Photograph collection of History and Politics
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Trial of the Defiance Campaign |
The trial of amongst others, Moroka, Sisulu, Marks, Mandela, Dadoo, Cachalia and ... |
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ANC Leadership in 1912 |
Founded in 1912 as the South African Native National Congress, it had as its main ... In the late 1920s the ANC's leaders split over the issue of cooperation with ... |
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Freedom Charter |
The Freedom Charter is a unique document in that for the first time ever, the people were actively involved in formulating their own vision of an ... |
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Robert Sobukwe - PAC President |
Activist and member of the African National Congress (ANC) and the first President of the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC), who served time as a prisoner in solitary ... |
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Robert Resha, Walter Sisulu and Yusuf Cachalia |
Robert Resha, Walter Sisulu and Yusuf Cachalia |
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Dom Pass |
The Pass Laws Act of 1952 required black South Africans over the age of 16 to carry a pass book, known as a dompas, everywhere and at all times. The dompas ... |
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People Speak |
People take to the streets to be heard |
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Nelson Mandela and Nana Sita |
Nelson Mandela and Nana Sita |
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Mineworkers Strike |
The African Mine Workers' Strike was a labour dispute involving mine workers of Witwatersrand in South Africa. It started on 12 August, 1946 and lasted ... |
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Mineworkers strike |
The African Mine Workers' Strike was a labour dispute involving mine workers of Witwatersrand in South Africa. It started on 12 August, 1946 and lasted ... |
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Sharpeville massacre |
A mass funeral for victims of the Sharpeville massacre, 1960. 69 people were killed when the Sharpeville police opened fire on a crowd of protestors ... |
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Federation of South African Women |
The Federation of South African Women (FEDSAW) was a multi-racial women's organization and lobby group which organized and ... |
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Fitzimmons ground in Pietermaritzburg |
Mass meeting at the Fitzimmon ground in PMB |
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Duma Nokwe, Manilal Gandhi and Patrick Duncan |
Duma Nokwe, Manilal Gandhi and Patrick Duncan in a gathering |
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Dr AB Xuma |
Drs Naicker, Xuma and Dadoo signing the 'Doctors' Pact', 1947 ... of the United Nations instead of other vague, inconclusive so-called charters, ... |
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Political Activist |
Display of Political Activist |
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Chief Albert Luthuli |
Chief Luthuli delivering a speech |
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Chief Albert Luthuli |
Chief Albert John Mvumbi Luthuli, Africa's first Nobel Peace Prize Laureate in 1960, was President-General of the African National Congress ... |
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Rivonia trial |
Bram Fischer and Vernon Berrange at the time of the Rivonia trial |
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ANC Conference |
ANC Conference at Makgasa Hall Bochabela Bloemfontein votes for mass action 1951 |