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Black demonstrators cower from a police dog at Gugulethu township near Cape Town on 12 August 1976
28 April 2023
Black demonstrators cower from a police dog at Gugulethu township near Cape Town on 12 August 1976
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Actors parade on a street during campaign against Ebola
21 April 2023
Actors parade on a street during campaign against Ebola
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Black Sash protest during a National Party meeting, Pietermaritzburg City Hall City:Pietermaritzburg
21 April 2023
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The Freedom Charter of 1955
31 March 2023
The Freedom Charter of 1955
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Nelson Mandela with wife Winnie and their firstborn baby daughter
16 March 2023
Nelson Mandela with wife Winnie and their firstborn baby daughter, Zindzi in Soweto, South Africa in 1961. Picture: AP S...
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Ellen Khuzwayo
16 March 2023
Ellen Khuzwayo (1914 - 2006), writer, women's rights campaigner, ANC member and politician
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Manuscripts at Timbuktu library
3 March 2023
Part of the collection of 20 000 manuscripts from the Ahmed Baba Institute of Higher Islamic Studies and Research in Tim...
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Zimbabwean Ruins
3 March 2023
The ruins of the city, Great Zimbabwe, dating from the late Iron Age, is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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Black, Chinese and White laborers in a gold mine in South Africa
17 February 2023
Black, Chinese and White laborers in a gold mine in South Africa, circa 1890 - 1923. PHOTO: Carpenter Collection, US Lib...
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Frances Baard at UDF launch, Cape Town, 1983
17 February 2023
Frances Baard, a former president of the African National Congress's Women's League (ANCWL), salutes the crowd gathered ...
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Police Walvis Bay - 1908
3 February 2023
Police Walvis Bay, 1908
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The Congress of the People meet at the Kliptown football ground with 3,000 delegates, 26 June 1955.
3 February 2023
June 26, 1955.The Congress of the People meet at the Kliptown football ground with 3,000 delegates.
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Moulana Faried Essack tries to stop police
20 January 2023
Moulana Faried Essack tries to stop police from removing an African National Congress (ANC) flag draped over the coffin ...
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The unbanning of liberation movements in 1990 allowed exiles to return to South Africa.
20 January 2023
The unbanning of liberation movements in 1990 allowed exiles, such as Barney Desai (left), to finally return to South Af...
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The first sixty families in Sophiatown have been given orders to leave their houses
13 January 2023
The first sixty families in Sophiatown, Johannesburg, have been given orders to leave their houses, and have been offere...
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School children protesting against the Group Areas Act. 1955.
13 January 2023
School children protesting against the Group Areas Act. 1955.
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Mandela and Dadoo addresses a public forum
6 January 2023
Nelson Mandela of the ANC Youth League and Dr. Yusuf Dadoo of the Transvaal Indian Congress address a public forum on th...
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Javier Perez de Cuellar meets with Clarence M. Makwetu
6 January 2023
Secretary-General Javier Perez de Cuellar (right), meets with Clarence M. Makwetu, President, Pan Africanist Congress of...
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Ginwala pays her respects
15 December 2022
Ginwala pays her respects to Chief Albert Luthuli
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San Rock Painting
15 December 2022
San Rock Art in the uKhahlamba Drakensberg Park, South Africa.
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Communist Party Members circa 1930's
9 December 2022
Members of the Communist Party meeting in Cape Town, circa 1930's
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HMS Pelorus
9 December 2022
The HMS Pelorus was scuttled on 12 November 1994 to create an artificial reef at Millar's Point, Simon's Town.
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Drawing of Greenmarket Square in Cape Town in 1764
2 December 2022
In this drawing of Greenmarket Square in Cape Town in 1764, a slave in chains appears to be driven by a master on the le...
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Workers in Ceres, Western Cape protesting on May Day 1988
25 November 2022
Workers in Ceres, Western Cape protesting on May Day 1988
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Protest march against forced removals from Sophiatown to Soweto
10 November 2022
Protest march against forced removals from Sophiatown to Soweto, circa 1950's
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Thabo Mbeki and Essop Pahad at the Pahad flat
10 November 2022
Thabo Mbeki and Essop Pahad at the Pahad flat, Earls Court, mid-1960s
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Joe Slovo and Oliver Tambo at the second ANC National Consultative Conference - Kabwe, Zambia, June 1985
4 November 2022
Joe Slovo and Oliver Tambo at the second ANC National Consultative Conference - Kabwe, Zambia, June 1985
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South Africa's First Democratic Government
28 October 2022
Then President Nelson Mandela and then deputy president FW de Klerk are flanked by the members of South Africa's first d...
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Sophiatown residents playing Morabaraba while forced removals are taking place, February 1955.
28 October 2022
Sophiatown residents playing Morabaraba while forced removals are taking place, February 1955.
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Buthelezi making a speech at the Jabulani Amphitheatre in Soweto
21 October 2022
Chief Gatsha Buthelezi making a speech at the Jabulani Amphitheatre in Soweto on the 13th of April 1980.
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Students appeal for the release of their fellow students who were arrested in Cape Town in the wake of the 16 June 1976 protests
21 October 2022
Students appeal for the release of their fellow students who were arrested in Cape Town in the wake of the 16 June 1976 ...
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Volunteers from Transvaal at the passive resitance camp at the Gale street site
14 October 2022
Volunteers from Transvaal at the passive resitance camp at the Gale street site. Zainab Asvat is the second from the lef...
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Cyril Ramaphosa and Nelson Mandela march through Soweto and to the recently erected Hector Pieterson memorial
14 October 2022
Cyril Ramaphosa and Nelson Mandela march through Soweto and to the recently erected Hector Pieterson memorial, 16 June 1...
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Father Trevor Huddleton at the launch of the Freedom Charter
7 October 2022
26 June 1955, Father Trevor Huddleton at the launch of the Freedom Charter
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Defiance campaign Dadoo speaks
7 October 2022
6 April 1952, Dr Dadoo speaks to a crowd in Freedom Square, Fordsburg as part of the Defiance Campaign
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Tutu address a UDF rally
30 September 2022
Desmond Tutu addressing a UDF rally in Johannesburg (1985)
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Founders of the Natal Indian Congress
30 September 2022
The founders of the Natal Indian Congress, 1895.
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Oliver Tambo and Moses Mabiba
23 September 2022
At a Non-Aligned Movement conference Oliver Tambo and Moses Mabiba share a joyful moment.
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Central Indian High School Dinner
23 September 2022
Central Indian High School hosts a celebratory dinner circa 1955, presided over by Michael Harmel, principal, with teach...
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Working Women - a Poster
16 September 2022
Photographs by Lesley Lawson Designed by Mary Anne Bähr/Ray Carpenter
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