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Title: Great Trek Commemoration, Uitenhage, South Africa
Subject: South Africa-- History--Great Trek, 1836-1840--Anniversaries, etc., Role playing, Political history--South Africa--Pretoria, Afrikaners--Social life and customs
Description: Commemoration of the Afrikaners' Great Trek, Uitenhage, Eastern Cape, South Africa, December 1988.
Identifier: islandora:5353

Title: ANC refugees, South Africa, 1994
Subject: Apartheid--South Africa--KwaZulu-Natal, Refugees--South Africa--KwaZulu-Natal, History--Political aspects--South Africa--KwaZulu-Natal, KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa)--Social conditions, Best of Marinovich
Description: A family carry their belongings home after months in a refugee camp for African National Congress (ANC) supporting families from the Sonkombo area from which they had fled months earlier because of attacks by rival Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP). Sonkombo, KwaZulu-Natal, 1994.
Identifier: islandora:1199

Title: Police firing at ANC supporters, South Africa, 1992
Subject: Apartheid--South Africa--Boipatong, Political violence--South Africa--Boipatong, History--Political aspects--South Africa--Boipatong, South African Police, History--Political aspects--South Africa--Boipatong, Best of Marinovich
Description: South African police fired on African National Congress (ANC) supporters as they tried to check the identity of a man shot dead by police in this Boipatong field on June 20, 1992. Forty-five ANC supporters, including women and children, were massacred by Zulu supporters of the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) the night before.
Identifier: islandora:1182

Title: Hostel wars, South Africa, 1990
Subject: Apartheid--South Africa--Soweto, Political violence--South Africa--Soweto, History--Political aspects--South Africa--Soweto, Best of Marinovich
Description: Zulu supporters of the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) hack and beat a Pondo man accused of being an ANC (African National Congress) supporter, Nancefield hostel, Soweto, 1990.
Identifier: islandora:1209

Title: Zulu warriors, South Africa, 1994
Subject: Apartheid--South Africa--KwaZulu-Natal, History--Political aspects--South Africa--KwaZulu-Natal, Demonstrations--South Africa--KwaZulu-Natal, Zulu (African people)--Clothing, Best of Marinovich
Description: IFP (Inkatha Freedom Party) supporting amabutho (warriors) on their way to a rally on a misty morning in KwaZulu-Natal, 1994.
Identifier: islandora:1194

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: Hostel wars, South Africa, 1990
Subject: Apartheid--South Africa--Johannesburg, Political violence--South Africa--Johannesburg, History--Political aspects--South Africa--Johannesburg, Best of Marinovich
Description: Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography, 1991: an African National Congress (ANC) supporter swings a machete into Lindsaye Tshabalala's blazing head. Tshabalala was suspected of being an Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) supporter. Inhlazane Station, 1990.
Identifier: islandora:1211

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: Burning barricades, Cape Town, South Africa
Subject: Political violence--South Africa--Cape Town, Demonstrations--South Africa--Cape Town, Apartheid--South Africa--Cape Town, Segregation----South Africa--Cape Town, Political history--South Africa--Cape Town
Description: Burning barricades in the streets of Athlone during protests and riots against apartheid, October 1985, Cape Town, South Africa.
Identifier: islandora:5342

Title: Pensioner votes for first time in her life, Soweto, South Africa
Subject: Political history--South Africa--Soweto, Elections--South Africa--Soweto, Democracy--South Africa--Soweto, Voting--South Africa--Soweto, Older people--South Africa--Soweto
Description: On the day before the official voting day for South Africa's first all-race elections, black pensioners cast their vote, the first time in their lives. Soweto, South Africa, 26 April 1994.
Identifier: islandora:5377

Title: Family visiting grave of Hendrik Verwoerd, Pretoria, South Africa
Subject: Ex-prime ministers--South Africa--Pretoria, Prime ministers' spouses--South Africa--Pretoria, Cemeteries--South Africa--Pretoria, Political history--South Africa--Pretoria, Politicians--South Africa--Pretoria
Description: Betsy, the wife of apartheid founder and former Prime Minister, Hendrik Verwoerd, visits his grave with family in Pretoria, South Africa, January 1986.
Identifier: islandora:5344

Title: Rally against democratic tendencies of NP government, Pretoria, South Africa
Subject: Voortrekker Monument (Pretoria, South Africa), Political history--South Africa--Pretoria, Demonstrations--South Africa--Pretoria
Description: Thousands of whites gather at the Voortrekker Monument, the symbol of Afrikaner culture, in support of Conservative Party leader, Dr. Andries Treurnicht, to rally against democratic tendencies of the National Party (NP) Government, Pretoria, South Africa, May 1990.
Identifier: islandora:5363

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: Survivor of IFP attack, South Africa, 1996
Subject: Apartheid--South Africa, Political violence--South Africa, History--Political aspects--South Africa, Torture victims--South Africa, Best of Marinovich
Description: 1996: An African National Congress (ANC) survivor, whose face shows the wounds he suffered during an attack on Christmas Day a year earlier (1995). The late Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) warlord, Sqolosa Xolo, led his men to massacre over 25 ANC supporters on Christmas Day 1995. He was never charged in the case, despite there being eyewitness testimony.
Identifier: islandora:1224

Title: Marikana murder investigation, South Africa, 2012
Subject: Unskilled labor--South Africa--North-West, Strikes and lockouts--Miners--South Africa--North-West, Police corruption--South Africa--North-West, History--Political aspects--South Africa--North-West, Best of Marinovich
Description: Yellow paint marks made by investigators indicate where the bodies of some of the 34 men killed by police were recovered by forensics at Nkanini, Marikana, 2012. Some of the rock crevices these bodies were found in, indicate that they had been hunted down and shot at close range. Not a single policeman was reported wounded on August 16th.
Identifier: islandora:1179

Title: Media being arrested by apartheid police, Cape Town, South Africa
Subject: Press--South Africa--Cape Town, Demonstrations--South Africa--Cape Town, Political history--South Africa--Cape Town, Apartheid--South Africa--Cape Town
Description: Cameraman Craig Matthews and his soundman, who were filming anti-apartheid protests in Cape Town, are arrested by police with orders to prevent media coverage of the unrest, October 1985, Cape Town, South Africa.
Identifier: islandora:5340

Title: IFP mass graves, South Africal, 1993
Subject: Apartheid--South Africa--Pietermaritzburg, Political violence--South Africa--Pietermaritzburg, History--Political aspects--South Africa--Pietermaritzburg, Goats--South Africa--Pietermaritzburg, Mass burials--South Africa--Pietermaritzburg, Best of Marinovich
Description: A goat stands on mass graves of Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) supporters killed in fighting with African National Congress (ANC) members at Table Mountain, near Pietermaritzburg, KwaZulu-Natal, 1993.
Identifier: islandora:1184

Title: Election violence, South Africa, 1995
Subject: Apartheid--South Africa--Umlazi, Political violence--South Africa--Umlazi, History--Political aspects--South Africa--Umlazi, AK-47 rifle, Best of Marinovich
Description: An Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) supporter runs with an AK-47 during a march in Umlazi township, south of Durban, 1995.
Identifier: islandora:1201

Title: Torture victim, South Africa, 1989
Subject: Apartheid--South Africa--Mpumalanga, Political violence--South Africa--Mpumalanga, Torture victims--South Africa--Mpumalanga, Men--South Africa--Mpumalanga, History--Political aspects--South Africa--Mpumalanga, Best of Marinovich
Description: A victim of torture by KwaNdebele homeland police, 1989.
Identifier: islandora:1220

Title: Homes set alight by vigilantes, Crossroads, Cape Town, South Africa
Subject: Political history--South Africa--Cape Town, Squatter settlements--South Africa--Cape Town, Apartheid--South Africa--Cape Town, Political violence--South Africa--Cape Town, Fires--South Africa--Cape Town
Description: A young comrade watches homes burning during the battle for Crossroads, a black settlement outside Cape Town. Vigilantes, backed by police, forced squatters of the KTC township to flee their shacks, by shooting and setting fire to their homes, Cape Town, South Africa, 10 June 1986.
Identifier: islandora:5347

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