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ArchiveDetention without trial : 100 artists protest
… White poster with black block in centre showing artwork of dead flowers hanging down. Black lettering at bottom on white background. Notice of …
ArchiveQuote from Desmond Tutu, Bishop of Johannesburg
… Black and white poster. Quote from Desmond Tutu. Artwork of black man and white woman holding hands above their heads in a chain of people. Related poster…
ArchivePPWAWU: workers vote for a living wage
… PPWAWU election poster. White with red, black, green and yellow lettering. Yellow, green and black border. PPWAWU and COSATU logos. Vote ANC. Four blocks in…
ArchiveHealth for the wealthy : or health for all
… Cream poster with black lettering. For a National Health Service. Black and green and cream image of a man in bed with a pay box for treatment, surrounded by…
ArchiveAn Interview With F.W. De Klerk, the Last Apartheid President of South Africa by Nicolas Rossier
… African President F.W. de Klerk after spending 27 years in prison. His freedom followed the repeal of all major … but the overwhelming majority of all South…
Event80 Women arrested for anti-pass protest
… Passes and measures to control the mobility of the Black population particularly centring on White urban areas, … to embark on an anti-pass passive…
ArchiveSWAPO Calendar 1985
… struggle. 1960 -1985. Red, white and blue border at top. Black and white photographs in centre of struggle for Namibia's national liberation . Green…
ArchiveUDF Unites
… Two posters side by side. One white on black and one white on black. Images of two men held apart by one man in centre. Words 'constitutional proposals…
ArchiveRemember : detainees and political prisoners
… White poster with black lettering and red border. Notice of Dependent's … and Hebrews 13:3. Red image of South Africa with blocks in black and white showing…
ArchiveSchlub mit der atomaren Zusammenarbeit BRD-Sudafrika
… Green, gold, black and white poster. Artwork of a map of Africa. Black and white image of people protesting at the southern … of a rocket coming down to…
ArchiveMarch for peace and freedom now!
… ANC poster. Cream poster with black lettering, advertising marches in Johannesburg and Pretoria on Thursday 6th December. Green … Two green blocks on either…
EventNewspaper editor John Tengo Jabavu dies
… John Tengo Jabavu, the founder of the first Black-language newspaper, Imvo Zabantsundu (Native/Bantu Opinion) and political leader dies in Cape Town. He was…
ArchiveThe Future is ours
… Blue poster with black lettering. Black and white image of a boy holding a red banner with … Logo on flag: Children are people. Group of children in the…
EventGen. Louis Botha, soldier, statesman and first prime minister of the Union of South Africa, is born.
… general and statesman, he was leader of the Transvaal army in the Second Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902) from March 1900, and … Native Land Act of 1913, he…
EventEmily Hobhouse is born
… On 9 April 1860, Emily Hobhouse was born in Liskeard, Cornwall. Hobhouse was a humanitarian and … situation. Concerned with the plight of suffering Boer and…
ArchiveMilitary madness
… Yellow, black and white poster. End Conscription Campaign. Notice of … Yellow artwork of people dancing with arms raised and black artwork of soldiers in…
ArchiveSAHWCO
… South African Health Workers Congress. Cream poster with black lettering and black border. SAHWCO Logo in centre. Notice of launch meeting at City Hall, …
ArchiveWorker Sunday
… Yellow poster with black and white lettering. Issued by The Labour Programme, Diakonia. Small black artwork images around the poster. Red artwork of a head…
1st May : May Day meeting
… White poster giving notice of May Day meeting. Image of black flag with title in white letters. Black image of factory with closed sign on it. List of …
ArchiveThe open school on the move
… Red border with title in white letters. Five white columns containing a play by Don Mattera entitled One Time Brother. Black lettering and artwork of black…
EventPassbook laws relaxed
… In July 1986, South Africa was in a state of martial law, … government lifted the obligatory carrying of passbooks by Black people on 23 July 1986. The pass…
EventChumani Maxwele ignites the #RhodesMustFall Movement at UCT
… student activism and movements throughout universities in the country, stimulating political discourse within South … campus that are physical reminders of…
EventEdgar Whitehead succeeds Garfield Todd as premier of South Rhodesia.
… him from power, as he proposed legislation, which would in terms of the period; greatly extend the number of black people eligible to vote. For the White…
ArticleAfrapix Chronology 1981-1991
… In the 1980s the National Party witnessed a renewed national … and Art as a subject. The second category consisted of black photographers who worked in NGOs…
ArchiveAfrican National Congress: Year of the Cadre
… Poster with white background and mostly black text. Some text in red. Calendar for six months from January to June 1985. List of important dates. Yellow, red…
A Message to Every Voter from the African National Congress, April 1958
… This message was published early in April 1958, before the general elections. Sir or Madam, … are addressing ourselves directly to you, to voters, who in the…
Chapter IV - Becoming an activist
… for the interview. He didn't seem at all interested in what I had done already and only talked about the coloured … vote. It had been a short but bitter…
First Matabele War
… In 1890 Cecil John Rhodes became premier of South Africa with … from a brochure by 'the History Society of Zimbabwe'. In 1888 Rhodes sent Rev. J.S. Moffat to…
ArchiveEgalite
… colours, containing artwork of two people, one white, one black, with a red heart in the centre, holding a globe of the earth and standing on a black and…
ArchiveWe are there because you were there ... without us there is no Britain
… Green, yellow, black and white poster. History of Zimbabwe. Artwork of an … of scenes from Zimbabwe. Green map of Africa with Zimbabwe in black. Series of…