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2,174 South Africa 1950s Stock Photos & High-Res Pictures

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Members of the Movement for Colonial Freedom and the Black Sash Movement march to South Africa House to deliver a memorial to Prime Minister Strijdom...

Group Protesting Racial Discrimination

South Africans march in the street and hold banners to protest the new restrictions on African citizens, soon to be known worldwide as Apartheid,...

South African Apartheid Conditions

South Africa team group: touch judge S Viviers, tour manager Colonel FW Mellish, Willa Delport, Stephen Fry, Ernst Dinkelman, Salty du Rand, Basie...

Rugby Union - Test Match - England v South Africa

South African police beating Black women with clubs after they raided and set a beer hall on fire in protest against apartheid, Durban, South Africa.

Apartheid Protest

Youngsters play amid shacks of Sophiatown, the section of Johannesburg which is being forcibly evacuated under South Africa's segregation policy....

Children Playing in Shantytown Street

Some of the young men of the Windermere township, eleven miles from Cape Town, 4th February 1955.

Windermere township

Indigenous black people have to use a seperated entrance of the post office; street view Vintage property of ullstein bild

South Africa: Johannesburg

Cape Town, South Africa: In flat definace of Prime Minister Malan's white supremacy laws and their rigid segregation rules, these South African...

Black South Africans On Train;Thumbs Up

Protestors with placards during a demonstration as they await the arrival of the Governor-General of the Union of South Africa, CR Swart, at Gatwick...

C.R. Swart Demonstration, 1959

The English Police Charged Striking Demonstrators Who Were Protesting Against The Arrest Of Albie Sachs, A Member Of The A.N.C , And The Banning Of...

Police Charging Anc Protesters In South Africa, 1952

Race, Apartheid, South Africa, pic: 1952, Black African protesters seen among a crowd at a Johannesburg protest meeting which defied a ban on such...

Race. Apartheid. South Africa. pic: 1952. Black African protesters seen among a crowd at a Johannesburg protest meeting which defied a ban on such gatherings.

African pupils celebrate the school strike called by ANC party on April 19, 1955 in the suburb of Johannesburg against the Bantu Education Act. The...

SOUTH-AFRICA-APARTHEID

Inhabitants of Sophiatown carry their belongings, 21 February 1955, before being evacuated to Meadowlands, now part of Soweto. From the 1950s, the...

SOUTH AFRICA-SOPHIATOWN

Supporters pray in front of the courthouse of Johannesburg, 28 December 1956, to support 152 anti-apartheid militants, in which Nelson Mandela,...

ANC supporters pray in front of the cour

Members Of The African National Congress, Natives, Europeans, Indians And Mulattoes Between 1956 And 1961, Including Nelson Mandela , Walter Sisulu...

The Defendants Of The African National Congress Trial 1956

Black South Africans on Toby Street, Johannesburg, South Africa, circa 1950. The street divides the black suburb of Sophiatown from the white,...

Mandela speaking with codefendants outside the "Treason Trial" late 1950's in South Africa.

Nelson Mandela in 1950.

Black man is arrested and kept in a Ford police car as violence increased in East London, in November 1952. - Riots erupted in East London, Eastern...

TOPSHOT-SOUTH-AFRICA-REBELLION-APARTHEID

Two burnt-out cars in a ruined garage in Cato Manor, Durban, after race-related rioting, June 1959. The rioters were protesting against the city's...

Cato Manor Chaos

Race, Apartheid, South Africa, pic: May 1952, Non white women and girls seen among a crowd outside Johannesburg City Hall at a protest meeting which...

Race, Apartheid, South Africa, pic: May 1952, Non white women and girls seen among a crowd outside Johannesburg City Hall at a protest meeting which defied a ban on such gatherings

Reference certificate or pass issued to Christina Baloyi in South Africa, 1956. All black South Africans over the age of 15 were required by law to...

Philadelphia: Quakers Conference: Of the 300 delegates attending the preliminary Swarthmore College, there were some from Japan, China, , Denmark,...

World Help Leaders Dining Together

Some 60,000 natives are being forcibly moved from Sophiatown, the shanty town section of Johannesburg, to a new Government project called...

View of Squalid Street Scene in Shanty Town

The slum areas of Sophiatown near Johannesburg, South Africa, are gradually disappearing as the construction of housing development continues. The...

View of Sophiatown, South Africa

The slum areas of Sophiatown near Johannesburg, South Africa, are gradually disappearing as the construction of housing development continues. The...

New South African Housing Development

Asian schoolteachers meet in a school in Durban, KwaZulu-Natal.

Teachers' Meeting

Residents of Cape Colony on Table Bay, near Cape Town enjoy a game of shovelboard.

Cape Shovelboard

Women armed with sticks face a line of police after a demonstration at Cato Manor, Durban, in protest against the city's measures to clean up the...

Welsh rugby union fly-half Cliff Morgan is tackled by Koch whilst playing for the British Lions against South Africa at Johannesburg. He was voted...

Welsh rugby union fly-half Cliff Morgan

Picture of the city of Johannesburg in the 1950's.

Picture of the city of Johannesburg in t

Mandela marries Winnie Madikizela on June 1958 in Ponderland,South Africa. A social worker from Bizana in Pondoland. Winnie takes on a more...

Archive Pictures Of Nelson Mandela

Supporters give the thumb up as a prison van with anti-apartheid militants go to Johannesburg's courthouse, 28 December 1956. 152 anti-apartheid...

ANC supporters give the thumb up as a pr

Un musicien à Johannesburg en Afrique du Sud vers 1950-1953. Un musicien à Johannesburg en Afrique du Sud vers 1950-1953.

MUSICIEN A JOHANNESBOURG 1950-1953

Newly crowned Miss World 1958, Penelope Anne Coelen, who represented South Africa, pictured in her sports car, London, 14th October 1958.

Miss World Beauty Competition 1958

An aerial view of Johannesburg city centre.

Johannesburg, Transvaal Province, South Africa

An aerial view of Johannesburg city.

Street race in a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa, 1950s.

Jo'burg Street Race

Women demonstrating with sticks outside Cato Manor, Durban, against the city's measures to clean up their township.

The new Vauxhall Victor parked on a street in East London, the first European car to have a panoramic windscreen.

Vauxhall Victor

Tour Of France Rugby Team In South Africa. Le 20 aout 1958 à Johannesburg en Afrique du Sud, une touche jouée entre le XV de France et les springboks.

Tour Of France Rugby Team In South Africa

Children attending the mission school in the Langa township close to Cape Town. The school is threaten with closure as the National Party led South...

Children attending the mission school in the Langa township close to Cape Town 1955

June 14, 1958: Nelson Mandela and Winnie Madikizela's wedding photo.

Nelson Mandela...

Life in South Africa under the Apartheid administration. 1955. Apartheid was a system of institutionalised racial segregation that existed in South...

Life in South Africa under the Apartheid administration.

Photomontage Representing A South African Taxi Station Reserved For Whites, Above, And Below A Booth Carrying The Specification Non European Teller,...

Taxi Reserved For Whites And Ticket Booth For Blacks In South Africa 1950-1970

Sign common in Johannesburg, South Africa, reading 'Caution Beware Of Natives'.

Racist Road Sign

Sign common in Johannesburg, South Africa, reading 'Caution Beware Of Natives'.

Racist Road Sign

Demo during South Africa under the Apartheid administration, 1955. Apartheid was a system of institutionalized racial segregation that existed in...

South Africa under the Apartheid administration

Like Many Of Her Peers, This Woman Sat In The Wagon Reserved For White People To Protest Against Malan'S Government And His Regime Of Apartheid, In...

Demonstration Against Apartheid In South Africa : Black Woman In A Wagon Reserved For Whites 1952

Signs in English and Afrikaans, in Wellington railway station, South Africa, enforcing the policy of apartheid or racial segregation.

Apartheid Signs

Protesters take part in the civil disobedience campaign, in June 1952, in Johannesburg, by occupying places for white people. The civil disobedience...

SOUTH AFRICA-DEFIANCE CAMPAIGN

woman in headscarf lowering sunglasses in vintage convertible - south africa 1950s stock pictures, royalty-free photos & images

Woman in headscarf lowering sunglasses in vintage convertible

South Africans enjoying having their portrait taken by a street photographer against a backdrop of painted curtains.

Street Photographer

Nelson Mandela , leader of the African National Congress , Patrick Molaoa and Robert Resha charged with treason by the South-African Union walked to...

Archive Pictures Of Nelson Mandela

The slogan 'We Won't Move' appears on a wall in Sophiatown, a suburb of Johannesburg, 1955. In 1955, the Group Areas Act allowed the government to...

Life in South Africa under the Apartheid administration. 1955. Apartheid was a system of institutionalised racial segregation that existed in South...

Life in South Africa under the Apartheid administration.

Trucks are loaded with goods and furniture during the forced removal of the population of Sophiatown, a multi-racial, but predominantly Black suburb...

Forced Removals From Sophiatown

Life in South Africa under the Apartheid administration. 1955. Apartheid was a system of institutionalised racial segregation that existed in South...

Life in South Africa under the Apartheid administration.

Nelson Mandela , leader of the African National Congress , Patrick Molaoa and Robert Resha charged with treason by the South-African Union walked to...

Archive Pictures Of Nelson Mandela

woman in vintage swimsuit standing on side of pool - south africa 1950s stock pictures, royalty-free photos & images

Woman in vintage swimsuit standing on side of pool

Woman sitting on bench reserved for the use of whites only, outside a sweet shop in the city of Johannesburg in South Africa.

Seating for Whites Only, Johannesburg

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