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Supporters hold hands for a rally to celebrate the release of Nelson Mandela. Durban 25 February 1990
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A man waving a flag and raising his fist, among a crowd of supporters at the Welcome Home Rally for released ANC leaders, Soccer City, 29 October 1989.
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"Dr Ivan Thomas joins with the crowd of 5000 people in singing the national anthem at a meeting in Cape Town City Hall tonight (07/10/85). The meeting was called to …
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A trumpeter from the African Jazz Pioneers plays at the rally for released ANC leaders, Soweto, 29 October 1989
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A voter being directed by policeman and a government official where to cast his ballot at the "Coloured" election in Johannesburg. The few who voted in the coloured and Indian …
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A voter casting his ballot under the watch of a policeman at the "Coloured" election in Johannesburg. The few who voted in the coloured and Indian elections got a lot …
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Poster on wall advertising "The King of Soul" Percy Sledge" at the 3 Arts From 3 May-2 June. Percy Sledge - an American entertainer, visits South Africa. despite the cultural …
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Two Ngoye Students at hospital bandaged and covered in blood after an altercation with police. KZN
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National People's Party (NPP) leader Amichand Rajbansi and supporters at Arena Park, Chatsworth, Kwazulu Natal
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Guard of honour standing round coffin (UDF Marshals)
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Oliver Tambo and Beyers Naude at The International Conference on Children, Repression and the Law in Apartheid South Africa, held in Harare, 24-27 September 1987, it was convened by Archbishop …
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Literary class - a class of adult students at the Centre for Concern in Sandton.
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Two actors in the Tic-Tok - Cabaret at the Black Sun in Yeoville.
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Two men wearing "Welcome Home! Comrades" t-shirts with images of the released leaders, stand among a crowd of supporters at the Welcome Home Rally for released ANC leaders, Soccer City, …
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Two families in a Gugulethu Hostel. People in the hostel refer to their bed as a 'room' and their room as a 'house'.
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Three toddlers in the ward for malnourished children at Scottish Mission Hospital at Tugela Ferry in rural KwaZulu Natal.
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A memorial service held a year after Trade Unionist Neil Aggetts' death at the hands of Security Branch.
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Patients waiting at a clinic in front of the Tuberculosis ward.
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Mourners march for the funeral of Johannes Ngalo who died in detention.
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Malungu park, on the borders of Gugulethu, is a new housing estate for the rising petit bourgeois in the black community. Notice the double garage and twin level. 1984
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Bishop Trevor Huddleston and Oliver Tambo at The International Conference on Children, Repression and the Law in Apartheid South Africa, held in Harare, 24-27 September 1987, it was convened by …
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Brett Myrdal a conscientious objector portrait photograph, 3 November 1983
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A woman sits on a box outside a shack at Crossroads in Cape Town.
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Exiles Dudu Pukwana (l) and Dennis Mpale performing on trumpets at the Casa Festival in Amsterdam. December 1987
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A resident of Hillbrow fills in a questionnaire form: Regarding children attending a non-radical Johannesburg Girls High School, which was faced by closure due to falling numbers of white students. …
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Life in the new township of Khayelitsha. Children bathing in the open in a bucket next to a shack .
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A child has a bath in a large metal bucket outside in front of corrugated iron dwellings, probably on a farm.
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Women and children are sitting outside their corrugated iron dwellings, probably on a farm.
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Portrait of Philip Wilkinson, Conscious objector turned down by the board for religious objection 26/02/86
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Three bishops mach at the head of the funeral procession of fifteen recent victims of clashes with police. From left, Bishop Desmond Tutu, Rev Keith Sutton the bishop of Lichfield, …
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Pallbearers at funeral supported by COSAS in Duduzo Township in 1985.
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A rally held in Durban celebrating the release of Nelson Mandela.
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Supporters or a rally for released ANC leaders, marching waving ANC flags and holding signs saying "Congress Welcomes, Peoples Leaders, Victory is Certain". Soweto, 29 October, 1989.
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Plush homes in the background stand in sharp contrast to the squatter shacks in the foreground on Princess street in Hout Bay. Efforts so far, by the minister of provincial …
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Neil Aggett's coffin being carried to the grave by Trade Union supporters.
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Crowd of mourners demonstrating after the Funeral of Molly Blackburn and Brian Bishop.
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Mourners march for the funeral of Johannes Ngalo who died in detention.
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Mourners march 10Km from St Mary's Cathedral to West Park Cemetery to bury Dr. David Webster on 6 May 1990.
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Musicians performing at an End Conscription Campaign music festival and audience dancing
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Women stands in front of a tent holding a baby.
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School Children attending a farm school in the Magaliesberg, (former) Transvaal.
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Woman lighting a fire outside her corrugated iron dwelling.
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David Websters Funeral. Johannesburg.
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Mourners march 10Km from St Marys cathedral to West Park Cemetery to bury Dr. David Webster, Johannesburg. 6 May 1990,
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Niel Aggett's funeral in Johannesburg.
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Woman in one-roomed home in Alexandra. The family moved from house in township to disused TB treatment centre to make way for houses (the new houses are rented at exorbitant …
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Mothers queuing with babies at Alexandra Clinic to get them weighed.
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Residents of Hillbrow fill in questionnaire forms re: their children attending a non-racial Johannesburg high school, which was faced by closure due to falling numbers. November 1989 - Johannesburg
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Pallbearers carrying the coffin of David Webster at West Park Cemetery.