statement (23 June 1976) by Levy Joseph Mabatle. SAB K345, vols. 85-86
Police statement (23 June 1976) by Martin Modikoe Mabena. Source: SAB K345, vols. 85-86
Police statement (undated) by Justice Mamiane, dog handler of the SAP. Source: SAB K345, vols. 85-86
Police statement (6 July 1976) by Phahlala Elias Manganye, dog handler of the SAP. Source: SAB K345, vols. 85-86
Police statement (undated) by Maxwell Danvey Maphophe. Source: SAB K345, vols. 85-86
Police statement (22 June 1976) by Joel Masopha. Source: SAB K345, vols. 85-86
Police statement (25 June 1976) by Kasparus Johannes Daniel Matthee. Source: SAB K345, vols. 85-86
Typed list of incidents and damages outside Soweto with reference to testimony Vol. 49/7213, evidence no. 131. Source: SAB K345, vol. 190
Policeman and Crowd. Source: SAB K345, vol. 190
Police [army?] armed with clubs marching towards students. Source: SAB K345, vol. 190
Students that ran away after the police formed a line to prevent them from going closer to the burning hall, University of the North. Source: SAB K345, vol. 190
Police statement (4 August 1976) by Gert Slabbert. Source: SAB K345, vol. 99
Police statement (16 August 1976) by Theunis Jacobus Swanepoel. Source: SAB K345, vol. 99
Statement (3 August 1976) by Rodney Paul Rammekoa while in police custody. Source: SAB K345, Vol. 99
Statement (12 August 1976) by Lucas Zwelinzima Sizani while in police custody. Source: SAB K345, Vol. 99
Statement (undated) by Reatile Kingdom Lolwane while in police custody. Source: SAB K345, Vol. 99
Death certificate: Melville Leonard Edelstein. Source: Civil Case WLD 6857 (1977), Vol. 409
Statement (25 March 1977) by Rudolph Everton Hobkirk about the death of M. L. Edelstein. Source: Civil Case WLD 6857 (1977), Vol. 409
Crowd with posters and buckets (filled with stones?): "Don't Shoot." Source: Civil Case WLD 6857 (1977), Vol. 416
Crowd. Source: Civil Case WLD 6857 (1977), Vol. 416
Crowd Close-up. Source: Civil Case WLD 6857 (1977), Vol. 416
Police [army?] armed with clubs marching toward students.