A service held in Soweto for Matola Raid victims. Uncertain whether raid of 1981 or 1983. On the podium signs with text "To gun down defenceless men women and children in their sleep is dastardly cowardice"
During the height of apartheid, security forces carried out a raid on ANC houses in Matola, Mozambique, where 16 South Africans and one Portuguese national were killed. Most of the victims were members of Umkhonto We Sizwe in 1981. In a SADF raid on Matola in 1983 at least 6 people died including 2 children and 26 people wounded.
Lawyer Priscilla Jana holding Albertina Sisulu Molefe, Daughter of Popo Molefe, at a May Day meeting in Lenasia. Jana persuaded police to allow the meeting to be held, about 400 people attended the meeting despite a heavy police presence both in and outside the hall.
Lawyer Priscilla Jana holds her fist up in defiance at Women's Day Commemoration. She stands in front of a poster stating "Women unite against Botha's Deal", Johannesburg 1984.
Jeremy Cronin, recently released after serving 7 years in prison for furthering the aims of the ANC reads from his book of poems to a youth audience at the Cape Youth Congress A.G.M
Gathering outside a hall before a political meeting in Cape Town to sing freedom songs totally ignoring the fact illegal gatherings act which prohibits this sort of gathering,