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Title: Look to the rock from which you have been hewn!
Subject: African National Congress--Caricatures and cartoons, Tutu, Desmond--Caricatures and cartoons, South Africa--Politics and government--1994- Caricatures and cartoons, South African wit and humor, Pictorial, South Africa
Description: The ANC losing its moral direction, was sharply reminded of its erstwhile principles by Archbishop Tutu
Identifier: islandora:6116

Title: Rabbi Israel Abrahams hands "Prayer for the Republic of South Africa" to Mr Klopper, Cape Town
Subject: Rabbis--South Africa, Religious leaders, Jewish scholars, Politics
Description: Chief Rabbi I. Abrahams (centre) handed an illuminated "Prayer for the Republic of South Africa" , in Afrikaans , Hebrew and English, to the Speaker, Mr. H.J. Klopper, at the Houses of Parliament yesterday. With them is Mr. Eli Shannon, a leading member of the Cape Town congregation. The prayer, composed by Professor Abrahams, was presented at the Speaker's request and will hang in his room at Parliament.
Identifier: islandora:14693

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

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

Title: Home set alight in pre-election violence, Durban, South Africa
Subject: Squatter settlements--South Africa--Durban, Elections--South Africa--Durban, Apartheid--South Africa--Durban, Political history--South Africa--Durban, Political violence--South Africa--Durban
Description: A resident tries to extinguish the flames of his home, set alight in pre-election fighting between Inkatha and African National Congress (ANC) political party supporters in Bambayi Township, Durban, South Africa, 25 March 1994.
Identifier: islandora:5375

Title: Student protest, UWC
Subject: Apartheid--South Africa, South Africa--Politics and government--1978-1989, South Africa--History--1961-1994, Demonstrations--South Africa, Political activists--South Africa, Student protesters--South Africa,
Description: Student protesters overwhelmed by teargas on the UWC (University of the Western Cape) campus, Bellville, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:12578

Title: Oral history interview with Hassan Howa [Part 1 of 4]
Subject: Oral history, Political activists-- South Africa--Interviews, Discrimination in sports--South Africa, Sports--Political aspects--South Africa, Racism in sports--South Africa, Government, Resistance to--South Africa, Howa, Hassan
Description: This is a series of unrelated interviews from the period 1985-1990 with people involved in different spheres of political life in Africa, with particular reference to the politics of South Africa, Namibia, Kenya, Zambia and the Congo. Interviewees include, Jane Gool, Hassan Howa, Hosea Jaffe, I.B. Tabata, Jack Cope and Otillie Abrahams. Themes include: African National Congress (ANC) training camps, anti-discrimination in sport, life in exile in Botswana and Namibia, gender empowerment , the history of St. Francis, Langa in the Western Cape, Non-European Unity Movement (NUEM), political upheaval in Kenya, rural life and work and the South West African Peoples Organisation (SWAPO), Pin4.23a.mp3: Part 1 of 4 ; 32:11 min. ; interview 23 of 52
Identifier: islandora:25872

Title: Call of Islam event, Cape Town
Subject: Apartheid--South Africa, South Africa--Politics and government--1978-1989, South Africa--History--1961-1994, Islam and politics--South Africa, Muslim women--South Africa, Political activists--South Africa,
Description: Fatima Meer at a 'Call of Islam salutes women' event in Cape Town., circa 1980s
Identifier: islandora:12627

Title: Black Sash, Magopa, 1984
Subject: Women political activists, Demonstrations, Black Sash (Society), Apartheid, Political history--South Africa, Beyond the Barricades
Description: Black Sash protest, Magopa, 1984.
Identifier: islandora:857

Title: NP supporters
Subject: election posters, political candidates, white men, white womenElections--South Africa--1987, Political candidates--South Africa, Women, White--South Africa, Men, White--South Africa
Description: Anxious National Party (NP) supporters await the outcome of the 1987 South African general election.
Identifier: islandora:8384

Title: Activists at a demonstration, Cape Town
Subject: Apartheid--South Africa, South Africa--Politics and government--1978-1989, South Africa--History--1961-1994, Political activists--South Africa, Demonstrations--South Africa, Gerwel, G. J. (G. Jakes), Boesak, Allan Aubrey, 1946-,
Description: Jakes Gerwel, Franklin Sonn, Essa Moosa and Alan Boesak discuss student wellbeing at a Pentech and University of the Western Cape (UWC) march., circa 1980s
Identifier: islandora:12641

Title: Henkie Barnard at a DTA meeting
Subject: Bushman, Southern Africa, man, child, group, San, indigenous, DTA, politics, building, hat, talk, meeting, Democratic Turnhalle Alliance (Namibia), Gobabis District (Namibia)
Description: Henkie Barnard with a group of people at a DTA (Democratic Turnhalle Alliance) meeting on his farm. Gobabis District, Namibia.
Identifier: islandora:11842

Title: Schoolboy arrested, Cape Town, 1987
Subject: Student protesters, Youth--Political activity, Political prisoners, Apartheid, Political history--South Africa, Beyond the Barricades
Description: A schoolboy is arrested during protests against the 1987 white parliamentary elections in Athlone township, Cape Town, May 1987. In 1986, some 25,000 people were imprisoned without trial under the Emergency regulations. Of that number, 10,000 were children under the age of eighteen. In April 1987, the government stated that only 1,400 children were still in detention.
Identifier: islandora:880

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: Workers' theater, Johannesburg, 1987
Subject: Women labor union members, Workers' theatre, Apartheid, Political history--South Africa, Beyond the Barricades
Description: A delegation of women from the Food and Allied Workers Union participates in the Congress of South African Trade Unions' Culture Day, held as part of the union federation's 2nd National Conference. Theater is used for political expression. Women from Crossroads squatter town, for example, performed a well-received play, Imfuduso, dramatising their long struggle to preserve their homes.
Identifier: islandora:864

Title: Oral history interview with Reg September [Part 1 of 4]
Subject: Oral history, Political activists-- South Africa--Interviews, Government, Resistance to--South Africa, South African Coloured People's Organisation, September, Reg
Description: This is a series of unrelated interviews from the period 1985-1990 with people involved in different spheres of political life in Africa, with particular reference to the politics of South Africa, Namibia, Kenya, Zambia and the Congo. Interviewees include, Jane Gool, Hassan Howa, Hosea Jaffe, I.B. Tabata, Jack Cope and Otillie Abrahams. Themes include: African National Congress (ANC) training camps, anti-discrimination in sport, life in exile in Botswana and Namibia, gender empowerment , the history of St. Francis, Langa in the Western Cape, Non-European Unity Movement (NUEM), political upheaval in Kenya, rural life and work and the South West African Peoples Organisation (SWAPO), Pin4.42a.mp3: Part 1 of 4 ; 31:44 min. ; interview 42 of 52
Identifier: islandora:29722

Title: Oral history interview with Abraham Mzizi, a survivor of the Kwamadala Hostel massacre
Subject: Oral history, Boipatong (South Africa)--History, Violence--South Africa--Boipatong, South Africa--Politics and government--1989-1994, , ,
Description: In 1992 the Boipatong massacre was allegedly launched from the Kwamadala Hostel. Forty-five people were killed and twenty-two severely injured. The township of Boipatong was established in 1955 to house workers from nearby industries in the Vaal Triangle and the Kwamadala Hostel lies across the highway from this township. This area experienced high political tension in the early 1990s between supporters of the African National Congress (ANC) and of the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP). The interviews in this collection focus on memories of the 1992 Kwamadala Hostel dwellers' massacre in the Boipatong. Themes include: the the political factions involved such as the ANC and the IFP and the history of political tensions between the two factions; the events building up to the massacre; police collusion; and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC)., Pol1.03.mp3: Part 1 of 1 ; 01:17:23 min. ; interview 3 of 5
Identifier: islandora:24438

Title: Oral history interview with Ray Alexander [Part 2 of 2]
Subject: Oral history, Political activists-- South Africa--Interviews, Government, Resistance to--South Africa, Simons, R. E. (Ray Esther)
Description: This sub-collection of interviews with political activists includes themes such as African National Congress (ANC) party politics, ANC underground training in Angola and Soviet Union, Jabulani Nobleman 'Mzala' Nxumalo, 1980s schools boycotts and the United Democratic Front(UDF). Interviewees include Gertrude Fester, Joe Marks, Lizo Ngqugwana, and Ray Alexander. Date of the interview is unknown., Pin6.01b.mp3: Part 2 of 2 ; 16:28 min. ; interview 9 of 10
Identifier: islandora:19449

Title: First rugby game after apartheid sanctions were lifted, Pretoria, South Africa
Subject: Political history--South Africa--Pretoria, Rugby Union football matches--South Africa--Pretoria, Democracy--South Africa--Pretoria, Mandela, Nelson, 1918-2013, De Klerk, F. W., (Frederik Willem), Pienaar, Franc?ois, 1967-
Description: Then President Nelson Mandela and Vice President F.W. de Klerk stand at attention as the National Anthem is played at the first rugby game (South Africa vs. England) after sanctions against apartheid were lifted. Francois Pienaar, then Springbok captain, stands behind, to the right. Pretoria, South Africa, 4 June 1994.
Identifier: islandora:5379

Title: Torture victim, South Africa, 1989
Subject: Apartheid--South Africa--Mpumalanga, Political violence--South Africa--Mpumalanga, Torture victims--South Africa--Mpumalanga, Men--South Africa--Mpumalanga, History--Political aspects--South Africa--Mpumalanga, Best of Marinovich
Description: A victim of torture by KwaNdebele homeland police, 1989.
Identifier: islandora:1220

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