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.
A multi-racial 'Swim-in' was organised by the Democratic Party (DP) at a swimming pool in central Johannesburg as part of a campaign to defy apartheid laws in the city. In terms of the Group Areas Act, difference races are forced to use different amenities.
A woman with children in front of their home in Magopa. Part of the forced removal of the Mogopa people from their home to Pachsdraai and Bethanie between 1983 and 1984.
Johannesburg Girls High a white school, petitioning against closure of the school and instead allow it to be open to all races. Hillbrow. 5 August 1989.
A resident of Hillbrow fills in a questionnaire form: Regarding children attending a non-radical Johannesburg Girls High School, which was faced by closure due to falling numbers of white students. Johannesburg - November 1989.