A student in possession of an anti election sticker is harassed and searched by the police at a polling booth in Athlone on 22 August - Day of the election for the coloured house of representatives. Policeman found a "don't vote" sticker.

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.

Silkscreen workshop for making posters. An anti-apartheid poster being printed using silkscreen techniques.

Silent protest against police brutality held by Wits academics, in the centre of campus, after skirmishes between students and police.

Wits University, Sharpeville Day, demonstration where students put crosses into the grass and picketed.

A school girl adds petrol to a barricade of tyres on fire in Mitchells' Plain.

A team of 5 runners left from near Pollsmoor prison at the start of a relay scheduled to end at a Gugulethu Sports Stadium as part of the Mandela 70th birthday celebrations. However the runners were arrested shortly before arriving in Wynberg. Police and military also sealed off the Stadium in Gugulethu and prohibited the sporting events which were due to take place there.

Right-wingers, holding an AWB flag, attempt to prevent a non-racial 'Swim-in' organised by the Democratic Party, at the Hillbrow Swimming pool. Johannesburg, June 1989.

Members of the Rhodes University campus control unit attempted to prevent a peaceful placard protest against detentions of students by the Black Students Movement (BSM) at the graduation ceremony at the 1820s Settlers Monument.

A member of Rhodes community campus control unit shocks PE based CBS news member George Lusi (40) with a cattle prodder. Lusi was filming a peaceful protest by the Black Students Movement (BSM) at the graduation garden party.