When Manenberg answered Soweto’s call

This letter to the editor by Julian Jacobs refutes the lie that the Coloured community sat out the struggle against apartheid. Jacobs recalls being six years old in Manenberg, Cape Town, in 1976 when riots from Soweto reached their streets, with soldiers shooting and teargas canisters thrown into his yard. He commemorates the men and women of Manenberg who answered Soweto's call, making Manenberg Avenue a battlefield against armored Casspirs and security police.