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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: Men who were freed from prison giving PAC salute, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Cape Town (South Africa), Political prisoners, Historic sites, Monuments
Description: Freed: Released from Robben Island today were, front row from left, Mr Israel Mabavu, Mr Aaron Oganne, Mr Jongumri Sisulu and Mr Khumbulele Mnikina. Behind them are, from left, Mr Morontshi Masobane, Mr Norman Ngwenya and Mr Sergeant Magaretsa.
Identifier: islandora:16490

Title: Cape Colony 1896 : adapted from Meteorological Commission's Report, 1886
Subject: Rain and rainfall--South Africa--Cape of Good Hope--Maps, Cape of Good Hope (Colony)--Administrative and political divisions--Maps, , ,
Description: Map of average rainfall imposed on administrative map, with district and division boundaries, seats of magistracy and railway lines. Chiefly colour. Scale 7/8 inch to 50 miles.
Identifier: islandora:29815

Title: Members from various unions march in solidarity, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Labor Unions, Political participation, Demonstrations
Description: Members from various unions march in solidarity, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:16083

Title: Marchers run from teargas, Cape Town
Subject: Kraaifontein (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Politics, Demonstrations
Description: Gassed: Marchers run from teargas fired by police when more than 300 Kraaifontein squatters, led by church ministers and Dr Allan Boesak, president of the World Alliance of Reformed Churches, tried to converge on the police station yesterday to ask the police not to help to evict them from the Uitkyk area today.
Identifier: islandora:17875

Title: Men from opposition parties shake hands, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Politics
Description: In opposition camps - Mr E.C. Rooks (Social Democratic Party) and Mr Dennis Young (Labour) right, who are fighting the Sparks Estate-Greenwood Park seat in the Coloured Representative Council elections taking place today.
Identifier: islandora:15989

Title: Released from Pollsmoor after 5 months, Cape Town
Subject: Guguletu (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Political prisoners, Apartheid
Description: Back home ... Mr Ngconde Balfour was yesterday released after spending nearly five months in detention at Pollsmoor. Here he is seen at his Gugulethu home with his wife Khanyisa and daughter Nellie.
Identifier: islandora:17935

Title: Full Cabinet from March 1951, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Politics, Cabinet ministers, National Party (South Africa), Governments
Description: Prime Minister D F Malan (centre) with his full Cabinet, Cape Town, 1951. Malan's successor, J G Strijdom, is on his immediate left, and Strijdom's successor, H F Verwoerd, is third from the right in the back row.
Identifier: islandora:16943

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: Professor Israel Abrahams, with the Speaker of the House of Assembly, Mr. Klopper, reads passages from a copy of Professor U. Cassuto's book "From Noah to Abraham", Cape Town
Subject: Rabbis--South Africa, Religious leaders, Jewish scholars, Politics
Description: The Chief Rabbi of Cape Town, Prof. Israel Abrahams (left) , with the Speaker of the House of Assembly, Mr. Klopper, reads passages from a copy of Prof. U. Cassuto's book "From Noah to Abraham", which the Chief Rabbi has translated for the Hebrew University from Hebrew into English. Professor Abrahams presented the copy to Mr. Klopper yesterday.
Identifier: islandora:14692

Title: ANC prisoners released from Robben Island, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Political prisoners, Apartheid, African National Congress
Description: Released: the first six ANC prisoners from Robben Island yesterday after spending three to 10 years are from left, Eddie Humalog, Nelson Topeka, Mohan Mmoledi, Vuyisile Mbundu, Bushy Maape and Norman Yengeni. Western Cape United Democratic Front (UDF) spokesman Trevor Manuel is in the white shirt. At the back is Mr Amos Lengisi, joint secretary of the UDF in the Western Cape.
Identifier: islandora:17907

Title: Armed man removed from ANC meeting in Parow, Cape Town
Subject: Parow (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Politics, African National Congress, Election campaigns, Right wing
Description: An armed man, a suspected member of the Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (AWB), is ejected from an African National Congress's (ANC) meeting in Parow before the 1994 democratic elections.
Identifier: islandora:15900

Title: Govan Mbeki's release from prison, Port Elizabeth, South Africa
Subject: Ex-convicts--South Africa--Port Elizabeth, Political history--South Africa--Port Elizabeth, Apartheid--South Africa--Port Elizabeth, Mbeki, Govan, 1910-2001
Description: Rivonia trialist and African National Congress (ANC) leader, Govan Mbeki, who spent 23 years in jail on Robben Island with Nelson Mandela, greets supporters and well-wishers on his first full day of release into freedom, Port Elizabeth, South Africa, 6 November 1987.
Identifier: islandora:5351

Title: David Moisi welcomed back from prison, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Political prisoners, Apartheid, Demonstrations
Description: Released: A well-wisher welcomes Mr David Moisi back to the mainland after he and two other long-serving prisoners, including Mr Mandala Shabangu, right, were freed from Robben Island. They had been on a hunger strike for seven days.
Identifier: islandora:17903

Title: Walter Sisulu with children after his release from prison, Soweto, South Africa
Subject: Ex-convicts--South Africa--Soweto, Political history--South Africa--Soweto, Children--South Africa--Soweto, Politicians--South Africa--Soweto, Sisulu, Walter Max
Description: Excited children crowd around released political prisoner, Walter Sisulu, one of the African National Congress (ANC) leaders who were imprisoned on Robben Island for 2 decades, Soweto, South Africa, February 1990.
Identifier: islandora:5360

Title: Whip marks from vigilante attack, Welkom township, 1985
Subject: Vigilantes, Political violence, Youth--Wounds and injuries, Apartheid, Political history--South Africa, Beyond the Barricades
Description: A Thabong youth shows the whip marks left by vigilantes in Welkom township, Orange Free State (now Free State Province). Gangs of vigilantes, very often supported by police, terrorised residents and anti-apartheid activists.
Identifier: islandora:893

Title: Graeme Bloch following his dismissal from the post of editor of the University of Cape Town's student newspaper
Subject: Bloch, Graeme, Political activists, Student protestors, Apartheid era
Description: Student editor dismissed. A court of Discipline at the University of Cape Town yesterday dismissed Mr. Graeme Bloch from his post as editor of the student newspaper "Varsity" , following publication of a front-cover montage in the first issue this year. The court also barred Mr. Bloch from acting as editor or serving on any editorial board of a university publication for one year.
Identifier: islandora:14813

Title: ANC prisoners released from Robben Island, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Political prisoners, Apartheid, African National Congress
Description: Free: Some of the released African National Congress ANC) members leaving the ferry that brought them to freedom early today.
Identifier: islandora:17909

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: Mandela waving from former prison cell, Robben Island, South Africa
Subject: Ex-presidents--South Africa--Robben Island, Ex-convicts--South Africa--Robben Island, Apartheid--South Africa--Robben Island, Political history--South Africa--Robben Island, Prisons--South Africa--Robben Island
Description: Nelson Mandela waves cheerfully from his former prison cell on Robben Island, four years after he was freed from jail by apartheid authorities. He spent more than two decades at Robben Island prison. Cape Town, South Africa, 11 February 1994.
Identifier: islandora:5373

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