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Title: Street clashes, South Africa, 1991
Subject: Apartheid--South Africa--Sebokeng, Political violence--South Africa--Sebokeng, Weapons--South Africa--Sebokeng, Demonstrations--South Africa--Sebokeng, Children--South Africa--Sebokeng, Best of Marinovich
Description: A young boy brandishes a toy gun at police armoured vehicles as his friend spots another police vehicle coming up a side street, Sebokeng, 1991.
Identifier: islandora:1210

Title: Waiting for the 'whites only' bus, Pretoria, South Africa
Subject: Buses--South Africa--Pretoria, Apartheid--South Africa--Pretoria, Social conditions--South Africa--Pretoria, Segregation----South Africa--Pretoria, Race discrimination--South Africa--Pretoria
Description: Waiting for a 'whites only' bus under apartheid's policies of racial segregation, Pretoria, South Africa, November 1988.
Identifier: islandora:5352

Title: Women and children praying, Crossroads, South Africa, 1982
Subject: South Africa--Social conditions--20th century, Apartheid--South Africa, Children--South Africa, Prayer groups--South Africa, Squatter settlements--South Africa, Some evidence of things seen
Description: Women and children of Crossroads gather to pray for the Nyanga bush squatters, who had staged a hunger strike in St George's Cathedral in an attempt to persuade the authorities not to demolish their plastic shacks. The protest was fruitless - the shacks were torn down during the wet Cape winter, causing hardship, Cape Town, 1982
Identifier: islandora:917

Title: Children fetching water, Dinokana, South Africa, circa 1980
Subject: South Africa--Social conditions--20th century, Apartheid--South Africa, Children--South Africa, Water-supply--South Africa, Some evidence of things seen
Description: Children carrying buckets filled with water in Dinokana, North-West Province
Identifier: islandora:918

Title: Newspaper vendor, Rosebank, South Africa, 1981
Subject: South Africa--Social conditions--20th century, Apartheid--South Africa, Newspaper vendors--South Africa, Boys--South Africa, Some evidence of things seen
Description: His name was Sydney and he lived in Langa. Sydney told me he earned all the money which kept his paralysed grandmother, his sister and his brother going. He did not know where his parents were. This photograph was taken on a Saturday evening on Main Road, Rosebank, 1981. On the following Monday morning I read a filler in 'The Cape Times' which told of a black boy named Sydney who was selling newspapers in Rosebank and was run over by a car on Saturday evening. He died instantly, the report said. The next day I started searching for his grandmother's house in Langa. She cried when I gave her the photograph of her smiling grandson
Identifier: islandora:963

Title: Resettlement camp, Boskop, South Africa
Subject: Apartheid--South Africa, Farm workers--South Africa, Resettlement--South Africa, Land--South Africa,
Description: Resettlement camp for evicted farm and tenant workers. Boskop in the Natal Midlands, KwaZulu-Natal, 1988.
Identifier: islandora:18369

Title: Children outside shebeen, Montagu, South Africa, 1976
Subject: South Africa--Social conditions--20th century, Apartheid--South Africa, Children--South Africa, Bars (Drinking establishments)--South Africa, Some evidence of things seen
Description: Inquisitive children outside a shebeen, Montagu, 1976
Identifier: islandora:941

Title: Afrikaner-Weerstandsbeweging (AWB) police officer lecturing children, Pretoria, South Africa, 1986
Subject: South Africa--Social conditions--20th century, Apartheid--South Africa, Children--South Africa, Afrikaner-Weerstandsbeweging, Some evidence of things seen
Description: AWB leadership conference, Wag-n-Bietjie, Hartbeespoortdam, Pretoria, 1986. A police officer with his uniform decorated with the AWB insignia reminiscent of a swastika, lectured youngsters about their duty to their ancestors, their 'volk' (people), their language and their God, in order to remain pure Afrikaners
Identifier: islandora:922

Title: Brother and sister, Kewtown, South Africa, 1979
Subject: South Africa--Social conditions--20th century, Apartheid--South Africa, Children--South Africa, Some evidence of things seen
Description: A brother and sister at their home in Kewtown, Cape Town, 1979
Identifier: islandora:943

Title: Inaugural congress of the South African Domestic Workers' Union, Cape Town
Subject: Bellville (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Trade unions, Domestic workers, Apartheid
Description: Domestics unite: Delegates to the inaugural congress of the South African Domestic Workers' Union (SADWU) at the University of Western Cape (UWC) at the weekend which united 50 000 domestic workers from several organisations in one union.
Identifier: islandora:18037

Title: Young girl in one-roomed home, Athlone, South Africa, 1978
Subject: South Africa--Social conditions--20th century, Apartheid--South Africa, Children--South Africa, Poor--South Africa, Housing--South Africa, Some evidence of things seen
Description: A young girl in the room she shares with her family in Athlone, Cape Town, 1978
Identifier: islandora:939

Title: Inkatha councillor, Hammarsdale, South Africa
Subject: Politics--South Africa, Political parties--South Africa, Anti-apartheid activists--South Africa,
Description: Inkatha councillor, Zakhele Nkehle. Hammarsdale, KwaZulu-Natal, 1988.
Identifier: islandora:18371

Title: Whites only' park, Stilfontein, South Africa
Subject: Parks--Public use--South Africa--Stilfontein, Apartheid--South Africa--Stilfontein, Social conditions--South Africa--Stilfontein, Segregation----South Africa--Stilfontein, Race discrimination--South Africa--Stilfontein
Description: Under apartheid's policies of racial separation, only whites were allowed to use the park and the amenities in it, Stilfontein, South Africa, 14 December 1988.
Identifier: islandora:5355

Title: State-run television, South Africa, 1984
Subject: Apartheid--South Africa, Television--South Africa, Digital media--South Africa, Best of Marinovich
Description: State-run television image, 1984.
Identifier: islandora:1219

Title: Children returning empty bottles, South Africa, 1978
Subject: South Africa--Social conditions--20th century, Apartheid--South Africa, Children--South Africa, Liquor stores--South Africa, Some evidence of things seen
Description: Children taking empty bottles to the local bottle store where they are paid a nominal fee for each bottle, Petrusville, Free State, 1978
Identifier: islandora:938

Title: Returning to the land, Magopa, South Africa
Subject: Land ownership--South Africa, Land--South Africa, Social conditions--South Africa, Apartheid--South Africa,
Description: The people of Mogopa re-establish themselves in their land after being forcibly removed by the apartheid state. Magopa, North West Province, 1991.
Identifier: islandora:18378

Title: Child in rubbish dump, Winterveld, South Africa, 1981
Subject: South Africa--Social conditions--20th century, Apartheid--South Africa, Children--South Africa, Poverty--South Africa, Some evidence of things seen
Description: A young boy eating fruit he found on a rubbish dump in Winterveld, near Pretoria, 1981
Identifier: islandora:947

Title: Mourning mother, Cape Town, South Africa
Subject: Race discrimination--South Africa--Cape Town, Apartheid--South Africa--Cape Town, Education--South Africa--Cape Town, Demonstrations--South Africa--Cape Town, Mothers--South Africa--Cape Town
Description: As police arrest anti-apartheid demonstrating schoolchildren, a defiant mother gives a power salute as she mourns her son's arrest, October 1985, Wynberg, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:5339

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: Vigil for murdered ANC supporter, South Africa, 1989
Subject: Apartheid--South Africa--Limpopo, Political violence--South Africa--Limpopo, Funeral rites and ceremonies--South Africa--Limpopo, Ritual--South Africa--Limpopo, Best of Marinovich
Description: African National Congress (ANC) supporters do the toyi-toyi dance at a night vigil for a comrade who was killed by security forces in the Venda homeland, in the far north of South Africa, 1989.
Identifier: islandora:1222

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