Other formats

    Adobe Portable Document Format file (facsimile images)   TEI XML file   ePub eBook file  

Connect

    mail icontwitter iconBlogspot iconrss icon

Salient. Victoria University Student Newspaper. Vol. 35. No. 13. 14 June 1972

Had no Option

Had no Option

Reports that Colonel Crous gave the order for action are therefore false — and if he himself has told anyone that he gave the order, he was clearly trying to protect his superior officer. Brigadier Lamprecht, who was with the main body of police on the pavement.

Colonel Crous was merely caught up in the events that followed, and had no option but to join in, which he, did possibly with reluctance.

Footnote: A question being passed in Cape Town yesterday was: Where was Brig. M. P. Loubser, Divisional Commissioner of Police for the Western Cape ?

Most of the police used in the baton charge at the Cathedral of Friday were from the uniformed branch — and these men fall directly under the command of the Divisional Commissioner, who is himself a uniformed member of the force.

It has been confirmed that Brigadier Loubser was in his office on Friday afternoon.

Photo of two police officers standing over a man. One officer is about to strike him with a baton