Search results

Title: Men form a human chain to keep demonstrators at bay, Cape Town
Subject: National Party (South Africa), Demonstrations, Politics, ,
Description: Men form a human chain to keep demonstrators at bay, Cape Town. NP Election camp.
Identifier: islandora:15518

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: Father Michael Lapsley, Cape Town, 1997
Subject: Apartheid--South Africa, Political violence--South Africa, South Africa--Social conditions, War crimes investigation--South Africa, Lapsley, Michael, Truth and Lies,
Description: Father Michael Lapsley, Cape Town, 1997. A New Zealander, he arrived at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in 1973 and deported to Lesotho in 1976 where he joined the ANC and trained Anglican priests. In April 1990, after the release of Nelson Mandela, he received a letter bomb believed to have been sent by a government death squad. He lost an eye and both hands.
Identifier: islandora:785

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: Walter Sisulu, Trevor Manuel and Dullah Omar in Parliament , Cape Town
Subject: South Africa. Parliament, Governments, Politics, Legislation, ,
Description: Parliament 1994.
Identifier: islandora:15698

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: Oral history interview with Lionel Louw [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., Por6.03a.mp3: Part 1 of 2 ; 01:05:28 min. ; interview 3 of 6
Identifier: islandora:24451

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: First Speaker's Chair, Cape Town
Subject: South Africa. Parliament, Governments, Politics, Furniture, Laws, ,
Description: First Speaker's Chair.
Identifier: islandora:15711

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: Frances Baard at UDF launch, Cape Town, 1983
Subject: Women political activists, Public meetings, Anti-apartheid movements, Apartheid, Political history--South Africa, Beyond the Barricades
Description: Frances Baard, a former president of the African National Congress's Women's League (ANCWL), salutes the crowd gathered to launch the United Democratic Front (UDF) in Mitchell's Plain, Cape Town. The UDF drew together over 600 democratically-based community, student, trade union, women's, and church organisations and was the major legal oppositional force until the government severely curtailed its activities in 1988.
Identifier: islandora:889

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: Desmond Tutu, Cape Town, 2000
Subject: Apartheid--South Africa, Political violence--South Africa, South Africa--Social conditions, War crimes investigation--South Africa, Tutu, Desmond, Truth and Lies,
Description: Desmond Tutu, formerly Archbishop, at the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) headquarters, Cape Town, South Africa, 2000.
Identifier: islandora:795

Title: Breyten Breytenbach and his family, Cape Town
Subject: Breytenbach, Breyten, Anti-apartheid activists, Political activists, Apartheid era, Families--South Africa
Description: Breyten Breytenbach with family at Cape Town docks
Identifier: islandora:14847

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

Share