For Freedom and Equality

Viola Hashe inspiring the crowd in Fordsburg

FEDSAW poster, showing its members, 1950s

Black Sash demonstrated daily against the Apartheid Government

Lilian Ngoyi, Defiance Campaign, 1950s

District Committee of the Communist Party, 1945

Executive members of the National Liberation League, Circa 1930

ICU women members, beer halls and boycotts

Mary Fitzgerald election poster, Circa 1915

Women Satyagrahi (Passive Resister) and her family, Circa 1913

In the Native Refugee Camp at Klerksdorp, washing the baby. Circa 1900

Mothers Rhulani, Limpopo Province, 2000

Women of all races arrive by the busload to participate in the August 9 1956 anti-Pass march in Pretoria

Albertina Sisulu, a leader of the UDF, briefs a group of women 1984.

Valliama Munuswami Mudliar

HIV (Aids) protest at an Aids conference, Durban, 2000

South African War Refugees in the Transvaal, circa 1900

Sophie Williams, Rahima Moosa, Helen Joseph and Lilian Ngoyi, leading the march to the Union Buildings, 9 August 1956

Women in Parliament 2005

Women in Parliament, 2006

Lizzie Van Zyl who died in the Bloemfontein concentration camp, 1902

The Black Sash demonstrated daily against the Apartheid Government outside the City Hall, Johannesburg.

Women in concentration camps in Bloemfontein, Circa 1902

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Winnie Mandela (left) descends the steps of the Palace of Justice during the Rivonia Trial.1964

Work and education, Rhulani, Limpopo Province, 2000

Kate Philip speaks to the delegates at the launch of the UDF 20th August 1983.

Community awareness, Pungashe, KwaZulu Natal, 2000

Community water project. Umbumbulu, KwaZulu Natal, 2000

PAC meeting in Alexandra, 21 March 1979

Wood carrying, Nyavini, KwaZulu Natal

Women Passive resister (Satyagrahi) and her family, 1913.

African women on route to a concentration camp in the Orange Free State

Helen Joseph (back) and mourners at the memorial service for Victoria Mxenge, who was assassinated by government agents, 1985

MP, Patricia Delille, asks president Mbeki, why he states that anti-retroviral AIDS drugs are too toxic, October 2001

The founding congress of CASATU, University of Kwazulu Natal 1985

Walter Sisulu is released from prison, Albertina Sisulu is on his right and Archbishop Desmond Tutu, October 1989

The leaders of the 1955 Women’s March holding the petitions against passes