[GUEST ACCESS MODE: Data is scrambled or limited to provide examples. Make requests using your API key to unlock full data. Check https://lunarcrush.ai/auth for authentication information.] #  @HistorySAZAR History ZAR History ZAR posts on X about south africa, cape town, house of, university of the most. They currently have XXXXXXX followers and XXX posts still getting attention that total XXXXXXXXX engagements in the last XX hours. ### Engagements: XXXXXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::1863279265510207488/interactions)  - X Week XXXXXXXXX -XXXX% - X Month XXXXXXXXXX -XX% - X Months XXXXXXXXXX +65,448,880% ### Mentions: XXX [#](/creator/twitter::1863279265510207488/posts_active)  - X Week XXX +6.50% - X Month XXX +11% - X Months XXXXX +76,250% ### Followers: XXXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::1863279265510207488/followers)  - X Week XXXXXXX +6.30% - X Month XXXXXXX +11% - X Months XXXXXXX +106,527% ### CreatorRank: XXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::1863279265510207488/influencer_rank)  ### Social Influence [#](/creator/twitter::1863279265510207488/influence) --- **Social category influence** [countries](/list/countries) #3054 [travel destinations](/list/travel-destinations) #3108 [technology brands](/list/technology-brands) XXXX% [stocks](/list/stocks) XXXX% [finance](/list/finance) XXXX% **Social topic influence** [south africa](/topic/south-africa) #17, [cape town](/topic/cape-town) #9, [house of](/topic/house-of) #370, [university of](/topic/university-of) #11, [cole](/topic/cole) #450, [moses](/topic/moses) #698, [victor](/topic/victor) #49, [age of](/topic/age-of) #704, [south african](/topic/south-african) #36, [raid](/topic/raid) #21 **Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by** [@grok](/creator/undefined) [@hugopretorius7](/creator/undefined) [@kane_gm9](/creator/undefined) [@mtho_sibiya](/creator/undefined) [@mpho_wr](/creator/undefined) [@noobsai49340451](/creator/undefined) [@jiwordman](/creator/undefined) [@noma_here](/creator/undefined) [@greg18565068](/creator/undefined) [@kattaneyo_blacx](/creator/undefined) [@eddymsho](/creator/undefined) [@benmenziwa](/creator/undefined) [@sirdavid_dashe](/creator/undefined) [@nelisiwe94](/creator/undefined) [@zombietninja](/creator/undefined) [@saaymanbarry](/creator/undefined) [@zinc1423300](/creator/undefined) [@magarimogale](/creator/undefined) [@mohlaodi7](/creator/undefined) [@time2coach](/creator/undefined) **Top assets mentioned** [Alphabet Inc Class A (GOOGL)](/topic/$googl) ### Top Social Posts [#](/creator/twitter::1863279265510207488/posts) --- Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours "Joyce Mtimkulu holding a piece of her late son Siphiwo's hair that had fallen out after he was poisoned by security police in 1981. A year later he was kidnapped drugged shot execution-style and burned on a wood pyre at the age of XX as revealed by security police at the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC). Photographer: Jullian Edelstein / UCT Photography Collection" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1976621269131915373) [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) 2025-10-10T12:10Z 117.8K followers, 207.9K engagements "Riot Police in Vaal September 1984. Image Source: Learn and Teach Magazine" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1977257499968336128) [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) 2025-10-12T06:18Z 117.8K followers, 10.4K engagements "Simon Tseko Nkoli (1957 1998) was an anti-apartheid gay rights and AIDS activist. Active in the Congress of South African Students (COSAS) the United Democratic Front (UDF) and the Vaal Civic Association he was imprisoned as one of the Delmas XX in 1984 and was acquitted in 1988. Image Source: SAHO" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1979056256221401403) [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) 2025-10-17T05:25Z 117.8K followers, 23.3K engagements "Men who have finished their sentences depart under guard for their home towns. Photograph from House of Bondage 1958-66 by Ernest Cole" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1977979520159273326) [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) 2025-10-14T06:07Z 117.8K followers, 5829 engagements "The founder of the Zion Christian Church (ZCC) - Engenas Ignatius Lekganyane (c. 18851948)" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1963467709556924644) [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) 2025-09-04T05:02Z 117.8K followers, 894.1K engagements "Pule "Ace" Ntshoelengoe (right) shakes hands with Kaizer Motaung director of Kaizer Chiefs before leaving for the United States of America December 1979 Jan Smuts Airport. Image Source: Arena Holdings Collection" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1978085477669347354) [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) 2025-10-14T13:08Z 117.8K followers, 23.7K engagements "Eleven year old Fannie Goduka was arrested for public violence and held for XX days in a prison cell with adult criminals c 1980s. Image Source: Helena Cook" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1974749750001115540) [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) 2025-10-05T08:13Z 117.8K followers, 444.3K engagements "Archbishop Desmond Tutu with Allan Boesak and others at a church service in St. George's Cathedral Cape Town c 1980s. Photo by Zubeida Vallie" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1978652429278228579) [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) 2025-10-16T02:41Z 117.8K followers, 2449 engagements "Because of shortage of school buildings Black children attend classes in any available structure. From Education for Servitude collection 1958-66 by Ernest Cole (1940-1990)" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1977988845452071097) [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) 2025-10-14T06:44Z 117.8K followers, 28.5K engagements "A sign reading "Beach and sea; whites only" in Strand South Africa in 1988. Photo: Ulli Michel/Reuters" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1979070634001895701) [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) 2025-10-17T06:23Z 117.8K followers, 53.9K engagements "Winnie Mandela has tears in her eyes at the commemoration of the life of Benjamin Moloise who was hanged in 1985. Image Source: Reuters/Tladi" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1976163058197131646) [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) 2025-10-09T05:49Z 117.8K followers, 282.3K engagements "South African female vocal group 'The Velvettes' in Manchester 1962. In this picture from L to R: Alexis Kroner Hazel Futa Jack Bruce Graham Bond Ginger Baker Mamsie Mthombeni Johnny Parker Dick Smith & Patience Gcwabe. Image Source: Cyril Davies" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1978823954484629995) [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) 2025-10-16T14:02Z 117.8K followers, 4709 engagements "South African footballer Albert Johanneson (1940 - 1995) of Leeds United 2nd March 1965. Johanneson was one of the first black men to achieve prominence in English football. (Photo by Dennis Oulds)" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1977960958958948409) [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) 2025-10-14T04:53Z 117.8K followers, 52.1K engagements "Funeral of Sthembiso Nzuza and Moses Ramatlotlo members of MK killed in an armed clash with police KwaMashu KwaZulu-Natal 1984. Photographer: Omar Badsha" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1975830117613248770) [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) 2025-10-08T07:46Z 117.7K followers, 5043 engagements "The Rivonia Trial: Outside the palace of justice Pretoria News Library 1964. Image Source: Pambili Media" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1976577534189097399) [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) 2025-10-10T09:16Z 117.7K followers, 3470 engagements "Peter "Terror" Mathebula (1952 2020) was a South African boxer and the first black South African to win a world boxing title. He achieved this historic feat by defeating South Korean Tae-Shik Kim for the World Boxing Association (WBA) flyweight title in Los Angeles on December XX 1980. Known for his fearsome skill Mathebula retired after a career that included XX wins in XX fights XX KOs and X losses. He later became a boxing coach. Image Source: Drum Social Histories/News24" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1974067445259293042) [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) 2025-10-03T11:02Z 117.1K followers, 8690 engagements "Athol Fugard on the set of 'The Blood Knot' at the New Arts Theater Hampstead London 1963. When first staged in South Africa the play was the first to feature a Black and White actor on a public stage in the Apartheid state. It launched Fugard's professional career. Image Source: Hulton-Deutsch Collection" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1978474991092941093) [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) 2025-10-15T14:56Z 117.8K followers, 5075 engagements "Grieving mother Sizakele Simelane with a portrait of her daughter Nokuthula Simelane (1960-1983) in Bethal Mpumalanga. Simelane 'disappeared' in 1983. It was revealed that she was arrested & later tortured by numerous police operatives in Vlakplaas until she died. Photo by Kevin Sutherland" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1977657672930341312) [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) 2025-10-13T08:48Z 117.8K followers, 188.4K engagements "22 year old Naude Moitse giving evidence at the 1987 International Childrens Conference to testify to the international community the appalling system of apartheid. He spoke of how the South African government was clamping down harshly on the youth of South Africa. Image Source: SAHA" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1977626443417850301) [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) 2025-10-13T06:44Z 117.1K followers, 13.7K engagements "Oliver Tambo at the funeral of the ANC cadres who were victim of the Maseru raid 1982. Photo by Ranjith Kally" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1977973457016009121) [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) 2025-10-14T05:43Z 117.8K followers, 139.7K engagements "A young African girl doing her sums on a small blackboard during a lesson at a school in Orlando Johannesburg August 1961. (Photo by Ron Stone)" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1978433057846612158) [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) 2025-10-15T12:09Z 117.8K followers, 62K engagements "Man watching the demolition of his cinema District Six Cape Town 1974. District Six an area adjacent to Cape Towns central business district was a vibrant racially diverse community. Due to its convenient proximity to the city centre the authorities reclassified it as a white area. They demolished the buildings completely flattening the area apart from places of worship. About 60000 inhabitants were evicted and forced to move to the windswept Cape flats 25km from the city. Photo by Steve Bloom" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1976970578947969059) [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) 2025-10-11T11:18Z 117.8K followers, 177.3K engagements "Eleven year old Fanie Goduka after his release from XX days in detention without trial. Fanie's story: "The Police took me to the police station . . They wanted me to say I was throwing stones. I told them I did nothing. They said they would hit me until I told the truth. They started to hit me with pipes and with fists. They kicked me with their big boots. They kicked me all over. They only stopped when my tooth came out. I was bleeding a lot and was very sore. They said Imust make a statement. I was afraid. I wrote down what they wanted me to write. " After XX days and after trying for a" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1977299092066664616) [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) 2025-10-12T09:03Z 117.8K followers, 489.8K engagements "A farm labourer and her children circa 1984. Photographer: Lesley Lawson/ UCT archives" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1976217619998117895) [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) 2025-10-09T09:26Z 117.7K followers, 6479 engagements "A witness to the murder of a black South African doctor covers himself to protect his identity and displays spent cartridges used in the murder in a Johannesburgh law office December X 1986. Photo by Wendy Schwegmann" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1979071313005220205) [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) 2025-10-17T06:25Z 117.8K followers, 7796 engagements "Miriam Makeba with Dizzy Gillespie during a rehearsal April 1991" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1958411552165355715) [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) 2025-08-21T06:11Z 117.1K followers, 20.7K engagements "Poet James Matthews stands with students of Alexander Sinton High School in Athlone Cape Town as they participate in the nationwide school boycott in late 1985. Photo by Rashid Lombard" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1979105684168855807) [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) 2025-10-17T08:42Z 117.8K followers, 4331 engagements "Students from the University of Witwatersrand (Wits) stage a demonstration XX March 1988 in Johannesburg to commemorate the 28th anniversary of the 1960 Sharpeville shootings and to protest the bannings of the anti-apartheid organizations. Photo by Trevor Samson" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1976951882057933308) [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) 2025-10-11T10:03Z 117.8K followers, 17.9K engagements "A Prince about to ascend to the throne - Prince Goodwill Zwelithini in 1969. Image Source: Drum Social Histories" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1970786560040677701) [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) 2025-09-24T09:45Z 117.1K followers, 265K engagements ""Gimme Hope Jo'anna" is an anti-apartheid song by Guyanese-British musician Eddy Grant released in 1988. The song which refers to Johannesburg ("Jo'anna") as a symbol of the apartheid system in South Africa was banned by the South African government at the time but became a popular optimistic plea for change with a danceable melody that offered hope for a better future" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1972511504671916421) [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) 2025-09-29T03:59Z 117.8K followers, 58.3K engagements "South African poet academic and political activist Prof Keorapetse Kgositsile on a television show by Dr Maya Angelou in 1968" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1961503854287049038) [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) 2025-08-29T18:58Z 117.8K followers, 4.7M engagements "A Black township is bulldozed out of existence to make way for white expansion c 1960s. Image Source: House of Bondage/ Ernest Cole" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1975126081482248239) [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) 2025-10-06T09:08Z 117.8K followers, 55.3K engagements "Mpho and Mphonyana Mathibela made history when they were born conjoined at Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital on December X 1986. The twin girls were joined at the head and after careful consideration a decision was made to surgically separate them. The successful separation surgery took place in 1988" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1953704646691709005) [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) 2025-08-08T06:27Z 117.8K followers, 1.6M engagements "Kabelo Sello Duiker (1974 2005) was a South African novelist. His debut novel Thirteen Cents won the 2001 Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best First Book Africa Region. His second novel The Quiet Violence of Dreams won the 2002 Herman Charles Bosman Prize. He also worked in advertising and as a screenwriter. Image Source: NYT" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1974369878548103363) [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) 2025-10-04T07:03Z 117.8K followers, 300.7K engagements "The Sobukwe Clause was a legal provision within South Africa's General Law Amendment Act of 1963 that under the guise of fighting communism allowed for the arbitrary extended detention of prisoners after their sentences were served effectively enabling indefinite imprisonment for individuals deemed a threat by the government. Introduced to specifically target and continue the imprisonment of Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) founding President Robert Sobukwe it was a highly discriminatory piece of legislation that was used only for him and symbolized the apartheid government's attempts to" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1975888356710994136) [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) 2025-10-08T11:37Z 117.8K followers, 82.7K engagements "Dora Scott mother of Leon Scott is arrested on Greenmarket Square during a protest for the release of the Forbes Trialists c 1980s. Photo by Benny Gool" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1979156665426411643) [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) 2025-10-17T12:04Z 117.8K followers, 6778 engagements "Ignatius Iggy or Gab Mthebule was a student activist and leader associated with the Azanian Student Organisation (AZASO) in 1975. He received military training in Maputo Mozambique and was sent back home as an underground African National Congress (ANC) operative working mostly in Johannesburg. He was working closely with Joy Harden an apartheid agent who he met while working in Maputo; Iggy had no knowledge of this. Harden handed Iggy over to the security police at a restaurant in Hillbrow Johannesburg in January 1987. His whereabouts are still unknown to this day. Image Source: Madeleine" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1978301397834539198) [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) 2025-10-15T03:26Z 117.8K followers, 128.4K engagements "Father Michael Lapsley Cape Town 1997. A New Zealander he arrived at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in 1973 and deported to Lesotho in 1976 where he joined the ANC and trained Anglican priests. In April 1990 after the release of Nelson Mandela he received a letter bomb believed to have been sent by a government death squad. He lost an eye and both hands. Photo by Jullian Edelstein / UCT Photography Collection" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1978730162331017248) [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) 2025-10-16T07:50Z 117.8K followers, 52.8K engagements "Brenda Fassie perfoming at Ellis Park in April 1984. Photo by Alf Kumalo" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1975808602033037409) [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) 2025-10-08T06:20Z 117.4K followers, 58.3K engagements "A young black man in an act of resistance to South Africa's apartheid policies rides a bus restricted to whites only in Durban South Africa 1986. Photo by Billy Paddock" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1979098469118738719) [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) 2025-10-17T08:13Z 117.8K followers, 18.3K engagements "A woman is comforted after being beaten by police. She was returning to her office after doing her shopping and was mistaken for a protester 1986. Photo by Graeme Williams" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1979124623741530236) [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) 2025-10-17T09:57Z 117.8K followers, 31.9K engagements ""In my observation of the Black men's life In South Africa as presented in 'House of Bondage' my personal attitude was committed to exposing the evils of South Africa." - Ernest Cole (1940-1990) Image Source: Magnum Photos" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1976356990680268857) [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) 2025-10-09T18:40Z 117.4K followers, 8685 engagements "Winter in Tembisa 1989. Pic: Santu Mofokeng" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1973973295654650282) [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) 2025-10-03T04:48Z 117.8K followers, 185.8K engagements "Alfred Nzo speaking at the conference of Non-Aligned Countries in Angola on September X 1985. (Photo by Alexander Joe)" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1979047297280360534) [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) 2025-10-17T04:50Z 117.8K followers, 5073 engagements "South African footballer Albert Johanneson (1940 - 1995) of Leeds United signs autographs for fans the day before playing in the FA Cup final against Liverpool at Wembley Stadium UK 30th April 1965. Photo: Hulton Archive" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1977958068597198957) [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) 2025-10-14T04:42Z 117.8K followers, 5250 engagements "Thabo Mbeki African National Congress director of publicity and information working at his desk in Zambia c 1980s. (Photo by Louise Gubb)" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1978405455278809492) [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) 2025-10-15T10:19Z 117.8K followers, 75.1K engagements "Mangosuthu Buthelezi during an interview in Ulundi Kwa Zulu-Natal South Africa on 30th June 1985. (Photo by Peter Jordan)" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1979049275540566423) [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) 2025-10-17T04:58Z 117.8K followers, 10.2K engagements "Mass funeral at the Guguletu Cemetery c 1980s. Photographer: Zubeida Vallie" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1978486625173655761) [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) 2025-10-15T15:42Z 117.8K followers, 25.7K engagements ""Black Ingenuity" is a collection of previously unpublished photographs by Ernest Cole(1940-1990) that highlights Black cultural production and community under apartheid a theme he had planned but never published in his iconic 1967 photobook House of Bondage. The Google Arts & Culture project showcases these images which emphasize Black resilience spiritual practices and communal joy offering a counter-narrative to the hardships documented in House of Bondage. Image Source: Black Ingenuity/Ernest Cole" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1975784037462507891) [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) 2025-10-08T04:43Z 117.8K followers, 7963 engagements "Vitalious Xaba (17) Zacharia Rapoo (16) and Johannes Pilane (17) from Katlehong beaten by security forces XX March 1988. Photographer: Gille de Vlieg" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1976557894049857745) [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) 2025-10-10T07:58Z 117.8K followers, 677.3K engagements "The segregated stands of a sports arena in Bloemfontein May 1969. Image Source: UN Photo" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1975850734748098833) [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) 2025-10-08T09:08Z 117.8K followers, 403.5K engagements "Patrick Sandile Mvundla (1958-1988) was an MK regional commander based in Botswana who was shot dead on XX March 1988 in an attack by SADF Special Forces operatives on a house in Phiring. The house was then set alight. One senior MK member survived the attack but two Batswana women were also killed. Image Source: Madeleine Fullard" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1978466562559353053) [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) 2025-10-15T14:22Z 117.8K followers, 23.4K engagements "I love this child though shell grow up to treat me just like her mother does. Now she is innocent. - Photograph: Ernest Cole c 1960s" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1975119475122008285) [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) 2025-10-06T08:42Z 117.8K followers, 220.4K engagements "Shadrack Maphumulo (1938-1986) was an anti-apartheid activist who was a senior member of the ANC's uMkhonto we Sizwe (MK) military wing in Natal. He was imprisoned on Robben Island for ten years for sabotage and was killed by South African Defence Force (SADF) special forces while in exile in Swaziland in 1986. His life and struggle have been documented in the biography Taking Up the Spear: Shadrack Maphumulo's Struggle Against Apartheid. Image Source: SAHO" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1977992412946382970) [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) 2025-10-14T06:58Z 117.8K followers, 25K engagements "The Liliesleaf Farm Raid Rivonia. Image Source: Drum Social Histories" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1976585004563185906) [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) 2025-10-10T09:46Z 117.5K followers, 6097 engagements "A mother holds a photograph of her slain child Shaun Magmoed who was killed in an incident known as the 'Trojan Horse massacre' (October 1985) when three young boys were shot and killed by security forces during a student protest in Athlone Cape Town. Photographer: Zubeida Vallie/ UCT archives" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1976169726813381035) [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) 2025-10-09T06:15Z 117.8K followers, 20.2K engagements "Conscientious objectors Ivan Toms and Cameron Dugmore protesting for the release of imprisoned objectors. T-shirt reads "I refuse to serve in the SADF (South African Defense Force)". Cape Town. Photo by Zubeida Vallie" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1978650104048255168) [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) 2025-10-16T02:32Z 117.8K followers, 4031 engagements "Sophiatown residents gathering their belongings 1958. Photo by Jurgen Schadeberg. The forced removal from Sophiatown lasted for a little over eight years starting in 1955 and ending around 1963 as the area was completely cleared and its residents dispersed. The entire process involved flattening the suburb and forcibly relocating its diverse population over the course of this period" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1978654411904688182) [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) 2025-10-16T02:49Z 117.8K followers, 78.1K engagements "Heading to a wedding Cape Town 1974. Photo by Steve Bloom" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1976969616078651666) [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) 2025-10-11T11:14Z 117.8K followers, 49.3K engagements "Security Forces patrols a township outside Grahamstown after a funeral at which a child was killed when police opened fire on mourners. Notice a kid running way in the background c 1980s. Image Source: Julian Covving Afrapix" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1975493841726886008) [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) 2025-10-07T09:30Z 117.3K followers, 21.3K engagements "Victor Ntuli at his home in KwaMakhutha KwaZulu-Natal in which XX members of his family were shot dead by security forces the previous night 1987. Victor Ntuli was shot and killed in 1990. Photo by Cedric Nunn" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1979110123797659977) [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) 2025-10-17T08:59Z 117.8K followers, 11.5K engagements "A young Black boy in Johannesburg walks past a wall covered with graffiti reading "We Grow Their Children They Kill Our Children" c 1990s. - Photo by Louise Gubb" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1976962535111921943) [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) 2025-10-11T10:46Z 117.8K followers, 80.3K engagements "Students at Wits University 1988. Picture: Charles Milligan" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1964741216958054640) [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) 2025-09-07T17:23Z 117.7K followers, 2.1M engagements "Students engaging the police using stones and dustbin lids and attacking at the same time XX June 1976. Photograph: Peter Magubane/ Hubpages/ Afrapix" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1978041405961355289) [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) 2025-10-14T10:13Z 117.8K followers, 28.3K engagements "South African anti-apartheid activist politician and economics professor - Ben Turok (1927-2019). Image Source: Wikipedia" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1978485113773273363) [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) 2025-10-15T15:36Z 117.8K followers, 6988 engagements "Joseph Moloi from South Africa who signed with Cardiff City F.C. in Wales UK c 1961. (Photo by Stroud/Express/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1977952239009333345) [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) 2025-10-14T04:18Z 117.8K followers, 239.8K engagements "Dulcie September addresses a crowd at an international women's conference in Nairobi Kenya 1985. Photo by Zelda Holtzman. On the morning of XX March 1988 September was shot X times with a silenced .22 caliber rifle outside the ANC's Paris office at XX Rue des Petites-curies as she was opening the office after collecting the mail" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1979259073347363163) [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) 2025-10-17T18:51Z 117.8K followers, 7112 engagements "Gladys Ndimande Tsolo (1940-2023) was a South African freedom fighter. Originally from Kwazulu-Natal she fled South Africa in the early 1960s joined the ANCs Umkhonto weSizwe in Botswana received training in the Soviet Union and Tanzania and eventually ended up in East Germany. She met her husband Mike Nyakane Tsolo a PAC leader in exile. She eventually joined the PAC and the family settled in the Netherlands where they continued their activist work against Apartheid" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1963114974798078250) [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) 2025-09-03T05:40Z 117K followers, 27.4K engagements "Jobseekers being processed en masse for employment on the Witwatersrand mines c 1960s.(Archive Photo: Ernest Cole House of Bondage)" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1976350534199279990) [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) 2025-10-09T18:14Z 117.8K followers, 50K engagements "Captain Jeff Benzine a former Special Branch detective demonstrates his wet bag torture method to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission Cape Town Western Cape. 1997. Photo by George Hallett" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1977964041503940654) [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) 2025-10-14T05:05Z 117.8K followers, 60.9K engagements "Young pallbearers in school uniforms stand at solemn attention at the funeral of three boys killed in the "Trojan Horse incident" when police armed with pump-action shotguns and hiding in the back of a van opened fire on a crowd in a residential street in Athlone Cape Town 1985. Image Source: UCT Photography Collection/ Zubeida Vallie" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1975074079787946022) [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) 2025-10-06T05:42Z 117.8K followers, 45.8K engagements "A taxi driver is pulled out of his car and attacked by a police dog during demonstrations in the business district of Johannesburg February X 1993. Photo: Dylan Martinez" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1979072682185388081) [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) 2025-10-17T06:31Z 117.8K followers, 200.4K engagements "Mass funeral at Kwanobuhle Stadium for victims of the Uitenhage/Langa Massacre in the Eastern Cape Province 1985. South Africa. Photographer:Gideon Mendel" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1976237805065187727) [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) 2025-10-09T10:46Z 117.8K followers, 199.9K engagements "Makwenkwe "Mackay" Davashe (1920-1972) South African tenor sax player. (Photo by Jurgen Schadeberg)" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1978507697222726078) [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) 2025-10-15T17:06Z 117.8K followers, 4276 engagements "Academics and couple Dr Victor Siphindoda Nzimande and Dr Philda Nomusa Nzimande earning their doctorates the very same day from the University of South Africa in 1985. Image Source: Sthembiso Nzimande" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1979138332161351945) [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) 2025-10-17T10:52Z 117.8K followers, 175.6K engagements "Struggle stalwarts l to r: Raymond Mhlaba Oscar Mpetha Andrew Mlangeni Walter Sisulu Ahmed Kathrada Elias Motsoaledi and Wilton Mkwayi after their release in 1989 in Soweto South Africa. (Photo by Sunday Times/Raymond Preston)" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1979084347274596805) [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) 2025-10-17T07:17Z 117.8K followers, 3826 engagements "Youth protest and barricades erected as a defence against police brutality Belgravia Road Athlone Cape Town 1985. Photo by Zubeida Vallie" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1978103211471905186) [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) 2025-10-14T14:18Z 117.8K followers, 7650 engagements "Fathers carry each others sons at a protest march by residents of Port Elizabeth in the Eastern Cape during nationwide calls for the abolition of segregation. Photo by Cecil Sols" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1979120002390216783) [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) 2025-10-17T09:39Z 117.8K followers, 263.8K engagements "Police check passes for employer's signature proof that taxes are paid and legality of presence in a White area. From The House of Bondage 1958-66 by Ernest Cole (1940-1990)" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1977986884627284339) [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) 2025-10-14T06:36Z 117.8K followers, 43K engagements "Woman being arrested Cape Town 1976. Black people were obliged to carry pass books which controlled freedom of movement. People were arrested and fined or imprisoned if their pass books were not in order. Photo by Steve Bloom" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1976968132670714024) [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) 2025-10-11T11:08Z 117.8K followers, 26K engagements "A woman overcome by tear gas is helped by fellow mourners during the funeral for eight people killed in the "bottle store (liquor-store) incident" in New Brighton township Port Elizabeth. Nearly a week before on March XX heavily armed policemen opened fire on a crowd gathered outside a liquor store that had been bombed the previous day killing eight 1986. Image Source: UCT Photography Collection/ Steven Hilton Barber" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1975098699006058523) [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) 2025-10-06T07:20Z 117.4K followers, 34.3K engagements "Sarah singing in her Sunday best with her family home a tent in the background. Philippi Cape Town c Mid-1980s (surname witheld at familys request). Photo by Jenny Altschuler" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1979131424214073433) [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) 2025-10-17T10:24Z 117.8K followers, 4460 engagements "The Sasol X were Anthony Bobby Tsotsobe (25) of Dube Village Soweto; Johannes Shabangu (26) of Mhluzi township Middleburg and David Moise (25) of Sebokeng. They were accused of carrying out attacks on a police station and on a Sasol oil-from-coal plant in June 1980. In August of 1981 they were convicted of high treason and sentenced to death. However In June of 1983 their death sentence was commuted to life of which they served on Robben Island. Image Source: ANC archives" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1972184611481370867) [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) 2025-09-28T06:20Z 117.8K followers, 21.3K engagements "Barney Molokoane Victor Khayiyana and Vincent Sekete were MK operatives who were killed in 1985 during a sabotage mission at the SASOL refinery in Secunda. They were part of an elite unit that was intercepted after their mission. From a reconstruction of events based on local eyewitness accounts the battle which ensued lasted four hours in which the three members of the Unit Barney Vincent Sekete and Victor Lunga Khayiyana fought courageously until the end. Image Source: The African Mirror" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1975565268349829300) [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) 2025-10-07T14:13Z 117.6K followers, 25.4K engagements "Woman dumped at Beestekraal after forced removal XX August 1983. Photo: Gille de Vlieg" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1977614132724760647) [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) 2025-10-13T05:55Z 117.8K followers, 413.3K engagements "Veteran activist Helen Joseph at the launch of the UDF in Mitchell's Plain Cape Town 1983. Photographer: Wendy Schwegmann/ SAHA" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1976162181583458723) [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) 2025-10-09T05:45Z 117.8K followers, 8202 engagements "A supporter of South Africa's neo-Nazi Afrikaner Resistance Movement tussles with a black onlooker at the supremacist movement's rally in Pretoria South Africa September XX 1989. Photo by Raymond Preston" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1979066988841382177) [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) 2025-10-17T06:08Z 117.8K followers, 14.8K engagements "Desmond Tutu gestures as he gives a speech at the University of California Berkeley California 1985. (Photo by Bromberger Hoover Photography/Getty Images)" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1975445439282552837) [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) 2025-10-07T06:17Z 117.1K followers, 3488 engagements "Students kneel on floor to write. Government is casual about furnishing schools for Blacks c 1960s. Image Source: House of Bondage/ Ernest Cole" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1975125217774309723) [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) 2025-10-06T09:05Z 117.2K followers, 27.9K engagements "Unionist Alpheus Mthethwa (banned) the first secretary of the Metal and Allied Workers Union taking his children to school c 1970s. Photo by Omar Badsha" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1978663525070311677) [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) 2025-10-16T03:25Z 117.8K followers, 7066 engagements "Mourners carry the coffin of one of eight youths killed in clashes with police in Alexandra township Johannesburg. Masked mourners were a common sight at funerals as people try and conceal their identities and protect themselves from the expected tear gas attacks. Photographer: Gideon Mendel/ UCT Photography Collection" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1975061772382913010) [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) 2025-10-06T04:53Z 117.8K followers, 11.4K engagements "South African academic and Non-European Unity Movement activist Dr A.C Jordan (right) with Dr Claggert Director of Center for Research University of Wisconsin Madison 1962" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1978787498089181480) [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) 2025-10-16T11:37Z 117.8K followers, 4477 engagements "Luke Kgatitsoe sits where his house stood before the state destroyed it and the rest of the buildings when this farm was declared a black spot. Magopa North West. XX October 1986. Photo by David Goldblatt" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1979158326396031105) [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) 2025-10-17T12:11Z 117.8K followers, 38K engagements "Anti-apartheid activist Yusuf Cachalia (1915-1995) at a demonstration in Red Square (since renamed Freedom Square) in the Johannesburg suburb of Fordsburg South Africa 6th April 1952. Photographer: Jurgen Schadeberg" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1973378242951135501) [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) 2025-10-01T13:23Z 117.5K followers, 3487 engagements "A prison official approaches the families of death-row prisoners Wellington Meilies and Moses Jantjies to inform them that the two men were hanged earlier that morning. In 1987 when Meilies and Jantjies were executed thirty-two political prisoners remained on death row in Pretoria Central Prison and South Africa had the highest number of hangings in the world. Photographer: Paul Weinberg/UCT Photography Collection" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1975618447951253955) [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) 2025-10-07T17:45Z 117.5K followers, 40.2K engagements "Shop assistant Orlando West Soweto c 1977. Photographer: David Goldblatt" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1977310694912696332) [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) 2025-10-12T09:49Z 117.8K followers, 766.8K engagements "Bishop Desmond Tutu and Rev Allan Boesak laugh as they leave Boesak's offices on their way to Tuynhuys c 1985. Photographer: Guy Tullim" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1976505891546595628) [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) 2025-10-10T04:31Z 117.1K followers, 7257 engagements "Mafika Gwala Mike Kirkwood and members of the Mapulanga Arts Ensemble c late 1970s. Photo by Omar Badsha" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1978717796524601346) [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) 2025-10-16T07:01Z 117.8K followers, 3066 engagements "South African Children's feeding scheme Orlando Township c 1962. The scheme was a charity sponsored by wealthy white women. Photo: Copyright of the Estate of John Goldblatt" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1977344827512500346) [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) 2025-10-12T12:05Z 117.8K followers, 66K engagements "Accompanied by prison personnel political prisoners on their release from Robben Island prison in Cape Town Harbour c early 1990s. Photo by Zubeida Vallie" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1978292287059673332) [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) 2025-10-15T02:50Z 117.8K followers, 8203 engagements "A young man is stopped for his pass. Photograph from The House of Bondage (1958-1966) by Ernest Cole" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1977975641220780126) [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) 2025-10-14T05:51Z 117.8K followers, 5761 engagements "Police officers aggressively arrest Moses Mayekiso a trade union leader during a protest march in Johannesburgc 1980s. (Photo by Gideon Mendel)" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1976910311623213488) [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) 2025-10-11T07:18Z 117.8K followers, 83.6K engagements "Story of Eleven year old Fanie Goduka who spent XX days in prison with adult criminals" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1977322140111438108) [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) 2025-10-12T10:35Z 117.8K followers, 53.1K engagements "People line up at the Bantu Administration building to apply for passes. Without passes they are liable for arrest. From The House of Bondage 1958-66 by Ernest Cole (1940-1990)" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1977985632560394520) [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) 2025-10-14T06:31Z 117.8K followers, 22.9K engagements "Pik Botha PW Botha Samora Machel and Joaquim Chissano at Komatipoort during the signing of the Nkomati Accord 1984. Photo by Raymond Preston. The Nkomati Accord (officially known as the Agreement on Non-Aggression and Good Neighbourliness between Mozambique and South Africa) was a non-aggression pact signed on XX March 1984 between the People's Republic of Mozambique and the Republic of South Africa. The treaty's stated focus was on preventing Mozambique from supporting the ANC/PAC to undertake violent actions in South Africa and for South Africa to stop supplying the RENAMO movement in" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1979092856867557693) [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) 2025-10-17T07:51Z 117.8K followers, 23.9K engagements "Prophet Isaiah Shembe (1865-1935) the founder of Ibandla lamaNazaretha" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1959668411270590534) [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) 2025-08-24T17:25Z 117K followers, 677.2K engagements "Children play in the rubble of their demolished homes District Six Cape Town c 1970s. Due to the social devastation caused by the evictions and demolitions District Six was stigmatised and houses for whites were never built there during the apartheid era. Photo by Steve Bloom" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1976974236573917276) [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) 2025-10-11T11:32Z 117.8K followers, 25.9K engagements "South African group Joy perform Paradise Road live on BBC TV c 1980's. Joy was a South African female vocal group who had a chart-topping hit in South Africa with Paradise Road. The record spent X weeks at No. X spot" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1950170955487002837) [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) 2025-07-29T12:26Z 117.8K followers, 275.8K engagements "The "Ladybrand Four" were four members of Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) who were abducted from Lesotho in 1987 and 1988 by the South African Security Branch. The victims were Betty Boom (pictured below) Nomasonto Mashiya Tax Sejaname and Mbulelo 'Khaya Kasibe' Ngono. They were held at a farm in Ladybrand Free State and their fate after the abduction remains unknown though the abductors applied for amnesty claiming they became askaris or informers. Image Source: Madeleine Fullard" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1978302580808630431) [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) 2025-10-15T03:31Z 117.8K followers, 74.1K engagements "Helen Joseph with the son of a Robben Island Prisoner who was visiting her to report on his progress at school c 1980s. Photo by Omar Badsha" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1978674820863643685) [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) 2025-10-16T04:10Z 117.8K followers, 8553 engagements "The graves of the children who died in the 1993 Mthatha raid. On X October 1993 Mzwandile Mfeya (12 years) Sandiso Yose (12 years) twins Samora and Sadat Mpendulo (16 years) and Thando Mtembu (17 years) were shot dead in a South African Defence Force (SADF) raid on an alleged base of the Azanian People's Liberation Army (APLA) the Pan Africanist Congress' military wing at the Mpendulo family home in the Northcrest suburb of Mthatha. The house belonged to a PAC member Sigqibo Mpendulo the father of Samora and Sadat. According to PAC and police sources in the Transkei the five victims were" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1979193770391282153) [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) 2025-10-17T14:32Z 117.8K followers, 110.9K engagements "The UDF activist who was the target of a massacre in which XX members of his family where shot dead. Security forces were implicated in the murders then dubbed the 'AK47 massacre'. KwaMakhuta. KwaZulu-Natal. 1987. Photo: Cedric Nunn / Afrapix" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1977611146778771743) [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) 2025-10-13T05:43Z 117.8K followers, 35.4K engagements "Walter Sisulu calls for volunteers for the Defiance Campaign of civil disobedience at a rally in Red Square in the Johannesburg suburb of Fordsburg South Africa 6th April 1952. Photographer: Jurgen Schadeberg" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1972999878705070449) [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) 2025-09-30T12:20Z 117.5K followers, 2868 engagements "Sasol refinery burning after an attack by Umkhonto we Sizwe early June 1980. Picture: ANC archives" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1968621411452309970) [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) 2025-09-18T10:21Z 117.7K followers, 6251 engagements "'Millionaire' medicine man Khotso Sethuntsa walks past Alf Kumalo at his compound in Kokstad c early 1970's. Picture: Alf Kumalo" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1955950906337272179) [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) 2025-08-14T11:13Z 117.7K followers, 1.6M engagements "The Battle of Mutale River was a skirmish on March XX 1988 in what was then the Northern Transvaal (now Limpopo) South Africa between a nine-person Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) unit and the Venda Defence Force (VDF). The MK unit which had crossed from Zimbabwe was engaged by the VDF which was reinforced by the South African Defence Force (SADF) and helicopter gunships. The battle resulted in the deaths of five of the nine MK soldiers. Image Source: Madeleine Fullard" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1978656084144406682) [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) 2025-10-16T02:55Z 117.8K followers, 21.3K engagements "South African footballer Steve Mokone with English footballer Charles Buchan c 1950s. Image Source: Barnsley Chronicle" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1978054892292903125) [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) 2025-10-14T11:06Z 117.8K followers, 14.7K engagements "Dr Nthato Motlana (1925-2008) civic leader businessman and anti apartheid activist taken by Paul Weinberg c 1981" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1974713094074175825) [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) 2025-10-05T05:47Z 117.3K followers, 4145 engagements "Untitled Apartheid photograph by Ernest Cole (1940-1990) ca 1960s from 'House of Bondage'. Ernest Cole Family Trust" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1976340347421970826) [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) 2025-10-09T17:33Z 117.8K followers, 14.8K engagements "From L to R: Govan Mbeki Walter Sisulu Oliver Tambo and former Zambian President Kenneth Kaunda at the funeral of Chris Hani in 1993. Photographer: Alf Kumalo" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1974437282578108591) [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) 2025-10-04T11:31Z 117.3K followers, 114K engagements "Students and locals engage in a nearly bare-handed stones sticks and using lids as shield in a battle against the soldiers who were using rifles and live ammo June 1976. Image Source: Afrapix/Hubpages" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1975434304588234774) [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) 2025-10-07T05:33Z 117.1K followers, 18.9K engagements "A schoolboy is arrested during protests against the 1987 white parliamentary elections in Athlone township Cape Town May 1987. In 1986 some 25000 people were imprisoned without trial under the Emergency regulations. Of that number 10000 were children under the age of eighteen. In April 1987 the government stated that only 1400 children were still in detention. Photograph: Gideon Mendel/UCT Photography Collection" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1975425491604557961) [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) 2025-10-07T04:58Z 117.8K followers, 465K engagements "Gwede Mantashe at a NUM conference in 1987. Image Source: M&G" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1978860205501718772) [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) 2025-10-16T16:26Z 117.8K followers, 477.9K engagements "On XX November 1988 white supremacist Barend Strydom carried out a shooting spree at Strijdom Square in central Pretoria South Africa killing eight people and injuring XX others. Seven of the victims were black while one was Indian. Strydom was later convicted and sentenced to death for the attack but was released from prison as a 'political prisoner' in 1992. Image Source: African Crime & Conflict Journal" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1978866627241492676) [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) 2025-10-16T16:52Z 117.8K followers, 39.3K engagements "Moses Taiwa Molelekwa (1973-2001) by Ruth Motau" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1974442440913481977) [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) 2025-10-04T11:52Z 117.3K followers, 72.2K engagements "A man caring for his sick partner Cape Town 1977. Photo by Steve Bloom" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1976979867276394539) [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) 2025-10-11T11:55Z 117.8K followers, 585.2K engagements "The African herbalist Khotso Sethuntsa (1898-1972)" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1950839018637123728) [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) 2025-07-31T08:40Z 117.8K followers, 2.1M engagements "Nelson Mandela speaking on a cellphone with then president FW de Klerk discussing the violence in the country just before the elections Johannesburg 1994. (Photo: George Hallett)" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1977966553325838739) [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) 2025-10-14T05:15Z 117.8K followers, 73K engagements "Grace Matjila hungry and without proper clothes for school tearfylly tends to her little sister. From The House of Bondage 1958-66 by Ernest Cole (1940-1990)" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1977981669102481883) [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) 2025-10-14T06:15Z 117.8K followers, 199.3K engagements "Coffins are lowered at the funeral of the XX people killed in the "Queenstown massacre" when police opened fire after a meeting called to plan a consumer boycott December 1985. The t-shirt of one of the mourners declares "Bullets won't stop us". - Photograph: Gideon Mendel /UCT Photography Collection" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1976937412619010325) [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) 2025-10-11T09:06Z 117.8K followers, 19.2K engagements "South African artist Dumile Feni (1942-1991). Image Source: Netwerk 24" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1974864782382838103) [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) 2025-10-05T15:50Z 117.3K followers, 33.1K engagements "Ashley Kriel (1966-1987) was a young anti-apartheid activist. Due to his political activism Kriel was placed under surveillance by the Security Branch. As a result he went underground joined MK and went into exile to receive military training abroad. Shortly after returning to South Africa his cover was compromised. On X July 1987 Kriel answered the door to his room thinking that the men outside were municipal workers. He was shot and killed by members of the South African Police in Hazendal Athlone Cape Town. The initial inquest held in 1989 found that the police was "not" legally liable for" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1977594299756773703) [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) 2025-10-13T04:36Z 117.8K followers, 74.1K engagements "Baby Amandia with her restricted mother Lorraine Mokgosi. Amandia has never seen her father activist Stanza Bopape who was missing at the time. It was later revealed that on XX June 1988 Bopape was arrested by the police. He was taken to John Vorster Square where he was brutally tortured together with Murphy Morobe a young activist from Soweto. He died on XX June 1988 while in police custody apparently from a heart attack following electric shock torture. His body was dumped in the crocodile-infested Komati River on the border of Mozambique and South Africa. Image Source: Learn and Teach" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1977263728891482387) [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) 2025-10-12T06:43Z 117.8K followers, 158.8K engagements "Blizzard president Clive Toye; left; admires coat given to star player Jomo Sono as a bonus for his agreeing to three year contract with the North American Soccer League team c 1980s. (Photo by Jeff Goode)" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1978018581729190369) [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) 2025-10-14T08:42Z 117.8K followers, 58.7K engagements "Accompanied by members of the Port Elizabeth Youth Congress the father of one of eight people killed in the "bottle-store (liquor-store) incident" grieves for his son 1986. Image Source: UCT Photography Collection/ Steven Hilton Barber" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1975064686111678761) [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) 2025-10-06T05:04Z 117.2K followers, 4800 engagements "In 1921 in a battle lasting less than XX minutes between police and Israelites followers of prophet Enoch Mgijima more than XXX people were killed. The battle started after police issued an ultimatum demanding that the Israelites evacuate land they were squatting on and warned that if they failed to comply their leader would be arrested and their homes demolished. Soon afterwards a group of around XXX men armed with sticks and spears challenged the machine guns of an 800-strong police force sent by Jan Smuts to remove the Israelites who had settled at the holy village of Ntabelanga Bulhoek in" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1978437868843405439) [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) 2025-10-15T12:28Z 117.8K followers, 15.6K engagements "Earnest boy squats on haunches and strains to follow lesson in heat of packed classroom c early 1960s South Africa by Ernest Cole/ Magnum Photos" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1975468582093062655) [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) 2025-10-07T07:49Z 117.8K followers, 87.2K engagements "The heroic worker poet musician political leader - Vuyisile Mini (1920-1964) was hanged on November 6th 1964 along with Mkhaba and Khayinga for alleged complicity in the death of a police informer. Born in New Brighton Port Elizabeth in 1920 Vuyisile's life was one of struggle. He became a member of various trade unions and the ANC at an early age. He was a leading SACTU member when it was formed in 1955. Vuyisile loved classical music and was a member of the PE Male Voice Choir" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1978482369599353088) [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) 2025-10-15T15:25Z 117.8K followers, 25.7K engagements "Dr Rotoli Xaba's (1893-1953) early history exemplified in an acute form the problems of foreign study for Black South Africans. His correspondence for his period in Edinburgh during the mid 1920's reveals the financial & educational difficulties he faced prompting cries of despair from his family as well as his sponsors. He found difficulty paying for essentials things as well as paying rent to his landlady. She threatened eviction but reluctantly because Xaba was well behaved. These difficulties led him to drop out many times until he finally qualified in 1936 gaining the triple Scottish" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1928482659656765805) [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) 2025-05-30T16:04Z 117.8K followers, 335.6K engagements "Police ready to forcibly remove the residents of Sophiatown c 1955. Photo by Jurgen Schadeberg" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1978652965448663040) [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) 2025-10-16T02:43Z 117.8K followers, 9512 engagements "Winnie Mandela doing the ironing at home in Soweto c 1970s. Photograph: Alf Kumalo/AFP" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1976565618204987568) [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) 2025-10-10T08:29Z 117.8K followers, 49.2K engagements "Police confront mourners at the funeral of eight people shot by security forces during the "bottle-store (liquor-store) incident" in New Brighton township Port Elizabeth April 1986. The funeral ended in chaos when police fired tear gas and violently dispersed the large group of mourners. Photographer: Christopher Qwazi" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1974853334440767530) [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) 2025-10-05T15:05Z 117.6K followers, 22.9K engagements "Mxolisa Goboza (right) and Thembinkosi Tshabe two of the youngest victims to appear before the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) described how they had been shot and wounded by police while taking part in a COSAS (Congress of South African Students) demonstration. Photographer: Jullian Edelstein/ UCT Photography Collection" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1976614776387088444) [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) 2025-10-10T11:44Z 117.8K followers, 50.9K engagements ""All I Have of Him Photograph of Joyce Mtimkulu mother of Siphiwo Mtimkulu holding her late son's hair at the Truth and Reconciliation Commission Hearings 1996. Image Source: The Herald/ Tiso Blackster Group" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1977382350368518595) [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) 2025-10-12T14:34Z 117.8K followers, 49.6K engagements "South African Police baton charging Black women in Cato Manor Durban 1959 photo by Laurie Bloomfield. In this 1959 incident in Cato Manor Durban South African police baton-charged a crowd of primarily Black women who were protesting. The women had gathered outside a municipal beer hall and were ordered to disperse; when they refused the police used batons to forcibly break up the crowd leading to violence and clashes" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1978684344517406970) [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) 2025-10-16T04:48Z 117.8K followers, 31.5K engagements "The Mandela family stands outside Victor Verster Prison after spending more than X hours with imprisoned African National Congress leader Nelson Mandela on his 71st birthday XX July 1989. Photo by Rashid Lombard" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1976988740414484799) [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) 2025-10-11T12:30Z 117.7K followers, 39.7K engagements "Ntombikayise (Ntombi) Priscilla Kubheka (1946-1987) was a South African anti-apartheid activist and a member of the armed wing of the ANC Umkhonto we Sizwe. She died at the age of XX in 1987 after being abducted and interrogated by the South African security forces due to her role as a co-ordinator for Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK). Kubheka's death was highly disputed during the hearings of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in which South African Police officials originally claimed they were not responsible for her death. Her body was exhumed in May 1997 near KwaDukuza revealing that Kubheka" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1977661911832432821) [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) 2025-10-13T09:05Z 117.8K followers, 22.3K engagements "Young Black businessman Herman Mashaba" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1963893293311222177) [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) 2025-09-05T09:13Z 117.1K followers, 452.6K engagements "Bus Stop Cape Town 1977. Apartheid pervaded many aspects of life in South Africa with signs acting as constant reminders of the restrictions enforced on people. Among the forms of segregation were separate ambulances doorways park benches beaches and buses. Photo by Steve Bloom" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1976968985083031861) [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) 2025-10-11T11:11Z 117.8K followers, 21.6K engagements "Dr Neil Aggett's funeral in February 1982. (Gallo Images). Dr Neil Aggett was a South African doctor and trade union organiser who was killed while in detention by the Security Branch of the Apartheid South African Police Service after being held for XX days without trial" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1978691742418321743) [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) 2025-10-16T05:17Z 117.8K followers, 7612 engagements "Friends greet Winnie Mandela at Cape Town International airport during a visit to see Nelson Mandela. Photographer: Zubeida Vallie" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1976883412586926461) [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) 2025-10-11T05:31Z 117.8K followers, 9557 engagements "Group photo from the University of Nairobi Foundation Course in Architecture and Industrial Design taken in 1966 or 1967. Selby Mvusi is second from the right. Private collection: Davinder Lamba" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1978671576464622008) [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) 2025-10-16T03:57Z 117.8K followers, 3575 engagements "Hugh Masekela performs on stage at the Monterey Pop Festival on June XX 1967 in Monterey California. (Photo by Michael Ochs Archives)" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1978420690748326141) [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) 2025-10-15T11:20Z 117.8K followers, 76.1K engagements "Riot police block the way of workers leaving a May Day meeting at Khotso House in Johannesburg May 1985. Khotso House was owned by the South African Council for Churches (SACC) and was the headquarters for many progressive organisations including the United Democratic Front (UDF). It was destroyed in a massive explosion in August 1988. Photographer: Paul Weinberg" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1975863765687013661) [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) 2025-10-08T10:00Z 117.1K followers, 7745 engagements "Photographer & activist Rashid Lombard at the Cape Town Press Centre in Shortmarket Street 1989. Photo from the Shadley Lombard archive" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1979161288338014211) [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) 2025-10-17T12:23Z 117.8K followers, 3072 engagements "Portrait of a man Hanover Park Cape Town c 1980s. Photographer: Paul Konings" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1975065597844336670) [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) 2025-10-06T05:08Z 117.3K followers, 2647 engagements "On the day of his enthronement as archbishop one elderly woman makes a show of determination against Desmond Tutu and his fight to break down the system of apartheid in South Africa 1986. Photo by Patrick Durand" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1976984866773516744) [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) 2025-10-11T12:14Z 117.8K followers, 19K engagements "Gwede Mantashe at a COSATU conference in 1985. Photo by Omar Badsha" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1978801306916868317) [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) 2025-10-16T12:32Z 117.8K followers, 206K engagements "Johannesburg station platform during late afternoon rush hour. With no room inside train some ride between cars. Which black train to take is matter of guess- work. They have no destination signs and no announcement of arrivals is made. South Africa. 1960s. Ernest Cole" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1977692049471045857) [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) 2025-10-13T11:05Z 117.3K followers, 10.7K engagements "Police manhandle a young man during a housing protest in District Six Cape Town 1989. Photo by Mike Hutchings" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1979103981843480613) [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) 2025-10-17T08:35Z 117.8K followers, 37K engagements "Despite his academic success Dr Benedict Wallet Vilakazi (1906-1947) faced discrimination and critique. His appointment at Wits was opposed by conservative whites who could not come to terms with a Black man lecturing white students. He was also scorned and ridiculed by Black people who wrote letters of discontent to newspapers condemning Vilakazi for consenting to be used by whites through such a collaborationist appointment as Dumisane Krushchev Ntshangase wrote in a 1995 paper for the Wits Institute for Advanced Social Research. Professor Humphrey R Raikes the then principal of Wits" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1977760529419538516) [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) 2025-10-13T15:37Z 117.8K followers, 61.9K engagements ""I've never wanted to spare myself because I feel there are people who are no longer around and died for this struggle. What right do I have to hold back to rest to preserve my health to have time with my family when there are other people who are no longer alive - when they sacrificed what is precious: namely life itself." - Chris Hani (1942-1993) Photo by Reiner Leist" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1978014033476198807) [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) 2025-10-14T08:24Z 117.8K followers, 46.2K engagements "A washing powder advert looms over a Soweto street near the Merafe Station during the turbulent 1980s. Dishevilled crowds and smoke from teargas became an everyday scenario as resistance reached a peak while the authorities tried to clamp down with force. Picture: Alf Kumalo" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1975810589764075676) [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) 2025-10-08T06:28Z 117.4K followers, 20.5K engagements "Children on the border between Fietas and Mayfair Johannesburg 1949. Photographer: David Goldblatt" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1976900637544821121) [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) 2025-10-11T06:40Z 117.1K followers, 120.4K engagements "Marius and Jeanette Schoon with their two children. Jeanette Schoon was a pioneering trades unionist married To Marius Schoon an MK soldier who had served a XX years prison sentence in Pretoria Central Prison and was placed under house arrest after his release before fleeing to Botswana. They had a young daughter Katryn. Jeanette and her daughter Katryn were blown up by a parcel bomb sent to them by the Apartheid Security Policeman Craig Williamson in June 1984. Source: Patric Tariq Mellet" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1978004409264099735) [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) 2025-10-14T07:46Z 117.8K followers, 88.2K engagements "Vernon Moodley (1945-1967) was an MK soldier. At just 16-years-old the South African activist Vernon Moodley was exiled in Zambia in the early 1960's. He received military training from the Soviet Union. Moodley ultimately died after a drowning incident in 1967. Image Source: Madeleine Fullard" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1978457919629775109) [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) 2025-10-15T13:48Z 117.8K followers, 8996 engagements "Ali spars with a school boy in Dube Soweto in April 1993. On the right taking a photo is boxing phenomenon 'Baby Jake' Matlala. Photographer: Alf Kumalo" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1973687608522981731) [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) 2025-10-02T09:52Z 117.1K followers, 54.5K engagements "A South African policeman collars a black student during rioting in Guguletu near Cape Town 1976. Photograph: AP" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1977605772042522745) [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) 2025-10-13T05:22Z 117.8K followers, 49.3K engagements
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"Joyce Mtimkulu holding a piece of her late son Siphiwo's hair that had fallen out after he was poisoned by security police in 1981. A year later he was kidnapped drugged shot execution-style and burned on a wood pyre at the age of XX as revealed by security police at the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC). Photographer: Jullian Edelstein / UCT Photography Collection"
X Link @HistorySAZAR 2025-10-10T12:10Z 117.8K followers, 207.9K engagements
"Riot Police in Vaal September 1984. Image Source: Learn and Teach Magazine"
X Link @HistorySAZAR 2025-10-12T06:18Z 117.8K followers, 10.4K engagements
"Simon Tseko Nkoli (1957 1998) was an anti-apartheid gay rights and AIDS activist. Active in the Congress of South African Students (COSAS) the United Democratic Front (UDF) and the Vaal Civic Association he was imprisoned as one of the Delmas XX in 1984 and was acquitted in 1988. Image Source: SAHO"
X Link @HistorySAZAR 2025-10-17T05:25Z 117.8K followers, 23.3K engagements
"Men who have finished their sentences depart under guard for their home towns. Photograph from House of Bondage 1958-66 by Ernest Cole"
X Link @HistorySAZAR 2025-10-14T06:07Z 117.8K followers, 5829 engagements
"The founder of the Zion Christian Church (ZCC) - Engenas Ignatius Lekganyane (c. 18851948)"
X Link @HistorySAZAR 2025-09-04T05:02Z 117.8K followers, 894.1K engagements
"Pule "Ace" Ntshoelengoe (right) shakes hands with Kaizer Motaung director of Kaizer Chiefs before leaving for the United States of America December 1979 Jan Smuts Airport. Image Source: Arena Holdings Collection"
X Link @HistorySAZAR 2025-10-14T13:08Z 117.8K followers, 23.7K engagements
"Eleven year old Fannie Goduka was arrested for public violence and held for XX days in a prison cell with adult criminals c 1980s. Image Source: Helena Cook"
X Link @HistorySAZAR 2025-10-05T08:13Z 117.8K followers, 444.3K engagements
"Archbishop Desmond Tutu with Allan Boesak and others at a church service in St. George's Cathedral Cape Town c 1980s. Photo by Zubeida Vallie"
X Link @HistorySAZAR 2025-10-16T02:41Z 117.8K followers, 2449 engagements
"Because of shortage of school buildings Black children attend classes in any available structure. From Education for Servitude collection 1958-66 by Ernest Cole (1940-1990)"
X Link @HistorySAZAR 2025-10-14T06:44Z 117.8K followers, 28.5K engagements
"A sign reading "Beach and sea; whites only" in Strand South Africa in 1988. Photo: Ulli Michel/Reuters"
X Link @HistorySAZAR 2025-10-17T06:23Z 117.8K followers, 53.9K engagements
"Winnie Mandela has tears in her eyes at the commemoration of the life of Benjamin Moloise who was hanged in 1985. Image Source: Reuters/Tladi"
X Link @HistorySAZAR 2025-10-09T05:49Z 117.8K followers, 282.3K engagements
"South African female vocal group 'The Velvettes' in Manchester 1962. In this picture from L to R: Alexis Kroner Hazel Futa Jack Bruce Graham Bond Ginger Baker Mamsie Mthombeni Johnny Parker Dick Smith & Patience Gcwabe. Image Source: Cyril Davies"
X Link @HistorySAZAR 2025-10-16T14:02Z 117.8K followers, 4709 engagements
"South African footballer Albert Johanneson (1940 - 1995) of Leeds United 2nd March 1965. Johanneson was one of the first black men to achieve prominence in English football. (Photo by Dennis Oulds)"
X Link @HistorySAZAR 2025-10-14T04:53Z 117.8K followers, 52.1K engagements
"Funeral of Sthembiso Nzuza and Moses Ramatlotlo members of MK killed in an armed clash with police KwaMashu KwaZulu-Natal 1984. Photographer: Omar Badsha"
X Link @HistorySAZAR 2025-10-08T07:46Z 117.7K followers, 5043 engagements
"The Rivonia Trial: Outside the palace of justice Pretoria News Library 1964. Image Source: Pambili Media"
X Link @HistorySAZAR 2025-10-10T09:16Z 117.7K followers, 3470 engagements
"Peter "Terror" Mathebula (1952 2020) was a South African boxer and the first black South African to win a world boxing title. He achieved this historic feat by defeating South Korean Tae-Shik Kim for the World Boxing Association (WBA) flyweight title in Los Angeles on December XX 1980. Known for his fearsome skill Mathebula retired after a career that included XX wins in XX fights XX KOs and X losses. He later became a boxing coach. Image Source: Drum Social Histories/News24"
X Link @HistorySAZAR 2025-10-03T11:02Z 117.1K followers, 8690 engagements
"Athol Fugard on the set of 'The Blood Knot' at the New Arts Theater Hampstead London 1963. When first staged in South Africa the play was the first to feature a Black and White actor on a public stage in the Apartheid state. It launched Fugard's professional career. Image Source: Hulton-Deutsch Collection"
X Link @HistorySAZAR 2025-10-15T14:56Z 117.8K followers, 5075 engagements
"Grieving mother Sizakele Simelane with a portrait of her daughter Nokuthula Simelane (1960-1983) in Bethal Mpumalanga. Simelane 'disappeared' in 1983. It was revealed that she was arrested & later tortured by numerous police operatives in Vlakplaas until she died. Photo by Kevin Sutherland"
X Link @HistorySAZAR 2025-10-13T08:48Z 117.8K followers, 188.4K engagements
"22 year old Naude Moitse giving evidence at the 1987 International Childrens Conference to testify to the international community the appalling system of apartheid. He spoke of how the South African government was clamping down harshly on the youth of South Africa. Image Source: SAHA"
X Link @HistorySAZAR 2025-10-13T06:44Z 117.1K followers, 13.7K engagements
"Oliver Tambo at the funeral of the ANC cadres who were victim of the Maseru raid 1982. Photo by Ranjith Kally"
X Link @HistorySAZAR 2025-10-14T05:43Z 117.8K followers, 139.7K engagements
"A young African girl doing her sums on a small blackboard during a lesson at a school in Orlando Johannesburg August 1961. (Photo by Ron Stone)"
X Link @HistorySAZAR 2025-10-15T12:09Z 117.8K followers, 62K engagements
"Man watching the demolition of his cinema District Six Cape Town 1974. District Six an area adjacent to Cape Towns central business district was a vibrant racially diverse community. Due to its convenient proximity to the city centre the authorities reclassified it as a white area. They demolished the buildings completely flattening the area apart from places of worship. About 60000 inhabitants were evicted and forced to move to the windswept Cape flats 25km from the city. Photo by Steve Bloom"
X Link @HistorySAZAR 2025-10-11T11:18Z 117.8K followers, 177.3K engagements
"Eleven year old Fanie Goduka after his release from XX days in detention without trial. Fanie's story: "The Police took me to the police station . . They wanted me to say I was throwing stones. I told them I did nothing. They said they would hit me until I told the truth. They started to hit me with pipes and with fists. They kicked me with their big boots. They kicked me all over. They only stopped when my tooth came out. I was bleeding a lot and was very sore. They said Imust make a statement. I was afraid. I wrote down what they wanted me to write. " After XX days and after trying for a"
X Link @HistorySAZAR 2025-10-12T09:03Z 117.8K followers, 489.8K engagements
"A farm labourer and her children circa 1984. Photographer: Lesley Lawson/ UCT archives"
X Link @HistorySAZAR 2025-10-09T09:26Z 117.7K followers, 6479 engagements
"A witness to the murder of a black South African doctor covers himself to protect his identity and displays spent cartridges used in the murder in a Johannesburgh law office December X 1986. Photo by Wendy Schwegmann"
X Link @HistorySAZAR 2025-10-17T06:25Z 117.8K followers, 7796 engagements
"Miriam Makeba with Dizzy Gillespie during a rehearsal April 1991"
X Link @HistorySAZAR 2025-08-21T06:11Z 117.1K followers, 20.7K engagements
"Poet James Matthews stands with students of Alexander Sinton High School in Athlone Cape Town as they participate in the nationwide school boycott in late 1985. Photo by Rashid Lombard"
X Link @HistorySAZAR 2025-10-17T08:42Z 117.8K followers, 4331 engagements
"Students from the University of Witwatersrand (Wits) stage a demonstration XX March 1988 in Johannesburg to commemorate the 28th anniversary of the 1960 Sharpeville shootings and to protest the bannings of the anti-apartheid organizations. Photo by Trevor Samson"
X Link @HistorySAZAR 2025-10-11T10:03Z 117.8K followers, 17.9K engagements
"A Prince about to ascend to the throne - Prince Goodwill Zwelithini in 1969. Image Source: Drum Social Histories"
X Link @HistorySAZAR 2025-09-24T09:45Z 117.1K followers, 265K engagements
""Gimme Hope Jo'anna" is an anti-apartheid song by Guyanese-British musician Eddy Grant released in 1988. The song which refers to Johannesburg ("Jo'anna") as a symbol of the apartheid system in South Africa was banned by the South African government at the time but became a popular optimistic plea for change with a danceable melody that offered hope for a better future"
X Link @HistorySAZAR 2025-09-29T03:59Z 117.8K followers, 58.3K engagements
"South African poet academic and political activist Prof Keorapetse Kgositsile on a television show by Dr Maya Angelou in 1968"
X Link @HistorySAZAR 2025-08-29T18:58Z 117.8K followers, 4.7M engagements
"A Black township is bulldozed out of existence to make way for white expansion c 1960s. Image Source: House of Bondage/ Ernest Cole"
X Link @HistorySAZAR 2025-10-06T09:08Z 117.8K followers, 55.3K engagements
"Mpho and Mphonyana Mathibela made history when they were born conjoined at Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital on December X 1986. The twin girls were joined at the head and after careful consideration a decision was made to surgically separate them. The successful separation surgery took place in 1988"
X Link @HistorySAZAR 2025-08-08T06:27Z 117.8K followers, 1.6M engagements
"Kabelo Sello Duiker (1974 2005) was a South African novelist. His debut novel Thirteen Cents won the 2001 Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best First Book Africa Region. His second novel The Quiet Violence of Dreams won the 2002 Herman Charles Bosman Prize. He also worked in advertising and as a screenwriter. Image Source: NYT"
X Link @HistorySAZAR 2025-10-04T07:03Z 117.8K followers, 300.7K engagements
"The Sobukwe Clause was a legal provision within South Africa's General Law Amendment Act of 1963 that under the guise of fighting communism allowed for the arbitrary extended detention of prisoners after their sentences were served effectively enabling indefinite imprisonment for individuals deemed a threat by the government. Introduced to specifically target and continue the imprisonment of Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) founding President Robert Sobukwe it was a highly discriminatory piece of legislation that was used only for him and symbolized the apartheid government's attempts to"
X Link @HistorySAZAR 2025-10-08T11:37Z 117.8K followers, 82.7K engagements
"Dora Scott mother of Leon Scott is arrested on Greenmarket Square during a protest for the release of the Forbes Trialists c 1980s. Photo by Benny Gool"
X Link @HistorySAZAR 2025-10-17T12:04Z 117.8K followers, 6778 engagements
"Ignatius Iggy or Gab Mthebule was a student activist and leader associated with the Azanian Student Organisation (AZASO) in 1975. He received military training in Maputo Mozambique and was sent back home as an underground African National Congress (ANC) operative working mostly in Johannesburg. He was working closely with Joy Harden an apartheid agent who he met while working in Maputo; Iggy had no knowledge of this. Harden handed Iggy over to the security police at a restaurant in Hillbrow Johannesburg in January 1987. His whereabouts are still unknown to this day. Image Source: Madeleine"
X Link @HistorySAZAR 2025-10-15T03:26Z 117.8K followers, 128.4K engagements
"Father Michael Lapsley Cape Town 1997. A New Zealander he arrived at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in 1973 and deported to Lesotho in 1976 where he joined the ANC and trained Anglican priests. In April 1990 after the release of Nelson Mandela he received a letter bomb believed to have been sent by a government death squad. He lost an eye and both hands. Photo by Jullian Edelstein / UCT Photography Collection"
X Link @HistorySAZAR 2025-10-16T07:50Z 117.8K followers, 52.8K engagements
"Brenda Fassie perfoming at Ellis Park in April 1984. Photo by Alf Kumalo"
X Link @HistorySAZAR 2025-10-08T06:20Z 117.4K followers, 58.3K engagements
"A young black man in an act of resistance to South Africa's apartheid policies rides a bus restricted to whites only in Durban South Africa 1986. Photo by Billy Paddock"
X Link @HistorySAZAR 2025-10-17T08:13Z 117.8K followers, 18.3K engagements
"A woman is comforted after being beaten by police. She was returning to her office after doing her shopping and was mistaken for a protester 1986. Photo by Graeme Williams"
X Link @HistorySAZAR 2025-10-17T09:57Z 117.8K followers, 31.9K engagements
""In my observation of the Black men's life In South Africa as presented in 'House of Bondage' my personal attitude was committed to exposing the evils of South Africa." - Ernest Cole (1940-1990) Image Source: Magnum Photos"
X Link @HistorySAZAR 2025-10-09T18:40Z 117.4K followers, 8685 engagements
"Winter in Tembisa 1989. Pic: Santu Mofokeng"
X Link @HistorySAZAR 2025-10-03T04:48Z 117.8K followers, 185.8K engagements
"Alfred Nzo speaking at the conference of Non-Aligned Countries in Angola on September X 1985. (Photo by Alexander Joe)"
X Link @HistorySAZAR 2025-10-17T04:50Z 117.8K followers, 5073 engagements
"South African footballer Albert Johanneson (1940 - 1995) of Leeds United signs autographs for fans the day before playing in the FA Cup final against Liverpool at Wembley Stadium UK 30th April 1965. Photo: Hulton Archive"
X Link @HistorySAZAR 2025-10-14T04:42Z 117.8K followers, 5250 engagements
"Thabo Mbeki African National Congress director of publicity and information working at his desk in Zambia c 1980s. (Photo by Louise Gubb)"
X Link @HistorySAZAR 2025-10-15T10:19Z 117.8K followers, 75.1K engagements
"Mangosuthu Buthelezi during an interview in Ulundi Kwa Zulu-Natal South Africa on 30th June 1985. (Photo by Peter Jordan)"
X Link @HistorySAZAR 2025-10-17T04:58Z 117.8K followers, 10.2K engagements
"Mass funeral at the Guguletu Cemetery c 1980s. Photographer: Zubeida Vallie"
X Link @HistorySAZAR 2025-10-15T15:42Z 117.8K followers, 25.7K engagements
""Black Ingenuity" is a collection of previously unpublished photographs by Ernest Cole(1940-1990) that highlights Black cultural production and community under apartheid a theme he had planned but never published in his iconic 1967 photobook House of Bondage. The Google Arts & Culture project showcases these images which emphasize Black resilience spiritual practices and communal joy offering a counter-narrative to the hardships documented in House of Bondage. Image Source: Black Ingenuity/Ernest Cole"
X Link @HistorySAZAR 2025-10-08T04:43Z 117.8K followers, 7963 engagements
"Vitalious Xaba (17) Zacharia Rapoo (16) and Johannes Pilane (17) from Katlehong beaten by security forces XX March 1988. Photographer: Gille de Vlieg"
X Link @HistorySAZAR 2025-10-10T07:58Z 117.8K followers, 677.3K engagements
"The segregated stands of a sports arena in Bloemfontein May 1969. Image Source: UN Photo"
X Link @HistorySAZAR 2025-10-08T09:08Z 117.8K followers, 403.5K engagements
"Patrick Sandile Mvundla (1958-1988) was an MK regional commander based in Botswana who was shot dead on XX March 1988 in an attack by SADF Special Forces operatives on a house in Phiring. The house was then set alight. One senior MK member survived the attack but two Batswana women were also killed. Image Source: Madeleine Fullard"
X Link @HistorySAZAR 2025-10-15T14:22Z 117.8K followers, 23.4K engagements
"I love this child though shell grow up to treat me just like her mother does. Now she is innocent. - Photograph: Ernest Cole c 1960s"
X Link @HistorySAZAR 2025-10-06T08:42Z 117.8K followers, 220.4K engagements
"Shadrack Maphumulo (1938-1986) was an anti-apartheid activist who was a senior member of the ANC's uMkhonto we Sizwe (MK) military wing in Natal. He was imprisoned on Robben Island for ten years for sabotage and was killed by South African Defence Force (SADF) special forces while in exile in Swaziland in 1986. His life and struggle have been documented in the biography Taking Up the Spear: Shadrack Maphumulo's Struggle Against Apartheid. Image Source: SAHO"
X Link @HistorySAZAR 2025-10-14T06:58Z 117.8K followers, 25K engagements
"The Liliesleaf Farm Raid Rivonia. Image Source: Drum Social Histories"
X Link @HistorySAZAR 2025-10-10T09:46Z 117.5K followers, 6097 engagements
"A mother holds a photograph of her slain child Shaun Magmoed who was killed in an incident known as the 'Trojan Horse massacre' (October 1985) when three young boys were shot and killed by security forces during a student protest in Athlone Cape Town. Photographer: Zubeida Vallie/ UCT archives"
X Link @HistorySAZAR 2025-10-09T06:15Z 117.8K followers, 20.2K engagements
"Conscientious objectors Ivan Toms and Cameron Dugmore protesting for the release of imprisoned objectors. T-shirt reads "I refuse to serve in the SADF (South African Defense Force)". Cape Town. Photo by Zubeida Vallie"
X Link @HistorySAZAR 2025-10-16T02:32Z 117.8K followers, 4031 engagements
"Sophiatown residents gathering their belongings 1958. Photo by Jurgen Schadeberg. The forced removal from Sophiatown lasted for a little over eight years starting in 1955 and ending around 1963 as the area was completely cleared and its residents dispersed. The entire process involved flattening the suburb and forcibly relocating its diverse population over the course of this period"
X Link @HistorySAZAR 2025-10-16T02:49Z 117.8K followers, 78.1K engagements
"Heading to a wedding Cape Town 1974. Photo by Steve Bloom"
X Link @HistorySAZAR 2025-10-11T11:14Z 117.8K followers, 49.3K engagements
"Security Forces patrols a township outside Grahamstown after a funeral at which a child was killed when police opened fire on mourners. Notice a kid running way in the background c 1980s. Image Source: Julian Covving Afrapix"
X Link @HistorySAZAR 2025-10-07T09:30Z 117.3K followers, 21.3K engagements
"Victor Ntuli at his home in KwaMakhutha KwaZulu-Natal in which XX members of his family were shot dead by security forces the previous night 1987. Victor Ntuli was shot and killed in 1990. Photo by Cedric Nunn"
X Link @HistorySAZAR 2025-10-17T08:59Z 117.8K followers, 11.5K engagements
"A young Black boy in Johannesburg walks past a wall covered with graffiti reading "We Grow Their Children They Kill Our Children" c 1990s. - Photo by Louise Gubb"
X Link @HistorySAZAR 2025-10-11T10:46Z 117.8K followers, 80.3K engagements
"Students at Wits University 1988. Picture: Charles Milligan"
X Link @HistorySAZAR 2025-09-07T17:23Z 117.7K followers, 2.1M engagements
"Students engaging the police using stones and dustbin lids and attacking at the same time XX June 1976. Photograph: Peter Magubane/ Hubpages/ Afrapix"
X Link @HistorySAZAR 2025-10-14T10:13Z 117.8K followers, 28.3K engagements
"South African anti-apartheid activist politician and economics professor - Ben Turok (1927-2019). Image Source: Wikipedia"
X Link @HistorySAZAR 2025-10-15T15:36Z 117.8K followers, 6988 engagements
"Joseph Moloi from South Africa who signed with Cardiff City F.C. in Wales UK c 1961. (Photo by Stroud/Express/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)"
X Link @HistorySAZAR 2025-10-14T04:18Z 117.8K followers, 239.8K engagements
"Dulcie September addresses a crowd at an international women's conference in Nairobi Kenya 1985. Photo by Zelda Holtzman. On the morning of XX March 1988 September was shot X times with a silenced .22 caliber rifle outside the ANC's Paris office at XX Rue des Petites-curies as she was opening the office after collecting the mail"
X Link @HistorySAZAR 2025-10-17T18:51Z 117.8K followers, 7112 engagements
"Gladys Ndimande Tsolo (1940-2023) was a South African freedom fighter. Originally from Kwazulu-Natal she fled South Africa in the early 1960s joined the ANCs Umkhonto weSizwe in Botswana received training in the Soviet Union and Tanzania and eventually ended up in East Germany. She met her husband Mike Nyakane Tsolo a PAC leader in exile. She eventually joined the PAC and the family settled in the Netherlands where they continued their activist work against Apartheid"
X Link @HistorySAZAR 2025-09-03T05:40Z 117K followers, 27.4K engagements
"Jobseekers being processed en masse for employment on the Witwatersrand mines c 1960s.(Archive Photo: Ernest Cole House of Bondage)"
X Link @HistorySAZAR 2025-10-09T18:14Z 117.8K followers, 50K engagements
"Captain Jeff Benzine a former Special Branch detective demonstrates his wet bag torture method to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission Cape Town Western Cape. 1997. Photo by George Hallett"
X Link @HistorySAZAR 2025-10-14T05:05Z 117.8K followers, 60.9K engagements
"Young pallbearers in school uniforms stand at solemn attention at the funeral of three boys killed in the "Trojan Horse incident" when police armed with pump-action shotguns and hiding in the back of a van opened fire on a crowd in a residential street in Athlone Cape Town 1985. Image Source: UCT Photography Collection/ Zubeida Vallie"
X Link @HistorySAZAR 2025-10-06T05:42Z 117.8K followers, 45.8K engagements
"A taxi driver is pulled out of his car and attacked by a police dog during demonstrations in the business district of Johannesburg February X 1993. Photo: Dylan Martinez"
X Link @HistorySAZAR 2025-10-17T06:31Z 117.8K followers, 200.4K engagements
"Mass funeral at Kwanobuhle Stadium for victims of the Uitenhage/Langa Massacre in the Eastern Cape Province 1985. South Africa. Photographer:Gideon Mendel"
X Link @HistorySAZAR 2025-10-09T10:46Z 117.8K followers, 199.9K engagements
"Makwenkwe "Mackay" Davashe (1920-1972) South African tenor sax player. (Photo by Jurgen Schadeberg)"
X Link @HistorySAZAR 2025-10-15T17:06Z 117.8K followers, 4276 engagements
"Academics and couple Dr Victor Siphindoda Nzimande and Dr Philda Nomusa Nzimande earning their doctorates the very same day from the University of South Africa in 1985. Image Source: Sthembiso Nzimande"
X Link @HistorySAZAR 2025-10-17T10:52Z 117.8K followers, 175.6K engagements
"Struggle stalwarts l to r: Raymond Mhlaba Oscar Mpetha Andrew Mlangeni Walter Sisulu Ahmed Kathrada Elias Motsoaledi and Wilton Mkwayi after their release in 1989 in Soweto South Africa. (Photo by Sunday Times/Raymond Preston)"
X Link @HistorySAZAR 2025-10-17T07:17Z 117.8K followers, 3826 engagements
"Youth protest and barricades erected as a defence against police brutality Belgravia Road Athlone Cape Town 1985. Photo by Zubeida Vallie"
X Link @HistorySAZAR 2025-10-14T14:18Z 117.8K followers, 7650 engagements
"Fathers carry each others sons at a protest march by residents of Port Elizabeth in the Eastern Cape during nationwide calls for the abolition of segregation. Photo by Cecil Sols"
X Link @HistorySAZAR 2025-10-17T09:39Z 117.8K followers, 263.8K engagements
"Police check passes for employer's signature proof that taxes are paid and legality of presence in a White area. From The House of Bondage 1958-66 by Ernest Cole (1940-1990)"
X Link @HistorySAZAR 2025-10-14T06:36Z 117.8K followers, 43K engagements
"Woman being arrested Cape Town 1976. Black people were obliged to carry pass books which controlled freedom of movement. People were arrested and fined or imprisoned if their pass books were not in order. Photo by Steve Bloom"
X Link @HistorySAZAR 2025-10-11T11:08Z 117.8K followers, 26K engagements
"A woman overcome by tear gas is helped by fellow mourners during the funeral for eight people killed in the "bottle store (liquor-store) incident" in New Brighton township Port Elizabeth. Nearly a week before on March XX heavily armed policemen opened fire on a crowd gathered outside a liquor store that had been bombed the previous day killing eight 1986. Image Source: UCT Photography Collection/ Steven Hilton Barber"
X Link @HistorySAZAR 2025-10-06T07:20Z 117.4K followers, 34.3K engagements
"Sarah singing in her Sunday best with her family home a tent in the background. Philippi Cape Town c Mid-1980s (surname witheld at familys request). Photo by Jenny Altschuler"
X Link @HistorySAZAR 2025-10-17T10:24Z 117.8K followers, 4460 engagements
"The Sasol X were Anthony Bobby Tsotsobe (25) of Dube Village Soweto; Johannes Shabangu (26) of Mhluzi township Middleburg and David Moise (25) of Sebokeng. They were accused of carrying out attacks on a police station and on a Sasol oil-from-coal plant in June 1980. In August of 1981 they were convicted of high treason and sentenced to death. However In June of 1983 their death sentence was commuted to life of which they served on Robben Island. Image Source: ANC archives"
X Link @HistorySAZAR 2025-09-28T06:20Z 117.8K followers, 21.3K engagements
"Barney Molokoane Victor Khayiyana and Vincent Sekete were MK operatives who were killed in 1985 during a sabotage mission at the SASOL refinery in Secunda. They were part of an elite unit that was intercepted after their mission. From a reconstruction of events based on local eyewitness accounts the battle which ensued lasted four hours in which the three members of the Unit Barney Vincent Sekete and Victor Lunga Khayiyana fought courageously until the end. Image Source: The African Mirror"
X Link @HistorySAZAR 2025-10-07T14:13Z 117.6K followers, 25.4K engagements
"Woman dumped at Beestekraal after forced removal XX August 1983. Photo: Gille de Vlieg"
X Link @HistorySAZAR 2025-10-13T05:55Z 117.8K followers, 413.3K engagements
"Veteran activist Helen Joseph at the launch of the UDF in Mitchell's Plain Cape Town 1983. Photographer: Wendy Schwegmann/ SAHA"
X Link @HistorySAZAR 2025-10-09T05:45Z 117.8K followers, 8202 engagements
"A supporter of South Africa's neo-Nazi Afrikaner Resistance Movement tussles with a black onlooker at the supremacist movement's rally in Pretoria South Africa September XX 1989. Photo by Raymond Preston"
X Link @HistorySAZAR 2025-10-17T06:08Z 117.8K followers, 14.8K engagements
"Desmond Tutu gestures as he gives a speech at the University of California Berkeley California 1985. (Photo by Bromberger Hoover Photography/Getty Images)"
X Link @HistorySAZAR 2025-10-07T06:17Z 117.1K followers, 3488 engagements
"Students kneel on floor to write. Government is casual about furnishing schools for Blacks c 1960s. Image Source: House of Bondage/ Ernest Cole"
X Link @HistorySAZAR 2025-10-06T09:05Z 117.2K followers, 27.9K engagements
"Unionist Alpheus Mthethwa (banned) the first secretary of the Metal and Allied Workers Union taking his children to school c 1970s. Photo by Omar Badsha"
X Link @HistorySAZAR 2025-10-16T03:25Z 117.8K followers, 7066 engagements
"Mourners carry the coffin of one of eight youths killed in clashes with police in Alexandra township Johannesburg. Masked mourners were a common sight at funerals as people try and conceal their identities and protect themselves from the expected tear gas attacks. Photographer: Gideon Mendel/ UCT Photography Collection"
X Link @HistorySAZAR 2025-10-06T04:53Z 117.8K followers, 11.4K engagements
"South African academic and Non-European Unity Movement activist Dr A.C Jordan (right) with Dr Claggert Director of Center for Research University of Wisconsin Madison 1962"
X Link @HistorySAZAR 2025-10-16T11:37Z 117.8K followers, 4477 engagements
"Luke Kgatitsoe sits where his house stood before the state destroyed it and the rest of the buildings when this farm was declared a black spot. Magopa North West. XX October 1986. Photo by David Goldblatt"
X Link @HistorySAZAR 2025-10-17T12:11Z 117.8K followers, 38K engagements
"Anti-apartheid activist Yusuf Cachalia (1915-1995) at a demonstration in Red Square (since renamed Freedom Square) in the Johannesburg suburb of Fordsburg South Africa 6th April 1952. Photographer: Jurgen Schadeberg"
X Link @HistorySAZAR 2025-10-01T13:23Z 117.5K followers, 3487 engagements
"A prison official approaches the families of death-row prisoners Wellington Meilies and Moses Jantjies to inform them that the two men were hanged earlier that morning. In 1987 when Meilies and Jantjies were executed thirty-two political prisoners remained on death row in Pretoria Central Prison and South Africa had the highest number of hangings in the world. Photographer: Paul Weinberg/UCT Photography Collection"
X Link @HistorySAZAR 2025-10-07T17:45Z 117.5K followers, 40.2K engagements
"Shop assistant Orlando West Soweto c 1977. Photographer: David Goldblatt"
X Link @HistorySAZAR 2025-10-12T09:49Z 117.8K followers, 766.8K engagements
"Bishop Desmond Tutu and Rev Allan Boesak laugh as they leave Boesak's offices on their way to Tuynhuys c 1985. Photographer: Guy Tullim"
X Link @HistorySAZAR 2025-10-10T04:31Z 117.1K followers, 7257 engagements
"Mafika Gwala Mike Kirkwood and members of the Mapulanga Arts Ensemble c late 1970s. Photo by Omar Badsha"
X Link @HistorySAZAR 2025-10-16T07:01Z 117.8K followers, 3066 engagements
"South African Children's feeding scheme Orlando Township c 1962. The scheme was a charity sponsored by wealthy white women. Photo: Copyright of the Estate of John Goldblatt"
X Link @HistorySAZAR 2025-10-12T12:05Z 117.8K followers, 66K engagements
"Accompanied by prison personnel political prisoners on their release from Robben Island prison in Cape Town Harbour c early 1990s. Photo by Zubeida Vallie"
X Link @HistorySAZAR 2025-10-15T02:50Z 117.8K followers, 8203 engagements
"A young man is stopped for his pass. Photograph from The House of Bondage (1958-1966) by Ernest Cole"
X Link @HistorySAZAR 2025-10-14T05:51Z 117.8K followers, 5761 engagements
"Police officers aggressively arrest Moses Mayekiso a trade union leader during a protest march in Johannesburgc 1980s. (Photo by Gideon Mendel)"
X Link @HistorySAZAR 2025-10-11T07:18Z 117.8K followers, 83.6K engagements
"Story of Eleven year old Fanie Goduka who spent XX days in prison with adult criminals"
X Link @HistorySAZAR 2025-10-12T10:35Z 117.8K followers, 53.1K engagements
"People line up at the Bantu Administration building to apply for passes. Without passes they are liable for arrest. From The House of Bondage 1958-66 by Ernest Cole (1940-1990)"
X Link @HistorySAZAR 2025-10-14T06:31Z 117.8K followers, 22.9K engagements
"Pik Botha PW Botha Samora Machel and Joaquim Chissano at Komatipoort during the signing of the Nkomati Accord 1984. Photo by Raymond Preston. The Nkomati Accord (officially known as the Agreement on Non-Aggression and Good Neighbourliness between Mozambique and South Africa) was a non-aggression pact signed on XX March 1984 between the People's Republic of Mozambique and the Republic of South Africa. The treaty's stated focus was on preventing Mozambique from supporting the ANC/PAC to undertake violent actions in South Africa and for South Africa to stop supplying the RENAMO movement in"
X Link @HistorySAZAR 2025-10-17T07:51Z 117.8K followers, 23.9K engagements
"Prophet Isaiah Shembe (1865-1935) the founder of Ibandla lamaNazaretha"
X Link @HistorySAZAR 2025-08-24T17:25Z 117K followers, 677.2K engagements
"Children play in the rubble of their demolished homes District Six Cape Town c 1970s. Due to the social devastation caused by the evictions and demolitions District Six was stigmatised and houses for whites were never built there during the apartheid era. Photo by Steve Bloom"
X Link @HistorySAZAR 2025-10-11T11:32Z 117.8K followers, 25.9K engagements
"South African group Joy perform Paradise Road live on BBC TV c 1980's. Joy was a South African female vocal group who had a chart-topping hit in South Africa with Paradise Road. The record spent X weeks at No. X spot"
X Link @HistorySAZAR 2025-07-29T12:26Z 117.8K followers, 275.8K engagements
"The "Ladybrand Four" were four members of Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) who were abducted from Lesotho in 1987 and 1988 by the South African Security Branch. The victims were Betty Boom (pictured below) Nomasonto Mashiya Tax Sejaname and Mbulelo 'Khaya Kasibe' Ngono. They were held at a farm in Ladybrand Free State and their fate after the abduction remains unknown though the abductors applied for amnesty claiming they became askaris or informers. Image Source: Madeleine Fullard"
X Link @HistorySAZAR 2025-10-15T03:31Z 117.8K followers, 74.1K engagements
"Helen Joseph with the son of a Robben Island Prisoner who was visiting her to report on his progress at school c 1980s. Photo by Omar Badsha"
X Link @HistorySAZAR 2025-10-16T04:10Z 117.8K followers, 8553 engagements
"The graves of the children who died in the 1993 Mthatha raid. On X October 1993 Mzwandile Mfeya (12 years) Sandiso Yose (12 years) twins Samora and Sadat Mpendulo (16 years) and Thando Mtembu (17 years) were shot dead in a South African Defence Force (SADF) raid on an alleged base of the Azanian People's Liberation Army (APLA) the Pan Africanist Congress' military wing at the Mpendulo family home in the Northcrest suburb of Mthatha. The house belonged to a PAC member Sigqibo Mpendulo the father of Samora and Sadat. According to PAC and police sources in the Transkei the five victims were"
X Link @HistorySAZAR 2025-10-17T14:32Z 117.8K followers, 110.9K engagements
"The UDF activist who was the target of a massacre in which XX members of his family where shot dead. Security forces were implicated in the murders then dubbed the 'AK47 massacre'. KwaMakhuta. KwaZulu-Natal. 1987. Photo: Cedric Nunn / Afrapix"
X Link @HistorySAZAR 2025-10-13T05:43Z 117.8K followers, 35.4K engagements
"Walter Sisulu calls for volunteers for the Defiance Campaign of civil disobedience at a rally in Red Square in the Johannesburg suburb of Fordsburg South Africa 6th April 1952. Photographer: Jurgen Schadeberg"
X Link @HistorySAZAR 2025-09-30T12:20Z 117.5K followers, 2868 engagements
"Sasol refinery burning after an attack by Umkhonto we Sizwe early June 1980. Picture: ANC archives"
X Link @HistorySAZAR 2025-09-18T10:21Z 117.7K followers, 6251 engagements
"'Millionaire' medicine man Khotso Sethuntsa walks past Alf Kumalo at his compound in Kokstad c early 1970's. Picture: Alf Kumalo"
X Link @HistorySAZAR 2025-08-14T11:13Z 117.7K followers, 1.6M engagements
"The Battle of Mutale River was a skirmish on March XX 1988 in what was then the Northern Transvaal (now Limpopo) South Africa between a nine-person Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) unit and the Venda Defence Force (VDF). The MK unit which had crossed from Zimbabwe was engaged by the VDF which was reinforced by the South African Defence Force (SADF) and helicopter gunships. The battle resulted in the deaths of five of the nine MK soldiers. Image Source: Madeleine Fullard"
X Link @HistorySAZAR 2025-10-16T02:55Z 117.8K followers, 21.3K engagements
"South African footballer Steve Mokone with English footballer Charles Buchan c 1950s. Image Source: Barnsley Chronicle"
X Link @HistorySAZAR 2025-10-14T11:06Z 117.8K followers, 14.7K engagements
"Dr Nthato Motlana (1925-2008) civic leader businessman and anti apartheid activist taken by Paul Weinberg c 1981"
X Link @HistorySAZAR 2025-10-05T05:47Z 117.3K followers, 4145 engagements
"Untitled Apartheid photograph by Ernest Cole (1940-1990) ca 1960s from 'House of Bondage'. Ernest Cole Family Trust"
X Link @HistorySAZAR 2025-10-09T17:33Z 117.8K followers, 14.8K engagements
"From L to R: Govan Mbeki Walter Sisulu Oliver Tambo and former Zambian President Kenneth Kaunda at the funeral of Chris Hani in 1993. Photographer: Alf Kumalo"
X Link @HistorySAZAR 2025-10-04T11:31Z 117.3K followers, 114K engagements
"Students and locals engage in a nearly bare-handed stones sticks and using lids as shield in a battle against the soldiers who were using rifles and live ammo June 1976. Image Source: Afrapix/Hubpages"
X Link @HistorySAZAR 2025-10-07T05:33Z 117.1K followers, 18.9K engagements
"A schoolboy is arrested during protests against the 1987 white parliamentary elections in Athlone township Cape Town May 1987. In 1986 some 25000 people were imprisoned without trial under the Emergency regulations. Of that number 10000 were children under the age of eighteen. In April 1987 the government stated that only 1400 children were still in detention. Photograph: Gideon Mendel/UCT Photography Collection"
X Link @HistorySAZAR 2025-10-07T04:58Z 117.8K followers, 465K engagements
"Gwede Mantashe at a NUM conference in 1987. Image Source: M&G"
X Link @HistorySAZAR 2025-10-16T16:26Z 117.8K followers, 477.9K engagements
"On XX November 1988 white supremacist Barend Strydom carried out a shooting spree at Strijdom Square in central Pretoria South Africa killing eight people and injuring XX others. Seven of the victims were black while one was Indian. Strydom was later convicted and sentenced to death for the attack but was released from prison as a 'political prisoner' in 1992. Image Source: African Crime & Conflict Journal"
X Link @HistorySAZAR 2025-10-16T16:52Z 117.8K followers, 39.3K engagements
"Moses Taiwa Molelekwa (1973-2001) by Ruth Motau"
X Link @HistorySAZAR 2025-10-04T11:52Z 117.3K followers, 72.2K engagements
"A man caring for his sick partner Cape Town 1977. Photo by Steve Bloom"
X Link @HistorySAZAR 2025-10-11T11:55Z 117.8K followers, 585.2K engagements
"The African herbalist Khotso Sethuntsa (1898-1972)"
X Link @HistorySAZAR 2025-07-31T08:40Z 117.8K followers, 2.1M engagements
"Nelson Mandela speaking on a cellphone with then president FW de Klerk discussing the violence in the country just before the elections Johannesburg 1994. (Photo: George Hallett)"
X Link @HistorySAZAR 2025-10-14T05:15Z 117.8K followers, 73K engagements
"Grace Matjila hungry and without proper clothes for school tearfylly tends to her little sister. From The House of Bondage 1958-66 by Ernest Cole (1940-1990)"
X Link @HistorySAZAR 2025-10-14T06:15Z 117.8K followers, 199.3K engagements
"Coffins are lowered at the funeral of the XX people killed in the "Queenstown massacre" when police opened fire after a meeting called to plan a consumer boycott December 1985. The t-shirt of one of the mourners declares "Bullets won't stop us". - Photograph: Gideon Mendel /UCT Photography Collection"
X Link @HistorySAZAR 2025-10-11T09:06Z 117.8K followers, 19.2K engagements
"South African artist Dumile Feni (1942-1991). Image Source: Netwerk 24"
X Link @HistorySAZAR 2025-10-05T15:50Z 117.3K followers, 33.1K engagements
"Ashley Kriel (1966-1987) was a young anti-apartheid activist. Due to his political activism Kriel was placed under surveillance by the Security Branch. As a result he went underground joined MK and went into exile to receive military training abroad. Shortly after returning to South Africa his cover was compromised. On X July 1987 Kriel answered the door to his room thinking that the men outside were municipal workers. He was shot and killed by members of the South African Police in Hazendal Athlone Cape Town. The initial inquest held in 1989 found that the police was "not" legally liable for"
X Link @HistorySAZAR 2025-10-13T04:36Z 117.8K followers, 74.1K engagements
"Baby Amandia with her restricted mother Lorraine Mokgosi. Amandia has never seen her father activist Stanza Bopape who was missing at the time. It was later revealed that on XX June 1988 Bopape was arrested by the police. He was taken to John Vorster Square where he was brutally tortured together with Murphy Morobe a young activist from Soweto. He died on XX June 1988 while in police custody apparently from a heart attack following electric shock torture. His body was dumped in the crocodile-infested Komati River on the border of Mozambique and South Africa. Image Source: Learn and Teach"
X Link @HistorySAZAR 2025-10-12T06:43Z 117.8K followers, 158.8K engagements
"Blizzard president Clive Toye; left; admires coat given to star player Jomo Sono as a bonus for his agreeing to three year contract with the North American Soccer League team c 1980s. (Photo by Jeff Goode)"
X Link @HistorySAZAR 2025-10-14T08:42Z 117.8K followers, 58.7K engagements
"Accompanied by members of the Port Elizabeth Youth Congress the father of one of eight people killed in the "bottle-store (liquor-store) incident" grieves for his son 1986. Image Source: UCT Photography Collection/ Steven Hilton Barber"
X Link @HistorySAZAR 2025-10-06T05:04Z 117.2K followers, 4800 engagements
"In 1921 in a battle lasting less than XX minutes between police and Israelites followers of prophet Enoch Mgijima more than XXX people were killed. The battle started after police issued an ultimatum demanding that the Israelites evacuate land they were squatting on and warned that if they failed to comply their leader would be arrested and their homes demolished. Soon afterwards a group of around XXX men armed with sticks and spears challenged the machine guns of an 800-strong police force sent by Jan Smuts to remove the Israelites who had settled at the holy village of Ntabelanga Bulhoek in"
X Link @HistorySAZAR 2025-10-15T12:28Z 117.8K followers, 15.6K engagements
"Earnest boy squats on haunches and strains to follow lesson in heat of packed classroom c early 1960s South Africa by Ernest Cole/ Magnum Photos"
X Link @HistorySAZAR 2025-10-07T07:49Z 117.8K followers, 87.2K engagements
"The heroic worker poet musician political leader - Vuyisile Mini (1920-1964) was hanged on November 6th 1964 along with Mkhaba and Khayinga for alleged complicity in the death of a police informer. Born in New Brighton Port Elizabeth in 1920 Vuyisile's life was one of struggle. He became a member of various trade unions and the ANC at an early age. He was a leading SACTU member when it was formed in 1955. Vuyisile loved classical music and was a member of the PE Male Voice Choir"
X Link @HistorySAZAR 2025-10-15T15:25Z 117.8K followers, 25.7K engagements
"Dr Rotoli Xaba's (1893-1953) early history exemplified in an acute form the problems of foreign study for Black South Africans. His correspondence for his period in Edinburgh during the mid 1920's reveals the financial & educational difficulties he faced prompting cries of despair from his family as well as his sponsors. He found difficulty paying for essentials things as well as paying rent to his landlady. She threatened eviction but reluctantly because Xaba was well behaved. These difficulties led him to drop out many times until he finally qualified in 1936 gaining the triple Scottish"
X Link @HistorySAZAR 2025-05-30T16:04Z 117.8K followers, 335.6K engagements
"Police ready to forcibly remove the residents of Sophiatown c 1955. Photo by Jurgen Schadeberg"
X Link @HistorySAZAR 2025-10-16T02:43Z 117.8K followers, 9512 engagements
"Winnie Mandela doing the ironing at home in Soweto c 1970s. Photograph: Alf Kumalo/AFP"
X Link @HistorySAZAR 2025-10-10T08:29Z 117.8K followers, 49.2K engagements
"Police confront mourners at the funeral of eight people shot by security forces during the "bottle-store (liquor-store) incident" in New Brighton township Port Elizabeth April 1986. The funeral ended in chaos when police fired tear gas and violently dispersed the large group of mourners. Photographer: Christopher Qwazi"
X Link @HistorySAZAR 2025-10-05T15:05Z 117.6K followers, 22.9K engagements
"Mxolisa Goboza (right) and Thembinkosi Tshabe two of the youngest victims to appear before the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) described how they had been shot and wounded by police while taking part in a COSAS (Congress of South African Students) demonstration. Photographer: Jullian Edelstein/ UCT Photography Collection"
X Link @HistorySAZAR 2025-10-10T11:44Z 117.8K followers, 50.9K engagements
""All I Have of Him Photograph of Joyce Mtimkulu mother of Siphiwo Mtimkulu holding her late son's hair at the Truth and Reconciliation Commission Hearings 1996. Image Source: The Herald/ Tiso Blackster Group"
X Link @HistorySAZAR 2025-10-12T14:34Z 117.8K followers, 49.6K engagements
"South African Police baton charging Black women in Cato Manor Durban 1959 photo by Laurie Bloomfield. In this 1959 incident in Cato Manor Durban South African police baton-charged a crowd of primarily Black women who were protesting. The women had gathered outside a municipal beer hall and were ordered to disperse; when they refused the police used batons to forcibly break up the crowd leading to violence and clashes"
X Link @HistorySAZAR 2025-10-16T04:48Z 117.8K followers, 31.5K engagements
"The Mandela family stands outside Victor Verster Prison after spending more than X hours with imprisoned African National Congress leader Nelson Mandela on his 71st birthday XX July 1989. Photo by Rashid Lombard"
X Link @HistorySAZAR 2025-10-11T12:30Z 117.7K followers, 39.7K engagements
"Ntombikayise (Ntombi) Priscilla Kubheka (1946-1987) was a South African anti-apartheid activist and a member of the armed wing of the ANC Umkhonto we Sizwe. She died at the age of XX in 1987 after being abducted and interrogated by the South African security forces due to her role as a co-ordinator for Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK). Kubheka's death was highly disputed during the hearings of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in which South African Police officials originally claimed they were not responsible for her death. Her body was exhumed in May 1997 near KwaDukuza revealing that Kubheka"
X Link @HistorySAZAR 2025-10-13T09:05Z 117.8K followers, 22.3K engagements
"Young Black businessman Herman Mashaba"
X Link @HistorySAZAR 2025-09-05T09:13Z 117.1K followers, 452.6K engagements
"Bus Stop Cape Town 1977. Apartheid pervaded many aspects of life in South Africa with signs acting as constant reminders of the restrictions enforced on people. Among the forms of segregation were separate ambulances doorways park benches beaches and buses. Photo by Steve Bloom"
X Link @HistorySAZAR 2025-10-11T11:11Z 117.8K followers, 21.6K engagements
"Dr Neil Aggett's funeral in February 1982. (Gallo Images). Dr Neil Aggett was a South African doctor and trade union organiser who was killed while in detention by the Security Branch of the Apartheid South African Police Service after being held for XX days without trial"
X Link @HistorySAZAR 2025-10-16T05:17Z 117.8K followers, 7612 engagements
"Friends greet Winnie Mandela at Cape Town International airport during a visit to see Nelson Mandela. Photographer: Zubeida Vallie"
X Link @HistorySAZAR 2025-10-11T05:31Z 117.8K followers, 9557 engagements
"Group photo from the University of Nairobi Foundation Course in Architecture and Industrial Design taken in 1966 or 1967. Selby Mvusi is second from the right. Private collection: Davinder Lamba"
X Link @HistorySAZAR 2025-10-16T03:57Z 117.8K followers, 3575 engagements
"Hugh Masekela performs on stage at the Monterey Pop Festival on June XX 1967 in Monterey California. (Photo by Michael Ochs Archives)"
X Link @HistorySAZAR 2025-10-15T11:20Z 117.8K followers, 76.1K engagements
"Riot police block the way of workers leaving a May Day meeting at Khotso House in Johannesburg May 1985. Khotso House was owned by the South African Council for Churches (SACC) and was the headquarters for many progressive organisations including the United Democratic Front (UDF). It was destroyed in a massive explosion in August 1988. Photographer: Paul Weinberg"
X Link @HistorySAZAR 2025-10-08T10:00Z 117.1K followers, 7745 engagements
"Photographer & activist Rashid Lombard at the Cape Town Press Centre in Shortmarket Street 1989. Photo from the Shadley Lombard archive"
X Link @HistorySAZAR 2025-10-17T12:23Z 117.8K followers, 3072 engagements
"Portrait of a man Hanover Park Cape Town c 1980s. Photographer: Paul Konings"
X Link @HistorySAZAR 2025-10-06T05:08Z 117.3K followers, 2647 engagements
"On the day of his enthronement as archbishop one elderly woman makes a show of determination against Desmond Tutu and his fight to break down the system of apartheid in South Africa 1986. Photo by Patrick Durand"
X Link @HistorySAZAR 2025-10-11T12:14Z 117.8K followers, 19K engagements
"Gwede Mantashe at a COSATU conference in 1985. Photo by Omar Badsha"
X Link @HistorySAZAR 2025-10-16T12:32Z 117.8K followers, 206K engagements
"Johannesburg station platform during late afternoon rush hour. With no room inside train some ride between cars. Which black train to take is matter of guess- work. They have no destination signs and no announcement of arrivals is made. South Africa. 1960s. Ernest Cole"
X Link @HistorySAZAR 2025-10-13T11:05Z 117.3K followers, 10.7K engagements
"Police manhandle a young man during a housing protest in District Six Cape Town 1989. Photo by Mike Hutchings"
X Link @HistorySAZAR 2025-10-17T08:35Z 117.8K followers, 37K engagements
"Despite his academic success Dr Benedict Wallet Vilakazi (1906-1947) faced discrimination and critique. His appointment at Wits was opposed by conservative whites who could not come to terms with a Black man lecturing white students. He was also scorned and ridiculed by Black people who wrote letters of discontent to newspapers condemning Vilakazi for consenting to be used by whites through such a collaborationist appointment as Dumisane Krushchev Ntshangase wrote in a 1995 paper for the Wits Institute for Advanced Social Research. Professor Humphrey R Raikes the then principal of Wits"
X Link @HistorySAZAR 2025-10-13T15:37Z 117.8K followers, 61.9K engagements
""I've never wanted to spare myself because I feel there are people who are no longer around and died for this struggle. What right do I have to hold back to rest to preserve my health to have time with my family when there are other people who are no longer alive - when they sacrificed what is precious: namely life itself." - Chris Hani (1942-1993) Photo by Reiner Leist"
X Link @HistorySAZAR 2025-10-14T08:24Z 117.8K followers, 46.2K engagements
"A washing powder advert looms over a Soweto street near the Merafe Station during the turbulent 1980s. Dishevilled crowds and smoke from teargas became an everyday scenario as resistance reached a peak while the authorities tried to clamp down with force. Picture: Alf Kumalo"
X Link @HistorySAZAR 2025-10-08T06:28Z 117.4K followers, 20.5K engagements
"Children on the border between Fietas and Mayfair Johannesburg 1949. Photographer: David Goldblatt"
X Link @HistorySAZAR 2025-10-11T06:40Z 117.1K followers, 120.4K engagements
"Marius and Jeanette Schoon with their two children. Jeanette Schoon was a pioneering trades unionist married To Marius Schoon an MK soldier who had served a XX years prison sentence in Pretoria Central Prison and was placed under house arrest after his release before fleeing to Botswana. They had a young daughter Katryn. Jeanette and her daughter Katryn were blown up by a parcel bomb sent to them by the Apartheid Security Policeman Craig Williamson in June 1984. Source: Patric Tariq Mellet"
X Link @HistorySAZAR 2025-10-14T07:46Z 117.8K followers, 88.2K engagements
"Vernon Moodley (1945-1967) was an MK soldier. At just 16-years-old the South African activist Vernon Moodley was exiled in Zambia in the early 1960's. He received military training from the Soviet Union. Moodley ultimately died after a drowning incident in 1967. Image Source: Madeleine Fullard"
X Link @HistorySAZAR 2025-10-15T13:48Z 117.8K followers, 8996 engagements
"Ali spars with a school boy in Dube Soweto in April 1993. On the right taking a photo is boxing phenomenon 'Baby Jake' Matlala. Photographer: Alf Kumalo"
X Link @HistorySAZAR 2025-10-02T09:52Z 117.1K followers, 54.5K engagements
"A South African policeman collars a black student during rioting in Guguletu near Cape Town 1976. Photograph: AP"
X Link @HistorySAZAR 2025-10-13T05:22Z 117.8K followers, 49.3K engagements
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