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Title: Burial of Crossroads resident
Subject: squatter camps, townships, effects of political violence, mournersBurial--South Africa--Cape Town, Coffins, Squatter settlements--South Africa--Cape Town, Political violence--South Africa--Cape Town
Description: The burial of a resident of Crossroads informal settlement who was killed by 'witdoeke' (vigilantes).
Identifier: islandora:8382

Title: Nine years ' for pacifism
Subject: South Africa--Politics and government--1978-1989--Caricatures and cartoons, Conscientious objectors--South Africa--Caricatures and cartoons, South African wit and humor, Pictorial, South Africa
Description: Heavy penalties were imposed on conscientious objectors who refused to fight in the South African Defence Force. Description provided by Tony Grogan.
Identifier: islandora:6165

Title: KTC resident
Subject: squatter camps, townships, destruction, violence, gunsSquatter settlements--South Africa--Cape Town, Political violence--South Africa--Cape Town, Weapons, Vigilantes--South Africa--Cape Town
Description: Residents of KTC informal settlement fight 'witdoeke' (vigilantes).
Identifier: islandora:8371

Title: Street clashes, South Africa, 1991
Subject: Apartheid--South Africa--Sebokeng, Political violence--South Africa--Sebokeng, Weapons--South Africa--Sebokeng, Demonstrations--South Africa--Sebokeng, Children--South Africa--Sebokeng, Best of Marinovich
Description: A young boy brandishes a toy gun at police armoured vehicles as his friend spots another police vehicle coming up a side street, Sebokeng, 1991.
Identifier: islandora:1210

Title: Conscientious objectors protest, UCT
Subject: Apartheid--South Africa, South Africa--Politics and government--1978-1989, South Africa--History--1961-1994, Demonstrations--South Africa, Youths--South Africa, Political activists--South Africa, Conscientious objectors--South Africa,
Description: A sign reads, "Support objectors! STOP the call-up", at a demonstration to end military conscription in South Africa, central Cape Town., circa 1980s
Identifier: islandora:12635

Title: Delmas trial, Delmas, 1985
Subject: Trials (Treason), Valli, Mohammed, Apartheid, Apartheid, Political history--South Africa, Beyond the Barricades
Description: Mohammed Valli, Transvaal secretary of the United Democratic Front (UDF), and other spectators peer into the courtroom at the start of the Delmas treason trial. Twenty-two UDF and other activists were charged with furthering the aims of the African National Congress (ANC) and with conspiring to overthrow the government.
Identifier: islandora:912

Title: Woman protests army occupation, Soweto, 1985
Subject: Military occupation, Women--Political activity, Apartheid, Political history--South Africa, Beyond the Barricades
Description: A lone woman protests against the presence of troops in Soweto. Women played a significant role against the army's occupation of the townships. In Chesterville, a township near Durban, women patrolled the streets nightly to protect families from security force and vigilante harassment.
Identifier: islandora:909

Title: Right wing conservatives at election rally, Pretoria, South Africa
Subject: Political history--South Africa--Pretoria, Elections--South Africa--Pretoria, Apartheid--South Africa--Pretoria, Segregation--South Africa--Pretoria, Race discrimination--South Africa--Pretoria
Description: Right-wing conservatives rally for another all-white by-election, which increased pro-apartheid representation in the all-white Parliament, Pretoria, South Africa, February 1982.
Identifier: islandora:5331

Title: Exhumation, Vlakplaas, 1998
Subject: Apartheid--South Africa, Political violence--South Africa, South Africa--Social conditions, War crimes investigation--South Africa, Truth and Lies,
Description: Tholakele Ngqulunga, during an exhumation at her husband's grave, Vlakplaas 1998.
Identifier: islandora:803

Title: Women in defiance, Johannesburg, 1952
Subject: Johannesburg (South Africa)--Social conditions, Apartheid--South Africa--Johannesburg, Women political activists--South Africa--Johannesburg, Race discrimination--South Africa--Johannesburg, Women, Black--South Africa--Johannesburg
Description: Women of the African National Congress (ANC) in Johannesburg participating in the Defiance Campaign, 1952.
Identifier: islandora:7463

Title: Chicken co-operative
Subject: birds, political prisonersPolitical prisoners--Rehabilitation--South Africa, Chickens
Description: A chicken-farming co-operative established to provide employment for former political detainees.
Identifier: islandora:8423

Title: Carta de Moçambique
Subject: Mozambique--Administrative and political divisions--Maps, Mozambique--Maps, ,
Description: Map of Mozambique showing political and administrative boundaries, towns, rivers, cities, railway lines and telegraph links. Scale 1:3 000 000.
Identifier: islandora:30061

Title: Sisulu and wife on his release from prison, Soweto, 1989
Subject: Apartheid--South Africa, South Africa--Politics and government--1978-1989, South Africa--History--1961-1994, Political prisoners--South Africa, Political activists--South Africa, Sisulu, Walter Max, Kathrada, A. M. (Ahmad M.),
Description: Walter Sisulu with his wife, Albertina, and Ahmed Kathrada, amongst others, at an ANC (African National Congress) rally for released leaders, including Walter Sisulu, Soweto, 29 October, 1989.
Identifier: islandora:12596

Title: Nyae Nyae Farmers' Co-operative
Subject: Bushman, San, indigenous, Southern Africa, group, discussion, men, women, land rights, meeting, San (African people)--Namibia, San (African people)--Namibia--Politics and government, Indigenous peoples--Namibia, Cooperative societies meetings--Namibia, Agriculture, Cooperative--Namibia, Namibia
Identifier: islandora:12118

Title: Just as I thought. You appear to be suffering from a credibility gap
Subject: Malan, Magnus, 1930-2011--Caricatures and cartoons, South Africa--Politics and government--1978-1989--Caricatures and cartoons, South African wit and humor, Pictorial, South Africa
Description: Announcements by Defence Minister Magnus Malan that our troops were not in Angola were met with scepticism while the media in the rest of the world were full of reports of their presence in that country. Description provided by Tony Grogan.
Identifier: islandora:6158

Title: Discussing removal
Subject: Bushman, Southern Africa, man, portrait, meeting, San, indigenous, imminent removal, land rights, San (African people)--Botswana--Ghanzi District--Politics and government, San (African people)--Relocation--Botswana--Ghanzi District, Ghanzi District (Botswana)
Identifier: islandora:12267

Title: DTA meeting
Subject: Bushman, Southern Africa, meeting, rally, politics, San, indigenous, crowd, politics, gathering, Democratic Turnhalle Alliance (Namibia), San (African people)--Namibia--Politics and government, Public meetings--Namibia, Gobabis District (Namibia)
Description: A crowd of people attending a DTA (Democratic Turnhalle Alliance) meeting on a farm. Gobabis District, Namibia.
Identifier: islandora:11843

Title: ANC refugees, South Africa, 1994
Subject: Apartheid--South Africa--KwaZulu-Natal, Refugees--South Africa--KwaZulu-Natal, History--Political aspects--South Africa--KwaZulu-Natal, KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa)--Social conditions, Best of Marinovich
Description: A family carry their belongings home after months in a refugee camp for African National Congress (ANC) supporting families from the Sonkombo area from which they had fled months earlier because of attacks by rival Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP). Sonkombo, KwaZulu-Natal, 1994.
Identifier: islandora:1199

Title: A new South Africa?
Subject: white men, white women, old South African flagElections--South Africa--1987, Political candidates--South Africa, Politicians--South Africa, Women, White--South Africa, Men, White--South Africa
Description: Independent Movement members Denis Worrall (right), Ester Lategan and Wynand Malan share a platform in Stellenbosch.
Identifier: islandora:8387

Title: Bad news, Mr President. The dollar's crashed against toilet paper!
Subject: Zimbabwe--Economic conditions--1980- --Caricatures and cartoons, Mugabe, Robert Gabriel, 1924- --Caricatures and cartoons, Inflation (Finance)--Zimbabwe-- Caricatures and cartoons, Zimbabwe--Politics and government--1980- --Caricatures and cartoons, South African wit and humor, Pictorial, Zimbabwe
Description: Under the lunatic economic policies of ZANU-PF (Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front) the value of the Zimbabwe dollar went into free fall. Printing money was one of the solutions adopted to support it. Description provided by Tony Grogan.
Identifier: islandora:6137

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