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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: Pageant of South Africa, 1910, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Cape Town (South Africa), circa 1910, Festivals, History, Colonialism
Description: Pageant of South Africa, 1910, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:14547

Title: Oral history interivew with Elizabeth Gaywood, Chairperson of the Tibet Society of South Africa [Part 2 of 2]
Subject: Oral history, Tibet Autonomous Region (China), Tibet Society of South Africa
Description: After the Chinese Civil War, China incorporated Tibet into mainland China in 1950. This affirmed Chinese sovereignty over the region, but granted it autonomy. The 14th Dalai Lama repudiated this agreement and established a rival government in exile. This project uses the poetry and politics of pro-Tibet activists in South Africa to explore the styles and temporal modes through their narratives. Themes include: Buddhism; generating compassion; key figures; Office of Tibet; political consciousness; religious experiences; religious teachers; Tibet Society of South Africa., Pin12.01b.mp3: Part 2 of 2 ; 27:18 min.; interview 1 of 2
Identifier: islandora:19435

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: Young girl standing in a doorway, District Six, Cape Town, South Africa
Subject: District Six (Cape Town, South Africa)--Social conditions, District Six (Cape Town, South Africa)--History, Cape Town (South Africa)--History, Girls--South Africa--Cape Town, ,
Description: A young girl stands in a doorway of a home in District Six, Cape Town in the 1970's prior to the state orchestrated forced removals to locations further from the city.
Identifier: islandora:18499

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

Title: Homes set alight by vigilantes, Crossroads, Cape Town, South Africa
Subject: Political history--South Africa--Cape Town, Squatter settlements--South Africa--Cape Town, Apartheid--South Africa--Cape Town, Political violence--South Africa--Cape Town, Fires--South Africa--Cape Town
Description: A young comrade watches homes burning during the battle for Crossroads, a black settlement outside Cape Town. Vigilantes, backed by police, forced squatters of the KTC township to flee their shacks, by shooting and setting fire to their homes, Cape Town, South Africa, 10 June 1986.
Identifier: islandora:5347

Title: Defy Apartheid church service, Cape Town, South Africa
Subject: Political history--South Africa--Cape Town, Political violence--South Africa--Cape Town, Apartheid--South Africa--Cape Town, Demonstrations--South Africa--Cape Town, Tutu, Desmond
Description: Archbishop Desmond Tutu leads a 'Defy Apartheid' service with anti-apartheid UDF (United Democratic Front) leaders at St. George's Cathedral in Cape Town, South Africa, 19 August 1989.
Identifier: islandora:5357

Title: Political rally, Evaton Township, South Africa
Subject: Demonstrations--South Africa--Vereeniging, Apartheid--South Africa--Vereeniging, Political history--South Africa--Vereeniging, Political violence--South Africa--Vereeniging
Description: Political rally to protest against the Boipatong massacre, Evaton, South Africa, 21 June 1992.
Identifier: islandora:5371

Title: Release our leaders' protest, UCT, Cape Town, South Africa
Subject: Political history--South Africa--Cape Town, Demonstrations--South Africa--Cape Town, Student movements--South Africa--Cape Town, Education--South Africa--Cape Town, Apartheid--South Africa--Cape Town
Description: Students and staff at the University of Cape Town (UCT) march to demand the release of black anti-apartheid leaders from jail, including Nelson Mandela, whose picture they carry, 28 August 1985, Cape Town, South Africa.
Identifier: islandora:5337

Title: Young boy in a food store, District Six, Cape Town, South Africa
Subject: District Six (Cape Town, South Africa)--Social conditions, District Six (Cape Town, South Africa)--History, Cape Town (South Africa)--History, ,
Description: A little boy poses against the counter in a fruit and vegetable store in District Six, Cape Town in the 1970's prior to the state orchestrated forced removals to locations further from the city.
Identifier: islandora:18521

Title: Young girl standing in a doorway of a shop in District Six, Cape Town, South Africa
Subject: District Six (Cape Town, South Africa)--Social conditions, District Six (Cape Town, South Africa)--History, Cape Town (South Africa)--History, Girls--South Africa--Cape Town, ,
Description: A young girl stands and poses for the camera in a doorway of a shop in District Six, Cape Town in the 1970's prior to the state orchestrated forced removals to locations further from the city.
Identifier: islandora:18500

Title: Postal route map of the Union of South Africa
Subject: Postal service--South Africa--History--Maps, Telecommunication--South Africa--History--Maps, ,
Description: Map showing the postal routes in the Union of South Africa, main and branch offices, money order offices, sub Post Offices and agencies, international boundaries, with enlarged portion of the Cape Division, enlarged map of the Witwatersrand District, provinces, names of places. Scale: 1.9 in. to 50 English miles. No projection given.
Identifier: islandora:29947

Title: Teargas at ANC funeral, South Africa, 1990
Subject: Apartheid--South Africa--Thokoza, Political violence--South Africa--Thokoza, History--Political aspects--South Africa--Thokoza, Tear gas--South Africa--Thokoza, Best of Marinovich
Description: Mourners at an African National Congress (ANC) supporter�s funeral being teargassed by the police, Thokoza, 1990.
Identifier: islandora:1181

Title: Young brothers standing at a table in their home, District Six, Cape Town, South Africa
Subject: District Six (Cape Town, South Africa)--Social conditions, District Six (Cape Town, South Africa)--History, Cape Town (South Africa)--History, ,
Description: A young boy stands with his baby brother at a table in their home in District Six, Cape Town in the 1970's prior to the state orchestrated forced removals to locations further from the city.
Identifier: islandora:18529

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