Mama Zihlangu and Andrew ‘Willie’ Hofmeyr at a service in support of 'ex-restrictees'. This was a Defiance Campaign against the apartheid state’s Emergency Regulations. As part of the Campaign, restricted people defied their restriction orders intentionally as an act of organised passive resistance.
Defiance Campaign peace march. Approximately 30,000 Capetonians marched in support of peace and the end of apartheid laws. The march was lead by religious and political leaders.
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.
Youths with posters of Nelson Mandela sing and dance in the streets of Langa, following a church service.The celebrations were marking the jailed African National Congress (ANC) leader's 70th Birthday.
Prakash Dias, Lawyer for the Sharpeville 6 being hoisted aloft amidst chants of "hero, hero" after the granting of a reprieve at the Pretoria Supreme Court.