Photograph collection of History and Politics

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Petition by 10 Waiters of the Royal Hotel to the Protector

Protector of Indian Immigrants was appointed in response to these abuses. The ... A petition by ten waiters

People Speak

People take to the streets to be heard

Patrick Duncan

Patrick Baker Duncan (1918–1967) was a political thinker and activist, whose three books promoted human rights in South Africa and expressed concern ...

Passport

Permit required for travel

Passport
Passive Resistance - 50th Anniversary

Exactly 50 years ago to this day, a gallant group of men and women defied the latest racist laws inflicted upon one of our disenfranchised peoples.

Pass to Indians

In South Africa, pass laws were a form of internal passport system designed to segregate the ...

Part of the Crowd

1860 Commemorations at Durban on the 16th November 1980 - Saiva Sithantha Sungum

Part of the crowd

1860 Commemorations at Durban on the 16th November 1980 - Saiva Sithantha Sungum

Part of the Crowd

1860 Commemorations at Durban on the 16th November 1980 - Saiva Sithantha Sungum

Painting of Sugar and other occupations of Indentured Indians in Natal

By 1904, there were over 1 300 employers of indentured Indians in Natal.

Painting Arrival of Indians

Painting of Arrival of Indians in Natal

P. I. Devan

In 1968, the government set up the South African Indian Council to make recommendations to the government about matters affecting...

OR Tambo and President Samora Machel at the rally commemorating the Matola Massacre, 1981

Both president of the ANC Oliver Tambo and president of Mozambique Samora Machel condemned the killings. In the inaugural commemoration of ...

Old train in Sugar Fields

Trains were used to transport sugar cane

Old Train Illovo Sugar c. 1905

In the early 1900s, 2 ft (610 mm) narrow-gauge railway lines started playing a significant role in ... Many defunct locomotives are plinthed at various former railway station sites or work ...

Nelson Mandela and Nana Sita

Nelson Mandela and Nana Sita

Native Huts - Conference - Rhodesia

Colony of Southern Rhodesia was a land-locked ........

Native Huts - Conference - Rhodesia

British South Africa Company in 1889 to rule Rhodesia, on the grounds that the colony ...

Natal Sugar Belt

The Natal Coastal Belt,owing to its peculiar environment and comparative isolation from the remainder of the country, presents ... rise until 1960, and absolute decline only occurred in ... the North coast, twenty-seven sugar mills were in opera-.

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