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Title: Woman protests army occupation, Soweto, 1985
Subject: Military occupation, Women--Political activity, Apartheid, Political history--South Africa, Beyond the Barricades
Description: A lone woman protests against the presence of troops in Soweto. Women played a significant role against the army's occupation of the townships. In Chesterville, a township near Durban, women patrolled the streets nightly to protect families from security force and vigilante harassment.
Identifier: islandora:909

Title: Pregnant woman stand holding her two kids hands, Cape Town
Subject: Apartheid, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Discrimination, ,
Description: Heavily pregnant: Mrs Nomaliso Mthensi appeared in the Langa Commissioners Court yesterday with her two children clinging to her skirts. Here, she leaves the court after paying a fine of R70 for Pass Law offences.
Identifier: islandora:15796

Title: Black woman petrol attendant, Parow, Cape Town
Subject: Parow (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Labour, Apartheid, Women, Influx control, Transport,
Description: An African petrol attendant, one of six employed on the same driveway, fills up at a BP service station in Parow.
Identifier: islandora:15873

Title: Poor White woman, Bellville, Cape Town
Subject: Bellville (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Housing, Apartheid, Whites, Poverty, Afrikaners
Description: Mrs Beatrice Hugo and her dog Jessie sit on the verandah of their home in Voortrekker Road, Bellville, surrounded by their belongings.
Identifier: islandora:16826

Title: Woman and children protest over police brutality, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Demonstrations, Youth, Law enforcement
Description: Woman and children protest over police brutality, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:16110

Title: Woman sits amongst her happy family, Cape Town
Subject: Apartheid, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Discrimination, ,
Description: Happy Window: Mrs Beatrice Mbatini of Guguletu, seen here with her family, says she is "the happiest woman in the world". Mrs Mbatani was to have been endorsed out of Cape Town tomorrow, but yesterday her stay was extended till the end of the month for her case to be investigated. "So many friends have come by to give me their good wishes - I'm so happy," Mrs Mabatani (centre) said yesterday.
Identifier: islandora:15797

Title: Man and woman hold up anti-apartheid stickers, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Segregation, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Progressive Federal Party (South Africa)
Description: Man and woman hold up anti-apartheid stickers, Cape Town
Identifier: islandora:16125

Title: Woman takes out money to pay fine, Cape Town
Subject: Apartheid, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Discrimination, ,
Description: Total fines of R1960 were imposed for pass law offences at Langa yesterday. Here, a woman draws R10 notes from her purse to pay a fine for being in the Cape illegally for more than 72 hours.
Identifier: islandora:15799

Title: First coloured woman to ever vote, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Gender, Politics
Description: First coloured woman ever to vote in South Africa is Mrs W. Simpson of Crawford. She rose early today to be in time for the opening of the polling station at the Lansdowne Civic Centre in the constituency of Liesbeek for the elections. Mrs Simpson is a prominent welfare worker among the Coloured community.
Identifier: islandora:15991

Title: Woman holds anti-apartheid signage, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Anti-apartheid activists
Description: Woman holds anti-apartheid signage, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:16059

Title: Apartheid era: mixed marriages. A man and woman living together, who cannot legally get married, Cape Town
Subject: Apartheid, Intermarriage, ,
Description: Mrs Diana Bassick, and her common-law husband, Mr Raymond De Proft. Living together for 27 years but they cannot legally marry.
Identifier: islandora:15216

Title: Woman checks for man's name at the voting booth, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Politics, University of the Western Cape
Description: Mr Adam Small, the Coloured poet and lecturer of philosophy at the University College of the Western Cape, was at the polling booths early today to cast his vote in the Coloured Persons' Representative Council elections. Miss M Benjamin, a canvasser at the polling station of the Lansdowne Civic Centre, in the constituency of Liesbeeck, checks his name on the voters' roll before he casts his vote.
Identifier: islandora:15981

Title: Woman protesting rural conditions, South Africa, circa 1985
Subject: Rural poor, Demonstrations, South Africa--Rural conditions, Apartheid, Political history--South Africa, Beyond the Barricades
Description: A barefoot woman protests against living conditions in rural areas. Her banner reads "We starve in rural areas". Black people often went hungry in the remote "homelands" where they were forced to live, because they were unable to farm the poor, crowded land, and there were few jobs for them to earn sufficient income to feed, clothe, and house their families.
Identifier: islandora:876

Title: Woman and baby, Malay Quarter, Cape Town
Subject: Bo-Kaap (Cape Town, South Africa), Apartheid, Children, Community development, Historic districts
Description: A woman and baby in the streets of the Malay Quarter, Cape Town, in the late 1970s
Identifier: islandora:17238

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

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