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.
Mrs Doris McBride, the mother of Robert McBride, attends Federation of Transvaal Women (FEDTRAW) Women's Cultural Day on 9 August 1987 at Wits University, Johannesburg.
Veteran anti-apartheid activist Helen Joseph (centre) was amongst a group of black and white people at a tea party organised to observe Human Rights Day. A large contingency of security forces monitored the meeting. Soweto.
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.