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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: Funeral, South Africa, 1993
Subject: Apartheid--South Africa--Heidelberg (Gauteng), Political violence--South Africa--Heidelberg (Gauteng), Funeral rites and ceremonies--South Africa--Heidelberg (Gauteng), History--Political aspects--South Africa--Heidelberg (Gauteng), Football teams--South Africa--Heidelberg (Gauteng), Best of Marinovich
Description: A football team buries their teammate, who was killed in crossfire between African National Congress (ANC) and Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) fighters, while playing soccer in Ratanda township, Heidelberg, 1993.
Identifier: islandora:1202

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: Mass funeral, Guguletu
Subject: Apartheid--South Africa, South Africa--Politics and government--1978-1989, South Africa--History--1961-1994, Funeral rites and ceremonies--South Africa, Political violence--South Africa,
Description: Mass funeral at the Guguletu Cemetery in Cape Town., circa 1980s
Identifier: islandora:12583

Title: Funeral of Ashley Kriel, Langa township, 1987
Subject: Funeral service, Kriel, Ashley, -1987--Death and burial, Police, Apartheid, Political history--South Africa, Beyond the Barricades
Description: Police attempt to remove an African National Congress (ANC) flag draped over the coffin of slain ANC member, Ashley Kriel, in Langa township, Cape Town. Symbols of the ANC, though illegal, were visible at funerals, an insistent reminder of the political meaning of the deaths.
Identifier: islandora:894

Title: David Webster funeral, Johannesburg, South Africa
Subject: Political history--South Africa--Johannesburg, Political violence--South Africa--Johannesburg, Funeral rites and ceremonies--South Africa--Johannesburg, Apartheid--South Africa--Johannesburg, May Day (Labor holiday)--South Africa--Johannesburg
Description: Activists defiantly hoist the banned African National Congress (ANC) flag at the funeral of David Webster, a prominent anti-apartheid activist and champion of labour union rights who was murdered by the apartheid state on May Day (1 May) 1989. Johannesburg, South Africa, 6 May 1989.
Identifier: islandora:5356

Title: Funeral, KwaMashu, Durban
Subject: Funerals--South Africa, Pallbearers--South Africa, Political history--South Africa, South Africa--Social conditions--20th century, Apartheid, The Cordoned Heart
Description: Pallbearers carrying the coffins at the funeral of two African National Congress (ANC) soldiers killed in clashes with the police outside Stanger.
Identifier: islandora:5734

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: Mass funeral, East London, South Africa
Subject: Political history--South Africa--East London, Political violence--South Africa--East London, Funeral rites and ceremonies--South Africa--East London, Apartheid--South Africa--East London
Description: A mass funeral is held for 18 people, including a baby, slain in police repression of an anti-apartheid protest. The coffins are draped in colours of the United Democratic Front (UDF), and carried by uniformed members of the movement, 31 August 1985, Duncan Village, South Africa.
Identifier: islandora:5338

Title: Funeral of massacre victims, Queenstown, 1985
Subject: Funeral service, Police shootings, Youth--Political activity, Apartheid, Political history--South Africa, Beyond the Barricades
Description: Young mourners carrying symbolic AK-47 rifles stand over the coffins of Queenstown residents killed by police who opened fire on them as they were leaving the church in which they had met to discuss a consumer boycott. Fourteen people were murdered, including three fifteen-year-olds.
Identifier: islandora:907

Title: Funeral, Nyanga
Subject: Apartheid--South Africa, South Africa--Politics and government--1978-1989, South Africa--History--1961-1994, Funeral rites and ceremonies--South Africa, Political violence--South Africa, Payi, Ernest,
Description: Funeral of Ernest Payi (28), Nyanga, Cape Town., circa 1980s
Identifier: islandora:12586

Title: Police shoot-out during Chris Hani funeral, South Africa, 1993
Subject: Apartheid--South Africa--Soweto, Political violence--South Africa--Soweto, History--Political aspects--South Africa--Soweto, Hani, Chris, 1942-1993--Death and burial, Best of Marinovich
Description: African National Congress (ANC) and South African Communist Party (SACP) supporters scatter as police fire teargas and live rounds outside the Soweto soccer stadium where the funeral of Chris Hani was attended by thousands of mourners, April 19, 1993.
Identifier: islandora:1183

Title: Funeral speaker, Grahamstown, 1987
Subject: Funeral service, Political violence, Apartheid, Political history--South Africa, Beyond the Barricades
Description: A speaker at the funeral of four people murdered by drunken municipal policemen in Fingo Village township, Grahamstown, February 1987.
Identifier: islandora:899

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: Funeral, Cape Town
Subject: Apartheid--South Africa, South Africa--Politics and government--1978-1989, South Africa--History--1961-1994, Funeral rites and ceremonies--South Africa, Islam and politics--South Africa, Political violence--South Africa,
Description: Imam Solomon, Rashied Omar and an Anglican priest, among others at a funeral for slain activist, Cape Town., circa 1980s
Identifier: islandora:12657

Title: Masked coffin-bearer, Alexandra township funeral, 1986
Subject: Funeral service, Pallbearers, Police shootings, Apartheid, Political history--South Africa, Beyond the Barricades
Description: Mourners carry the coffin of one of eight youths killed in clashes with police in Alexandra township, Johannesburg. Masked mourners are a common sight at funerals as people try and conceal their identities and protect themselves from the expected tear gas attacks.
Identifier: islandora:900

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: Funeral, New Brighton township, 1986
Subject: Funeral service, Police shootings, Police, Apartheid, Political history--South Africa, Beyond the Barricades
Description: Police confront mourners at the funeral of eight people shot by security forces during the "bottle-store (liquor-store) incident" in New Brighton township, Port Elizabeth, April 1986. The funeral ended in chaos when police fired tear gas and violently dispersed the large group of mourners.
Identifier: islandora:896

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