Rev. Frank Chikane delivering the opening address at the 1983 Grassroots', a community newspapers launched in 1980 as a vehicle to 'voice of the voiceless', Annual General Meeting.
Residents of council housing estate in Cape Town, with a copy of Grassroots community newspaper. The new paper is used extensively to engage residents in workshop discussion on current civic issues. Residents are encouraged to share their copy.
A group of strikers demonstrating against detention and for hunger strikers not to be moved, but released, holding placards being ticketed by police officers.
Teacher, Colin Cairncross (22) , is hoisted shoulder high by jubilant supporters after being given a 5 year suspended prison sentence for aiding the outlawed African National Congress (ANC). Ten other men were jailed for a total of 83 years for their involvement in guerilla attacks in the Western Cape.