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Title: Election protest, Cape Town
Subject: Apartheid--South Africa, South Africa--Politics and government--1978-1989, South Africa--History--1961-1994, Demonstrations--South Africa, Political activists--South Africa, Signs and signboards--South Africa, Men--South Africa,
Description: Election protest in Cape Town. Signs read, "Don't vote for WAGGIE" and "One vote, one government", Mitchell's Plein, Cape Town., circa 1980s
Identifier: islandora:12659

Title: Political leaders, release of prisoners, Soweto, 1989
Subject: Apartheid--South Africa, South Africa--Politics and government--1978-1989, South Africa--History--1961-1994, Demonstrations--South Africa, Political activists--South Africa, Political leadership--South Africa, Sisulu, Walter Max, Mbeki, Govan, 1910-2001,
Description: From left, Murphy Morobe, Walter Sisulu, Govan Mbeki, Oscar Mpheta, Ahmed Kathrada and Helen Joseph, at an ANC (African National Congress) rally for released leaders, including Walter Sisulu, Soweto, 29 October, 1989.
Identifier: islandora:12601

Title: Striking workers put on a play, Durban, 1986
Subject: Workers' theater, Strikes and lockouts--Rubber industry, Politics and culture, Apartheid, Political history--South Africa, Beyond the Barricades
Description: Striking workers at the British-owned BTR-Sarmcol plant, use a play called The Long March to tell their story. The location of the play is Mpophomeni, a resettlement area where many BTR-Sarmcol workers lived. This early version of the play explored the dispossession and forced removal of workers from their homes to Mpophomeni. Later, other worker groups changed the play's content in order to focus on current problems.
Identifier: islandora:863

Title: Election day, Overport township, Durban, 1984
Subject: Elections, Passive resistance, Government, Resistance to, Apartheid, Political history--South Africa, Beyond the Barricades
Description: The effect of the elections boycott is apparent in this picture of a policeman in a polling station in Overport township, Durban. The newspaper headline reads, "Police Wade into Demonstrating Mob", while inside the polling station the pace was much less hectic. The success of the boycott reflected growing support for the UDF (United Democractic Front).
Identifier: islandora:872

Title: Political meeting, Durban
Subject: Public meetings--South Africa, Political activists--South Africa, Sisulu, Albertina, 1918-2011, Political history--South Africa, South Africa--Social conditions--20th century, Apartheid, The Cordoned Heart
Description: Dr. Essop Jassat, Mrs. Nokukhanya Luthuli, and Mrs. Albertina Sisulu at a political conference.
Identifier: islandora:5732

Title: Released detainees' dinner, Cape Town
Subject: Apartheid--South Africa, South Africa--Politics and government--1978-1989, South Africa--History--1961-1994, Political activists--South Africa, Political prisoners--South Africa,
Description: Jimi Matthews and Sahm Venter at dinner after political detainees were released from prison, Cape Town., circa 1980s
Identifier: islandora:12646

Title: Mourners, Lamontville, 1983
Subject: Funeral service, Assassination, Political activists, Apartheid, Political history--South Africa, Beyond the Barricades
Description: Mourners at the funeral of African National Congress (ANC) activist and anti-poverty campaigner, Msizi Dube. Dube was shot by unknown assassins in Lamontville on 25 April 1983. He was the founder of the famed �Asinamali� rent boycott campaign.
Identifier: islandora:906

Title: Leandra Youth Congress members, Leandra township, Transvaal, 1986
Subject: Funeral service, Vigilantes, Political violence, Apartheid, Political history--South Africa, Beyond the Barricades
Description: Members of the Leandra Youth Congress regroup after repelling an attack by vigilantes at the funeral of their community leader, Chief Ampie Mayisa. Mayisa led his community in a successful fight against forced removal. His request to the police for protection from vigilantes was denied and he was assassinated shortly afterwards.
Identifier: islandora:859

Title: Catholic church, Belgravia, Cape Town
Subject: Apartheid--South Africa, South Africa--Politics and government--1978-1989, South Africa--History--1961-1994, Religious leaders--South Africa, Political activists--South Africa, Catholics--South Africa,
Description: Father P.J. Pearson leads a congregation outside the Catholic church in Belgravia, Cape Town., circa 1980s
Identifier: islandora:12648

Title: Police arrest UWO members, Cape Town, 1985
Subject: Women political activists, Demonstrations, Arrest (Police methods), Apartheid, Political history--South Africa, Beyond the Barricades
Description: Leaders of the United Women's Organisation (UWO) are turned back from parliament and arrested during a march to protest against the massacre in which police killed twenty-two people in the Eastern Cape township of Langa. Eyewitnesses maintained that the police shot innocent people, part of a funeral procession, without provocation.
Identifier: islandora:883

Title: Oral history interview with Tom Hanmer [Part 3 of 3]
Subject: Oral history, Anti-apartheid activists--South Africa--Interviews, Civil rights movements--South Africa, Government, Resistance to--South Africa, Colored people (South Africa)--Political activity, South Africa--Politics and government--1909-1948
Description: The interviews in this collection cover a wide range of topics linked to coloured identity, political organisations and activities in South Africa during the 1940s and post-1948 era. It includes information on protest actions, the defiance campaign, the torch commando, boycotts and train resistance efforts following the 1948 National Party election. Themes include the Anti-Coloured Affairs Department movement (Anti-CAD), civic organisations, education and welfare, the introduction of the Group Areas Act, political parties, race and class issues, the removal of coloured men from the national voters roll in 1956 and the Unity Movement., Pin3.05a.mp3: Part 3 of 3 ; 18:03 min. ; interview 5 of 11
Identifier: islandora:19403

Title: AWB execution, Bophuthatswana, 1994
Subject: Apartheid--South Africa--Bophuthatswana, Political violence--South Africa--Bophuthatswana, History--Political aspects--South Africa--Bophuthatswana, Right-wing extremists--South Africa--Bophuthatswana, Murder victims--South Africa--Bophuthatswana, Best of Marinovich
Description: Members of the far right-wing Afrikaner-Weerstandsbeweging (AWB) were executed in a shoot-out by Bophuthatswana soldiers during an abortive right-wing attempt to prop up homeland leader, Lucas Mangope, who refused to participate in the first democratic, non-racial elections in South Africa. March 1994.
Identifier: islandora:1203

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: African National Congress (ANC) supporters attack Lindsaye Tshabalala, a suspected nkatha Freedom Party (IFP) supporter, at Inhlazane Station, 1990.
Identifier: islandora:1212

Title: Albertina Sisulu briefs protestors, Johannesburg, 1984
Subject: Sisulu, Albertina, 1918-2011, Anti-apartheid activists, Woman political activists, Apartheid, Political history--South Africa, Beyond the Barricades
Description: Albertina Sisulu, a leader of the United Democratic Front (UDF), briefs a group of women before they embark on a National Women's Day picket. Members of the Federation of Transvaal Women (FEDTRAW) demonstrated for human rights in the centre of the city.
Identifier: islandora:913

Title: Local meeting, Amouti
Subject: Public meetings--South Africa, Political history--South Africa, South Africa--Social conditions--20th century, Apartheid, The Cordoned Heart
Description: The chairman of a liaison committee addresses residents at an open-air meeting.
Identifier: islandora:5750

Title: Mhlaba, release of political prisoners, Soweto, 1989
Subject: Apartheid--South Africa, South Africa--Politics and government--1978-1989, South Africa--History--1961-1994, Demonstrations--South Africa, Political activists--South Africa, Mhlaba, Raymond, 1920-,
Description: Raymond Mhlaba addressing thousands of supporters at an ANC (African National Congress) rally for released leaders, including Walter Sisulu, Soweto, 29 October, 1989.
Identifier: islandora:12597

Title: ANC rally for released political prisoners, Soweto, 1989
Subject: Apartheid--South Africa, South Africa--Politics and government--1978-1989, South Africa--History--1961-1994, Demonstrations--South Africa, Political activists--South Africa,
Description: Thousands of supporters attend an ANC (African National Congress) rally for released leaders, including Walter Sisulu, in Soweto, 29 October, 1989.
Identifier: islandora:12591

Title: Sisulu on his release from prison, Soweto, 1989
Subject: Apartheid--South Africa, South Africa--Politics and government--1978-1989, South Africa--History--1961-1994, Demonstrations--South Africa, Political activists--South Africa, Sisulu, Walter Max,
Description: Walter Sisulu salutes supporters at an ANC (African National Congress) rally on his release from prison, Soweto, 29 October, 1989.
Identifier: islandora:12595

Title: Election protest, Cape Town
Subject: Apartheid--South Africa, South Africa--Politics and government--1978-1989, South Africa--History--1961-1994, Youths--South Africa, Political activists--South Africa, Demonstrations--South Africa,
Description: Protest against unfair elections, Cape Town. Signs read, "Don't vote on 26 October" and "Down with the racist puppet dummy. October elections"., circa 1980s
Identifier: islandora:12649

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

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