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Title: [Demonstration demanding clemency for the Sharpeville Six]
Description: Policeman and police vehicle at scene of Black Sash stand demanding clemency for the Sharpeville Six. The Cultural History Museum (now Slave Lodge) and Smuts statue are in view.
Identifier: islandora:6511

Title: Last shopkeeper in District Six, Cape Town
Subject: District Six (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Forced removals, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950
Description: Mr M.C. Kader will be the last shopkeeper in District Six.
Identifier: islandora:17998

Title: Family sitting outside their home, District Six, Cape Town, South Africa
Subject: District Six (Cape Town, South Africa)--Social conditions, District Six (Cape Town, South Africa)--History, Cape Town (South Africa)--History, ,
Description: A family of seven sitting outside the front door of their home in District Six, Cape Town in the 1970's prior to the state orchestrated forced removals to locations further from the city.
Identifier: islandora:18512

Title: Children in District Six, Cape Town
Subject: District Six (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Children
Description: Children in District Six, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:18025

Title: Six of eight orphans whose parents died of AIDS, Hlabisa, South Africa
Subject: AIDS (disease)--South Africa, Orphans--South Africa, Children--South Africa,
Description: AIDS orphans (from left to right), Mandla Nyawo (14), Samkelisiwe Nyawo (8), Mbongeni Nyawo (11), Nhlakanipho Nywao (5), Nkosiyabona Nyawo (4), and Sphamandla Nyawo (12). They are six of eight siblings whose parents died of AIDS and left them with their aunt. The aunt is single and has two children of her own. She does washing for the local hospital three times a week, earning R60 ($8) per week). Hlabisa, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
Identifier: islandora:1374

Title: Bearded man reading at a table inside his home in District Six, Cape Town, South Africa
Subject: District Six (Cape Town, South Africa)--Social conditions, District Six (Cape Town, South Africa)--History, Cape Town (South Africa)--History, ,
Description: A bearded man sits at a table and reads in District Six, Cape Town in the 1970's prior to the state orchestrated forced removals to locations further from the city. It is not known whether this man is Jewish or Muslim.
Identifier: islandora:18524

Title: Women waiting, District Six, Cape Town, South Africa
Subject: District Six (Cape Town, South Africa)--Social conditions, District Six (Cape Town, South Africa)--History, Cape Town (South Africa)--History, ,
Description: A group of women wait patiently in a room. District Six, Cape Town in the 1970's prior to the state orchestrated forced removals to locations further from the city.
Identifier: islandora:18530

Title: District Six, Cape Town, 1974-1975
Subject: South Africa--Social conditions, District Six (Cape Town, South Africa), Apartheid--South Africa--Cape Town, Housing--South Africa--Cape Town, Rubble--South Africa--Cape Town, Winer Batch01, ,
Description: Demolition in progress, District Six, Cape Town, circa 1974-1975. Taken during the final stage of removal of 6000 families from District Six, for relocation to the Cape Flats and Atlantis, in terms of the Group Areas Act.
Identifier: islandora:12527

Title: Concert flute with six keys
Subject: Musical instruments--England--London
Description: Hornbostel-Sachs numbers: 2460, 2461, 2464, 3607, Length: 653mm (25.6 in.), Diameter: 37mm (1.2 in.), Place of production: London (England), Creator: D'Almaine and Co.
Identifier: islandora:20433

Title: Two young girls hugging, District Six, Cape Town, South Africa
Subject: District Six (Cape Town, South Africa)--Social conditions, District Six (Cape Town, South Africa)--History, Cape Town (South Africa)--History, ,
Description: Two young girls sit on a pavement with arms around each other in District Six, Cape Town in the 1970's prior to the state orchestrated forced removals to locations further from the city.
Identifier: islandora:18539

Title: Young boy holding a wheel, District Six, Cape Town, South Africa
Subject: District Six (Cape Town, South Africa)--Social conditions, District Six (Cape Town, South Africa)--History, Cape Town (South Africa)--History, ,
Description: A young boy stands in a field holding a large wheel in District Six, Cape Town in the 1970's prior to the state orchestrated forced removals to locations further from the city.
Identifier: islandora:18536

Title: District Six, Cape Town
Subject: District Six (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid
Description: District Six, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:18020

Title: Performance in front of District Six mural
Subject: Community Arts Project (Cape Town, South Africa)--History, Community arts projects--South Africa--Cape Town--History, Community theater--Study and teaching--South Africa--Cape Town
Description: Community theatre for development student performing in front of District Six mural, Community Arts Project, Chapel Street.
Identifier: islandora:29004

Title: Confined to bed since move from District Six, Cape Town
Subject: Bontheuwel (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Relocation
Description: Mr Christian Smith, 87, who has been confined to his bed since his move from District Six to Bonteheuwel four months ago.
Identifier: islandora:17978

Title: Land claim for District Six, Cape Town
Subject: District Six (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Forced removals, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Post-apartheid era
Description: Derelict land: Abdul Ebrahim hopes to reclaim five large undeveloped plots in District Six where his family once lived.
Identifier: islandora:18004

Title: Six miners sitting in rest area, Bultfontein Mine, Kimberley, South Africa
Subject: Miners--South Africa, Mines and mining--South Africa, Men--South Africa,
Description: From left are, David Makwati (first aider), Matthews Moeng (loco driver), James Modles (jack hammer operator), Rex Tshipa (block cave charging assistant), Louis Modise (block cave operator), and Thomas Lekopa (learner miner), sitting in the rest area at 845-level on Bultfontein Mine in Kimberley. De Beers
Identifier: islandora:1322

Title: Family home, District Six, Cape Town
Subject: District Six (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950
Description: This windowless room is a family's home. The mother smiles up from her cooking, cheerful in spite of her modest surroundings.
Identifier: islandora:18006

Title: [Demonstration demanding clemency for the Sharpeville Six]
Description: Black Sash members in stand outside Parliament, demanding ""Clemency for the Sharpeville Six."" Mary Burton, Jenny de Tolly, Margaret Nash and Judith Barron can be identified
Identifier: islandora:6513

Title: District Six, Cape Town
Subject: District Six (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid
Description: District Six, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:18024

Title: District Six, Cape Town
Subject: District Six (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid
Description: District Six, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:18010

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