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Title: Father Michael Lapsley, Cape Town, 1997
Subject: Apartheid--South Africa, Political violence--South Africa, South Africa--Social conditions, War crimes investigation--South Africa, Lapsley, Michael, Truth and Lies,
Description: Father Michael Lapsley, Cape Town, 1997. A New Zealander, he arrived at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in 1973 and deported to Lesotho in 1976 where he joined the ANC and trained Anglican priests. In April 1990, after the release of Nelson Mandela, he received a letter bomb believed to have been sent by a government death squad. He lost an eye and both hands.
Identifier: islandora:785

Title: Raymond Ackerman at the Olympic Summit meeting, Cape Town
Subject: Ackerman, Raymond, 1931-, Ackerman, Wendy
Description: Setting terms: Looking thunderous, supermarket magnate Mr. Raymond Ackerman lays down his bottom line at yesterday's Olympic Summit meeting in the Civic Centre. Beside him is his wife Wendy.
Identifier: islandora:14375

Title: Crossroads march, Cape Town
Subject: Nyanga (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Squatter settlements, Apartheid, Demonstrations
Description: Crossroads march. Supporters of Old Crossroads headman Mr Geoffrey Nongwe march to Nyanga police station yesterday.
Identifier: islandora:17584

Title: Map of Cape Town central and neighbouring suburbs
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa) -- Maps.
Description: Map shows tramways, railways, principal buildings, bathing places (including the "New Swimming Baths" at Woodstock), the foreshore area and harbour area, marking Victoria Dock, Alfred Dock and the position of the New Basin. Map gives the distances from Adderley Street to various suburbs and other centres as well as available means of transport. There is additional tourist information on the verso of the map., South African Railways and Harbours.
Identifier: islandora:19894

Title: Fires, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Devil's Peak (Cape Town, South Africa), Disasters, Fires, Fire departments
Description: Firemen work under a rain of glowing debris on Tafelberg Road, Devil's Peak, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:14963

Title: Police carry protestor out of Parliament Gates, Cape Town
Subject: South Africa. Parliament, Governments, Demonstrations, Law enforcement, ,
Description: Parliament building.
Identifier: islandora:15770

Title: Epping, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Epping (Cape Town, South Africa), Industrial districts, Infrastructure
Description: Newly built bus and taxi station, Epping.
Identifier: islandora:18127

Title: Cape Town City
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Cape Town (South Africa), Urban areas, Infrastructure, Architecture, Land, Development, Traffic congestion
Description: Cape Town's most pressing problem: (Above) Cars seek refuge illegally on the Foreshore, with its many acres of vacant land.
Identifier: islandora:15077

Title: District Six resident, Cape Town
Subject: District Six (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Forced removals, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950
Description: Doris Kavanagh ... "I don't know why they should pull the building down. It's so solid you can't knock a nail in the walls."
Identifier: islandora:17992

Title: Protesters at Oudekraal, Cape Town
Subject: Oudekraal (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Demonstrations, Environmental activists
Description: Protesters at Oudekraal, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:16119

Title: Man stands in front of his crops, Cape Town
Subject: Agriculture, ,
Description: Amos Offir stands in front of the tomato plants he has grown in the sand of Phillipi aided by Israel irrigation methods and technical expertise.
Identifier: islandora:15815

Title: Arrested Rastafarian who supported unemployed workers, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Demonstrations
Description: Arrested: A Rastafarian protester is arrested after turning out to support unemployed workers in Burg Street yesterday.
Identifier: islandora:17899

Title: People crouch to help a man injured, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Weapons, Law enforcement, Wounds and injuries
Description: A man grimaces in pain as he is given first aid after being wounded by riot police when they opened fire on a crowd stoning a truck in Halt Road. Elsie's River, yesterday afternoon. The man was discovered a few blocks from the scene in Faure Street, where he collapsed. He gave his name as Mr Louis Fisher, of Alard Street, Clarke's Estate, Elsies River.
Identifier: islandora:16182

Title: People protest in a train station, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Railroads, Transport, Infrastructure, Demonstration
Description: People protest in a train station, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:16156

Title: Girls pose in their traditional German dresses, Cape Town
Subject: Lederhosen, Dirndls, Youth, Gender, ,
Description: With their Aryan blond hair and blue eyes, many of the children are keen to dress up in their traditional German costumes.
Identifier: islandora:15822

Title: Protest, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Demonstrations, Apartheid, South African Police, Youth
Description: Part of a group of about 250 protesters move along Sir Lowry Road before their protest march was stopped by police at the intersection at Darling Street today.
Identifier: islandora:17720

Title: Postcard from Lisel Alsberg, Cape Town to Edith Bruch, Green Point (Cape Town, South Africa), 1937
Subject: Bruch, Edith--Correspondence, Alsberg, Lisel--Correspondence
Description: Postcard from Lisel Alsberg, Cape Town to Edith Bruch, Green Point (Cape Town, South Africa), 1937. On the front of the postcard is a photograph of a farmer ploughing a field with a horse-drawn plough. There is a South African Springbok stamp on the reverse.
Identifier: islandora:29870

Title: Homeless women, Crossroads, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Squatter settlements, Apartheid, Women, Homeless persons
Description: Homeless Crossroads women wait at Parliament yesterday while four of them met Mr Chris Heunis to plead for rebuilding of their homes.
Identifier: islandora:17581

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