30: Pictures

 30 years ago (April 1994) Apartheid ended in South Africa.

(Apartheid Sign in Pretoria, South Africa)

(George VI, King of South Africa from 1936-1952.)

(Flag of South Africa, used between 1928 and 1994.)

(D. F. Malan, the first Apartheid Prime Minister from 1948–1954)

(Elizabeth II, Queen of South Africa from 1952-1961.)

(Ballot paper used in the referendum. Ballot reads on the upper row: IS U TEN GUNSTE VAN 'N REPUBLIEK VIR DIE UNIE? in Afrikaans and on the bottom row: ARE YOU IN FAVOUR OF A REPUBLIC FOR THE UNION? in English in 1960)

(Hector Pieterson being carried by Mbuyisa Makhubo after being shot by the South African police. His sister, Antoinette Sithole, runs beside them. Pieterson was rushed to a local clinic where he was declared dead on arrival. This photo by Sam Nzima became an icon of the Soweto Uprising.)

(Frederik Willem de Klerk, Last Apartheid President of South Africa 1989–1994)

(Race Classification Certificate issued in terms of the Population Registration Act from 1988)

(Paper Ballot of the first Democratic Election in 1994)

(Nelson Mandela, President of South Africa 1994-1999.)

(The new multicolored flag of South Africa adopted in 1994 to mark the end of Apartheid.)