7 December 1976: This edited eye-witness account of the action by South African police in a black township near Cape Town was written by a ‘coloured’ teacher in a letter to a friend in Britain MY DEAREST L,Received your letter nowadays. I feel so terribly, terribly guilty. I have started several letters and not completed one of them. I am just too subjective about what has happened in our country. I have enclosed news cuttings which may give you an opinion as to what things were like yesterday and nowadays. The headmaster stayed absent from school, and as did some other teachers who feared for their cars and their lives. We haven’t done much by way of teaching since the Soweto riots first began. Kids were restless,tense and confused.
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Source: theguardian.com