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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

Title: Whip marks from vigilante attack, Welkom township, 1985
Subject: Vigilantes, Political violence, Youth--Wounds and injuries, Apartheid, Political history--South Africa, Beyond the Barricades
Description: A Thabong youth shows the whip marks left by vigilantes in Welkom township, Orange Free State (now Free State Province). Gangs of vigilantes, very often supported by police, terrorised residents and anti-apartheid activists.
Identifier: islandora:893

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