Drum Magazine social history photographs, South Africa edition 366

Inside POQO – A dressmaker's dummy lies bullet-riddled amongst burnt wreckage from Paarl battle. Poqo is a terrorist movement. It is composed , largely, of angry young men who were embittered and frustrated and became desperate and lawless. And even when all the dreadful rituals of eye-gouging, throat-cutting and head-hacking are listed, the shocking truth about Poqo is that many, although not all, of its followers probably started out in life as decent, ordinary human beings, no worse and no better than the rest of the people of South Africa.