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Title: Mandela addressing COSATU, Johannesburg, 1993
Subject: Apartheid--South Africa--Johannesburg, Political activists--South Africa--Johannesburg, Labor unions--South Africa--Johannesburg, Mandela, Nelson, 1918-2013, Cosatu
Description: Nelson Mandela addresses a special congress of the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) at Vista University in Soweto, Johannesburg, 1993.
Identifier: islandora:1453

Title: Riot police confront workers, Johannesburg, 1985
Subject: Police--Special weapons and tactics units, Labor union members, May Day (Labor holiday), Apartheid, Political history--South Africa, Beyond the Barricades
Description: Riot police block the way of workers leaving a May Day meeting at Khotso House in Johannesburg, May 1985. Khotso House was owned by the South African Council for Churches (SACC) and was the headquarters for many progressive organisations, including the United Democratic Front (UDF). It was destroyed in a massive explosion in August 1988.
Identifier: islandora:911

Title: ANC victory celebrations, Johannesburg, South Africa
Subject: Political history--South Africa--Johannesburg, Elections--South Africa--Johannesburg, Democracy--South Africa--Johannesburg, Apartheid--South Africa--Johannesburg
Description: African National Congress (ANC) supporters embrace in celebration of victory in South Africa's first all-race presidential elections, Johannesburg, South Africa, April 1994.
Identifier: islandora:5378

Title: Protest, Johannesburg, 1990
Subject: Apartheid--South Africa--Johannesburg, Demonstrations--South Africa--Johannesburg, Blacks--South Africa--Johannesburg
Description: A protest gathering at Jabulani Amphitheatre, Johannesburg, 1990.
Identifier: islandora:1431

Title: Violet Hashe, Defiance Campaign meeting, Johannesburg, 1952
Subject: Johannesburg (South Africa)--Social conditions, Apartheid--South Africa--Johannesburg, Political activists--South Africa--Johannesburg, Race discrimination--South Africa--Johannesburg, Women political activists--South Africa--Johannesburg
Description: Violet Hashe, fiery African trade-union leader, called on the people at Freedom Square in Fordsburg to defy the 'unjust laws' passed by the Apartheid government. Johannesburg, 6 April, 1952.
Identifier: islandora:7460

Title: Workers' theater, Johannesburg, 1987
Subject: Women labor union members, Workers' theatre, Apartheid, Political history--South Africa, Beyond the Barricades
Description: A delegation of women from the Food and Allied Workers Union participates in the Congress of South African Trade Unions' Culture Day, held as part of the union federation's 2nd National Conference. Theater is used for political expression. Women from Crossroads squatter town, for example, performed a well-received play, Imfuduso, dramatising their long struggle to preserve their homes.
Identifier: islandora:864

Title: Chris Hani promoting peace at first democratic elections, Johannesburg, South Africa
Subject: Political activists--South Africa--Johannesburg, Public meetings--South Africa--Johannesburg, Apartheid--South Africa--Johannesburg, Elections--South Africa--Johannesburg
Description: Charismatic African National Congress (ANC) military leader, Chris Hani, appeals to township supporters for an end to violence and factional killing, in the run-up to the country's first democratic elections. Thokoza township, Johannesburg, South Africa, April 1991.
Identifier: islandora:5365

Title: Young child, Johannesburg, 1975
Subject: Children--South Africa, Apartheid--South Africa, South Africa--Social conditions, Winer Batch01,
Description: Child from Newclare "coloured" township, Johannesburg, 1975.
Identifier: islandora:12519

Title: Violence in Alexandra township, Johannesburg, South Africa
Subject: Squatter settlements--South Africa--Gauteng, Law enforcement--South Africa--Gauteng, Apartheid--South Africa--Gauteng, Political history--South Africa--Gauteng, Political violence--South Africa--Gauteng, Demonstrations--South Africa--Gauteng
Description: Police fire at residents who defied orders not to march on Inkatha-occupied hostels from which the Zulus had been launching attacks on township dwellers, Alexandra Township, Johannesburg, South Africa, 26 March 1992.
Identifier: islandora:5369

Title: Homeless child, Johannesburg, 1974
Subject: Children--South Africa, Apartheid--South Africa, South Africa--Social conditions, Homeless children--South Africa, Winer Batch01,
Description: Homeless street child in Hillbrow, Johannesburg, 1974.
Identifier: islandora:12521

Title: NEHAWU protest, Johannesburg, 1990
Subject: Apartheid--South Africa--Johannesburg, Demonstrations--South Africa--Johannesburg, Labor unions--South Africa--Johannesburg, NEHAWU, Baragwanath Hospital
Description: NEHAWU (National Education, Health and Allied Workers' Union) protest by workers at Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital in Johannesburg, 1990.
Identifier: islandora:1437

Title: UDF leader arrested by security police, Johannesburg, 1985
Subject: Mohamed, Ismail, Civic leaders, Trials (Treason), Apartheid, Political history--South Africa, Beyond the Barricades
Description: Professor Ismail Mohamed, a United Democratic Front (UDF) leader, reaches out to his daughter, Elaine, as he is arrested by South African security police. Mohamed was detained and charged with treason along with fifteen others in the Pietermaritzburg Treason Trial. Eventually all were exonerated.
Identifier: islandora:886

Title: Hostel, Johannesburg
Subject: Migrant labor--South Africa--Social conditions, Migrant labor--Housing--South Africa, Dwellings--Social aspects--South Africa, Urban poor--South Africa, South Africa--Social conditions--20th century, Apartheid, The Cordoned Heart
Description: Communal showers in a male labour compound.
Identifier: islandora:5781

Title: Black resistance graffiti, Johannesburg, South Africa
Subject: Apartheid--South Africa--Pretoria, Street art--South Africa--Pretoria, Arts--Political aspects--South Africa--Pretoria, Education--South Africa--Pretoria, Children--South Africa--Pretoria
Description: Black resistance graffiti during a time of riots and violence, August 1985, Johannesburg, South Africa.
Identifier: islandora:5334

Title: Policeman whipping student protester with sjambok, Johannesburg, South Africa
Subject: Political violence--South Africa--Pretoria, Student movements--South Africa--Pretoria, Apartheid--South Africa--Pretoria, Education--South Africa--Pretoria, Race discrimination--South Africa--Pretoria
Description: A policeman sjamboks (whips) an escaping student rioter during unrest and protests in Western Township near Johannesburg, South Africa, 21 August 1985.
Identifier: islandora:5335

Title: Protest, Johannesburg, 1990
Subject: Apartheid--South Africa--Johannesburg, Demonstrations--South Africa--Johannesburg, Blacks--South Africa--Johannesburg
Description: A protest gathering at Jabulani Amphitheatre, Johannesburg, 1990.
Identifier: islandora:1429

Title: Labour strike, Johannesburg
Subject: Strikes and lockouts--South Africa, Labor union members--South Africa, Labor unions--South Africa, South Africa--Social conditions--20th century, Apartheid, The Cordoned Heart
Description: A meeting of striking Alfa Romeo workers.
Identifier: islandora:5748

Title: CWIU protest, Johannesburg, 1990
Subject: Apartheid--South Africa--Johannesburg, Demonstrations--South Africa--Johannesburg, Labor unions--South Africa--Johannesburg, Children, Black--South Africa--Johannesburg, Chemical Workers Industrial Union
Description: A small child holding a placard stands amidst protesting members of Chemical Workers Industrial Union (CWIU) in Johannesburg, 1990.
Identifier: islandora:1451

Title: Drum office, Johannesburg, 1952
Subject: Johannesburg (South Africa)--Social conditions, Apartheid--South Africa--Johannesburg, Printing industry--Employees, Drum (Johannesburg, South Africa), Blacks--Employment--South Africa--Johannesburg
Description: Drum office, Johannesburg, 1952.
Identifier: islandora:7428

Title: F.W. De Klerk at National Peace Convention, Johannesburg, 1991
Subject: Apartheid--South Africa--Johannesburg, De Klerk, F. W. (Frederik Willem), Speeches, addresses, etc.
Description: F.W. De Klerk, then state president, at the National Peace Convention, held at the Carlton Centre in Johannesburg, 1991.
Identifier: islandora:1455

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