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

Table of Contents


Acknowledgments Readers' Guide
Introduction The Narrative Official Stories The Participants Afrikaans Memory and Violence Final Thoughts Archive
Abbreviations Glossary

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Acknowledgments Readers' Guide

Chapter 1: Introduction
Overview Context of the 1990s Historiography of Soweto Methodology and Conceptualization Summary of Arguments

Essays

Sam Nzima, Story of a Photograph Layers of Meaning—Testimonies in Time

Chapter 2: The Narrative
A Winter Morning The Shooting Aftermath Conclusion

Police Narrative Press Narrative Cillié Commission Narrative

Essay

Soweto: History, Geography, Society

Documents

Testimony at Cillié: Anonymous 1 Testimony at Cillié: Carruthers Testimony at Cillié: Lt. Chalmers (in Afrikaans) Cillié Report, Vol. 1 Police Testimony at Cillié: Capt. Greyffenberg (in Afrikaans) Police Testimony at Cillié: Sgt. Hattingh (in Afrikaans) Police Testimony at Cillié: Capt. Loubser (in Afrikaans) Police Statement: Lt. Col. Kleingeld (in Afrikaans) Misc. Comments by Commissioner Du Randt (in Afrikaans) Police Testimony at Cillié: Lt. Col. Kleingeld (Part 1, in Afrikaans) Police Testimony at Cillié: Lt. Col. Kleingeld (Part 2, in Afrikaans) Testimony at Cillié: Manyana Testimony at Cillié: Musi Testimony at at Truth and Reconciliation: Ndlovu Testimony at Cillié: Nzima Police Testimony at Cillié: Col. Swanepoel (in Afrikaans) Testimony at Cillié: Tema Testimony at Cillié: Brigadier Le Roux (in Afrikaans)

List of Slogans Letter from S. African Council on Alcoholism (in Afrikaans)
Chapter 3: Official Stories
Introduction Part 1: Commission of Inquiry (Cillié) Part 2: African National Congress (ANC) Part 3: Confronting Each Other: Cillié and ANC Part 4: Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) Conclusion

Essays

Beer Halls Winnie Mandela The Press as Witness The State and Legitimacy

Documents

Flyers of the ANC Distributed after June 16, 1976 Oliver Reginald Tambo U.N. Resolutions documents 77, 78, 79 Statement by Colin Eglin at House of Assembly List of Witnesses to Cillié Commission
Chapter 4: The Participants
Introduction Life Histories: Four Voices Shifting the Point of View Conclusion

Portraits

Lilli Mokganyetsi Sam Mashaba Patience Tshetlo Zakes Molotsi

Interviews

Lilli Mokganyetsi Sam Mashaba Patience Tshetlo Zakes Molotsi

Chapter 5: Afrikaans: Context and Factors
Perspectives on the Role of Afrikaans Precipitating Factor? Student Voices Conclusion

Essays

Setting the Stage Asingeni (We Will Not Enter) The Schools

Chapter 6: Memory and Violence
Introduction The Making of Memory The Dead The Disappeared The Wounded Conclusion

Document

Albertina Mshudulu (Excerpt From Affidavit)

Chapter 7: Final Thoughts
Archive
Glossary