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Title: Police reload at funeral, Duduza, 1985
Subject: Police shootings, Funeral service, Political violence, Apartheid, Political history--South Africa, Beyond the Barricades
Description: Policemen reload their guns after firing at mourners during the funeral for the young activists killed in the "grenade incident" in Duduza township, Transvaal (now Gauteng), July 1985. Deaths followed funerals with sad predictability.
Identifier: islandora:910

Title: March by parties opposed to the TGNU is broken up by Koevoet
Subject: Demonstrations--Namibia, Police--Namibia
Description: March by political parties opposed to the creation of the Transitional Government of National Unity (TGNU) is broken up by Koevoet, Katutura. Koevoet is the common name of the South West African Police Counter-Insurgency Unit (SWAPOL-COIN).
Identifier: islandora:6798

Title: Police firing at ANC supporters, South Africa, 1992
Subject: Apartheid--South Africa--Boipatong, Political violence--South Africa--Boipatong, History--Political aspects--South Africa--Boipatong, South African Police, History--Political aspects--South Africa--Boipatong, Best of Marinovich
Description: South African police fired on African National Congress (ANC) supporters as they tried to check the identity of a man shot dead by police in this Boipatong field on June 20, 1992. Forty-five ANC supporters, including women and children, were massacred by Zulu supporters of the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) the night before.
Identifier: islandora:1182

Title: Student demonstration, Durban, 1985
Subject: Student protesters, Demonstrations, Police, Black, Apartheid, Political history--South Africa, Beyond the Barricades
Description: Students taunts a black policeman during a demonstration following the assassination of United Democratic Front (UDF) leader, Victoria Mxenge. She was buried next to her husband, Griffiths Mxenge, also a victim of assassination several years earlier. Between 1978 and 1989, over 150 activists were assassinated, with no one found responsible for these murders.
Identifier: islandora:881

Title: Car bomb campaign, Cubal, Angola
Subject: Angola--History--Civil War, 1975-2002, Soldiers--Angola, Police--Angola, Boys--Angola, Cameras, Nikon camera,
Description: Angolan policeman in Cubal, Angola, with a Nikon F3 HP camera. On the back of the camera is a car bomb yellow sticker from the car bomb campaign launched in 1988. .
Identifier: islandora:7014

Title: Riot police confront workers, Johannesburg, 1985
Subject: Police--Special weapons and tactics units, Labor union members, May Day (Labor holiday), Apartheid, Political history--South Africa, Beyond the Barricades
Description: Riot police block the way of workers leaving a May Day meeting at Khotso House in Johannesburg, May 1985. Khotso House was owned by the South African Council for Churches (SACC) and was the headquarters for many progressive organisations, including the United Democratic Front (UDF). It was destroyed in a massive explosion in August 1988.
Identifier: islandora:911

Title: Woman overcome by tear gas at funeral, Port Elizabeth, 1986
Subject: Funeral service, Police shootings, Tear gas, Apartheid, Political history--South Africa, Beyond the Barricades
Description: A woman overcome by tear gas is helped by fellow mourners during the funeral for eight people killed in the "bottle store (liquor-store) incident" in New Brighton township, Port Elizabeth. Nearly a week before, on March 25, heavily armed policemen opened fire on a crowd gathered outside a liquor store that had been bombed the previous day, killing eight.
Identifier: islandora:891

Title: Police in camouflage at ready, early 1973
Subject: Police--South Africa, Men--South Africa, Military clothing--South Africa,
Description: A group of policeman stand at ready position, South Africa, 1973.
Identifier: islandora:18494

Title: Marikana murder investigation, South Africa, 2012
Subject: Unskilled labor--South Africa--North-West, Strikes and lockouts--Miners--South Africa--North-West, Police corruption--South Africa--North-West, History--Political aspects--South Africa--North-West, Best of Marinovich
Description: Yellow paint marks made by investigators indicate where the bodies of some of the 34 men killed by police were recovered by forensics at Nkanini, Marikana, 2012. Some of the rock crevices these bodies were found in, indicate that they had been hunted down and shot at close range. Not a single policeman was reported wounded on August 16th.
Identifier: islandora:1179

Title: SWAPOL task force prepare to stop a SWAPO march
Subject: Police--Namibia
Description: South West African Police (SWAPOL) task force based in Windhoek prepare to stop a SWAPO march to the city centre.
Identifier: islandora:6874

Title: Mitchell's Plain charge office
Subject: police station, criminalsPolice--South Africa, Criminals--South Africa
Description: Police lock up a suspect brought in by neighbourhood watch members.
Identifier: islandora:8272

Title: Police, Central Durban, 1973
Subject: Police--South Africa, Social conditions--South Africa, Apartheid--South Africa,
Description: Three white policemen walk down a road in front of a local pharmacy in Central Durban, while a group of local black people look on, 1973.
Identifier: islandora:18498

Title: Striking municipal workers, South Africa
Subject: Strikes and lockouts--South Africa, Labor unions--South Africa, Labor disputes--South Africa, Police--SOuth Africa,
Description: Municipal workers marching through the city centre escorted by a municipal traffic policeman, Durban, South Africa.
Identifier: islandora:18463

Title: Police watch mourners, Alexandra township, Johannesburg, 1986
Subject: Funeral service, Police, Police shootings, Apartheid, Political history--South Africa, Beyond the Barricades
Description: Police watch as mourners carrying an African National Congress (ANC) flag pass by during the funeral of eight youths killed during clashes between police and residents in Alexandra township. Off-duty township police allegedly killed three in reprisals following attacks on the policemen's homes, and five were killed by police during subsequent protests against vigilante action.
Identifier: islandora:898

Title: Arrest of Swapo supporter
Subject: Namibia--Police
Description: A SWAPO supporter arrested by police task force, Namibia Day, Katutura.
Identifier: islandora:6757

Title: Police arresting innocent man, South Africa, 1992
Subject: Apartheid--South Africa--eNtokozweni, Race discrimination--South Africa--eNtokozweni, eNtokozweni (South Africa)--Social conditions, Police brutality--South Africa--eNtokozweni, Best of Marinovich
Description: A policeman and his friend try to arrest a man who was walking drunk along the main road in the small, escarpment town of Machadodorp, 1992.
Identifier: islandora:1191

Title: Marikana torture victim, South Africa, 2012
Subject: Miners--South Africa--North-West, Unskilled labor--South Africa--North-West, Strikes and lockouts--Miners--South Africa--North-West, Police brutality--South Africa--North-West, History--Political aspects--South Africa--North-West, Best of Marinovich
Description: �Bhele� Tholakele Dlunga was tortured by police while in custody as part of what seems to be a systematic intimidation campaign against witnesses to the Marikana Massacre, Wonderkop, Marikana, 2012.
Identifier: islandora:1180

Title: Policeman confronting three men, Johannesburg, South Africa
Subject: Urban areas--South Africa, Social conditions--South Africa, City dwellers--South Africa, Police--South Africa,
Description: A policeman confronts three men at night on a street in Marshalltown, Johannesburg, South Africa.
Identifier: islandora:1280

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

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