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Title: Piebald Court
Subject: South Africa--Politics and government--1978-1989--Caricatures and cartoons, Apartheid--South Africa--Caricatures and cartoons, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, South African wit and humor, Pictorial, South Africa
Description: Inevitable racial mixing in the urban areas forced the government to make some adaptions to their policy of rigid racial separation, which gave rise to anomalies and inconsistencies, which were explained as 'the natural evolution' of apartheid. Description provided by Tony Grogan.
Identifier: islandora:6146

Title: Laagers
Subject: South Africa--Politics and government--1978-1989--Caricatures and cartoons, South Africa--Social conditions--1961-1994--Caricatures and cartoons, Political violence--South Africa--Caricatures and cartoons, South African wit and humor, Pictorial, South Africa
Description: History seemed to repeat itself when upheaval in the townships caused a nervous government to seek security by surrounding itself within a laager of steel. Description provided by Tony Grogan.
Identifier: islandora:6195

Title: I knew it ' give them an inch and they'll take a foot. '.- he's doing the backstroke in the bathtub!
Subject: South Africa--Politics and government--1961-1978--Caricatures and cartoons, Apartheid--South Africa--Caricatures and cartoons, Blacks--South Africa--Social conditions--Caricatures and cartoons, South African wit and humor, Pictorial, South Africa
Description: One of the adjustments to apartheid necessary to accommodate influential black people visiting the urban centres was to allow blacks to stay in previously 'whites only' hotels provided they qualified as 'bona fide' travellers. This caused grave disquiet among purist government supporters. Description provided by Tony Grogan.
Identifier: islandora:6147

Title: Renounce violence and we'll let you out
Subject: Botha, P. W. (Pieter Willem)--Caricatures and cartoons, South Africa--Politics and government--1978-1989--Caricatures and cartoons, Militarism--South Africa--Caricatures and cartoons, South African wit and humor, Pictorial, South Africa
Description: Armed to the teeth, violently suppressing its own population and creating mayhem in neighbouring states, the State demanded that Mandela renounce violence as a condition for his release. Description provided by Tony Grogan.
Identifier: islandora:6188

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: 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: All in the spirit of give and take
Subject: South Africa--Politics and government--1978-1989--Caricatures and cartoons, Apartheid--South Africa--Caricatures and cartoons, South African wit and humor, Pictorial, Bantustans--Caricatures and cartoons, South Africa
Description: Under the Group Areas and Independent Homeland policies, consolidation often meant changing boundaries and cutting up and parcelling out land according to the claims of� homeland leaders and against the wishes of people living in these areas. Description provided by Tony Grogan.
Identifier: islandora:6150

Title: Untitled
Subject: South Africa--Politics and government--1978-1989--Caricatures and cartoons, Politicians--South Africa--Caricatures and cartoons, South Africa--Social conditions--1961-1994--Caricatures and cartoons, South African wit and humor, Pictorial, South Africa
Description: Public protests in Soweto gave notice of the seismic upheavals to come. Description provided by Tony Grogan.
Identifier: islandora:6191

Title: Guards!
Subject: South Africa--Politics and government--1978-1989--Caricatures and cartoons, Crime--South Africa--Caricatures and cartoons, Political persecution--South Africa--Caricatures and cartoons, South African wit and humor, Pictorial, South Africa
Description: The police were so involved in suppressing political revolt they had little time to devote to ordinary crime. Description provided by Tony Grogan.
Identifier: islandora:6153

Title: Let them have rugby
Subject: Botha, P. W. (Pieter Willem)--Caricatures and cartoons, South Africa--Politics and government--1978-1989--Caricatures and cartoons, South Africa--Social conditions--1961-1994--Caricatures and cartoons, South African wit and humor, Pictorial, South Africa
Description: P.W. Botha adopts a Nero?like stance in response to public concern about disturbing reports of riots and upheaval throughout the country, incidents of insurgence over its borders and pressure from the international community. Description provided by Tony Grogan.
Identifier: islandora:6189

Title: Nat-osaurus
Subject: South Africa--Politics and government--1978-1898--Caricatures and cartoons, Apartheid--South Africa--Caricatures and cartoons, South African wit and humor, Pictorial, South Africa
Description: By 1980 apartheid had become a fossilised relic ill-adapted to the twentieth century. Even the National Party government realised that it needed to 'adapt or die", as P.W. Botha put it. Description provided by Tony Grogan.
Identifier: islandora:6142

Title: Dr Kildare falls foul of the Immorality Act
Subject: South Africa--Politics and government--1978-1989--Caricatures and cartoons, South Africa. Immorality Act, 1950, South Africa--Social conditions--1961-1994--Caricatures and cartoons, South African wit and humor, Pictorial, South Africa
Description: A reader drew attention to a scandalous matter featuring �in one of the Cape Times comic strips. Popular hero, Dr Kildare was defying the Immorality Act by falling in love with an Indian woman. Description provided by Tony Grogan.
Identifier: islandora:6144

Title: We will fight them on the beaches. We will never surrender
Subject: South Africa--Politics and government--1978-1989--Caricatures and cartoons, Apartheid--South Africa--Caricatures and cartoons, Botha, P. W. (Pieter Willem)--Caricatures and cartoons, South African wit and humor, Pictorial, South Africa
Description: This cartoon was prompted by a fawning description in an Afrikaans newspaper of P.W. Botha as a leader who 'exudes strength with the bulldog appearance of a Churchill'. Keeping South African beaches white was one of the heroic causes to which he applied this bulldog determination. Description provided by Tony Grogan.
Identifier: islandora:6151

Title: Apartheid puzzle
Subject: South Africa--Politics and government--1978-1989--Caricatures and cartoons, Apartheid--South Africa--Caricatures and cartoons, Verwoerd, Hendrik Frensch, 1901-1966----Caricatures and cartoons, South African wit and humor, Pictorial, South Africa
Description: Verwoerd�s grand design of apartheid with blacks all living in separate homelands had one major flaw - what to do with urban blacks needed to keep the country's industry running and now flocking to the urban areas in increasing numbers. This was Vorster's conundrum. Description provided by Tony Grogan.
Identifier: islandora:6143

Title: To uphold Christian and civilized standards (preamble to the new Constitution)
Subject: South Africa--Politics and government--1978-1989--Caricatures and cartoons, South Africa--Social conditions--1961-1994--Caricatures and cartoons, South African wit and humor, Pictorial, South Africa
Description: The continued violent action of the state to impose its policies was in stark contrast to the spirit of the preamble of the new constitution introduced in 1983. Description provided by Tony Grogan.
Identifier: islandora:6196

Title: Press freedom
Subject: South Africa--Politics and government--1978-1989--Caricatures and cartoons, Freedom of the press--South Africa--Caricatures and cartoons, Political persecution--South Africa--Caricatures and cartoons, South African wit and humor, Pictorial, South Africa
Description: Over the years the National Party continued to gnaw away at media freedom until there were over 100 laws determining what could and could not be published. Description provided by Tony Grogan.
Identifier: islandora:6182

Title: Dept. of Information. For the best white-wash jobs
Subject: South Africa--Politics and government--1978-1989--Caricatures and cartoons, South Africa. Department of Information--Caricatures and cartoons, Rhoodie, Eschel M. (Eschel Mostert)--Caricatures and cartoons, South African wit and humor, Pictorial, South Africa
Description: The Department of Information, with its flamboyant secretary Eschel Rhoodie at the helm, did its best to improve the international image of the pariah apartheid state. Description provided by Tony Grogan.
Identifier: islandora:6187

Title: Lord Blather of Burp stoutly defends his position
Subject: South Africa--Politics and government--1978-1989--Caricatures and cartoons, South Africa--Social conditions--1961-1994- --Caricatures and cartoons, Political persecution--South Africa--Caricatures and cartoons, South African wit and humor, Pictorial, State of Emergency--Caricatures and cartoons, South Africa
Description: The public protest and unrest which plagued the eighties was met with increased government oppression. P.W. Botha declared a state of emergency giving the police special powers, restricting the media and setting up a media council to give a sanitized version of the truth. Description provided by Tony Grogan.
Identifier: islandora:6154

Title: Mr Louis Luyt bought more than a million copies of The Citizen during his 18-month association with the newspaper
Subject: Political corruption--South Africa--Caricatures and cartoons, Citizen (Johannesburg, South Africa)--Caricatures and cartoons., South Africa--Politics and government--1978-1989--Caricatures and cartoons, South African wit and humor, Pictorial, South Africa
Description: The main core of the information scandal in the 1970s was the secret funding of an English language newspaper using taxpayers� money. Fertilizer magnate, Louis Luyt, acted as a government front and the Citizen newspaper was born. It soon found itself in financial trouble and advertisers were aghast to read a report in the Rand Daily Mail that 30,000 copies of the Citizen were being dumped and claimed as valid circulation figures. Description provided by Tony Grogan.
Identifier: islandora:6186

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