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Stephen Bantu Biko
13 December 2024
Member of the SRC at University of Natal (Non-European section), first president of SASO, Chair of SASO Publications, Bl...
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Africa Day protest in Cape Town
8 June 2023
On Africa Day, 1962, a group of women hold signs in protest of oppression in South Africa while other African countries ...
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Sadhan Naidoo and His Cows
16 July 2020
Sadhan Naidoo was manager of a farm operated by the African National Congress (ANC) in Zambia operated to help support A...
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Young coal miners in South Africa
24 July 2019
These boys were among the large number of workers in the coal mines (Original caption).
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Women resist the pass laws
24 July 2019
Women demonstrated against the pass laws in Cape Town, on the same day as the massive national women's protest in Pretor...
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Umbulwana, a resettlement camp in Natal
24 July 2019
Africans were forced to leave Umbulwana, a so-called "Black spot" where Africans had owned land and lived for generation...
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Tombstone of Bantu Stephen Biko
24 July 2019
The gravestone of Stephen Biko, Honorary President of the Black People's Convention.
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Steve Biko
24 July 2019
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South African flag key chain
24 July 2019
Souvenir beaded key chain depicting the new South African flag. The colors of the flag symbolize the coming together of ...
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Protest meeting, 1967
24 July 2019
Protest meeting, 1967
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Protest outside Parliament for the release of political detainees
24 July 2019
Demonstrators in Cape Town calling for release of Colleen Lombard, Gary Kruser, Ashley Forbes, Ashraf Karriem. Kariem an...
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Police presence during pass laws protest in Church Square
24 July 2019
Police watch protestors from an armored vehicle during a protest march against passes in front of Parliament. In the hea...
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Participants in the 1952 Defiance Campaign
24 July 2019
Joseph Nkatlo, Albie Sachs, and Mary Butcher (later Mary Turok), giving the thumbs-up sign while singing "Nkosi Sikilel'...
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Nelson Mandela casting his vote in April, 1994
24 July 2019
Nelson Mandela cast his ballot in his country's first all-race elections, in April 1994 at Ohlange High School near Durb...
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My Husband Steve. At the Pretoria Inquest: the name of Steve Biko inspires much passion, 1977
24 July 2019
My Husband Steve. At the Pretoria Inquest: the name of Steve Biko inspires much passion, 1977
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March against the Pass Laws in Cape Town
24 July 2019
Philip Kgosana of the PAC led a march against the pass laws in Cape Town. Meanwhile, protesters in Langa converged upon ...
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Homelands (Bantustans)
24 July 2019
The South African government designated all Africans as citizens of a homeland or Bantustan. By 1984, Ciskei, Bophuthats...
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Homelands (Bantustans) and Agricultural Resources, 1984
24 July 2019
This map shows the boundaries of the ten homelands or Bantustans along with the location of land that can be used for ag...
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Homelands (Bantustans) and Industrial Areas and Ports, 1984
24 July 2019
This map shows the territory of the ten homelands designated by the apartheid government along with the major industrial...
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Homelands (Bantustans) and Gold and Coal Mining, 1984
24 July 2019
The territory designated for ten African "homelands" is shown with deposits of gold and coal and the existing mines.
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House arrest of Phyllis Naidoo
24 July 2019
Phyllis Naidoo under house arrest in Durban with her three children. By Phyllis Naidoo Collection
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Gold mine tailings outside Johannesburg
24 July 2019
What appears to be a mountain is tailings dug up from years of gold mining. These several-hundred-feet piles were someti...
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Funeral of activists in Uitenhage
24 July 2019
Mourners at a funeral ceremony for those killed by South African police on 1985's International Day for the Elimination ...
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An African man shows his passbook
24 July 2019
At the age of 16, all Africans were required to carry passes that determined where they could live, go to school, and wo...
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Africans gathered on the Parade to protest removal to Ndabeni
24 July 2019
Protest against the first forced removal of Africans in South Africa at the beginning of the 20th century from Cape Town...
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A resettlement camp in a homeland
24 July 2019
Inhabitants of Ekuvukene, a "resettlement" village in what was the black "homeland" called KwaZulu in Natal. Millions of...
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A second meeting against forced removal on a mountain slope
24 July 2019
The protest against forced removal of Africans to Ndabeni because of an outbreak of the plague moved to the slopes of Ta...
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A nation weeps
24 July 2019
A nation weeps. Mourners gather to pay their last respects as Steve Biko’s body lies in state in his home before t...
