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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: Alliance for Radical Change meeting, Cape Town
Subject: Mowbray (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Politics, Apartheid, Elections, Youth
Description: Mr Jack Curtis (left), who was the main speaker at the Alliance for Radical Change meeting in Mowbray on Thursday night. The meeting was attended by about 250 people. Mr Curtis, father of the banned student leader Mr Neville Curtis, addressed students at the University of Cape Town (UCT) yesterday.
Identifier: islandora:18065

Title: ANC election campaign rally, Athlone, Cape Town
Subject: Advertising, Political--South Africa--Cape TownPolitical campaigns--South Africa--Cape Town,
Description: A giant balloon, with the words "ANC, a better life for all", flies over an African National Congress (ANC) election campaign rally.
Identifier: islandora:5300

Title: Demonstrations, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Demonstrations, Politics, Apartheid
Description: Demonstrations, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:17667

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: Sheikh Mohammed Abdullah shakes hands with Dr. Allan Boesak, Cape Town
Subject: Religious leaders, Political activists, Boesak, Allan Aubrey, 1946-
Description: Al Serbail, Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah
Identifier: islandora:14705

Title: ANC Women's League protest, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Politics, African National Congress, African National Congress. Women--s League, Demonstrations
Description: Boarding Party: Members of the ANC's Women's League on board a Robben Island ferry last night.
Identifier: islandora:15930

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: 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: Oral history interview with Dr Partic de Goede [Part 2 of 2]
Subject: Oral history, Political activists--Interviews, Government, Resistance to
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), Pin4.20b.mp3: Part 2 of 2 ; 32:05 min. ; interview 20 of 52
Identifier: islandora:25865

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: Cabinet members, Cape Town, 1975
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Politics, Cabinet ministers, National Party (South Africa), Governments
Description: Prime Minister B.J. Vorster and State President Nico Diedrichs (centre front) with members of the Cabinet, 1975
Identifier: islandora:16941

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: Spacious office of a Minister, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Politics, South Africa. Parliament, Legislation, Interior decoration
Description: The office of the Minister of the Budget in the House of Delegates, Mr Boetie Abramjee, who sits at his desk.
Identifier: islandora:15962

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

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