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Title: Boipatong massacre, South Africa, 1992
Subject: Apartheid--South Africa--Boipatong, Political violence--South Africa--Boipatong, History--Political aspects--South Africa--Boipatong, Murder victims--South Africa--Boipatong, Dead, Best of Marinovich
Description: The aunt of nine-month-old Aaron Mathope sits next to his body in Boipatong township, south of Johannesburg, 1992. On this day, 45 people were killed by Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) supporting Zulus. Aaron and his mother were hacked to death, and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) found both the IFP and the security forces of the then-white regime responsible.
Identifier: islandora:1221

Title: Police firing at ANC supporters, South Africa, 1992
Subject: Apartheid--South Africa--Boipatong, Political violence--South Africa--Boipatong, History--Political aspects--South Africa--Boipatong, South African Police, History--Political aspects--South Africa--Boipatong, Best of Marinovich
Description: South African police fired on African National Congress (ANC) supporters as they tried to check the identity of a man shot dead by police in this Boipatong field on June 20, 1992. Forty-five ANC supporters, including women and children, were massacred by Zulu supporters of the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) the night before.
Identifier: islandora:1182

Title: Riot police facing student demonstrators, Johannesburg, South Africa
Subject: Political history--South Africa--Johannesburg, Demonstrations--South Africa--Johannesburg, Student movements--South Africa--Johannesburg, Education--South Africa--Johannesburg, Apartheid--South Africa--Johannesburg, Youth--South Africa--Johannesburg
Description: Riot police stand at the ready as students from the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) stage an illegal demonstration against apartheid and for peace outside their campus in Braamfontein, Johannesburg, South Africa, 21 August 1989.
Identifier: islandora:5358

Title: Election violence, South Africa, 1994
Subject: Apartheid--South Africa--Johannesburg, Political violence--South Africa--Johannesburg, History--Political aspects--South Africa--Johannesburg, Caps (Headgear)--South Africa--Johannesburg, Best of Marinovich
Description: African National Congress (ANC) supporting activists stand above a cap that is still smoking from a gunshot to a fellow comrade, killed by Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) members, while watching the FIFA football World Cup that was played in Atlanta, USA, 1994.
Identifier: islandora:1217

Title: Marikana murder investigation, South Africa, 2012
Subject: Unskilled labor--South Africa--North-West, Strikes and lockouts--Miners--South Africa--North-West, Police corruption--South Africa--North-West, History--Political aspects--South Africa--North-West, Best of Marinovich
Description: Yellow paint marks made by investigators indicate where the bodies of some of the 34 men killed by police were recovered by forensics at Nkanini, Marikana, 2012. Some of the rock crevices these bodies were found in, indicate that they had been hunted down and shot at close range. Not a single policeman was reported wounded on August 16th.
Identifier: islandora:1179

Title: ANC supporter, Durban, South Africa
Subject: Politics--South Africa, Men--South Africa, Social conditions--South Africa,
Description: ANC alligned home gaurd supporter, sits on a couch holding a weapon, next to a young boy playing an old guitar. Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, 1990.
Identifier: islandora:18376

Title: Family visiting grave of Hendrik Verwoerd, Pretoria, South Africa
Subject: Ex-prime ministers--South Africa--Pretoria, Prime ministers' spouses--South Africa--Pretoria, Cemeteries--South Africa--Pretoria, Political history--South Africa--Pretoria, Politicians--South Africa--Pretoria
Description: Betsy, the wife of apartheid founder and former Prime Minister, Hendrik Verwoerd, visits his grave with family in Pretoria, South Africa, January 1986.
Identifier: islandora:5344

Title: Protest against Boipatong massacre, Boipatong, South Africa
Subject: Youths--South Africa--Vanderbijlpark, Demonstrations--South Africa--Vanderbijlpark, Apartheid--South Africa--Vanderbijlpark, Political history--South Africa--Vanderbijlpark, Political violence--South Africa--Vanderbijlpark
Description: Youths protest the murder of 46 Boipatong residents by Inkatha hostel dwellers on June 17, at a rally addressed by Nelson Mandela. The killings caused the African National Congress (ANC) to cancel political negotiations with the government. South Africa, 19 June 1992.
Identifier: islandora:5370

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: TRC sitting, South Africa, 1997
Subject: Apartheid--South Africa--Johannesburg, History--Political aspects--South Africa--Johannesburg, South Africa. Truth and Reconciliation Commission, War crimes investigation--South Africa--Johannesburg, Best of Marinovich
Description: Minister of Law and Order, Adriaan Vlok (rear left), watches his colleague, National Party (NP) Foreign Minister, Pik Botha (front left), at a sitting of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), Johannesburg, 1997.
Identifier: islandora:1223

Title: Police shoot-out during Chris Hani funeral, South Africa, 1993
Subject: Apartheid--South Africa--Soweto, Political violence--South Africa--Soweto, History--Political aspects--South Africa--Soweto, Hani, Chris, 1942-1993--Death and burial, Best of Marinovich
Description: African National Congress (ANC) and South African Communist Party (SACP) supporters scatter as police fire teargas and live rounds outside the Soweto soccer stadium where the funeral of Chris Hani was attended by thousands of mourners, April 19, 1993.
Identifier: islandora:1183

Title: Human Rainbow Concert, Johannesburg, South Africa
Subject: Apartheid--South Africa--Johannesburg, Concerts--South Africa--Johannesburg, Political activists--South Africa--Johannesburg, Political history--South Africa--Johannesburg
Description: In the euphoric aftermath of Nelson Mandela's release from 27 years incarceration, whites and blacks came together to call for peace and democracy at a human rainbow concert in Johannesburg, South Africa, March 1990.
Identifier: islandora:5361

Title: Govan Mbeki's release from prison, Port Elizabeth, South Africa
Subject: Ex-convicts--South Africa--Port Elizabeth, Political history--South Africa--Port Elizabeth, Apartheid--South Africa--Port Elizabeth, Mbeki, Govan, 1910-2001
Description: Rivonia trialist and African National Congress (ANC) leader, Govan Mbeki, who spent 23 years in jail on Robben Island with Nelson Mandela, greets supporters and well-wishers on his first full day of release into freedom, Port Elizabeth, South Africa, 6 November 1987.
Identifier: islandora:5351

Title: Ray Alexander Simons with husband on return to South Africa, Johannesburg
Subject: Political activists--South Africa--Johannesburg, Exiles--South Africa--Johannesburg, Apartheid--South Africa--Johannesburg, Political history--South Africa--Johannesburg
Description: Veteran Communist Trade Unionist, Ray Alexander Simons, with her husband, Jack Simons, on their return to South Africa after more than 30 years in political exile. She was a member of the SACP (South African Communist Party) and the ANC (African National Congress). Johannesburg, South Africa, March 1990.
Identifier: islandora:5362

Title: Archbishop Desmond Tutu in mourning, Soweto, South Africa
Subject: Political history--South Africa--Soweto, Funeral rites and ceremonies--South Africa--Soweto, Apartheid--South Africa--Soweto, Tutu, Desmond
Description: Archbishop Desmond Tutu cries at a service to mourn the death, supposedly in a car accident, of an anti-apartheid parishioner. It was widely believed that the apartheid security police had set up the young man's accident to kill him, Soweto, South Africa, June 1986.
Identifier: islandora:5348

Title: Chris Hani funeral, Soweto, South Africa
Subject: Funeral rites and ceremonies--South Africa--Soweto, Political activists--South Africa--Soweto, Apartheid--South Africa--Soweto, Political violence--South Africa--Soweto, Political history--South Africa--Soweto
Description: Guerillas of the African National Congress (ANC)'s military wing, the M.K., carry the coffin of assassinated ANC military chief, Chris Hani, at his funeral, Soweto, South Africa, 18 April 1993.
Identifier: islandora:5372

Title: Police warn union members, South Africa, 1970s
Subject: Labor movement--History, Labor unions, Black--History, Social control, Apartheid, Political history--South Africa, Beyond the Barricades
Description: Police with bullhorns warn workers to disband. The South African government opposed black unions, but liberalised labour laws in the late 1970s, allowing black unions to operate legally. This ushered in a period of worker organisation and activism, leading to the formation of COSATU, the Congress of South African Trade Unions.
Identifier: islandora:866

Title: Walter Sisulu with children after his release from prison, Soweto, South Africa
Subject: Ex-convicts--South Africa--Soweto, Political history--South Africa--Soweto, Children--South Africa--Soweto, Politicians--South Africa--Soweto, Sisulu, Walter Max
Description: Excited children crowd around released political prisoner, Walter Sisulu, one of the African National Congress (ANC) leaders who were imprisoned on Robben Island for 2 decades, Soweto, South Africa, February 1990.
Identifier: islandora:5360

Title: Hostel wars, South Africa, 1990
Subject: Apartheid--South Africa--Thokoza, Political violence--South Africa--Thokoza, Thokoza (South Africa)--Social conditions, History--Political aspects--South Africa--Thokoza, Best of Marinovich
Description: ANC (African National Congress) supporters push over a breeze-block wall, part of Khalanyoni hostel at the southern end of Khumalo Street, Thokoza, 1990. These ANC warriors dismantled the buildings, brick by multi-coloured brick, and used them to rebuild their shacks that were destroyed in the fighting with the IFP (Inkatha Freedom Party).
Identifier: islandora:1192

Title: Woman protesting rural conditions, South Africa, circa 1985
Subject: Rural poor, Demonstrations, South Africa--Rural conditions, Apartheid, Political history--South Africa, Beyond the Barricades
Description: A barefoot woman protests against living conditions in rural areas. Her banner reads "We starve in rural areas". Black people often went hungry in the remote "homelands" where they were forced to live, because they were unable to farm the poor, crowded land, and there were few jobs for them to earn sufficient income to feed, clothe, and house their families.
Identifier: islandora:876

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