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Title: Father Michael Lapsley, Cape Town, 1997
Subject: Apartheid--South Africa, Political violence--South Africa, South Africa--Social conditions, War crimes investigation--South Africa, Lapsley, Michael, Truth and Lies,
Description: Father Michael Lapsley, Cape Town, 1997. A New Zealander, he arrived at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in 1973 and deported to Lesotho in 1976 where he joined the ANC and trained Anglican priests. In April 1990, after the release of Nelson Mandela, he received a letter bomb believed to have been sent by a government death squad. He lost an eye and both hands.
Identifier: islandora:785

Title: Gideon Johannes Nieuwoudt and Mike Bernardo, Cape Town, 1998
Subject: Apartheid--South Africa, Political violence--South Africa, South Africa--Social conditions, War crimes investigation--South Africa, Truth and Lies,
Description: Gideon Johannes Nieuwoudt and Mike Bernardo, a member of the witness protection team, Cape Town, 1998. Steve Biko, the leader of the Black Consciousness movement, died in Pretoria on 12 September 1977. He was beaten into a coma during interrogation by security officers. Nieuwoudt was one of five security policemen who came forward to confess to the assault in 1997. His application for amnesty was successfully opposed by the Biko family.
Identifier: islandora:786

Title: Desmond Tutu, Cape Town, 2000
Subject: Apartheid--South Africa, Political violence--South Africa, South Africa--Social conditions, War crimes investigation--South Africa, Tutu, Desmond, Truth and Lies,
Description: Desmond Tutu, formerly Archbishop, at the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) headquarters, Cape Town, South Africa, 2000.
Identifier: islandora:795

Title: Gideon Johannes Nieuwoudt, Cape Town, 1998
Subject: Apartheid--South Africa, Political violence--South Africa, South Africa--Social conditions, War crimes investigation--South Africa, Truth and Lies,
Description: Gideon Johannes Nieuwoudt, Cape Town, 1998. Steve Biko, the leader of the Black Consciousness movement, died in Pretoria on 12 September 1977. He was beaten into a coma during interrogation by security officers. Nieuwoudt was one of five security policemen who came forward to confess to the assault in 1997. His application for amnesty was successfully opposed by the Biko family.
Identifier: islandora:780

Title: Desmond Tutu, Cape Town, 1997
Subject: Apartheid--South Africa, Political violence--South Africa, South Africa--Social conditions, War crimes investigation--South Africa, Tutu, Desmond, Truth and Lies,
Description: Desmond Tutu, formerly Archbishop, Chairperson of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) hearings, Cape Town, 1997.
Identifier: islandora:790

Title: Malay and Malay Priests - Cape flats - Table Mountain in the distance
Subject: Malays (Asian people) in art, South Africa--Social life and customs--Pictorial works, South Africa--In art
Description: Malay woman and man centrally placed in the Cape Flats landscape with two Malay priests in right foreground, with Table Mountain in the distance. Title taken from original painting.
Identifier: islandora:26399

Title: Archbishop Desmond Tutu's inauguration, Cape Town
Subject: Apartheid--South Africa, South Africa--Politics and government--1978-1989, South Africa--History--1961-1994, Political activists--South Africa, Religious leaders--South Africa, Tutu, Desmond, Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.),
Description: Archbishop Desmond Tutu at his first service as Archbishop of Cape Town, St. George's Cathedral, circa 1980s., circa 1980s
Identifier: islandora:12620

Title: Child being arrested by policeman, Cape Town, South Africa, 1982
Subject: South Africa--Social conditions--20th century, Apartheid--South Africa, Children--South Africa, Shoplifting--South Africa, Police--South Africa, Some evidence of things seen
Description: A youthful shoplifter is arrested by a policeman in Loop Street, Cape Town, 1982
Identifier: islandora:920

Title: Nelson Mandela, Cape Town, 1997
Subject: Apartheid--South Africa, Political violence--South Africa, South Africa--Social conditions, War crimes investigation--South Africa, Mandela, Nelson, 1918-2013, Truth and Lies,
Description: Portrait of Nelson Mandela, Tuynhuys, the Presidential House, Cape Town, 1997.
Identifier: islandora:757

Title: Nombuyiselo Mhlauli and Nyami Goniwe, Cradock Four widows, Cape Town, 1998
Subject: Apartheid--South Africa, Political violence--South Africa, South Africa--Social conditions, War crimes investigation--South Africa, Truth and Lies,
Description: Nombuyiselo Mhlauli and Nyami Goniwe, widows of two of the Cradock Four victims, Cape Town, 1998. The Cradock Four were a group of four political activists from Cradock who disappeared in 1985 during a trip to Port Elizabeth. Their mutilated bodies were found a week later. In January 1997, six members of the Port Elizabeth security police applied for amnesty for the killing of the Cradock Four. It was refused.
Identifier: islandora:768

Title: Children selling newspapers, Cape Town, South Africa, 1981
Subject: South Africa--Social conditions--20th century, Apartheid--South Africa, Children--South Africa, Newspaper vendors--South Africa, Child labor--South Africa, Some evidence of things seen
Description: It is 6:30am on a cold, wet day in winter of 1981. A young boy sleeps on the pavement on top of a pile of newspapers that he is meant to be selling. When a customer asked for 'Die Burger', another boy, selling the 'Cape Times', dutifully slipped 'Die Burger' newspaper from under the sleeping boy's head and placed the money beside his comrade
Identifier: islandora:949

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