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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: 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: Police try to contain a protest, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Demonstrations, Politics, South African Police
Description: Police try to contain a protest, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:17879

Title: Police stop Graeme Bloch from protesting, Cape Town
Subject: Bloch, Graeme, Political activists, South African Police, Demonstrations, Apartheid era
Description: Graeme Bloch protesting agains Section 29
Identifier: islandora:14814

Title: ANC supporters confront police, Cape Town
Subject: Woodstock (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Politics, African National Congress, South African Police, Apartheid
Description: At bay: Angry African National Congress supporters, standing behind unrest monitors, point accusing fingers at a policeman and his dog outside the party's Woodstock offices.
Identifier: islandora:15901

Title: Police arrest UWO members, Cape Town, 1985
Subject: Women political activists, Demonstrations, Arrest (Police methods), Apartheid, Political history--South Africa, Beyond the Barricades
Description: Leaders of the United Women's Organisation (UWO) are turned back from parliament and arrested during a march to protest against the massacre in which police killed twenty-two people in the Eastern Cape township of Langa. Eyewitnesses maintained that the police shot innocent people, part of a funeral procession, without provocation.
Identifier: islandora:883

Title: Dr. Allan Boesak walks past police officers, Cape Town
Subject: Boesak, Allan Aubrey, 1946-, Political activists, South African Police, Apartheid era
Description: Allan Boesak
Identifier: islandora:14816

Title: Dr. Allan Boesak walks past police officers, Cape Town
Subject: Boesak, Allan Aubrey, 1946-, Political activists, South African Police, Apartheid era
Description: Allan Boesak
Identifier: islandora:14472

Title: Political protests, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Demonstrations, Apartheid, Politics, South African Police
Description: Political protests, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:17714

Title: Political protests, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Demonstrations, Apartheid, Politics, South African Police
Description: Political protests, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:17717

Title: Policeman instructing media, Cape Town
Subject: Apartheid--South Africa, South Africa--Politics and government--1978-1989, South Africa--History--1961-1994, Police--South Africa, Press--South Africa, Demonstrations--South Africa, Camera operators--South Africa,
Description: A policeman monitors journalist, John Rubython, and other press cameramen outside Victor Verster Prison in Cape Town., circa 1980s
Identifier: islandora:12625

Title: Police confiscate placards from members of the Cell of Islam, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Demonstrations, Politics, Apartheid, South African Police
Description: Protest in city ... Police confiscate placards from members of the Cell of Islam before arresting them. An executive committee member of the movement, Mr Ibrahim Rassool (far right), looks on.
Identifier: islandora:17692

Title: Demonstations and protests, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Demonstrations, Politics, South African Police
Description: Police try to contain a protest, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:17878

Title: Pollsmoor Prison March, Cape Town, 1985
Subject: Student protesters, Demonstrations, Police brutality, Apartheid, Political history--South Africa, Beyond the Barricades
Description: Police attack youths early in the morning on the day of the Pollsmoor Prison March. United Democratic Front (UDF) leaders had called upon people to march to Pollsmoor Prison in August 1985 to demand the release of Nelson Mandela and other political prisoners. The students were also protesting against the state's education system, which offered blacks inferior education.
Identifier: islandora:890

Title: Young pallbearers, Cape Town, 1985
Subject: Funeral service, Pallbearers, Police shootings, Apartheid, Political history--South Africa, Beyond the Barricades
Description: Young pallbearers, in school uniforms, stand at solemn attention at the funeral of three boys killed in the "Trojan Horse incident", when police, armed with pump-action shotguns and hiding in the back of a van, opened fire on a crowd in a residential street in Athlone, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:902

Title: Police caspir patrol in Guguletu, Cape Town, South Africa
Subject: Squatter settlements--South Africa--Cape Town, Armored vehicles, Military--South Africa--Cape Town, Apartheid--South Africa--Cape Town, Police patrol--South Africa--Cape Town, Political history--South Africa--Cape Town, Demonstrations--South Africa--Cape Town
Description: A police caspir patrols Guguletu township outside Cape Town as South Africans rioted against apartheid and the imprisonment of their political leaders, August 1985.
Identifier: islandora:5336

Title: POPCRU members march, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Demonstrations, South African Police, Apartheid, Politics, Prison wardens
Description: On the march ... Uniformed prison warders - all members of the Police and Prison Civil Rights Union (POPCRU) and carrying African National Congress (ANC) flags - took part in a protest march against racial discrimination on Saturday. They handed a petition to law and order spokesman Captain Hendrik Opperman.
Identifier: islandora:17686

Title: Political protests, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Demonstrations, Apartheid, Politics, South African Police
Description: Political protests, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:17716

Title: ANC regional executive member Mr Ebrahim Rasool, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Demonstrations, Politics, South African Police
Description: Two sides of the coin: African National Congress (ANC) regional executive member, Mr Ebrahim Rasool, makes a point while police look on during yesterday's protest outside the Ciskei consulate in Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:17887

Title: Demonstations and protests, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Demonstrations, Politics, South African Police
Description: Police carry protester away, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:17891

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