Identity area
Reference code
ZA HPRA AG2386-C
Title
Photographs
Date(s)
- mostly 1980s (Creation)
Level of description
Series
Extent and medium
191 photographs and slides
Context area
Name of creator
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Events and subjects covered include amongst others: Student gatherings/ protests on Wits Campus; police presence on Wits Campus - teargassing and sjambokking/ arresting students; Fire damage - Wits Students' Union Building (14 May 1984); Speakers on Wits Campus (Piet Koornhof/ 20 March 1981 Archbishop Desmond Tutu); other protest marches (e. g. MAWU walkout at Siemans' Isando Plant in protest against the detention of Moses Mayekiso); various student leaders (Brendan Barry, Etienne Marais etc.).