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Title: Taxi War violence spreads to Green Point Khayelitsha joint human rights walk about
Description: View of damage done in Cape Town township during taxi wars in September 1991. On verso of photograph: Khayelitsha Greenpoint burning Oct 1991
Identifier: islandora:6562

Title: About time for criticism and self-criticism! : notes on an exhibition
Subject: Politics and culture--South Africa, Arts--Censorship--South Africa
Description: A reflection on the process leading to the banned 'About Time' exhibition, the opening event of the banned 'Towards a People's Culture' Festival.
Identifier: islandora:19033

Title: The police aren't mucking about anymore ...
Subject: Police--South Africa--Caricatures and cartoons, Crime--South Africa--Caricatures and cartoons, South Africa. Asset Forfeiture Unit--Caricatures and cartoons, South Africa--Social conditions--1994- Caricatures and cartoons, South African wit and humor, Pictorial, South Africa
Description: The police weren't mucking about anymore. To show they meant business they used the Asset Forfeiture Unit to confiscate the assets of those involved in crime. Description provided by Tony Grogan.
Identifier: islandora:6194

Title: Plaque about District Six, Cape Town
Subject: District Six (Cape Town, South Africa), Historic buildings, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Race discrimination, Christianity
Description: Plaque at Cape Town Church
Identifier: islandora:17338

Title: Apartheid ' what was it about?
Subject: South Africa--Politics and government--Caricatures and cartoons, Apartheid--South Africa--Caricatures and cartoons, South African wit and humor, Pictorial, South Africa
Description: When the entire edifice of Apartheid came crashing down in 1990 one wondered what had been the purpose of it all. Description provided by Tony Grogan.
Identifier: islandora:6139

Title: Correspondence about embryo donations.
Subject: Embryology--Research, Drennan, M. R. (Matthew Robertson), 1885-1965--Correspondence.
Description: Ten letters, handwritten and typed re donations of embryos to the University of Cape Town. These are mostly addressed to Matthew Drenann and were written between 21 June 1918 and 11 September 1946.
Identifier: islandora:20977

Title: A Map of the Coast and Country about Sierra Leone and Sherbro River
Subject: Western Africa
Description: Inset: Map of River Sierra Lione; Plate 177, No. 101, Vol. 2, p. 386.
Identifier: islandora:25636

Title: Dr Nicky Iyambo briefs exiled Namibians about their imminent return
Subject: Exiles--Namibia
Description: Dr Nicky Iyambo briefs exiled Namibians about their imminent return to the country from Angola.
Identifier: islandora:6900

Title: Clerk and interpreter talk to squatters about relocating, Cape Town
Subject: Authority, Forced removals (South Africa), Homeless persons, ,
Description: Transit talk: Milnerton town clerk Mr Peter Gerber uses an interpreter in discussions with squatters about their relocation to the temporary transit area next week.
Identifier: islandora:15298

Title: Protest about Labour Relations Act, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Demonstrations, Labor unions
Description: Protest about Labour Relations Act, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:17748

Title: Painting a dream about Cape Town, Cape Town Festival, 1977
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Festivals, Art, Culture, Entertainment
Description: Mr Hendrik Jordaan puts the finishing touches to his painting of a dream he had about Cape Town. It has been a big day in Greenmarket Square.
Identifier: islandora:17149

Title: Chris Barnard at a press conference being questioned about the death of Louis Washkansky, Cape Town
Subject: Barnard, Christiaan, 1922-2001, Surgeons--South Africa, Heart--Transplantation, Press conferences
Description: Dr. M.C. Botha lights Professor Barnard's cigarette. The other doctor is Prof. A.A.Forder. [This photograph was taken at a press conference attended by about 50 journalists at the University of Cape Town Medical School yesterday, little more than seven hours after Mr. Louis Washkansky's death]
Identifier: islandora:14799

Title: Xeni area. Fynbos burnt in fire of June '81. Looking south west from about -28.9, 29.15
Subject: Botany--South Africa, Plants--South Africa, Fynbos--South Africa, ,
Identifier: islandora:9421

Title: Martha - Piet Kortans step daughter (mixed) and Yaniki Titis about 7yrs old said to be Bushman
Identifier: islandora:5845

Title: Dawid Kruiper provides cultural and historic information about points on a map
Subject: Kruiper, Dawid, San (African people)--Botswana and South Africa--Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, Khomani (African people)--Botswana and South Africa--Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, San (African people)--Social life and customs, Khomani (African people)--Social life and customs, Indigenous peoples--Land tenure--Africa, Southern, ,
Description: Dawid Kruiper works with Levi Namaseb and Bill Kemp on a map. This research was done as part of the data collection process for the ǂKhomani San Land ClaimDawid Kruiper was a traditional leader and healer. He was very politically active and was outspoken on a number of issues impacting San culture. This included speaking to the United Nations about the ǂKhomani San Land Claim and the theft of indigenous knowledge by international corporations. He died in 2012.
Identifier: islandora:27124

Title: I think I remember warning Oupa about knocking his pipe out on that wall
Subject: South Africa--Social conditions--1994- --Caricatures and cartoons, Housing policy--South Africa--Caricatures and cartoons, Reconstruction and Development Programme (South Africa)--Caricatures and cartoons, South African wit and humor, Pictorial, South Africa
Description: Reconstruction and Development Programme (RDP) houses, built in a rushed and haphazard policy to recover the enormous backlog developed during the apartheid years, resulted in poor building standards and shoddy workmanship. Description provided by Tony Grogan.
Identifier: islandora:6126

Title: Screening of "This is your life" a television programme about Basil D'Oliveira's life, Cape Town
Subject: D'Oliveira, Basil, 1931-2011, Cricket players, This is your life (Television program)
Description: "This is your life" - Basil D'Oliveira, Cape Town born cricket star of numerous England test sides is surrounded by members of his family, special guests, including John Arlott, Benny Bansda, Lancashire landlords, Mr. and Mrs. Lord and members of the MCC [Marylebone Cricket Club] meet in Australia as his life story is unfolded on the Thames Television programme. Presenter, Eamon Andrews, had a surprise in store for the unsuspecting D'Oliveira, having his mother, father and sister, Sybil, flown over to London for the occasion
Identifier: islandora:14663

Title: Christians protest about a constitution based on the laws of God, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Demonstrations, Religion
Description: Christians protest about a constitution based on the laws of God, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:16068

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