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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, with her daughter, Papama, 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:758

Title: A Kalahari heritage : ǂHanasen-Kruiper Family territory
Subject: ǂHanassen-Kruiper Family, San (African people), San (African people)--Africa, Southern--Ethnic identity, South Africa--Maps, San (African people)--Social life and customs,
Description: Map showing the ǂHanassen-Kruiper family territories in the Northern Cape, South Africa. It includes a family tree and photographs of selected family members. Also included are personal anecdotes as well as notes relating to how and why the family moved. [Scale included]
Identifier: islandora:27308

Title: Thembinkosi Tshabe and Mxolisa Goboza, Free State, 1997
Subject: Apartheid--South Africa, Political violence--South Africa, South Africa--Social conditions, War crimes investigation--South Africa, Truth and Lies,
Description: Mxolisa Goboza (right) and Thembinkosi Tshabe, two of the youngest victims to appear before the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), described how they had been shot and wounded by police while taking part in a COSAS (Congress of South African Students) demonstration. Free State, 1997.
Identifier: islandora:793

Title: Sindiswa Mkonto and her son, Lonwabo, Lingelihle township, 1997
Subject: Apartheid--South Africa, Political violence--South Africa, South Africa--Social conditions, War crimes investigation--South Africa, Truth and Lies,
Description: Sindiswa Mkonto and her son, Lonwabo, in Lingelihle township where she lived with her husband who was one of the Cradock Four, 1997. The Cradock Four were a group of four political activists from Cradock who disappeared in 1985 during a trip to Port Elizabeth. Their mutilated bodies were found a week later. In January 1997, six members of the Port Elizabeth security police applied for amnesty for the killing of the Cradock Four. It was refused.
Identifier: islandora:799

Title: Grave sites at Bushman Camp 1934-36, Map item #4
Subject: Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park (Botswana and South Africa), San (African people), Africa, Southern--Maps, San (African people)--Social life and customs, San (African people)--Rites and ceremonies, ,
Description: This poster provides information about the death and burial of a number of San community members within the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park. It includes an inset map showing the Nossob and Twee Rivieren rest camps in the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park. [Scale included]
Identifier: islandora:27325

Title: Desmond Tutu, Cape Town, 1997
Subject: Apartheid--South Africa, Political violence--South Africa, South Africa--Social conditions, War crimes investigation--South Africa, Tutu, Desmond, Truth and Lies,
Description: Desmond Tutu, formerly Archbishop, Chairperson of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) hearings, Cape Town, 1997.
Identifier: islandora:790

Title: Belgium Biko, Steve Biko's brother, King William's Town, 1997
Subject: Apartheid--South Africa, Political violence--South Africa, South Africa--Social conditions, War crimes investigation--South Africa, Truth and Lies,
Description: Belgium Biko, the younger brother of Steve Biko, at the Biko family home, Ginsburg location, King William's Town, 1997. Steve Biko, the leader of the Black Consciousness movement, died in Pretoria on 12 September 1977. He was beaten into a coma during interrogation by security officers. The inquest found that Biko had died of head injuries inflicted over a period of several days during his detention. Five security policemen came forward to confess to the assault in 1997. The application for amnesty was successfully opposed by the Biko family.
Identifier: islandora:792

Title: Albie Sachs, circa 1997
Subject: Apartheid--South Africa, Political violence--South Africa, South Africa--Social conditions, War crimes investigation--South Africa, Truth and Lies,
Description: Albie Sachs, circa 1997.
Identifier: islandora:765

Title: Vlakplaas perpetrators, Pretoria, 1997
Subject: Apartheid--South Africa, Political violence--South Africa, South Africa--Social conditions, War crimes investigation--South Africa, Truth and Lies,
Description: Five perpetrators, from left: Warrant Officer Paul van Vuuren, Brigadier Jack Cronje (commander at Vlakplaas 1983-1985), Colonel Roelf Venter, Captain Wouter Mentz and Captain Jacques Hechter, at the amnesty hearings in Pretoria, 1997.
Identifier: islandora:769

Title: ǂKhomani San : Tree of Healing : trees are our heritage
Subject: Tree of Healing, San (African people)--Social life and customs, San (African people)--Kalahari Desert--Social life and customs, Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park (Botswana and South Africa), ,
Description: This poster outlines the cultural and natural heritage of the San people. It explores the cultural and symbolic value of the Shepherd's Bush tree as "The Tree of Healing". The Poster includes photographs of Shepherd's Bush tree as well as San people.
Identifier: islandora:27321

Title: A Kalahari heritage : |Khasi-Kassie Family territory
Subject: |Khasi-Kassie Family, San (African people), San (African people)--Africa, Southern--Ethnic identity, South Africa--Maps, San (African people)--Social life and customs,
Description: This map shows the |Khasi-Kassie family territories in Northern Cape, South Africa. It includes a family tree, photographs of selected family members and their anecdotes. It also includes personal and family stories relating to how and why the family moved. [Scale included]
Identifier: islandora:27309

Title: Charity Kondile, Butterworth township, 1997
Subject: Apartheid--South Africa, Political violence--South Africa, South Africa--Social conditions, War crimes investigation--South Africa, Truth and Lies,
Description: Charity Kondile with a portrait of her son at graduation, Transkei, 1997. Charity's son, Sizwe Kondile, was murdered in 1981 on the orders of Dirk Coetzee. She spent 9 years trying to find out what had happened to her son. In 1996 she attended the amnesty hearings in Durban where in Coetzee's presence she heard how her son was illegaly detained by police, beaten during interrogation, poisoned, shot and burned on a braai. According to Coetzee, the police had been scared they might have a 'second Biko' case on their hands.
Identifier: islandora:773

Title: Donald Bain
Subject: Bain, Donald ; Rooi, |Una, Bain, Donald ; Rooi, |Una, San (African people)--History--Exhibitions, San (African people)--History--Exhibitions, Indigenous peoples -- Legal status, laws, etc. --Botswana and South Africa--Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, Indigenous peoples -- Legal status, laws, etc. --Botswana and South Africa--Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, San (African people)--Botswana and South Africa--Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, San (African people)--Botswana and South Africa--Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, British Empire Exhibition (1936 : Johannesburg, South Africa), British Empire Exhibition (1936 : Johannesburg, South Africa), San (African people)--Social life and customs, San (African people)--Social life and customs,
Description: This short clip is an extract from Tracks Across Sand: the ǂKhomani San of the southern Kalahari : the story of a land claim, and provides a brief introduction to the story of Donald Bain and the "Bain's Bushmen" exhibition at the Empire Exhibition.
Identifier: islandora:26346

Title: Craig Williamson, Pretoria, 1998
Subject: Apartheid--South Africa, Political violence--South Africa, South Africa--Social conditions, War crimes investigation--South Africa, Truth and Lies,
Description: Craig Williamson, 'apartheid superspy', was a former police officer who joined military intelligence and headed the security branch's foreign section. He was also involved in anti-apartheid politics as vice-president of NUSAS (National Union of South African Students) in 1976 and knew Jeanette and Marius Schoon personally. Williamson applied to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) for amnesty for the murders of Ruth First and Jeanette and Katryn Schoon, who were all killed by letter bombs commissioned by him.
Identifier: islandora:802

Title: Robert McBride, Pretoria, 1997
Subject: Apartheid--South Africa, Political violence--South Africa, South Africa--Social conditions, War crimes investigation--South Africa, McBride, Robert, Truth and Lies,
Description: Robert McBride, Pretoria, 1997. McBride applied for amnesty for a number of bombings carried out in his role as unit commander of the African National Congress (ANC)'s special operations unit.
Identifier: islandora:784

Title: Indigenous place names of Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park
Subject: Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park (Botswana and South Africa), Names, Geographical, San (African people), San (African people)--Africa, Southern--Ethnic identity, San (African people)--Social life and customs, ,
Description: This poster showing the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park with traditional place names and a blurb of each name. The poster also includes brief sections on "Place Names and San Knowledge", "Who are the San", and "Re-Establishing San Place Names".Includes photographs of the surrounding area and scenes of every day life.
Identifier: islandora:27315

Title: Hottentot
Subject: Khoikhoi (African people) in art, South Africa--Social life and customs, South Africa--In art
Description: Depicts a man in tattered clothing, wearing a hat with a feather in his hat carrying a bottle in his hand. Title taken from original painting.
Identifier: islandora:26374

Title: Brigadier Willem Schoon, Pretoria, 1998
Subject: Apartheid--South Africa, Political violence--South Africa, South Africa--Social conditions, War crimes investigation--South Africa, Truth and Lies,
Description: Brigadier Willem Schoon, Pretoria, 1998. Schoon was a former head of C section, the anti-terrorism unit of the South African Police (SAP) security branch responsible for liaising with the commanders of the undercover unit at Vlakplaas. He applied for amnesty for his involvement in numerous cases of murder and abduction, claiming that he was forced to participate in such actions by the circumstances that prevailed at the time. He received amnesty and is retired.
Identifier: islandora:781

Title: Roger 'Jerry' Raven, Pretoria, 1998
Subject: Apartheid--South Africa, Political violence--South Africa, South Africa--Social conditions, War crimes investigation--South Africa, Truth and Lies,
Description: Roger ('Jerry') Raven, Pretoria, 1998. Raven was the explosives expert responsible for the letter bombs that killed Ruth First, Jeanette and six-year-old Katryn Schoon.
Identifier: islandora:783

Title: Hottentots Huisie Resort, Oudekraal
Subject: Social functions, Recreation areas--Landscape architecture--South Africa--Cape Town--Designs and plans, Barbecues (Fireplaces)--South Africa--Cape Town--Designs and plans,
Description: Hottentots Huisie Resort, Oudekraal, Cape Town. Public function area. Plan and four sections., Blueprint (ammonia copy) of original, hand-drawn, ink on paper, with colour rendering of a portion of the plan.
Identifier: islandora:28089

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