On this day, 16 November 1984, 2,000 Black tenants were arrested near Johannesburg, South Africa for non-payment of rent. They claimed, truthfully, that they were unable to pay rent because they had burned down the rent office, but apparently the police did not consider this a valid excuse.
Pictured: rent strikers in Johannesburg, 1984 https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/1265248976993583/?type=3