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.

Archbishop Desmond Tutu being carried on two men's shoulders on the beach, police with dogs in the background.

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.

Gary Gordan, a 17 year old school boy, injured when police used shotguns on pupils at cedars High, Mitchells Plain, after a school demonstration. Three children were hit by bullets. Friday 25/8" 1989

Masked protestors on Belgravia road in Athlone, building a barricade of tyres, pouring petrol over them and lighting them.

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

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.

Manenberg school children, flee after tear gas was used to disperse them. They had been leaving a school after police barred them from holding a rally.

Black Sash picket in Cape Town on Soweto Day, 16 June 89, about the education struggle continuing.

About 2000 people participated in an 'Open City' walk to indicate their opposition to the Group Areas Act which reserves certain residential areas for different race groups. This participant, with a banner saying "it's my country I will live where I choose to!!", was instructed not to hold his banner because the police had forbidden the display of any banners and posters. He tied the poster to his back so was not 'holding' it.