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A history of South Africa & her people


Africa & its people

Amulets & Dreams: An exhibition on war & youth in Africa.
cuito, angola: A post-war Angolan photo story


History through pictures

The Liberation Struggle 1900-1994

latest: Desmond Tutu
Passive Resistance Movements against Apartheid
The Women's Struggle in South Africa. Liberation pictures from 1900-present day
The Freedom Charter. The campaign and the signing of the Charter 1955
The Defiance Campaign 1956
The Treason Trial 1956
Black Consciousness Movement & Steve Biko 1960-1977
Sharpeville Massacre 1960
The Soweto Youth Riots 1976
Imperial Ghetto: Grey Street, life in a South African ghetto in the turbulent 1980’s
The Natal Organisation of Women 1980's


1994-present: The New South Africa

The Elections 1994
The Elections 1999
With our own hands: pictures highlighting SA poverty issues & poverty alleviation
Freedom ZA: a documentation of the lives of 15 young South Aficans.
Visions & Voices
Rights & Realities:
Images & Stories by SA Children about their Rights
Soweto Today
Cape Flats details:
Documentary photographs from around Cape Town.
Rainbow Nation (South Africa's people)

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