Children sit on bench reserved for white people only in Durban, May 27, 1960. Image Source: Flashbak

South African Foreign Minister Eric Louw's effigy is burned on steps of Johannesburg City Hall, Oct. 13, 1961, by anti-apartheid demonstrators. Image Source: Flashbak

Oliver Tambo addresses a crowd outside South Africa House in Trafalgar Square, London, c 1960s. Image Source: SAHO

"If shall leave this country and decide not to come back, it will be because of a desire to avoid perishing in my own bitterness – a bitterness born of being reduced to a second-class citizen". - Nat Nakasa (1937-1965), Photo: Drum Social Histories

A group of women hold signs in demonstration against the pass laws in Cape Town on August 9, 1956, the same day as the massive women’s protest in Pretoria. Image Source: National Library of South Africa

The Population Registration Act of 1950 was a foundational law of the apartheid system that classified every inhabitant into a specific racial group, primarily White, Black, or Coloured. It mandated the creation of a national population register and identity cards, and the racial

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Anna Lebako, a washerwoman from Soweto carrying laundry to a white suburban family, Harrow Road, 1961. Photo by David Goldblatt

Students given permission to hold rally near the offices of the Urban Bantu Councillors Chambers in a jovial and celebratory mood. Image Source: Hubpages

Police open fire in Sharpeville, March 1960. Photo by Ian Berry

Poster created by Molo Songololo at the Community Arts Project (CAP), June 1987. Courtesy of SAHA

After June 1976, the youth increasingly played an important role in the liberation struggle. Not to be deterred by anyone or anything, they would fill up busses on their way to funerals and demonstrations in the seventies and eighties. Students hanging out of buses like these

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The June 16, 1976, youth-led uprising that began in Soweto and spread countrywide, profoundly changed the socio-political landscape in South Africa. Photo by Peter Magubane

The one that gave that order went home to hug his children!

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In 1912, a group of farmworkers in the then Eastern Transvaal, bought a piece of land called Driefontein, by selling cattle, and registered it in the name of the Native Farmers' Association. The main people behind this idea was Pixley Ka Seme, of the SANNC (South African Native

Funeral procession of Driefontein leader Saul Mkhize who was killed by police at a community meeting, 16 April 1983. Photo by Gille de Vlieg/ SAHA

Boycotting the Bantu Education Act, 1955. Image Source: Drum Social Histories

Vuyani Victor Zibi (1959-1982) was an MK operative who was in his early 20s when he was killed in a raid by the South African Defence Force (SADF) Special Forces in Maseru, Lesotho, on December 9, 1982. His nephew is the Rise Mzansi leader Songezo Zibi. Image Source: Madeleine