Talk:Purple Rain protest

Ethnopunk (talk) 10:22, 5 May 2010 (UTC)

Suppresion of this page
A Canadian user is trying to suppress this page by deleting portions of it. Do you think this is because of the right-wing government in the America'sEthnopunk 09:43, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

No, I think it's because the pictures weren't licensed properly :) The new one you uploaded is licensed as a monetary currency, which obviously isn't correct, so perhaps is liable for deleting again. I'm sure the picture will be fine if you mention where it comes from - it should be fair use - there's a whole host of Wikipedia policies to read in this regard. Greenman 22:56, 20 August 2006 (UTC)

The last section is pretty pointless if you don't have an English translation, considering this is the English wiki. Cao 20:42, 28 September 2006 (UTC)

Writing Standards
Is the standard of this piece really all that good? I can understand that the 'eyewitness' thing may be useful ina conjecturous sort of way, but should it no at least be translated?

The 'did you know' section should ideally be renamed, and the section on journalists arrested seems pretty useless. To be fair though, most of the sections and items here are pretty useless and not exactly neutral. Jonomacdrones wrote the last piece and didn't sign it.

Should the text from Die Suid-Afrikaan be translated to english, as it is now in afrikaans? ��Dr.Poison 15:33, 10 October 2006 (UTC)

Please translate this into English
Die Suid-Afrikaan (The South African) saw it happen Wilma Odendaal of Die Suid-Afrikaan, was there and she saw things this way: "TEEN tienuur het mense al op Groentemarkplein saamgedrom. Oral in die strate was polisie; in daardie stadium, bet ek gedink, beslis in groter getalle as bona fide betogers... Daar was ‘n soort feestelikheid onder die mense; die dag was nie sleg nie, bewolk, maar sonder reën en glad nie vreeslik koud nie. Ek en ‘n paar vriende het eers koffie gaan drink en later na die Metodiste-kerk in Burgstraat gestap. Oral bet mense gegroet, name geroep, mekaar herken. Die Metodiste-kerk was stampvol. Op die verhoog het ‘n optogleier verduidelik wat die prosedure sou wees. Daar is groot klem gelê op ordelikheid, kalmte, dissipline. Dit was nd halfelf maar die optog is vertraag. Ons het nog op die groepie wat van die Bo-Kaap stad toe sou beweeg, gewag; mm wetende dat hulle al in hegtenis geneem is."

"Ek is weer buitentoe waar die atmosfeer in Burgstraat soos Jooldag op ‘n Saterdagmôre gevoel bet. Rondom Newspaper House het versiaggewers en noodhulpmense van die nabye Shawco-eenheid rondgestaan en skerts; oral was mense met kameras te bespeur. Die polisie, eenkant, bet toegekyk. Later sou ek weet dat Burgstraat ‘n vertoonkas was vergeleke met Waalstraat. Ek sou maklik net daar kon gebly het, tussen al die gemoedelikheid, deel van die geskerts, die veilige afstand van die pers wat waarneem en rapporteer, maar ‘n kollega trek my nader. “Kom, die optog van die katedraal bet begin.”

Op ‘n drafstap is ek agter haar aan, om die draai, en sien dan van Burgstraat se hoek af dat die optog in Waalstraat so-te-sê tot stilstand gekom bet. Ons glip tussen ‘n ry poli netjiese blougeklede SAP: ‘n nierassisties en nie-seksistiese beeld vir die buitestaanders en vir die buiteland... al was verteenwoordigers van die media verskuil in hoe geboue, agter gordyne en tussen die “gewone” inkopiegangers op Groentemarkplein om die mediaverbod op “onrus” te omseil. Volgens berigte uit Burgstraat is ‘n waterkanon met pers kleursel en traanrook gebruik om die “onwettige byeenkoms op te breek”. Net om die hoek in Waalstraat waar tweede opmars vanuit St Georgeskatedraal plaasgevind het, was dit ‘n ander storie." [6] Ethnopunk 12:37, 9 December 2006 (UTC)

I've just translated it as follows:

"By ten o'clock Greenmarket Square was already thronged with people. Everywhere in the streets there were police; at that stage, at least I thought, definitely in greater numbers than bona fide demonstrators... There was a sort of festive atmosphere amongst the people gathered; it wasn't a bad day, cloudy yes, but without rain and not terribly cold either. Myself and a few friends first drank some coffee, then later walked to the Methodist church in Burg street. Everywhere people were greeting one another, calling out names and recognising acquaintances. The Methodist church was full to the brim. On the pulpit there was a protest leader who was busy explaining what the day's procedure would be. A lot of emphasis was placed on orderliness, calmness and discipline. It was only half-past ten, but already the protest was delayed. We were still waiting for the group who would be arriving from the Bo Kaap; we didn't yet know that they had already been taken into police custody.

I went outside again, where the atmosphere in Burg street felt like that of a carnival on a Saturday morning. Around Newspaper House stood first-aid people and medical students from the nearby Shawco union, busy chatting and joking amongst themselves; everywhere one could see people with cameras. The police closely supervised [the protest] from the sidelines. Later I would realise that Burg street was like a display cabinet when compared to Waal street. I'd have easily been able to just stay there, surrounded by the overall geniality, and participated in the chatting and joking - at the safe distance from which the press was observing and reporting - but a colleague pulled me closer. "Come, the protest at the cathedral has begun".

I went after her at jogging pace, around the bend, and saw from Burg street's corner that the protest at Waal street had so-to-say ground to a halt. We squeezed through a multi-racial row of neatly blue-attired SAP [South African Police] men and women: a non-racist and non-sexist façade presented [by the government] for the onlookers and the rest of the world... although representatives of the media were hidden; in high buildings, behind curtains, and in-between the "normal" shoppers at Greenmarket Square; due to the media being forbidden from covering political unrest. According to reports from Burg street, teargas and a water cannon with purple dye were used to "break up the illegal gathering". Just around the corner in Waal street where a second march from St George's Cathedral took place, it was a different story."

--Life in General, Master of Tropes 19:56, 12 August 2010 (UTC)

Purpose
What was the officially stated purpose for using purple dye in the water cannon? I'd imagine it was to make it easier to identify demonstrators later but an official cite would be useful. --Black Butterfly 12:15, 15 July 2007 (UTC)

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BetacommandBot (talk) 04:41, 21 January 2008 (UTC)

"Epic moment"? Come on.
I want to change the title of that section to "climax", but I don't know if another term would be better. Help? tinlv7 [Please copy a response here] 18:00, 13 April 2009 (UTC)
 * In the absence of any other suggestions, and unable to think of a better name for the section, I've renamed it to the more NPOV "Climax". —  Life in General  Talk/Stalk 05:49, 3 January 2012 (UTC)

Advert tag
There is no rationale in calling this article an advertisement. It does need some work, but it is nonetheless satisfactory. I am removing the tag. • Sammy Majed   •  Talk   •  Creations  •  Wikipedia Arabic   • 16:21, 11 May 2017 (UTC)