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Title: Delmas trial, Delmas, 1985
Subject: Trials (Treason), Valli, Mohammed, Apartheid, Apartheid, Political history--South Africa, Beyond the Barricades
Description: Mohammed Valli, Transvaal secretary of the United Democratic Front (UDF), and other spectators peer into the courtroom at the start of the Delmas treason trial. Twenty-two UDF and other activists were charged with furthering the aims of the African National Congress (ANC) and with conspiring to overthrow the government.
Identifier: islandora:912

Title: Woman protests army occupation, Soweto, 1985
Subject: Military occupation, Women--Political activity, Apartheid, Political history--South Africa, Beyond the Barricades
Description: A lone woman protests against the presence of troops in Soweto. Women played a significant role against the army's occupation of the townships. In Chesterville, a township near Durban, women patrolled the streets nightly to protect families from security force and vigilante harassment.
Identifier: islandora:909

Title: Oral history interview with Lionel Louw [Part 1 of 2]
Subject: Oral history, United Democratic Front (South Africa), Anti-apartheid activists--South Africa--Interviews, Anti-apartheid movements--South Africa, Government, Resistance to--South Africa, South Africa--Politics and government, ,
Description: The United Democratic Front (UDF) was established as a non-racial, anti-apartheid coalition in 1983. The interviews in this collection deal with the formation and impact of the UDF in the Western Cape in the 1980s. Key figures involved with the UDF are interviewed, including Cheryl Carolus, Lionel Louw, Sydney Luckett and Phyllis Orner. Themes include: community based organisations affiliated to the UDF; the effects of apartheid; religious affiliation; role of the UDF in the community; trade unions. These interviews originate from research conducted for the Albert Luthuli Young Historians Award 2008., Por6.03a.mp3: Part 1 of 2 ; 01:05:28 min. ; interview 3 of 6
Identifier: islandora:24451

Title: Frances Baard at UDF launch, Cape Town, 1983
Subject: Women political activists, Public meetings, Anti-apartheid movements, Apartheid, Political history--South Africa, Beyond the Barricades
Description: Frances Baard, a former president of the African National Congress's Women's League (ANCWL), salutes the crowd gathered to launch the United Democratic Front (UDF) in Mitchell's Plain, Cape Town. The UDF drew together over 600 democratically-based community, student, trade union, women's, and church organisations and was the major legal oppositional force until the government severely curtailed its activities in 1988.
Identifier: islandora:889

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: Oral history interview with Charmaine van Tonder, a neighbour of Robert Sobukwe
Subject: Oral history, Sobukwe, Robert Mangaliso, Political activists--South Africa--Biography, Pan Africanist Congress--History, South Africa--Politics and government--1961-1978, Anti-apartheid movements--South Africa--History, Government, Resistance to--South Africa,
Description: The interviews in this collection focus on the life history of Robert Sobukwe, teacher, lecturer, lawyer, secretary of the African National Congress (ANC) Branch in Standerton and first president of the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC). Interviewees include Achmat Cassiem (activist and Robben Island prisoner), Benjamin Pogrund (author of his autobiography), Charmaine van Tonder (Robert Sobukwe’s neighbour) and Dinilesizwe Sobukwe (Robert Sobukwe’s son). Themes include: the controversy regarding his burial; the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC); reflections on his funeral; his life on Robben Island; Sobukwe as a father; the Sharpeville Massacre and his work at the University of the Witwatersrand (WITS) . This sub-collection originated as research for the Albert Luthuli Young Historians award 2010., Pin13.05.mp3: Part 1 of 1 ; 08:11 min. ; interview 5 of 5
Identifier: islandora:19443

Title: Commemoration meeting, Merebank
Subject: Memorials--South Africa, Public meetings'South Africa, Political history--South Africa, South Africa--Social conditions--20th century, Apartheid, The Cordoned Heart
Description: Participants gesture with raised fists at a commemoration meeting in Merebank for African National Congress (ANC) members killed in a South African military raid into Maputo.
Identifier: islandora:5731

Title: Oral history interview with Mr September [Part 2 of 2]
Subject: Oral history, Anti-apartheid activists--South Africa--Interviews, Civil rights movements--South Africa, Government, Resistance to--South Africa, Colored people (South Africa)--Political activity, South Africa--Politics and government--1909-1948
Description: The interviews in this collection cover a wide range of topics linked to coloured identity, political organisations and activities in South Africa during the 1940s and post-1948 era. It includes information on protest actions, the defiance campaign, the torch commando, boycotts and train resistance efforts following the 1948 National Party election. Themes include the Anti-Coloured Affairs Department movement (Anti-CAD), civic organisations, education and welfare, the introduction of the Group Areas Act, political parties, race and class issues, the removal of coloured men from the national voters roll in 1956 and the Unity Movement., Pin3.08b.mp3: Part 2 of 2 ; 10:17 min. ; interview 8 of 11
Identifier: islandora:19421

Title: Anti-apartheid demonstration, London, 1971
Subject: Demonstrations--Trafalgar Square (London, England), Anti-apartheid activists--Trafalgar Square (London, England), History--Political aspects--South Africa, History--Political aspects--Trafalgar Square (London, England), Winer Batch01
Description: Anti-apartheid demonstration, Trafalgar Square, London, 1971.
Identifier: islandora:281

Title: UDF meeting, Cape Town
Subject: Public meetings--South Africa, Political activists--South Africa, Boesak, Allan Aubrey, 1946-, Political history--South Africa, South Africa--Social conditions--20th century, Apartheid, The Cordoned Heart
Description: Dr. Allan Boesak and Mrs. Helen Joseph at a United Democractic Front (UDF) meeting, Cape Town, 1984.
Identifier: islandora:5741

Title: FEDTRAW protest, Gauteng, circa 1985
Subject: Woman political activists, Anti-apartheid activists, Demonstrations, Apartheid, Political history--South Africa, Beyond the Barricades
Description: A woman from the Federation of Transvaal Women (FEDTRAW) carries a picket stating, "Freedom Justice and Peace NOW!" Popular protest was severely restricted, and members of FEDTRAW were charged with sedition and subversion, and held in detention without trial, as the government worked to immobilise and disrupt opposition to apartheid.
Identifier: islandora:915

Title: Mrs Botha and Mrs Tshabalala, Soweto, 1984
Subject: Local government, Politicians' spouses, Botha, Elize, Apartheid, Political history--South Africa, Beyond the Barricades
Description: Mrs Elize Botha, then wife of the state president, and Mrs Tshabalala, then wife of the mayor of Soweto, leave the town council building in August 1984 after then President and Mrs Botha were granted "the freedom of the township" in a ceremony derived from an old British tradition.
Identifier: islandora:884

Title: Workers' theatre, Johannesburg, 1987
Subject: Workers' theater, Labor union members--Political activity, Politics and culture, Apartheid, Political history--South Africa, Beyond the Barricades
Description: Workers turn actors in a play staged during Culture Day as part of the 2nd National Conference of the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU). In spite of severely repressive measures imposed by the State of Emergency, people found ways to express their deepest feelings and ideas, creating new art forms like this "workers' play".
Identifier: islandora:862

Title: Police arrest student during protest, Durban, 1985
Subject: Arrest (Police methods), Police brutality, Student protesters, Apartheid, Political history--South Africa, Beyond the Barricades
Description: Police, carrying sjamboks (traditionally, rhinocerous hide whips, but often made of flexible plastic), arrest a student after breaking up protests that followed the assassination of United Democratic Front (UDF) leader and human rights lawyer, Victoria Mxenge, in Durban.
Identifier: islandora:860

Title: Oral history interview with Dinilesizwe Sobukwe, Robert Sobukwe's son
Subject: Oral history, Sobukwe, Robert Mangaliso, Political activists--South Africa--Biography, Pan Africanist Congress--History, South Africa--Politics and government--1961-1978, Anti-apartheid movements--South Africa--History, Government, Resistance to--South Africa,
Description: The interviews in this collection focus on the life history of Robert Sobukwe, teacher, lecturer, lawyer, secretary of the African National Congress (ANC) Branch in Standerton and first president of the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC). Interviewees include Achmat Cassiem (activist and Robben Island prisoner), Benjamin Pogrund (author of his autobiography), Charmaine van Tonder (Robert Sobukwe's neighbour) and Dinilesizwe Sobukwe (Robert Sobukwe's son). Themes include: the controversy regarding his burial; the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC); reflections on his funeral; his life on Robben Island; Sobukwe as a father; the Sharpeville Massacre and his work at the University of the Witwatersrand (WITS) . This sub-collection originated as research for the Albert Luthuli Young Historians award 2010., Pin13.04.mp3: Part 1 of 1 ; 20:15 min. ; interview 4 of 5
Identifier: islandora:19442

Title: Defending ANC flag, Langa township, 1987
Subject: Funeral service, Police, Youth--Political activity, Apartheid, Political history--South Africa, Beyond the Barricades
Description: The Muslim leader, Moulana Faried Essack, tries to stop police from removing an African National Congress (ANC) flag draped over the coffin of slain ANC member, Ashley Kriel, in Langa township, Cape Town, July 1987. Symbols of the ANC, though illegal, were visible at funerals, an insistent reminder of the political meaning of the deaths.
Identifier: islandora:904

Title: Mother holding bloodstained shirt, Tembisa township, Transvaal, 1985
Subject: Police shootings, Political violence, Apartheid, Political history--South Africa, Beyond the Barricades
Description: A mother holds up the bloodstained shirt of her son, shot in the back by police. According to government statistics, 381 people were killed in "unrest" incidents between September 1984 and April 1985. The government's own statistics acknowledged that three quarters of these victims died as a direct result of police action.
Identifier: islandora:874

Title: Student protest, Durban, 1986
Subject: Student protesters, Youth--Political activity, Demonstrations, Apartheid, Political history--South Africa, Beyond the Barricades
Description: Students at Lamontville High School protest against South African Defense Force (SADF) attacks on African National Congress (ANC) refugees in Zambia and Zimbabwe. The ANC was banned before these students were born.
Identifier: islandora:879

Title: Lowering of coffins, Queenstown, 1985
Subject: Funeral service, Police shootings, Police shootings, Apartheid, Political history--South Africa, Beyond the Barricades
Description: Coffins are lowered at the funeral of people killed in the "Queenstown massacre" when police opened fire after a meeting called to plan a consumer boycott, December 1985. The t-shirt of one of the mourners declares "Bullets won't stop us".
Identifier: islandora:901

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