Salient. Victoria University Student Newspaper. Volume 36, Number 4. 21st March 1973
Police Shoot S.A. Teenagers
Police Shoot S.A. Teenagers
Two young boys were seriously injured by police bullets in South African towns last week. The police suspected both youths one aged fourteen, in Brixton, the other aged sixteen, in Cape Town, of having "committed a crime". In at least one case, the Johannesburg Star commented, the police "knew they were not dealing with a desperate criminal but a frightened boy who had already been detained". The fourteen year old was shot as he attempted to escape from a police station by breaking a window. He was "dreadfully injured".
The law in South Africa permits the police to shoot people, if there is no other means of effecting an arrest.
Cape Town — Banned NUSAS leaders living in the same houses are coping quite well despite "the unnecessary and ridiculous inconvenience"caused by their banning provisions, according to Miss Jeanette Curtis, sister of the banned ex-NUSAS president Neville Curtis. She said the banned people managed to avoid each other pretty well. They were able to speak and eat with members of the households who were not banned.
At the house in Mildene Road which is shared by five students, including two of the banned people; Paula Ensor, banned secretary-general of NUSWEL, has moved into the lounge so that she is at the opposite end of the house to banned NUSAS president Paul Pretorius. Previously their bedroom doors opened onto the same passage.
— Johannesburg Star.