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Title: Child being arrested by policeman, Cape Town, South Africa, 1982
Subject: South Africa--Social conditions--20th century, Apartheid--South Africa, Children--South Africa, Shoplifting--South Africa, Police--South Africa, Some evidence of things seen
Description: A youthful shoplifter is arrested by a policeman in Loop Street, Cape Town, 1982
Identifier: islandora:920

Title: South African Cabinet members, 1981, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Politics, Cabinet ministers, National Party (South Africa), Governments
Description: Botha-era Cabinet Ministers (let to right) Mr J C Heunis (Internal Affairs), Prime Minister P W Botha, [?], [?], Dr Piet Koornhof (Minister of Co-operation and Development)
Identifier: islandora:16938

Title: Vigil for slain comrade youths, Durban, South Africa
Subject: Young people--South Africa, Vigils (Liturgy)--South Africa, Apartheid--South Africa,
Description: A crowd of young people gather at a vigil for comrade youths who were slain during the apartheid era, Durban, South Africa, 1990.
Identifier: islandora:18377

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) try to force their way into a Nancefield hostel room where a Pondo man, accused of being an African National Congress (ANC) supporter, hides. Soweto, 1990.
Identifier: islandora:1208

Title: Boipatong massacre, South Africa, 1992
Subject: Apartheid--South Africa--Boipatong, Political violence--South Africa--Boipatong, History--Political aspects--South Africa--Boipatong, Mourning customs--South Africa--Boipatong, Funeral rites and ceremonies--South Africa--Boipatong, Best of Marinovich
Description: Family members mourning the death of Aaron Mathope and his mother. On a winter�s night in the Vaal, 45 people were killed when a large group of men rampaged through Boipatong township. Klaas Mathope and many other survivors maintained that it had not been only Zulus who had attacked them, but white policemen too. Klaas's wife and 9-month-old son, Aaron, were murdered in the attack in 1992.
Identifier: islandora:1193

Title: Burial, South Africa, 1993
Subject: Apartheid--South Africa--KwaZulu-Natal, Political violence--South Africa--KwaZulu-Natal, Funeral rites and ceremonies--South Africa--KwaZulu-Natal, Burial--South Africa--KwaZulu-Natal, Best of Marinovich
Description: A man is prepared for burial after being returned from an autopsy, this following a series of killings between Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) and African National Congress (ANC) supporters in the Table Mountain area of KwaZulu-Natal, 1993.
Identifier: islandora:1218

Title: Hostel wars, South Africa, 1990
Subject: Apartheid--South Africa--Johannesburg, Political violence--South Africa--Johannesburg, History--Political aspects--South Africa--Johannesburg, Best of Marinovich
Description: Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography, 1991: an African National Congress (ANC) supporter swings a machete into Lindsaye Tshabalala's blazing head. Tshabalala was suspected of being an Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) supporter. Inhlazane Station, 1990.
Identifier: islandora:1211

Title: Searching for remains of home, Bellville, South Africa, 1977
Subject: South Africa--Social conditions--20th century, Apartheid--South Africa, Squatter settlements--South Africa, Forced migration--South Africa, Some evidence of things seen
Description: A woman with her child on her back searches for remains of her home after the demolition of squatter's homes in Modderdam Road, near the University of the Western Cape, just outside Bellville, 1977
Identifier: islandora:926

Title: South African flag, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Cape Town (South Africa), Flags, Post-apartheid era, Democracy, South Africa
Description: New South African flag, displayed during a military march, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:14607

Title: Albertina Sisulu Creche, Philippi, South Africa, 1992
Subject: South Africa--Social conditions--20th century, Apartheid--South Africa, School children--South Africa, Education--South Africa, Child care services--South Africa, Some evidence of things seen
Description: Albertina Sisulu Creche' - 40 small children crowded into a railway container on an empty plot in Philippi. One of four teachers explained that while it was not ideal to crowd the children into such a small container, it was better than allowing them to run around without supervision, as life in squatter communities had become very dangerous, Cape Flats, 1992
Identifier: islandora:927

Title: Daughter of Sharpeville massacre victim mourns beside his grave, Vereeniging, South Africa
Subject: Cemeteries--South Africa--Vereeniging, Political violence--South Africa--Vereeniging, Apartheid--South Africa--Vereeniging, Political history--South Africa--Vereeniging
Description: Joyce Mohlatsane's little daughter comforts her grieving mother, while praying by the grave of her PAC (Pan African Congress) father who was killed in the 1960 Sharpeville massacre, when police fired into a black crowd protesting apartheid pass laws, killing 69 and injuring 180, Sharpeville, South Africa, 21 March 1992.
Identifier: islandora:5368

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: Little boy next to plastic shelter, Nyanga, South Africa, circa 1975
Subject: South Africa--Social conditions--20th century, Apartheid--South Africa, Children--South Africa, Squatter settlements--South Africa, Forced migration--South Africa, Some evidence of things seen
Description: Little boy in front of a plaster shelter at KTC camp in Nyanga, Cape Town
Identifier: islandora:933

Title: Little boy giving Afrikaner-Weerstandsbeweging (AWB) salute, Pretoria, South Africa, 1986
Subject: South Africa--Social conditions--20th century, Apartheid--South Africa, Children--South Africa, Afrikaner-Weerstandsbeweging, Some evidence of things seen
Description: Afrikaner-Weerstandsbeweging (AWB) leadership conference, Wag-n-Bietjie, Hartbeespoortdam, Pretoria, 1986. An attractive boy with a lovely smile stopped and looked at me with some trepidation. Suddenly a man's voice spoke to him from behind my back: "Groet die oom, my seun." (Greet the uncle, my son). It was his father speaking. The little boy then stood on guard, swiftly raised his right arm in the AWB salute and grinned
Identifier: islandora:951

Title: African policeman, South Africa
Subject: Black police--South Africa, Men--South Africa, Apartheid--South Africa
Description: African policemen had an ambiguous situation in the conflict.
Identifier: islandora:18462

Title: Non-whites only' bus, Johannesburg, South Africa
Subject: Transportation--South Africa--Pretoria, Apartheid--South Africa--Pretoria, Social conditions--South Africa--Pretoria, Segregation--South Africa--Pretoria, Race discrimination--South Africa--Pretoria
Description: Non-whites only' bus, September 1982, Johannesburg, South Africa. Under apartheid, buses and bus-stops were racially segregated.
Identifier: islandora:5333

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: Siblings, District Six, South Africa, 1974
Subject: South Africa--Social conditions--20th century, Apartheid--South Africa, Children--South Africa, Some evidence of things seen
Description: Two sisters with their brother in front of a neighbour's house in District Six, Cape Town, 1974
Identifier: islandora:953

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