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Title: Funeral of baby, Crossroads, 1985
Subject: Funeral service, Tear gas, Children--Death, Apartheid, Political history--South Africa, Beyond the Barricades
Description: Crossroads residents bury six-month-old Amanda Fanisa, asphyxiated by tear gas fired during police action in Crossroads, Cape Town. The South African security forces used tear gas as a standard means of "crowd control". Tear gas can be lethal, and it is especially dangerous when inhaled by young children.
Identifier: islandora:895

Title: Oral history interview with Wes Siyaka [Part 2 of 2]
Subject: Oral history, Drinking of alcoholic beverages--Social aspects--South Africa, Apartheid--South Africa, Alcohol--Government policy--South Africa
Description: This project spans three sub-collections. This case study in Langa in the Western Cape examines the socio-political environment and racial/gender discrimination with regards to alcohol under apartheid policies. Themes include: African traditional beer (umqombothi), anti-government protests, discriminatory laws, the Eastern Cape, government beer halls, government policy with respect to alcohol, hostels, housing, migrant labour, racialised spaces, the 1976 riots, shebeens (a bar, predominately in the townships where alcohol is sold) and the smuggling of alcohol by residents., Pin7.13b.mp3: Part 2 of 2 ; 30:48 min. ; interview 13 of 16
Identifier: islandora:22566

Title: Police inform families of executions, Pretoria, 1987
Subject: Political prisoners, Executions and executioners, Apartheid, Political history--South Africa, Beyond the Barricades
Description: A prison official approaches the families of death-row prisoners, Wellington Meilies and Moses Jantjies, to inform them that the two men were hanged earlier that morning. In 1987, when Meilies and Jantjies were executed, thirty-two political prisoners remained on death row in Pretoria Central Prison, and South Africa had the highest number of hangings in the world.
Identifier: islandora:855

Title: Oral history interview with Benjamin Pogrund, Robert Sobukwe's friend and biographer
Subject: Oral history, Sobukwe, Robert Mangaliso, Political activists--South Africa--Biography, Pan Africanist Congress--History, South Africa--Politics and government--1961-1978, Anti-apartheid movements--South Africa--History, Government, Resistance to--South Africa,
Description: The interviews in this collection focus on the life history of Robert Sobukwe, teacher, lecturer, lawyer, secretary of the African National Congress (ANC) Branch in Standerton and first president of the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC). Interviewees include Achmat Cassiem (activist and Robben Island prisoner), Benjamin Pogrund (author of his autobiography), Charmaine van Tonder (Robert Sobukwe's neighbour) and Dinilesizwe Sobukwe (Robert Sobukwe's son). Themes include: the controversy regarding his burial; the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC); reflections on his funeral; his life on Robben Island; Sobukwe as a father; the Sharpeville Massacre and his work at the University of the Witwatersrand (WITS) . This sub-collection originated as research for the Albert Luthuli Young Historians award 2010., Pin13.03.mp3: Part 1 of 1 ; 48:10 min. ; interview 3 of 5
Identifier: islandora:19441

Title: Oral history interview with Mr. Afrika [Part 2 of 2]
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., Pin3.01b.mp3: Part 2 of 2 ; 32:08 min. ; interview 1 of 11
Identifier: islandora:19407

Title: Oral history interview with Tamsanqa Mtembu
Subject: Oral history, Sobukwe, Robert Mangaliso, Political activists--South Africa--Biography, Pan Africanist Congress--History, South Africa--Politics and government--1961-1978, Anti-apartheid movements--South Africa--History, Government, Resistance to--South Africa,
Description: The interviews in this collection focus on the life history of Robert Sobukwe, teacher, lecturer, lawyer, secretary of the African National Congress (ANC) Branch in Standerton and first president of the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC). Interviewees include Achmat Cassiem (activist and Robben Island prisoner), Benjamin Pogrund (author of his autobiography), Charmaine van Tonder (Robert Sobukwe's neighbour) and Dinilesizwe Sobukwe (Robert Sobukwe's son). Themes include: the controversy regarding his burial; the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC); reflections on his funeral; his life on Robben Island; Sobukwe as a father; the Sharpeville Massacre and his work at the University of the Witwatersrand (WITS) . This sub-collection originated as research for the Albert Luthuli Young Historians award 2010., Pin13.02.mp3: Part 1 of 1 ; 01:04:18 min. ; interview 2 of 5
Identifier: islandora:19440

Title: UDF leader arrested by security police, Johannesburg, 1985
Subject: Mohamed, Ismail, Civic leaders, Trials (Treason), Apartheid, Political history--South Africa, Beyond the Barricades
Description: Professor Ismail Mohamed, a United Democratic Front (UDF) leader, reaches out to his daughter, Elaine, as he is arrested by South African security police. Mohamed was detained and charged with treason along with fifteen others in the Pietermaritzburg Treason Trial. Eventually all were exonerated.
Identifier: islandora:886

Title: Whip marks from vigilante attack, Welkom township, 1985
Subject: Vigilantes, Political violence, Youth--Wounds and injuries, Apartheid, Political history--South Africa, Beyond the Barricades
Description: A Thabong youth shows the whip marks left by vigilantes in Welkom township, Orange Free State (now Free State Province). Gangs of vigilantes, very often supported by police, terrorised residents and anti-apartheid activists.
Identifier: islandora:893

Title: Oral history interview with Achmad Cassiem, a political activist and prisoner on Robben Island [Part 2 of 2]
Subject: Oral history, Sobukwe, Robert Mangaliso, Political activists--South Africa--Biography, Pan Africanist Congress--History, South Africa--Politics and government--1961-1978, Anti-apartheid movements--South Africa--History, Government, Resistance to--South Africa,
Description: The interviews in this collection focus on the life history of Robert Sobukwe, teacher, lecturer, lawyer, secretary of the African National Congress (ANC) Branch in Standerton and first president of the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC). Interviewees include Achmat Cassiem (activist and Robben Island prisoner), Benjamin Pogrund (author of his autobiography), Charmaine van Tonder (Robert Sobukwe's neighbour) and Dinilesizwe Sobukwe (Robert Sobukwe's son). Themes include: the controversy regarding his burial; the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC); reflections on his funeral; his life on Robben Island; Sobukwe as a father; the Sharpeville Massacre and his work at the University of the Witwatersrand (WITS) . This sub-collection originated as research for the Albert Luthuli Young Historians award 2010., Pin13.01b.mp3: Part 2 of 2 ; 01:03:32 min. ; interview 1 of 5
Identifier: islandora:19439

Title: Oral history interview with Mr. B. Dilima [Part 2 of 2]
Subject: Oral history, Drinking of alcoholic beverages--Social aspects--South Africa, Apartheid--South Africa, Alcohol--Government policy--South Africa
Description: This project spans three sub-collections. This case study in Langa in the Western Cape examines the socio-political environment and racial/gender discrimination with regards to alcohol under apartheid policies. Themes include: African traditional beer (umqombothi), anti-government protests, discriminatory laws, the Eastern Cape, government beer halls, government policy with respect to alcohol, hostels, housing, migrant labour, racialised spaces, the 1976 riots, shebeens (a bar, predominately in the townships where alcohol is sold) and the smuggling of alcohol by residents., Pin7.03b.mp3: Part 2 of 2 ; 16:35 min. ; interview 3 of 16
Identifier: islandora:22538

Title: Fleeing ANC supporters, Ciskei, 1992
Subject: Apartheid--South Africa--Ciskei, Political violence--South Africa--Ciskei, Ciskei (South Africa)--Politics and government, History--Political aspects--South Africa--Ciskei, Best of Marinovich
Description: African National Congress (ANC) supporters flee towards the South African side of the border with the Ciskei bantustan after they were fired at, killing 29 marchers and wounding dozens, during an ANC march on the Ciskei homeland, 7 September, 1992. The ANC supporters were killed when Ciskei security forces opened fire after the marchers broke through the border in an attempt to force the Ciskeien military leader, Brigadier Oupa Gqozo, to allow free political activity in Ciskei.
Identifier: islandora:1188

Title: Oral history interview with Linda Nkomo
Subject: Oral history, United Democratic Front (South Africa), Anti-apartheid activists--South Africa--Interviews, Anti-apartheid movements--South Africa, Government, Resistance to--South Africa, South Africa--Politics and government, ,
Description: The United Democratic Front (UDF) was established as a non-racial, anti-apartheid coalition in 1983. The interviews in this collection deal with the formation and impact of the UDF in the Western Cape in the 1980s. Key figures involved with the UDF are interviewed, including Cheryl Carolus, Lionel Louw, Sydney Luckett and Phyllis Orner. Themes include: community based organisations affiliated to the UDF; the effects of apartheid; religious affiliation; role of the UDF in the community; trade unions. These interviews originate from research conducted for the Albert Luthuli Young Historians Award 2008., Por6.05.mp3: Part 1 of 1 ; 30:27 min. ; interview 5 of 6
Identifier: islandora:24455

Title: Striking miners, Secunda, Transvaal, 1987
Subject: Strikes and lockouts--Miners, Labor union meetings, Labor movement--History, Apartheid, Political history--South Africa, Beyond the Barricades
Description: Miners meet at the start of a national strike called by the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM). Although the mining companies and the government tried to prevent miners from organising unions, and miners were the last to unionize in the 1970s, NUM became the largest union in the COSATU (Congress of South African Trade Unions) federation, and a powerful force in the democratic political movement against oppression.
Identifier: islandora:867

Title: Oral history interview with Cyril Danisa [Part 2 of 2]
Subject: Oral history, Drinking of alcoholic beverages--Social aspects--South Africa, Apartheid--South Africa, Alcohol--Government policy--South Africa
Description: This project spans three sub-collections. This case study in Langa in the Western Cape examines the socio-political environment and racial/gender discrimination with regards to alcohol under apartheid policies. Themes include: African traditional beer (umqombothi), anti-government protests, discriminatory laws, the Eastern Cape, government beer halls, government policy with respect to alcohol, hostels, housing, migrant labour, racialised spaces, the 1976 riots, shebeens (a bar, predominately in the townships where alcohol is sold) and the smuggling of alcohol by residents., Pin7.02b.mp3: Part 2 of 2 ; 03:52 min. ; interview 2 of 16
Identifier: islandora:22540

Title: Oral history interview with Faku Farrington Dlanga [Part 2 of 2]
Subject: Oral history, Drinking of alcoholic beverages--Social aspects--South Africa, Apartheid--South Africa, Alcohol--Government policy--South Africa
Description: This project spans three sub-collections. This case study in Langa in the Western Cape examines the socio-political environment and racial/gender discrimination with regards to alcohol under apartheid policies. Themes include: African traditional beer (umqombothi), anti-government protests, discriminatory laws, the Eastern Cape, government beer halls, government policy with respect to alcohol, hostels, housing, migrant labour, racialised spaces, the 1976 riots, shebeens (a bar, predominately in the townships where alcohol is sold) and the smuggling of alcohol by residents., Pin7.04b.mp3: Part 2 of 2 ; 20:06 min. ; interview 4 of 16
Identifier: islandora:22548

Title: Police reload at funeral, Duduza, 1985
Subject: Police shootings, Funeral service, Political violence, Apartheid, Political history--South Africa, Beyond the Barricades
Description: Policemen reload their guns after firing at mourners during the funeral for the young activists killed in the "grenade incident" in Duduza township, Transvaal (now Gauteng), July 1985. Deaths followed funerals with sad predictability.
Identifier: islandora:910

Title: Destroyed home, Umbogintwini, Durban, 1986
Subject: Political violence, Ethnic conflict, Population transfers, Apartheid, Political history--South Africa, Beyond the Barricades
Description: A Pondo woman sits in the ruins of her home, burned out during clashes between Zulus and Pondos. Thousands of Pondo people migrated to this region of Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal) from the Transkei in search of work. Many Zulus, threatened by this influx, resorted to violence against the newcomers, almost turning some shantytowns into war zones.
Identifier: islandora:870

Title: Loewenstein farmstead, Bellville, Cape Town
Subject: Bellville (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, History, Cape Dutch architecture, Architecture, Fires
Description: Loewenstein destroyed by fire (historic home).
Identifier: islandora:16806

Title: Political vandalism, Duduza township, 1985
Subject: Political crimes and offenses, Youth--Political activity, Reprisals, Apartheid, Political history--South Africa, Beyond the Barricades
Description: Youths burn the car of an alleged police informer in Duduza township following the deaths of four young activists who were killed by defective hand grenades given to them by a member of the security force posing as an African National Congress (ANC) freedom fighter.
Identifier: islandora:908

Title: Oral history interview with Mr Pitchard [Part 4 of 4]
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., Pin3.07b.mp3: Part 4 of 4 ; 30:36 min. ; interview 7 of 11
Identifier: islandora:19417

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