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Title: Political detainees and house arrest, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Political prisoners, Apartheid, Youth
Description: Political detainees, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:17919

Title: Political protests, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Demonstrations, Apartheid, Politics
Description: Political protests, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:17715

Title: Oral history interview with Mr September [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., Pin3.08b.mp3: Part 2 of 2 ; 10:17 min. ; interview 8 of 11
Identifier: islandora:19421

Title: Oral history interview with Otillie Abrahams [Part 2 of 2]
Subject: Oral history, Political activists-- Namibia--Interviews, Namibia--Politics and government, Government, resistance to--Namibia, Abrahams, Otillie
Description: This is a series of unrelated interviews from the period 1985-1990 with people involved in different spheres of political life in Africa, with particular reference to the politics of South Africa, Namibia, Kenya, Zambia and the Congo. Interviewees include, Jane Gool, Hassan Howa, Hosea Jaffe, I.B. Tabata, Jack Cope and Otillie Abrahams. Themes include: African National Congress (ANC) training camps, anti-discrimination in sport, life in exile in Botswana and Namibia, gender empowerment , the history of St. Francis, Langa in the Western Cape, Non-European Unity Movement (NUEM), political upheaval in Kenya, rural life and work and the South West African Peoples Organisation (SWAPO), Pin4.09b.mp3: Part 2 of 2 ; 48:25 min. ; interview 9 of 52
Identifier: islandora:25849

Title: Anti-apartheid demonstration, London, 1971
Subject: Demonstrations--Trafalgar Square (London, England), Anti-apartheid activists--Trafalgar Square (London, England), History--Political aspects--South Africa, History--Political aspects--Trafalgar Square (London, England), Winer Batch01
Description: Anti-apartheid demonstration, Trafalgar Square, London, 1971.
Identifier: islandora:281

Title: Zulu hostel, South Africa, 1992
Subject: Apartheid--South Africa--Soweto, Political violence--South Africa--Soweto, Soweto (South Africa)--Social conditions, History--Political aspects--South Africa--Soweto, Weapons--South Africa--Soweto, Best of Marinovich
Description: Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) supporters show off weapons in a shebeen in Dobsonville hostel, while police search for weapons outside, Soweto, 1992. Thousands of people, both civilians and combatants, died in the so-called "Hostel War" that lasted from 1989-1995.
Identifier: islandora:1190

Title: State President , J.J. Fouche gives speech in Parliament, Cape Town
Subject: South Africa. Parliament, Legislation, Governments, Politics, ,
Description: Flanked by senior offices of the Defence Force and Police, the State President, Mr J.J. Fouche, delivers his speech to open Parliament today.
Identifier: islandora:15786

Title: Basil D'Oliveira makes an urgent phone call
Subject: D'Oliveira, Basil, 1931-2011, Cricket players, Sports--Political aspects
Description: Basil D'Oliveira, anxious to find out whether plans for the proposed cricket tour to South Africa had been completed, puts through an urgent call from the "Cape Times" offices to Colin Cowdrey in London.
Identifier: islandora:14660

Title: Demonstations and protests, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Demonstrations, Politics, South African Police
Description: Police try to contain a protest, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:17878

Title: UDF meeting, Cape Town
Subject: Public meetings--South Africa, Political activists--South Africa, Boesak, Allan Aubrey, 1946-, Political history--South Africa, South Africa--Social conditions--20th century, Apartheid, The Cordoned Heart
Description: Dr. Allan Boesak and Mrs. Helen Joseph at a United Democractic Front (UDF) meeting, Cape Town, 1984.
Identifier: islandora:5741

Title: FEDTRAW protest, Gauteng, circa 1985
Subject: Woman political activists, Anti-apartheid activists, Demonstrations, Apartheid, Political history--South Africa, Beyond the Barricades
Description: A woman from the Federation of Transvaal Women (FEDTRAW) carries a picket stating, "Freedom Justice and Peace NOW!" Popular protest was severely restricted, and members of FEDTRAW were charged with sedition and subversion, and held in detention without trial, as the government worked to immobilise and disrupt opposition to apartheid.
Identifier: islandora:915

Title: SWAPO protest, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Demonstrations, Politics, SWAPO
Description: South West Africa People's Organisation (SWAPO) protest, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:17814

Title: Former Robben Island prisoners, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Political prisoners, Apartheid
Description: Former Robben Island prisoners at Table Bay harbour soon after their release this morning. The three, from left, Mr Theophilus Cholo, Mr Maqina Mpanza and Mr Sandi Sijake, spent 15 years on Robben Island after they were convicted in 1973.
Identifier: islandora:17906

Title: Allan Boesak and Desmond Tutu, Cape Town
Subject: Boesak, Allan Aubrey, 1946-, Tutu, Desmond, Demonstrations, Political activists, Apartheid era
Description: Allan Boesak and Desmond Tutu address a demonstration in Cape Town
Identifier: islandora:14841

Title: Nomandla Yako
Subject: AIDS (Disease)--Political aspects--South Africa, Treatment Action Campaign, Yako, Nomandla, Social movements--South Africa
Description: Nomandla Yako addresses the press at a Treatment Action Campaign press conference
Identifier: islandora:1052

Title: Coloured supporter of the Nationalist Party gives ANC the finger, Cape Town
Subject: Grassy Park (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Politics, African National Congress, National Party (South Africa), Election campaigns, Democracy
Description: Strong sentiments: A Nationa Party (NP) supporter demonstrates his feelings towards African National Congress (ANC) supporters at a Grassy Park rally addressed by ANC president Mr Nelson Mandela
Identifier: islandora:15893

Title: Robben Island prison cell, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Jails, Reformatories, Political prisoners, Interior decoration, Personal belongings
Description: An inside view of a typical single cell.
Identifier: islandora:16032

Title: Mrs Botha and Mrs Tshabalala, Soweto, 1984
Subject: Local government, Politicians' spouses, Botha, Elize, Apartheid, Political history--South Africa, Beyond the Barricades
Description: Mrs Elize Botha, then wife of the state president, and Mrs Tshabalala, then wife of the mayor of Soweto, leave the town council building in August 1984 after then President and Mrs Botha were granted "the freedom of the township" in a ceremony derived from an old British tradition.
Identifier: islandora:884

Title: ANC rally for released political prisoners, Soweto, 1990
Subject: Apartheid--South Africa, South Africa--Politics and government--1978-1989, South Africa--History--1961-1994, Demonstrations--South Africa, Political activists--South Africa,
Description: Thousands of supporters attend an ANC (African National Congress) rally for released leaders, including Walter Sisulu, in Soweto, 29 October, 1989.
Identifier: islandora:12592

Title: Quack Quack ... President Mbeki's chief adviser on medical matters
Subject: South Africa--Politics and government--1994- --Caricatures and cartoons, AIDS (Disease)--Government policy--South Africa--Caricatures and cartoons, South African wit and humor, Pictorial, South Africa
Description: President Mbeki's denialist position on HIV/AIDS and his dependence on the quack opinions of his panel of his AIDS advisers baffled medical experts and confused the public. The duck quacking away inanely became a useful adjunct in many of my cartoons on this subject. Description provided by Tony Grogan.
Identifier: islandora:6125

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