Beyond the Barricades: Popular Resistance in South Africa in the 1980s

This exhibition (Editors, Omar Badsha, Gideon Mendel and Paul Weinberg) is an important collection of photographs by twenty South African photographers, mainly from the photographic collective, Afrapix. Both, the exhibition and subsequent book, have become an indispensable anthology of popular resistance in South Africa during the 1980’s. The collection highlights one of the longest and bloodiest periods of political resistance to apartheid, a time of mass mobilization and brutal repression when taking of images was often a matter of life and death.

Geldenhuis Deep mine, Johannesburg

Geldenhuis Deep mine, Johannesburg

The research project relates to the life history of Mr Henry Caleb Sibisi, and was conducted by Iain Edwards, with the assistance of Mr C. Ndlovu. It covers Sibisi's life, as an Adams College educated agricultural demonstrator; his participation in the politics of Cleremont, where he becomes the first unofficial and self-styled mayor; his involvement in the New Africa movements; and in the restarting of the Inkatha movement in the late 1950s.

Award of a scholarship for two members of the I.C.U. to receive training in England, by offer of two bursaries at Fircroft, Residential College for the Higher Education of Working Men, Birmingham; one letter by C. Kadalie to E. Lewis, written at the Independent Labour Party, London

Crossroads '86 was an exhibition with photographs by Dave Hartman and Guy Tillim.

The images documented the destruction and forced removals of squatter communities from the Crossroads complex and KTC.