History through pictures

Pondo tribesmen listen to the officials report

Police block roads looking for bus boycotters, Johannesburg -01 February 1957

Poem by Don Mathera

Police carrying a body - Sharpeville

Police take names of Africans who refuse to end bus boycot - Johanesburg - 8 July 1956

Police engage protesters during the march from Athlone Stadium to Polsmor Prison - Cape Town - July 1985

Police checking passes on the streets, 1960

Plettenberg Bay by Jo Ractliffe

Piet Retief Monument in Port Elizabeth

Pixley Seme -1911

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

PAC supporters at a rally, Cape Town

Part of the large crowd that assembled at Fordsburg to protest, October, 1952

Parliament speaker Balka Mbete during a State of the Nation Address

Original sheet music of “Nkosi Sikelel’ iAfrica” by Enoch Sontonga, 1904

Omar Badsha and President Thabo Mbeki in Denmark 2002

Omugulugwombashe training camp attacked by SADF helicopters, Namibia - 26 August 1966

Oosterbroek was killed by friendly fire in Thokoza township, 18 April 1994, Gauteng

On 21 March 1960, more than 5,000 people offered themselves

Old Isandhlwana Veteran

Obama meets Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

Nelson Mandela released from prison, 11 February, 1990

Nelson Mandela, receives military training at an Algerian FLN camp - Morocco - 1962

Nelson Mandela at Healdtown College 1937-1938

Nelson Mandela casts his first vote, 1994

Nelson Mandela and Sam Nujoma at Namibian Independece celebrations

Nelson Mandela addressing Heritage Day celebration, on Robben Island

Native Advisory Board, Port Elizabeth, 1944

NEHAWU protest, Johannesburg, 1990

Nelson Mandela and Fidel Castro - circa 1990

Nelson Mandela and Joe Slovo

Nelson Mandela and Libyan Leader Muammar Qaddafi

Mzansi Youth Choir

Mrs Gool speaking at the Red Square, Durban, 1946.

Mrs Suriakala Patel and Jumnaden Patel leading singing of a freedom song at Red Square, 4 August 1946

Municipal workers on the march during the Durban strike, 1973

Monday, March 21 thousands of Pan Africanists reported to the police without their passes and asked to be arrested

Moses Kotane and Nelson Mandela leave the Pretoria Court - 13 October 1958 - Pretoria

Mogopa, removal 1984

Mkhumbane the Musical