History through pictures

South Africa's First Democratic Government

Sophiatown residents playing Morabaraba while forced removals are taking place, February 1955.

Buthelezi making a speech at the Jabulani Amphitheatre in Soweto

Students appeal for the release of their fellow students who were arrested in Cape Town in the wake of the 16 June 1976 protests

Volunteers from Transvaal at the passive resitance camp at the Gale street site

Cyril Ramaphosa and Nelson Mandela march through Soweto and to the recently erected Hector Pieterson memorial

Father Trevor Huddleton at the launch of the Freedom Charter

Defiance campaign Dadoo speaks

Tutu address a UDF rally

Founders of the Natal Indian Congress

Oliver Tambo and Moses Mabiba

Central Indian High School Dinner

Working Women - a Poster

Theresa Kachindamoto

Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, executive director of UN Women

Memorial to Nokuthula Simelane

Funmilayo Ransome Kuti

Black Sash was founded in 1955

Albertina Sisulu briefing women before Women's Day picket

Women protest outside Chamber of Mines on International Women's Day

Cooling towers in Soweto

Albert Luthuli and Nelson Mandela

Thabo Mbeki with his fellow students arriving at Dar-es-Salaam

Cutting sugar cane in Natal circa 1888

South African Native Labour Corps holding a shell-shattered radiator

Photographer, Rashid Lombard

Ellen Kuzwayo

Love Story Sophiatown

Girls at meal

Chief Maqoma and his wife Kayti

SPEAK magazine poster

Yusuf Dadoo and J.S. Moroka at Defiance Campaign

Steve Biko on the Student's Representative Council

Mahatma Gandhi and his wife Kasturbhai in Durban, 1902

A young Mamphela Ramphele addressing the community

Cape Town students form a human chain

The first Black newspaper in South Africa, Imvo Zabantsundu

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

Early gold miners in Johannesburg

Black African migrants were forced to live in townships