The Vaal uprising was a period of popular revolt in black townships in apartheid-era South Africa, beginning in the Vaal Triangle on 3 September 1984. Sometimes known as the township revolt and driven
Anti-apartheid protestors in a South African township
In the mid-1980s, Casspirs became a symbol of state repression
Funeral for the victims of the Queenstown Massacre, December 1985
The funeral of the Cradock Four in Cradock, 20 July 1985
The African National Congress has been the governing party of the Republic of South Africa since 1994. The ANC was founded on 8 January 1912 in Waaihoek Wesleyan Church, Bloemfontein and is the oldest
John Dube, the founding President of the SANNC.
Nelson Mandela burns his passbook.
Robert Sobukwe leads a march to Orlando police station, where he turned himself in for refusing to carry his passbook.