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Title: Tsamkxao ?Oma and Megan Biesele
Subject: Bushman, Southern Africa, meeting, village, interview, San, indigenous, pot, suitcase, gathering, fireplace, cassette recorder, San (African people)--Namibia--Politics and government, Political participation--Namibia, Namibia
Description: Tsamkxao ?Oma discusses United Nations Security Council Resolution 435 with Megan Biesele, project director of the Ju/'hoan Bushman Development Foundation. A group of San people sits near them. N?aqmtoha village, Namibia.
Identifier: islandora:11716

Title: Oral history interview with Gathu Motsweni [Part 1 of 2]
Subject: Oral history, Political activists-- South Africa--Interviews, Government, Resistance to--South Africa
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., Pin6.07a.mp3: Part 1 of 2 ; 31:88 min. ; interview 6 of 10
Identifier: islandora:19465

Title: Anti-apartheid conference, Cape Town
Subject: Apartheid--South Africa, South Africa--Politics and government--1978-1989, South Africa--History--1961-1994, Political activists--South Africa, Congresses and conventions--South Africa,
Description: Anti-apartheid conference in Cape Town., circa 1980s
Identifier: islandora:12650

Title: Playing with bow and arrow
Subject: Bushman, Southern Africa, child, playing, bow, arrow, San (African people)--Namibia, Indigenous children--Namibia, Political participation--Namibia, Elections--Namibia--History, United Nations Transition Assistance Group, Namibia
Identifier: islandora:12392

Title: Saying goodbye, Leandra township, Transvaal, April 1986
Subject: Youth--Political activity, Vigilantes, Grief, Apartheid, Political history--South Africa, Beyond the Barricades
Description: A mother from Leandra township is overcome with emotion as she says goodbye to her son. Many young activists from Leandra fled to Johannesburg to escape right-wing vigilantes, thereby disrupting their education.
Identifier: islandora:856

Title: Funeral of Ashley Kriel, Langa township, 1987
Subject: Funeral service, Kriel, Ashley, -1987--Death and burial, Police, Apartheid, Political history--South Africa, Beyond the Barricades
Description: Police attempt to remove an African National Congress (ANC) flag draped over the coffin of slain ANC member, Ashley Kriel, in Langa township, Cape Town. Symbols of the ANC, though illegal, were visible at funerals, an insistent reminder of the political meaning of the deaths.
Identifier: islandora:894

Title: Community meeting, Kuboes
Subject: Public meetings--South Africa--Richtersveld, Political participation--South Africa--Richtersveld,
Description: Community meeting about land issues, at Kuboes.
Identifier: islandora:5160

Title: Nat Removals Ltd.
Subject: South Africa--Politics and government--1978-1989--Caricatures and cartoons, Apartheid--South Africa--Caricatures and cartoons, Blacks--Relocation--South Africa--Caricatures and cartoons, South African wit and humor, Pictorial, Forced removals (South Africa)--Caricatures and cartoons, South Africa
Description: The implementation of the policy of� apartheid resulted in the removal of 3.5 million people to remote homelands or their own racially designated areas. Description provided by Tony Grogan.
Identifier: islandora:6149

Title: Oral history interview with Joe Marks [Part 2 of 3]
Subject: Oral history, Political activists-- South Africa--Interviews, Government, Resistance to--South Africa, Marks, Joe
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., Pin6.04b.mp3: Part 2 of 3 ; 30:56 min. ; interview 3 of 10
Identifier: islandora:19457

Title: Hostel wars, South Africa, 1990
Subject: Apartheid--South Africa--Johannesburg, Political violence--South Africa--Johannesburg, History--Political aspects--South Africa--Johannesburg, Best of Marinovich
Description: African National Congress (ANC) supporters attack Lindsaye Tshabalala, a suspected nkatha Freedom Party (IFP) supporter, at Inhlazane Station, 1990.
Identifier: islandora:1213

Title: IFP mass graves, South Africal, 1993
Subject: Apartheid--South Africa--Pietermaritzburg, Political violence--South Africa--Pietermaritzburg, History--Political aspects--South Africa--Pietermaritzburg, Goats--South Africa--Pietermaritzburg, Mass burials--South Africa--Pietermaritzburg, Best of Marinovich
Description: A goat stands on mass graves of Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) supporters killed in fighting with African National Congress (ANC) members at Table Mountain, near Pietermaritzburg, KwaZulu-Natal, 1993.
Identifier: islandora:1184

Title: Street graffiti, Johannesburg, 1976
Subject: Street art--South Africa, Political aspects--South Africa, South Africa--Social conditions, Winer Batch01,
Description: Street graffiti reads "Born to suffer", Newclare "coloured" township, Johannesburg, 1976.
Identifier: islandora:12526

Title: Oral history interview with Lizo Ngqungwana [Part 2 of 2]
Subject: Oral history, Political activists-- South Africa--Interviews, Government, Resistance to--South Africa, Ngqungwana, Lizo
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., Pin6.09b.mp3: Part 2 of 2 ; 04:10 min. ; interview 8 of 10
Identifier: islandora:19473

Title: Ivan Toms with Desmond Tutu, Cape Town
Subject: Apartheid--South Africa, South Africa--Politics and government--1978-1989, South Africa--History--1961-1994, Tutu, Desmond, Religious leaders--South Africa, Political activists--South Africa, Press--South Africa, Conscientious objectors--South Africa,
Description: Concientious objector, Dr. Ivan Toms with Desmond Tutu, on his release from prison in Cape Town., circa 1980s
Identifier: islandora:12651

Title: Oral history interview with Mr Pitchard [Part 3 of 4]
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., Pin3.07a.mp3: Part 3 of 4 ; 31:55 min. ; interview 7 of 11
Identifier: islandora:19416

Title: The library of Parliament, Cape Town
Subject: South Africa. Parliament, Governments, Politics, Legislation, ,
Description: The Library of Parliament, where MPs can expect to find almost any fact within minutes.
Identifier: islandora:15708

Title: Desmond Tutu, KwaThema township, 1986
Subject: Tutu, Desmond, Funeral service, Political violence, Apartheid, Political history--South Africa, Beyond the Barricades
Description: Archbishop Desmond Tutu speaks out against "necklace" killings at a funeral in KwaThema township, Transvaal (now Gauteng). Necklace killings only stopped after the United Democractic Front (UDF), the African National Congress (ANC), and other popular groups condemned the practice.
Identifier: islandora:897

Title: Oral history interview with Hassan Howa [Part 4 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), Pin4.24b.mp3: Part 4 of 4 ; 13:33 min. ; interview 24 of 52
Identifier: islandora:25875

Title: Oral history interview with I.B. Tabata and Jane Gool [Part 7 of 10]
Subject: Oral history, Political activists-- South Africa--Interviews, Government, Resistance to--South Africa, Non-European Unity Movement, Tabata, I. B., Gool, Zainunnissa, 1897-1963
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), Pin4.47a.mp3: Part 7 of 10 ; 32:02 min. ; interview 47 of 52
Identifier: islandora:29736

Title: Charity Kondile, Butterworth township, 1997
Subject: Apartheid--South Africa, Political violence--South Africa, South Africa--Social conditions, War crimes investigation--South Africa, Truth and Lies,
Description: Charity Kondile, Transkei, 1997. Charity's son, Sizwe Kondile, was murdered in 1981 on the orders of Dirk Coetzee. She spent 9 years trying to find out what had happened to her son. In 1996 she attended the amnesty hearings in Durban where in Coetzee's presence she heard how Sizwe was illegaly detained by police, beaten during interrogation, poisoned, shot and burned on a braai. According to Coetzee, the police had been scared they might have had a 'second Biko' case on their hands.
Identifier: islandora:756

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