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Title: Child in rubbish dump, Winterveld, South Africa, 1981
Subject: South Africa--Social conditions--20th century, Apartheid--South Africa, Children--South Africa, Poverty--South Africa, Some evidence of things seen
Description: A young boy eating fruit he found on a rubbish dump in Winterveld, near Pretoria, 1981
Identifier: islandora:947

Title: ANC Youth march, East Rand, 1990
Subject: Apartheid--South Africa-- Brakpan, Demonstrations--South Africa-- Brakpan, Political activists--South Africa--Brakpan, Youth--South Africa-- Brakpan
Description: ANC (African National Congress) Youth Congress march for democracy, Tsakane township, 1990.
Identifier: islandora:1448

Title: Demonstration against local councils, Durban, 1981
Subject: Local government, Demonstrations, Community activists, Apartheid, Political history--South Africa, Beyond the Barricades
Description: Residents of Newlands East township demonstrate against government-nominated town councilors in Durban 1981. Because local councils were imposed on the people of the townships by the apartheid government, the residents, for the most part, refused to support them.
Identifier: islandora:887

Title: Student demonstration, Durban, 1985
Subject: Student protesters, Demonstrations, Police, Black, Apartheid, Political history--South Africa, Beyond the Barricades
Description: Students taunts a black policeman during a demonstration following the assassination of United Democratic Front (UDF) leader, Victoria Mxenge. She was buried next to her husband, Griffiths Mxenge, also a victim of assassination several years earlier. Between 1978 and 1989, over 150 activists were assassinated, with no one found responsible for these murders.
Identifier: islandora:881

Title: Boys watching destruction of District Six, South Africa, 1974
Subject: South Africa--Social conditions--20th century, Apartheid--South Africa, Children--South Africa, Forced migration--South Africa, Some evidence of things seen
Description: The destruction of District Six was one of the worst insults inflicted upon the coloured people of the Cape by the National Party (NP). On a Sunday morning in 1974, three boys from a nearby shack strolled passed the demolition, sat on what used to be the pavement, and watched the destruction. Others also gathered, but no on said anything for a long time. When people have experienced too much pain, their senses become numb. The boys then got up and ran over the spaces of what used to be District Six
Identifier: islandora:924

Title: Victim of shack demolition, South Africa, 1991
Subject: Apartheid--South Africa--Ivory Park, Race discrimination--South Africa--Ivory Park, Homeless persons--South Africa--Ivory Park, Best of Marinovich
Description: A man wakes up from where he spent the night amongst his belongings after police demolished the illegal shack he erected, Ivory Park, near Johannesburg, 1991.
Identifier: islandora:1206

Title: Mandela returns to Robben Island with fellow Rivonia treason trialists, South Africa
Subject: Ex-convicts--South Africa--Robben Island, Apartheid--South Africa--Robben Island, Political history--South Africa--Robben Island, Prisons--South Africa--Robben Island
Description: Nelson Mandela and his fellow convicted Rivonia treason trialists, all former political prisoners on Robben Island, return to the island on the fourth anniversary of Mandela's release from jail. Here they are pictured in the quarry in which the black prisoners were made to dig out lime daily. Some say Mandela's eyes were damaged by the lime dust. Cape Town, South Africa, 11 February 1994.
Identifier: islandora:5374

Title: Women and children praying, Crossroads, South Africa, 1982
Subject: South Africa--Social conditions--20th century, Apartheid--South Africa, Children--South Africa, Prayer groups--South Africa, Squatter settlements--South Africa, Some evidence of things seen
Description: Women and children of Crossroads gather to pray for the Nyanga bush squatters, who had staged a hunger strike in St George's Cathedral in an attempt to persuade the authorities not to demolish their plastic shacks. The protest was fruitless - the shacks were torn down during the wet Cape winter, causing hardship, Cape Town, 1982
Identifier: islandora:917

Title: Labour strike, Durban, 1985
Subject: Strikes and lockouts--Dairying, Strikes and lockouts, Sympathetic, Labor movement--History, Apartheid, Political history--South Africa, Beyond the Barricades
Description: Dairy workers march in solidarity with bakery workers on strike over wages and dismissals. Workers' organisations have a long and important history in Durban, and the city was the birthplace of contemporary unionism in South Africa.
Identifier: islandora:868

Title: Cheryl Carolus, SWAPO meeting
Subject: Apartheid--South Africa, South Africa--Politics and government--1978-1989, South Africa--History--1961-1994, Political activists--South Africa, Women--South Africa, Demonstrations--South Africa, Carolus, Cheryl, 1958-,
Description: Cheryl Carolus at a SWAPO (South West Africa People's Organisation) solidarity meeting in Cape Town., circa 1980s
Identifier: islandora:12575

Title: Joyce Mtimkulu, Port Elizabeth, 1997
Subject: Apartheid--South Africa, Political violence--South Africa, South Africa--Social conditions, War crimes investigation--South Africa, Truth and Lies,
Description: Joyce Mtimkulu holding a piece of her late son, Siphiwo's hair, that had fallen out after he was poisoned by security police in 1981. A year later he was kidnapped, drugged, shot execution-style and burned on a wood pyre, as revealed by security police at the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC).
Identifier: islandora:760

Title: Bedroom, Soweto
Subject: Urban poor--South Africa, Dwellings--Social aspects--South Africa, Bedrooms--South Africa, South Africa--Social conditions--20th century, Apartheid, The Cordoned Heart
Description: Sharing a bed, Soweto, 1982.
Identifier: islandora:5777

Title: Monica Nqabakazi Godolozi, Pebco Three widow, Motherwell, 1997
Subject: Apartheid--South Africa, Political violence--South Africa, South Africa--Social conditions, War crimes investigation--South Africa, Truth and Lies,
Description: Monica Nqabakazi Godolozi, the widow of Qwaqwahuli Godolozi, one of the Pebco Three, Port Elizabeth, 1997. The Pebco Three were three political activists who were tricked into being captured by security police, taken to an isolated police station near Cradock and beaten to death during interrogation.
Identifier: islandora:764

Title: Black influx
Subject: South Africa--Politics and government--1978-1989--Caricatures and cartoons, Apartheid--South Africa--Caricatures and cartoons, Blacks--Relocation--South Africa--Caricatures and cartoons, South African wit and humor, Pictorial, Influx control--Caricatures and cartoons, Forced removals (South Africa)--Caricatures and cartoons, South Africa
Description: Legislation to stem the tide of black influx to the urban areas became increasingly futile. The government�s forcible return of immigrants from Cape Town back to Transkei, from whence they would immediately board trains to return, was a dismal annual cycle. Description provided by Tony Grogan.
Identifier: islandora:6152

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: Hostel wars, South Africa, 1990
Subject: Apartheid--South Africa--Soweto, Political violence--South Africa--Soweto, History--Political aspects--South Africa--Soweto, Best of Marinovich
Description: Zulu supporters of the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) hack and beat a Pondo man accused of being an ANC (African National Congress) supporter, Nancefield hostel, Soweto, 1990.
Identifier: islandora:1209

Title: Zulu warriors, South Africa, 1994
Subject: Apartheid--South Africa--KwaZulu-Natal, History--Political aspects--South Africa--KwaZulu-Natal, Demonstrations--South Africa--KwaZulu-Natal, Zulu (African people)--Clothing, Best of Marinovich
Description: IFP (Inkatha Freedom Party) supporting amabutho (warriors) on their way to a rally on a misty morning in KwaZulu-Natal, 1994.
Identifier: islandora:1194

Title: Funeral, South Africa, 1993
Subject: Apartheid--South Africa--Heidelberg (Gauteng), Political violence--South Africa--Heidelberg (Gauteng), Funeral rites and ceremonies--South Africa--Heidelberg (Gauteng), History--Political aspects--South Africa--Heidelberg (Gauteng), Football teams--South Africa--Heidelberg (Gauteng), Best of Marinovich
Description: A football team buries their teammate, who was killed in crossfire between African National Congress (ANC) and Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) fighters, while playing soccer in Ratanda township, Heidelberg, 1993.
Identifier: islandora:1202

Title: Woman overcome by tear gas at funeral, Port Elizabeth, 1986
Subject: Funeral service, Police shootings, Tear gas, Apartheid, Political history--South Africa, Beyond the Barricades
Description: A woman overcome by tear gas is helped by fellow mourners during the funeral for eight people killed in the "bottle store (liquor-store) incident" in New Brighton township, Port Elizabeth. Nearly a week before, on March 25, heavily armed policemen opened fire on a crowd gathered outside a liquor store that had been bombed the previous day, killing eight.
Identifier: islandora:891

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

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