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Title: ANC rally for released political prisoners, Soweto, 1990
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:12592

Title: Stop police violence, 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,
Description: Sign at anti-apartheid rally reads, STOP POLICE VIOLENCE. Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:12611

Title: Quack Quack ... President Mbeki's chief adviser on medical matters
Subject: South Africa--Politics and government--1994- --Caricatures and cartoons, AIDS (Disease)--Government policy--South Africa--Caricatures and cartoons, South African wit and humor, Pictorial, South Africa
Description: President Mbeki's denialist position on HIV/AIDS and his dependence on the quack opinions of his panel of his AIDS advisers baffled medical experts and confused the public. The duck quacking away inanely became a useful adjunct in many of my cartoons on this subject. Description provided by Tony Grogan.
Identifier: islandora:6125

Title: Eugene Terre'Blanche, Mafikeng, 1998
Subject: Apartheid--South Africa, Political violence--South Africa, South Africa--Social conditions, War crimes investigation--South Africa, Terre Blanche, Euge?ne N., Truth and Lies,
Description: Eugene Terre'Blanche, Mafikeng, 1998. Terre'Blanche, the leader of the Afrikaner-Weerstandsbeweging (AWB), attended the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) hearings in order to oppose the amnesty application of a South African Police (SAP) officer, Ontlametse Bernstein Menyatswe, who had killed three members of the AWB in 1994. Menyatswe argued that the killing had been politically motivated and he was acting in defense of his people and their right to vote in a national democratic election.
Identifier: islandora:775

Title: Look to the rock from which you have been hewn!
Subject: African National Congress--Caricatures and cartoons, Tutu, Desmond--Caricatures and cartoons, South Africa--Politics and government--1994- Caricatures and cartoons, South African wit and humor, Pictorial, South Africa
Description: The ANC losing its moral direction, was sharply reminded of its erstwhile principles by Archbishop Tutu
Identifier: islandora:6116

Title: Members of Parliament sit for a photograph, Cape Town
Subject: South Africa. Parliament, Legislation, Governments, Politics, ,
Description: Parliamentary - Historical.
Identifier: islandora:15784

Title: Rabbi Israel Abrahams hands "Prayer for the Republic of South Africa" to Mr Klopper, Cape Town
Subject: Rabbis--South Africa, Religious leaders, Jewish scholars, Politics
Description: Chief Rabbi I. Abrahams (centre) handed an illuminated "Prayer for the Republic of South Africa" , in Afrikaans , Hebrew and English, to the Speaker, Mr. H.J. Klopper, at the Houses of Parliament yesterday. With them is Mr. Eli Shannon, a leading member of the Cape Town congregation. The prayer, composed by Professor Abrahams, was presented at the Speaker's request and will hang in his room at Parliament.
Identifier: islandora:14693

Title: Great Trek Commemoration, Uitenhage, South Africa
Subject: South Africa-- History--Great Trek, 1836-1840--Anniversaries, etc., Role playing, Political history--South Africa--Pretoria, Afrikaners--Social life and customs
Description: Commemoration of the Afrikaners' Great Trek, Uitenhage, Eastern Cape, South Africa, December 1988.
Identifier: islandora:5353

Title: Community meeting, Kuboes
Subject: Political participation--South Africa--Richtersveld, Civic leaders--South Africa--Richtersveld,
Description: Community meeting about land issues, at Kuboes.
Identifier: islandora:5158

Title: Nelson Mandela, Treason Trial, Pretoria, 1958
Subject: Mandela, Nelson, 1918-2013, Political activists--South Africa--Pretoria, Apartheid--South Africa--Pretoria, Treason Trial, Pretoria, South Africa, 1956-1961
Description: On 13 October 1958, Moses Kotane and Nelson Mandela leave the Pretoria Court beaming with joy as the Crown had withdrawn their treason charges. However, on 19 January 1959, Nelson Mandela and 29 others were put on trial again, only to be found not-guilty two years later.
Identifier: islandora:7467

Title: Mandela addressing COSATU, Johannesburg, 1993
Subject: Apartheid--South Africa--Johannesburg, Political activists--South Africa--Johannesburg, Labor unions--South Africa--Johannesburg, Mandela, Nelson, 1918-2013, Cosatu
Description: Nelson Mandela addresses a special congress of the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) at Vista University in Soweto, Johannesburg, 1993.
Identifier: islandora:1453

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: 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: Release of political prisoners
Subject: Apartheid--South Africa, South Africa--Politics and government--1978-1989, South Africa--History--1961-1994, Political prisoners--South Africa, Political activists--South Africa, Men--South Africa,
Description: Political prisoners on their release from Robben Island prison, accompanied by prison personnel, Cape Town Harbour.
Identifier: islandora:12576

Title: There you are ' I don't use discounts, charge a dispensing fee of only R26 and still manage to stay in business.
Subject: South Africa--Politics and government--1994- --Caricatures and cartoons, Tshabalala-Msimang, Manto, 1940-2009--Caricatures and cartoons, Pharmaceutical industry--South Africa--Caricatures and cartoons, South African wit and humor, Pictorial, South Africa
Description: Minister of Health Manto Tshabala-Msimang, famous for her beetroot and lemon juice recommendations as a cure for HIV/AIDS also managed to close down most of the neighbourhood pharmacies in a bid to lower the cost of medicines. Description provided by Tony Grogan.
Identifier: islandora:6123

Title: Fikile Mlotshwa, comforter, Johannesburg, 1997
Subject: Apartheid--South Africa, Political violence--South Africa, South Africa--Social conditions, War crimes investigation--South Africa, Truth and Lies,
Description: Fikile Mlotshwa, a comforter for hearings in Johannesburg, 1997. The Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) employed professional 'comforters' at hearings to look after those who testified, both victims and perpetrators.
Identifier: islandora:791

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: A new South Africa?
Subject: white men, white women, old South African flagElections--South Africa--1987, Political candidates--South Africa, Politicians--South Africa, Women, White--South Africa, Men, White--South Africa
Description: Independent Movement members Denis Worrall (right), Ester Lategan and Wynand Malan share a platform in Stellenbosch.
Identifier: islandora:8387

Title: ANC refugees, South Africa, 1994
Subject: Apartheid--South Africa--KwaZulu-Natal, Refugees--South Africa--KwaZulu-Natal, History--Political aspects--South Africa--KwaZulu-Natal, KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa)--Social conditions, Best of Marinovich
Description: A family carry their belongings home after months in a refugee camp for African National Congress (ANC) supporting families from the Sonkombo area from which they had fled months earlier because of attacks by rival Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP). Sonkombo, KwaZulu-Natal, 1994.
Identifier: islandora:1199

Title: Pumla Ndulula, Johannesburg, 1999
Subject: Apartheid--South Africa, Political violence--South Africa, South Africa--Social conditions, War crimes investigation--South Africa, Truth and Lies,
Description: The Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) employed professional 'comforters' at hearings to look after those who testified, both victims and perpetrators. Pumla Ndulula had worked for three years as a comfortor. When asked what her 'big cases' had been, she said that she had 'looked after' Colonel Eugene de Kock, the security commander at Vlakplaas who became known as 'Prime Evil'.
Identifier: islandora:788

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