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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: Chris Hani promoting peace at first democratic elections, Johannesburg, South Africa
Subject: Political activists--South Africa--Johannesburg, Public meetings--South Africa--Johannesburg, Apartheid--South Africa--Johannesburg, Elections--South Africa--Johannesburg
Description: Charismatic African National Congress (ANC) military leader, Chris Hani, appeals to township supporters for an end to violence and factional killing, in the run-up to the country's first democratic elections. Thokoza township, Johannesburg, South Africa, April 1991.
Identifier: islandora:5365

Title: Violence in Alexandra township, Johannesburg, South Africa
Subject: Squatter settlements--South Africa--Gauteng, Law enforcement--South Africa--Gauteng, Apartheid--South Africa--Gauteng, Political history--South Africa--Gauteng, Political violence--South Africa--Gauteng, Demonstrations--South Africa--Gauteng
Description: Police fire at residents who defied orders not to march on Inkatha-occupied hostels from which the Zulus had been launching attacks on township dwellers, Alexandra Township, Johannesburg, South Africa, 26 March 1992.
Identifier: islandora:5369

Title: Black resistance graffiti, Johannesburg, South Africa
Subject: Apartheid--South Africa--Pretoria, Street art--South Africa--Pretoria, Arts--Political aspects--South Africa--Pretoria, Education--South Africa--Pretoria, Children--South Africa--Pretoria
Description: Black resistance graffiti during a time of riots and violence, August 1985, Johannesburg, South Africa.
Identifier: islandora:5334

Title: Policeman whipping student protester with sjambok, Johannesburg, South Africa
Subject: Political violence--South Africa--Pretoria, Student movements--South Africa--Pretoria, Apartheid--South Africa--Pretoria, Education--South Africa--Pretoria, Race discrimination--South Africa--Pretoria
Description: A policeman sjamboks (whips) an escaping student rioter during unrest and protests in Western Township near Johannesburg, South Africa, 21 August 1985.
Identifier: islandora:5335

Title: Non-whites only' bus, Johannesburg, South Africa
Subject: Transportation--South Africa--Pretoria, Apartheid--South Africa--Pretoria, Social conditions--South Africa--Pretoria, Segregation--South Africa--Pretoria, Race discrimination--South Africa--Pretoria
Description: Non-whites only' bus, September 1982, Johannesburg, South Africa. Under apartheid, buses and bus-stops were racially segregated.
Identifier: islandora:5333

Title: Riot police facing student demonstrators, Johannesburg, South Africa
Subject: Political history--South Africa--Johannesburg, Demonstrations--South Africa--Johannesburg, Student movements--South Africa--Johannesburg, Education--South Africa--Johannesburg, Apartheid--South Africa--Johannesburg, Youth--South Africa--Johannesburg
Description: Riot police stand at the ready as students from the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) stage an illegal demonstration against apartheid and for peace outside their campus in Braamfontein, Johannesburg, South Africa, 21 August 1989.
Identifier: islandora:5358

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: Ray Alexander Simons with husband on return to South Africa, Johannesburg
Subject: Political activists--South Africa--Johannesburg, Exiles--South Africa--Johannesburg, Apartheid--South Africa--Johannesburg, Political history--South Africa--Johannesburg
Description: Veteran Communist Trade Unionist, Ray Alexander Simons, with her husband, Jack Simons, on their return to South Africa after more than 30 years in political exile. She was a member of the SACP (South African Communist Party) and the ANC (African National Congress). Johannesburg, South Africa, March 1990.
Identifier: islandora:5362

Title: Police dispersing student protestors, Johannesburg, South Africa
Subject: Political history--South Africa-- Johannesburg, Demonstrations--South Africa-- Johannesburg, Student movements--South Africa-- Johannesburg, Education--South Africa-- Johannesburg, Apartheid--South Africa-- Johannesburg, Youth--South Africa-- Johannesburg
Description: Students from the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits), who took to the streets with their protest against apartheid, are dispersed violently by police with batons and their dogs, Johannesburg, South Africa, 30 May 1986.
Identifier: islandora:5346

Title: Human Rainbow Concert, Johannesburg, South Africa
Subject: Apartheid--South Africa--Johannesburg, Concerts--South Africa--Johannesburg, Political activists--South Africa--Johannesburg, Political history--South Africa--Johannesburg
Description: In the euphoric aftermath of Nelson Mandela's release from 27 years incarceration, whites and blacks came together to call for peace and democracy at a human rainbow concert in Johannesburg, South Africa, March 1990.
Identifier: islandora:5361

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