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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: Released prisoner from Onaimwandi base with his family, Tsandi, northern Namibia
Subject: Namibia--History, Military--20th century, Prisoners of war--Namibia
Description: Released prisoner from Onaimwandi base with his family, Tsandi, northern Namibia.
Identifier: islandora:6969

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: 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

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