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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: Right wing conservatives at election rally, Pretoria, South Africa
Subject: Political history--South Africa--Pretoria, Elections--South Africa--Pretoria, Apartheid--South Africa--Pretoria, Segregation--South Africa--Pretoria, Race discrimination--South Africa--Pretoria
Description: Right-wing conservatives rally for another all-white by-election, which increased pro-apartheid representation in the all-white Parliament, Pretoria, South Africa, February 1982.
Identifier: islandora:5331

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: 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: Mandela returns to Robben Island with fellow Rivonia treason trialists, South Africa
Subject: 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 and his fellow convicted Rivonia treason trialists, all former political prisoners on Robben Island, return to the island on the fourth anniversary of Mandela's release from jail. Here they are pictured in the quarry in which the black prisoners were made to dig out lime daily. Some say Mandela's eyes were damaged by the lime dust. Cape Town, South Africa, 11 February 1994.
Identifier: islandora:5374

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: 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

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: Election violence, South Africa, 1995
Subject: Apartheid--South Africa--Umlazi, Political violence--South Africa--Umlazi, History--Political aspects--South Africa--Umlazi, Zulu (African people)--Clothing, Best of Marinovich
Description: An Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) supporting chief fires into houses during an IFP rally in Umlazi, KwaZulu-Natal, 1995.
Identifier: islandora:1200

Title: David Webster funeral, Johannesburg, South Africa
Subject: Political history--South Africa--Johannesburg, Political violence--South Africa--Johannesburg, Funeral rites and ceremonies--South Africa--Johannesburg, Apartheid--South Africa--Johannesburg, May Day (Labor holiday)--South Africa--Johannesburg
Description: Activists defiantly hoist the banned African National Congress (ANC) flag at the funeral of David Webster, a prominent anti-apartheid activist and champion of labour union rights who was murdered by the apartheid state on May Day (1 May) 1989. Johannesburg, South Africa, 6 May 1989.
Identifier: islandora:5356

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: Zulu hostel, South Africa, 1992
Subject: Apartheid--South Africa--Soweto, Political violence--South Africa--Soweto, Soweto (South Africa)--Social conditions, History--Political aspects--South Africa--Soweto, Weapons--South Africa--Soweto, Best of Marinovich
Description: Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) supporters show off weapons in a shebeen in Dobsonville hostel, while police search for weapons outside, Soweto, 1992. Thousands of people, both civilians and combatants, died in the so-called "Hostel War" that lasted from 1989-1995.
Identifier: islandora:1190

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: Mass funeral, East London, South Africa
Subject: Political history--South Africa--East London, Political violence--South Africa--East London, Funeral rites and ceremonies--South Africa--East London, Apartheid--South Africa--East London
Description: A mass funeral is held for 18 people, including a baby, slain in police repression of an anti-apartheid protest. The coffins are draped in colours of the United Democratic Front (UDF), and carried by uniformed members of the movement, 31 August 1985, Duncan Village, South Africa.
Identifier: islandora:5338

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: Election violence, South Africa, 1994
Subject: Apartheid--South Africa--Bekkersdal, Political violence--South Africa--Bekkersdal, History--Political aspects--South Africa--Bekkersdal, Best of Marinovich
Description: Azanian People's Organisation (Azapo) supporters charge at African National Congress (ANC) supporters in clashes between the police, army, Azapo and the ANC in Bekkersdal township, 1994.
Identifier: islandora:1197

Title: Death squad, Transvaal, South Africa, 1985
Subject: Police shootings, Police--Special weapons and tactics units, Death squads, Apartheid, Political history--South Africa, Beyond the Barricades
Description: A Duduza township resident lies dead while members of a special police squad take a smoke break after an all night "clean-up". Photographs such as this led to government emergency regulations making it an offence to photograph police in an "unrest area or situation." Members of death squads usually wore woolen, hooded face covers, or masks, called "balaclavas", making it impossible to identify killers. In this photograph, the man with his back turned still has his balaclava down.
Identifier: islandora:854

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