Politician Frederik Van Zyl Slabbert at 'Call to whites' meeting organised by the United Democratic Front (UDF). He was leader of the official opposition, the Progressive Federal Party (PFP), in the House of Assembly.
A scene from the election boycott campaign in Lenasia where an excited crowd of 3000 packed the hall and passages of the Civic Centre to hear Transvaal Indian Congress (TIC) publicity secretary Mr Cassim Saloojee, United Democratic Front (UDF) president, UDF patron Dr Allan Boesak and Mrs Albertina Sisulu.
A landscape of a homestead in the background and a pile of rubble of a destroyed building in the foreground. Part of the forced removal of the Mogopa people from their home to Pachsdraai and Bethanie between 1983 and 1984.
The scene outside the court during the trial of the 'Soweto 14'. Protesters are holding their fists up behind a row of police officers. Behind the police is a Ratel, military vehicle.
Students disrupt a lecture on 'Politics of siege societies' delivered by Irish academic and political diplomat Conor Cruise O'Brien, in keeping with the call for an academic boycott of South Africa. Police or campus security attempt to keep them out. Photograph possibly at UCT