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Theresa Kachindamoto, the senior chief of the Dedza District of Central Malawi, who has annulled 850 child marriages.

Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, executive director of UN Women.

Photograph by David Goldblatt, Memorial to Nokuthula Simelane, 2013

Funmilayo Ransome Kuti, (25 October 1900 – 13 April 1978 Lagos), was a teacher and women's rights activist from Nig...

Black Sash was founded in 1955

Albertina Sisulu, a leader of the United Democratic Front, briefs a group of women before they embark on a National Wome...

Women protesting ‘business interests at the expense of human rights’ outside chamber of mines on International Women’s D...

The Soweto cooling towers decorated with images of ANC presidents, right to left, Oliver Tambo, Sefako Makgatho, Thabo M...

Honoring two of South Africa's most important leaders: Albert John Luthuli (1898 - 21 July 1967) and Nelson Mandela (18 ...

Thabo Mbeki with his fellow students arriving at Dar-es-Salaam, late November 1962. Mbeki is at the centre of the frame,...

Cutting sugar cane in Natal circa 1888

South African Native Labour Corps holding a shell-shattered radiator.

Photographer, Rashid Lombard, with attorney, Christine Berger, and Colleen Lombard, outside the Supreme/High Court durin...

Nnoseng Ellen Kate Kuzwayo was the first black woman to receive  an honorary degree from the  University ...

Love Story, Sophiatown, BaileySeippel gallery/BAHA 

The Bantu Education Act of 1953 nationalised education for Black South Africans

Chief Maqoma and his wife Kayti, South Africa, c. 1869, Photo by William Moore

SPEAK magazine was started in 1982 as a platform for women to voice their opinions and concerns about the future of...

Yusuf Dadoo and J.S. Moroka at Defiance Campaign. Photo by Jurgen Schadeberg

Steve Biko on the Student's Representative Council (SRC) of 1966/67, University of Natal 

Mahatma Gandhi and his wife Kasturbhai in Durban, 1902

A young Mamphela Ramphele addressing the community. Ramphele was a key figure in advancing the Black Community Programme...

University of Cape Town students form a human chain preventing a police vehicle from accessing protesting students at UC...

The first Black newspaper in South Africa, Imvo Zabantsundu (Black Opinion), was published in King William's Town in 188...

Diamond Fields Advertiser Newspaper (DFA) (Kimberley, February 17, 1900)

Early gold miners in Johannesburg

President Jacob Zuma, members of the Tambo family and government officials during the unveiling of the Oliver Tambo stat...

Chief Albert Luthuli and Oliver Tambo at Johannesburg train station in May 1959.

American civils rights leader Jesse Jackson with Oliver Tambo (left) and Trevor Huddleston (right) in London during the ...

Oliver Tambo, Thabo Mbeki and Alfred Nzo during the ANC's 74th anniversary press conference in Lusaka, Zambia, in Januar...

Zubeida Vallie's photo of a COSATU march in 1992. From left to right: John Gomomo, Chris Hani, Jay Naidoo, Alan Boe...

A policeman arrests two Indian men of South Africa, on November 14, 1983 during a demonstration against Apartheid outsid...

Frances Baard addressing the UDF in Mitchels Plain. Photograph by Paul Weinberg. .

Farm workers demanded a wage increase from R69 to R150 when they went on strike in 2012-2013 & improved working cond...

Members of the South African Defiance Campaign arrive in Cape Town

Reverend Isaac Wauchope pictured centre.

The sinking of the Mendi remains the greatest wartime maritime disaster ever suffered in South Africa.

Mamathola,  August 3, 1958

A woman highlighting poverty in rural areas.