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Title: Protest, Johannesburg, 1990
Subject: Apartheid--South Africa--Johannesburg, Demonstrations--South Africa--Johannesburg, Blacks--South Africa--Johannesburg
Description: A protest gathering at Jabulani Amphitheatre, Johannesburg, 1990.
Identifier: islandora:1430

Title: Labour strike, Johannesburg
Subject: Strikes and lockouts--South Africa, Labor union members--South Africa, Labor unions--South Africa, South Africa--Social conditions--20th century, Apartheid, The Cordoned Heart
Description: A meeting of striking OK Bazaar workers.
Identifier: islandora:5747

Title: The end of Sophiatown, 1959
Subject: Sophiatown (Johannesburg, South Africa)--Social conditions, Apartheid--South Africa--Sophiatown (Johannesburg), Blacks--Housing--South Africa--Sophiatown (Johannesburg), Forced migration--South Africa--Sophiatown (Johannesburg), Rubble--South Africa--Sophiatown (Johannesburg)
Description: By 1959 most of the houses in Sophiatown had disappeared. Big machines and men with picks beat down the last walls of Sophiatown.
Identifier: islandora:7458

Title: Winnie Mandela arrives at Parliament, Cape Town
Subject: Mandela, Winnie, Tshwete, Steve, Politicians--South Africa, Post-apartheid era
Description: Parliamentary Parade: Winnie Mandela, in a striking tunic and hat greets a well-wisher on arrival at Parliament today. With them, centre, is Minister of Sport and Recreation, Steve Tshwete
Identifier: islandora:14747

Title: Black Sash protestor, Cape Town
Subject: Apartheid--South Africa, South Africa--Politics and government--1978-1989, South Africa--History--1961-1994, Political prisoners--South Africa, Political activists--South Africa, Women--South Africa, Demonstrations--South Africa, Black Sash (Society),
Description: A woman protests against the detainment of anti-apartheid activists, Cape Town. Her sign reads, "Release or charge all detainees"., circa 1980s
Identifier: islandora:12623

Title: Winnie Mandela walks with friends, Cape Town
Subject: Mandela, Winnie, Anti-apartheid activists
Description: Winnie Mandela
Identifier: islandora:14719

Title: Supporters surround the convoy carrying Nelson Mandela, Cape Town
Subject: Crowds--South Africa, Motorcars, Post-apartheid era
Description: Convoy of cars carrying Nelson Mandela
Identifier: islandora:14757

Title: Oral history interview with Dr. Sydney Luckett [Part 1 of 2]
Subject: Oral history, United Democratic Front (South Africa), Anti-apartheid activists--South Africa--Interviews, Anti-apartheid movements--South Africa, Government, Resistance to--South Africa, South Africa--Politics and government, ,
Description: The United Democratic Front (UDF) was established as a non-racial, anti-apartheid coalition in 1983. The interviews in this collection deal with the formation and impact of the UDF in the Western Cape in the 1980s. Key figures involved with the UDF are interviewed, including Cheryl Carolus, Lionel Louw, Sydney Luckett and Phyllis Orner. Themes include: community based organisations affiliated to the UDF; the effects of apartheid; religious affiliation; role of the UDF in the community; trade unions. These interviews originate from research conducted for the Albert Luthuli Young Historians Award 2008., Por6.04a.mp3: Part 1 of 2 ; 58:10 min. ; interview 4 of 6
Identifier: islandora:24453

Title: Oral history interview with Cheryl Carolus [Part 2 of 2]
Subject: Oral history, United Democratic Front (South Africa), Anti-apartheid activists--South Africa--Interviews, Anti-apartheid movements--South Africa, Government, Resistance to--South Africa, South Africa--Politics and government, ,
Description: The United Democratic Front (UDF) was established as a non-racial anti-apartheid coalition in 1983. The interviews in this collection deal with the formation and impact of the UDF in the Western Cape in the 1980s. Themes include: community based organisations affiliated to the UDF; effects of apartheid; key figures involved with the UDF (including: Cheryl Carolus, Lionel Louw, Sydney Luckett, Phyllis Orner); religious affiliation; role of the UDF in the community; trade unions. These interviews originate from research conducted for the Albert Luthuli Young Historians Award 2008., Por6.01b.mp3: Part 2 of 2 ; 36:40 min ; interview 1 of 6
Identifier: islandora:24448

Title: Dr. Wouter Basson, Pretoria, 2000
Subject: Apartheid--South Africa, Political violence--South Africa, South Africa--Social conditions, War crimes investigation--South Africa, Basson, Wouter, 1950-, Truth and Lies,
Description: Wouter Basson, Pretoria, 2000. Basson, an ex-South African Army Brigadier, was founder and head of 'Project Coast', the Army's secret biological and chemical warfare programme between 1981 and 1993. Nicknamed 'Dr. Death', he went to trial in Pretoria 1999, charged with sixty-one counts of murder, conspiracy to murder, possession of addictive drugs, and fraud. He refused to apply for amnesty, but was called to give evidence to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC)'s enquiry into biological and chemical warfare.
Identifier: islandora:759

Title: Loader Street, Cape Town
Subject: Apartheid, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Residential buildings, Infrastructure, Historic districts, ,
Description: Residences in Loader Street, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:15207

Title: 101 Battalion, Cape Town, 1987
Subject: Soldiers, Black, Parades, South Africa. South African Defence Force, Apartheid, Political history--South Africa, Beyond the Barricades
Description: Children and other spectators look on as members of the 101 Battalion, recruited in Namibia, drill at a parade celebrating the 75th year of the South African Defense Force. Although blacks who enlisted in the South African Defense Force faced ostracism in their communities, many joined the army out of desperate economic necessity.
Identifier: islandora:877

Title: Oral history interview with Jerome Nell and Clifford Cox [Part 1 of 2]
Subject: Oral history, Drinking of alcoholic beverages--Social aspects--South Africa, Apartheid--South Africa, Alcohol--Government policy--South Africa
Description: This project spans three sub-collections. This case study in Windermere/Kensington in the Western Cape focuses on the coloured residents of the area and examines the socio-political environment and racial/gender discrimination with regards to alcohol under apartheid policies. Themes include: discriminatory laws, government policy, housing, racialised spaces and the smuggling of alcohol by residents and shebeens (a bar, predominately in the townships where alcohol is sold)., Pin9.12a.mp3: Part 1 of 2 ; 31:50 min, ; interview 12 of 15
Identifier: islandora:29678

Title: Oral history interview with Lionel Louw [Part 2 of 2]
Subject: Oral history, United Democratic Front (South Africa), Anti-apartheid activists--South Africa--Interviews, Anti-apartheid movements--South Africa, Government, Resistance to--South Africa, South Africa--Politics and government, ,
Description: The United Democratic Front (UDF) was established as a non-racial, anti-apartheid coalition in 1983. The interviews in this collection deal with the formation and impact of the UDF in the Western Cape in the 1980s. Key figures involved with the UDF are interviewed, including Cheryl Carolus, Lionel Louw, Sydney Luckett and Phyllis Orner. Themes include: community based organisations affiliated to the UDF; the effects of apartheid; religious affiliation; role of the UDF in the community; trade unions. These interviews originate from research conducted for the Albert Luthuli Young Historians Award 2008., Por6.03b.mp3: Part 2 of 2 ; 54:52 min. ; interview 3 of 6
Identifier: islandora:24452

Title: Winnie Mandela with the family's lawyers, Cape Town
Subject: circa 1985, Mandela, Winnie, Bizos, George, Ayob, Ismail, Anti-apartheid activists
Description: Winnie Mandela with lawyers (left to right) [Ismail] Ayob and George Bizos
Identifier: islandora:14740

Title: Protest march, Cape Town, 1989
Subject: Apartheid--South Africa, South Africa--Politics and government--1978-1989, South Africa--History--1961-1994, Demonstrations--South Africa,
Description: Anti-apartheid march in Cape Town, 13 September, 1989. Sign reads, PEACE IN OUR CITY. STOP THE KILLINGS.
Identifier: islandora:12580

Title: Winnie Mandela with a friend, Cape Town
Subject: Mandela, Winnie, Anti-apartheid activists
Description: Winnie Mandela
Identifier: islandora:14713

Title: Labour strike meeting, Johannesburg, 1987
Subject: Labor union meetings, Strikes and lockouts--Retail trade, Apartheid, Political history--South Africa, Beyond the Barricades
Description: Striking OK Bazaars workers meet at union headquarters in Cosatu House, Johannesburg. A major supermarket chain, OK Bazaars has a large work force, organised by the Commercial, Catering, and Allied Workers Union (CCAWUSA), which led many campaigns on behalf of food store workers.
Identifier: islandora:861

Title: Oral history interview with R. Clark [Part 2 of 2]
Subject: Oral history, Anti-apartheid activists--South Africa--Interviews, Civil rights movements--South Africa, Government, Resistance to--South Africa, Colored people (South Africa)--Political activity, South Africa--Politics and government--1909-1948
Description: The interviews in this collection cover a wide range of topics linked to coloured identity, political organisations and activities in South Africa during the 1940s and post-1948 era. It includes information on protest actions, the defiance campaign, the torch commando, boycotts and train resistance efforts following the 1948 National Party election. Themes include the Anti-Coloured Affairs Department movement (Anti-CAD), civic organisations, education and welfare, the introduction of the Group Areas Act, political parties, race and class issues, the removal of coloured men from the national voters roll in 1956 and the Unity Movement., Pin3.03b.mp3: Part 2 of 2 ; 32:09 min. ; interview 3 of 11
Identifier: islandora:19425

Title: Yengeni Trial co-accused, Cape Town
Subject: Apartheid--South Africa, South Africa--Politics and government--1978-1989, South Africa--History--1961-1994, Political activists--South Africa, Women--South Africa, Lombard, Colleen, Abass, Zuraya,
Description: Colleen Lombard and Zuraya Abass, the two co-accused in the Yengeni Trial, with family members at the Supreme/High Court, 1989.
Identifier: islandora:12582

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