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Title: Labour strike meeting, Johannesburg, 1987
Subject: Labor union meetings, Strikes and lockouts--Retail trade, Apartheid, Political history--South Africa, Beyond the Barricades
Description: Striking OK Bazaars workers meet at union headquarters in Cosatu House, Johannesburg. A major supermarket chain, OK Bazaars has a large work force, organised by the Commercial, Catering, and Allied Workers Union (CCAWUSA), which led many campaigns on behalf of food store workers.
Identifier: islandora:861

Title: Students protesting, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Youth, Demonstrations, Apartheid, Politics, Student protestors,
Description: Students protesting, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:17659

Title: Oral history interview with R. Clark [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., Pin3.03b.mp3: Part 2 of 2 ; 32:09 min. ; interview 3 of 11
Identifier: islandora:19425

Title: Yengeni Trial co-accused, Cape Town
Subject: Apartheid--South Africa, South Africa--Politics and government--1978-1989, South Africa--History--1961-1994, Political activists--South Africa, Women--South Africa, Lombard, Colleen, Abass, Zuraya,
Description: Colleen Lombard and Zuraya Abass, the two co-accused in the Yengeni Trial, with family members at the Supreme/High Court, 1989.
Identifier: islandora:12582

Title: Street in Ocean View, Cape Town
Subject: Residential buildings, Communities, Apartheid, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Forced removals (South Africa), , ,
Description: Ocean View.
Identifier: islandora:15607

Title: Journalists interviewing policeman, Cape Town
Subject: Apartheid--South Africa, South Africa--Politics and government--1978-1989, South Africa--History--1961-1994, Police--South Africa, Press--South Africa,
Description: Police officer, Mr. Rockman, who was involved in exposing police brutality, is interviewed by journalists, Cape Town., circa 1980s
Identifier: islandora:12636

Title: Argie boy, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Newspapers, Labour, Apartheid, Coloured Labour Preference Area Policy (South Africa), Children's rights
Description: 1950s depiction of an Argie Boy (newspaper vendor selling the Argus newspaper)
Identifier: islandora:16697

Title: ANC victory celebrations, Johannesburg, South Africa
Subject: Political history--South Africa--Johannesburg, Elections--South Africa--Johannesburg, Democracy--South Africa--Johannesburg, Apartheid--South Africa--Johannesburg
Description: African National Congress (ANC) supporters embrace in celebration of victory in South Africa's first all-race presidential elections, Johannesburg, South Africa, April 1994.
Identifier: islandora:5378

Title: First World War Survivors of the Battle of Delville Wood, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Cape Town (South Africa), Memorials, Veterans, Apartheid
Description: Retired soldiers, two of them survivors of the battle of Dellville Wood, attended a memorial service in the Gardens yesterday. They are, from left, Mr B H Crous, Mr P C Coetzee, Mr A W Burridge, a survivor , Mr E L Burgussm, and Mr A Liefeldt, also a survivor.
Identifier: islandora:14859

Title: Bellville shopping centre, Cape Town
Subject: Bellville (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Afrikaners, Commerce, Architecture
Description: Water fountain in a Bellville shopping centre, early 1970s
Identifier: islandora:16780

Title: Protest by Blue Downs residents, Cape Town
Subject: Blue Downs (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Apartheid, Banking, Coloured people (South Africa), Demonstrations
Description: The Downs Blues: Hundreds of placard-wielding Blue Downs residents march through the streets to protest against soaring repayments on their homes
Identifier: islandora:16880

Title: Police, Crossroads, Cape Town
Subject: Crossroads (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Squatter settlements, South African Police, Apartheid
Description: Police at Crossroads form up to leave the camp after the raid in which hundreds of people were arrested.
Identifier: islandora:17553

Title: Crossroads resident, Cape Town
Subject: Crossroads (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Squatter settlements, Apartheid
Description: Son shot. Mrs Ethelene Beja, 63, of Old Crossroads, whose son Sipoto, 28, was shot dead through his sister's front door during a campaign of intimidation against residents moving into newly built homes.
Identifier: islandora:17596

Title: Gugulethu 7, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Demonstrations, Apartheid, Funerals, Anti-apartheid activists, United Democratic Front (South Africa)
Description: Protesting activists and supporters of the United Democratic Front (UDF) demonstrate at the funeral of the 7 "terrorists", Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:17684

Title: 1989 political demonstrations, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Demonstrations, Apartheid, South African Police
Description: 1989 political demonstrations, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:17722

Title: Members of Mandela United Football Club, Johannesburg, 1997
Subject: Apartheid--South Africa, Political violence--South Africa, South Africa--Social conditions, War crimes investigation--South Africa, Truth and Lies,
Description: Members of the Mandela United Football Club, Johannesburg, 1997. In 1997, Winnie Madikizela-Mandela appeared at the Truth Commission to answer allegations about her involvement with the Mandela United Football Club. A number of parents from Soweto had testified about the disappearance of their children after they had come into contact with these men. The Commission had gathered evidence linking the club to more than twenty incidents of abduction, assault and murder. The coach, Jerry Richardson, testified at the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) and claimed that his orders came from Mrs Winnie Mandela, whom he called "mommie". Mrs Mandela denied all involvement.
Identifier: islandora:771

Title: Mr. H. S. Klopper, gave a lunch at the House of Assembly yesterday for the newly-elected State President, Dr. Dönges, Cape Town
Subject: Politicians--South Africa, Apartheid era
Description: Speaker's lunch: The Speaker, Mr. H. S. Klopper, gave a lunch at the House of Assembly yesterday for the newly-elected State President, Dr. Dönges. Some of those who attended were (from left): Chief Justice L. C. Steyn, Lady Graaff, Sir De Villiers Graaff, Mr. Vorster, the new State President Dr. Dönges, Mrs. Van der Byl and the Speaker, Mr. Klopper
Identifier: islandora:14362

Title: Woman overcome by tear gas at funeral, Port Elizabeth, 1986
Subject: Funeral service, Police shootings, Tear gas, Apartheid, Political history--South Africa, Beyond the Barricades
Description: A woman overcome by tear gas is helped by fellow mourners during the funeral for eight people killed in the "bottle store (liquor-store) incident" in New Brighton township, Port Elizabeth. Nearly a week before, on March 25, heavily armed policemen opened fire on a crowd gathered outside a liquor store that had been bombed the previous day, killing eight.
Identifier: islandora:891

Title: ANC flag at funeral, Cape Town, 1986
Subject: Funeral service, Police shootings, Anti-apartheid movements, Apartheid, Political history--South Africa, Beyond the Barricades
Description: An African National Congress (ANC) flag bearer heads the procession at the funeral of a United Democratic Front (UDF) activist shot by police in Guguletu, a black township outside of Cape Town. This procession is almost emblematic of South African resistance, being lead by the ANC, the Church, and the UDF, with the message, "The People Shall Govern".
Identifier: islandora:888

Title: I knew it ' give them an inch and they'll take a foot. '.- he's doing the backstroke in the bathtub!
Subject: South Africa--Politics and government--1961-1978--Caricatures and cartoons, Apartheid--South Africa--Caricatures and cartoons, Blacks--South Africa--Social conditions--Caricatures and cartoons, South African wit and humor, Pictorial, South Africa
Description: One of the adjustments to apartheid necessary to accommodate influential black people visiting the urban centres was to allow blacks to stay in previously 'whites only' hotels provided they qualified as 'bona fide' travellers. This caused grave disquiet among purist government supporters. Description provided by Tony Grogan.
Identifier: islandora:6147

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