History through pictures

Xenophobic violence in 2016

Mandela and Mbeki during the ANC 50th conference

Nelson Mandela addressing Heritage Day celebration, on Robben Island

Robert Sobukwe with Potlako Leballo

South Africans queue at a government office in Johannesburg to get their new passbooks

Riot police attempt to block the way of workers leaving a May Day meeting at Khotso House

A family sits outside the front door of their District Six home

A certificate of slavery for an infant named Sophie

Riot police play a game of soccer with youths in Nyanga on 27 August 1976

A young victim of the atrocities committed by Belgium in the Congo stands next to a missionary

One of the organisers of the 1956 Women's March Lilian Ngoyi

UDF Launch - Rocklands 1983

Patrick Mosiua Lekota, Popo Molefe and Trevor Manuel Aug 20, 1983

The day Benjamin Moloise was executed by hanging

A Moravian missionary

Caution Beware of Natives

A policeman arrests two Indian men of South Africa

Farm workers demanded a wage increase from R69 to R150

Abafana Bo Moya performing in Durban, November 1986

COSATU march in 1992

Mandela and Tambo meet in Sweden

Oliver Tambo, Thabo Mbeki and Alfred Nzo

Luthuli and Tambo 1959

Tambo statue unveiled

Jesse Jackson with Tambo and Huddleston

Early gold miners in Johannesburg

Black African migrants were forced to live in townships

Migrant labourers (photograph by Margaret Bourke-White)

De Beers Consolidated Mines Ltd.

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

Celebrated photographer, Peter Magubane, captured a moment in time in Apartheid South Africa

The first Black newspaper in South Africa, Imvo Zabantsundu

Pictured is a defiant slogan on a wall in Sophiatown in 1955

It is better to die for an idea Biko

Cape Town students form a human chain

A young Mamphela Ramphele addressing the community