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Title: Young pallbearers, Cape Town, 1985
Subject: Funeral service, Pallbearers, Police shootings, Apartheid, Political history--South Africa, Beyond the Barricades
Description: Young pallbearers, in school uniforms, stand at solemn attention at the funeral of three boys killed in the "Trojan Horse incident", when police, armed with pump-action shotguns and hiding in the back of a van, opened fire on a crowd in a residential street in Athlone, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:902

Title: Rev Beyers Naude, Cheryl Carolus and Thabo Mbeki share a joke, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), African National Congress, Politics, United Democratic Front, Liberation theology, South African Council of Churches
Description: The Rev Beyers Naude, left, United Democratic Front publicity officer Ms Cheryl Carolus and director of the African National Congress ' (ANC) international affairs Mr Thabo Mbeki share a joke.
Identifier: islandora:15919

Title: Basil D'Oliveira and Colin Crowdey expect that the South African tour will be cancelled
Subject: D'Oliveira, Basil, 1931-2011, Cricket players, Sports--Political aspects
Description: Today (Tues) when the MCC [Marylebone Cricket Club] meet, it is expected that the South African tour will be formally cancelled. Yesterday (Monday) two of the principal characters who still hope that all is not lost, met to talk things over. Basil D'Oliveira and Colin Cowdrey met for the first time since the crisis of the past week, at Cowdrey's home at Limpsfield, Kent. Said Colin: "It was the first opportunity I had to talk with Basil since his selection for the tour." D'Oliveira, in London after a cricket holiday in the West Country, said: "When the skipper telephoned to congratulate me on my selection he invited me to drop in for a meal when I was next in London to talk over the tour. We both still very much hope that a way may be found for the tour to continue." Said Colin: "I live in hope."
Identifier: islandora:14662

Title: 2002 Youth Against Apartheid
Subject: AIDS (Disease)--Political aspects--South Africa, Treatment Action Campaign, Social movements--South Africa
Description: Women dance and sing in front of a Treatment Action Campaign banner that states: "1976 Youth Against Apartheid 2002 Youth Against HIV/AIDS"
Identifier: islandora:1035

Title: Election violence, South Africa, 1995
Subject: Apartheid--South Africa--Umlazi, Political violence--South Africa--Umlazi, History--Political aspects--South Africa--Umlazi, Zulu (African people)--Clothing, Best of Marinovich
Description: An Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) supporting chief fires into houses during an IFP rally in Umlazi, KwaZulu-Natal, 1995.
Identifier: islandora:1200

Title: Singqokwana Malgas, New Brighton township, 1997
Subject: Apartheid--South Africa, Political violence--South Africa, South Africa--Social conditions, War crimes investigation--South Africa, Truth and Lies,
Description: Singqokwana Malgas was an African National Congress (ANC) veteran who had been imprisoned on Robben Island for fourteen years. While he was in prison, Malgas's house had been repeatedly firebombed and one of his sons had been killed. At the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) he described his ordeal of torture at the hands of the security police. Malgas told the TRC that he would like to tell his torturers, 'If we were only going to get freedom over our dead bodies, I'd like to make them aware we've got freedom.'
Identifier: islandora:796

Title: Mrs. Josephine Msweli, KwaSokhulu, 1997
Subject: Apartheid--South Africa, Political violence--South Africa, South Africa--Social conditions, War crimes investigation--South Africa, Truth and Lies,
Description: Josephine Msweli, Sappi Gum Tree forest, where her son, Simon, was murdered, 1997. Mrs. Msweli's family were African National Congress (ANC) sympathisers and were repeatedly attacked by members of Inkatha. Two of her sons were killed during separate attacks. She testified to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) that her son Simon and his friend had been kidnapped and taken to the Sappi Gum Tree forest where they were killed. She said the boys had been abducted by members of the stability unit and the KwaZulu police. She wanted the perpetrators to come forward so that she could establish why they did what they did and so that she could give them a piece of her mind before she would forgive them.
Identifier: islandora:755

Title: Community march in Port Nolloth
Subject: Demonstrations--South Africa--Port Nolloth, Political participation--South Africa--Port Nolloth, Relocation (Housing)--South Africa--Port Nolloth,
Description: Community march, with placards, in Port Nolloth. The placards call for job opportunities and decent housing. One placard reads "We want to stay in Port Nolloth".
Identifier: islandora:5282

Title: Zaria
Subject: Zaria Province (Nigeria)--Nigeria--Maps, Nigeria--Administrative and political divisions--Maps, ,
Description: Map of Zaria Province, Nigeria, and surrounding regions, showing railways, metalled roads, all weather motor roads, seasonal roads, other tracks, paths or explorers routes, telegraph and telephone lines, post offices with telegraph or telephone, wireless telegraph stations, minarets, mosques, fortified houses, lighthouses, ruins, waterpoints: wells and pools, mines and quarries, trigonometrical points, heights in metres, depths in metres, towns, native villages, international, intercolonial, provincial and district boundaries, rivers, canals, lakes, salt lakes, low ground liable to temporary flood, marsh, ground liable to flooding, oasis, sandy desert. Relief shown by contours and formlines. Colour. Scale 1: 1 000 000.
Identifier: islandora:19277

Title: Demonstations and protests, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Demonstrations, Politics
Description: African National Congress (ANC) protest, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:17890

Title: Man stands gesturing angrily in disagreement, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), National Party (South Africa), Politics
Description: A Nationalist interjector reacts angrily to a point made by one of the Herstigte speakers at the public meeting in the Parow Civic Centre last night.
Identifier: islandora:15978

Title: Tombouctou
Subject: Tombouctou (Mali)--Maps, Mali--Administrative and political divisions--Maps, ,
Description: Map showing Tombouctou in northern Mali, with sand dunes, lakes, rivers, roads, demarcated boundaries, place names. Other regions shown: Azaouad, Timetrine. Colour. Relief shown by form lines and shading. Scale 1: 1 000 000.
Identifier: islandora:19228

Title: Oral history interview with Mandla Moses Mthembu, a survivor of the Kwamadala Hostel massacre
Subject: Oral history, Boipatong (South Africa)--History, Violence--South Africa--Boipatong, South Africa--Politics and government--1989-1994, , ,
Description: In 1992 the Boipatong massacre was allegedly launched from the Kwamadala Hostel. Forty-five people were killed and twenty-two severely injured. The township of Boipatong was established in 1955 to house workers from nearby industries in the Vaal Triangle and the Kwamadala Hostel lies across the highway from this township. This area experienced high political tension in the early 1990s between supporters of the African National Congress (ANC) and of the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP). The interviews in this collection focus on memories of the 1992 Kwamadala Hostel dwellers' massacre in the Boipatong. Themes include: the the political factions involved such as the ANC and the IFP and the history of political tensions between the two factions; the events building up to the massacre; police collusion; and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC)., Pol1.02.mp3: Part 1 of 1 ; 01:08:16 min. ; interview 2 of 5
Identifier: islandora:24437

Title: Young Muslim woman with her first in the air, Cape Town
Subject: Religion, Islam, Demonstrations, Youth, Political activists, ,
Description: Young Muslim woman with her first in the air, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:15473

Title: Allan and Dorothy Boesak after he was released on bail, Cape Town
Subject: Boesak, Allan Aubrey, 1946-, Political activists, Boesak, Dorothy, Apartheid era
Description: Anti-apartheid church leader Dr. Allan Boesak reunited with his wife Dorothy after being charged today with subversion and released on R20 000 bail.
Identifier: islandora:14828

Title: ANC supporter with "Free Mandela Now" badge, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), African National Congress, State of Emergency, Detention, Political activists, United Democratic Front (South Africa),
Description: "Free Mandela Now" reads the badge on his beret, but this man himself risks imprisonment for showing the colours of a banned organisation at the height of the State of Emergency
Identifier: islandora:15926

Title: Robben Island reunion
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Robben Island (South Africa), Political prisoners, Historic sites, Monuments, Limestone
Description: Freed prisoners revisit the island, Cape Town
Identifier: islandora:16499

Title: Three African leaders looking at documents, Cape Town
Subject: Apartheid, Politics, ,
Description: First of the African homeland leaders who arrived in Cape town today before their meeting with the Prime Minister, Mr B.J. Vorster, in Cape Town tomorrow were (from left) Chief Wessel Mota of Qwa Qwa, Chief Gatsha Buthelezi of KwaZulu, and Chief Patrick Mphephu of Vendaland.
Identifier: islandora:15529

Title: Winnie Mandela and family, Cape Town
Subject: Apartheid--South Africa, South Africa--Politics and government--1978-1989, South Africa--History--1961-1994, Political activists--South Africa, Political prisoners--South Africa,
Description: Winnie Mandela and family with Dullah Omar (lawyer) during a Christmas visit to see Nelson Mandela at Victor Verster prison in Paarl, Cape Town., circa 1980s
Identifier: islandora:12638

Title: Flag protest, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Demonstrations, Politics
Description: Flag protest, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:17771

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