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.
Dr Anton Eberhardt, who [with] 800 others have signed the conscientious objector register refusing to serve in the SADF. Eberhardt was sentenced to 12 months in jail in 1977 for refusing to serve and faces another 18 Months. Cape Town South Africa, 21 September 1989.
Basil "Manenberg" Coetzee playing the saxophone, a musician who has become a familiar feature at political meetings in Cape Town. All his compositions ar politically inspired. 1984