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Title: Man stands at control desk of a train station, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Railroads, Transport, Communication and technology, Architecture, Interior decoration
Description: Control desks and signal diagram in the new Cape Town Cabin seen during a test of the installation.
Identifier: islandora:16161

Title: Man picks up a teargas canister that has been set off, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Law enforcement, Civil unrest, Violence, Weapons, Demonstrations
Description: A youth picks up a streaming teargas canister to throw it back at police in Athlone yesterday.
Identifier: islandora:16219

Title: Man defies apartheid laws by walking up stairs reserved for non-whites, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Segregation, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950
Description: A white youth comes out of the all-race subway and goes up the steps reserved for non-Whites.
Identifier: islandora:16129

Title: Man and woman hold up anti-apartheid stickers, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Segregation, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Progressive Federal Party (South Africa)
Description: Man and woman hold up anti-apartheid stickers, Cape Town
Identifier: islandora:16125

Title: Man speaks to crowd facing eviction, Cape Town
Subject: Agricultural laborers, Forced removals (South Africa), ,
Description: Mr E.M. ('Babs') Essop, acting chairman of the Athlone and District Management Committee (centre), addressed families facing eviction at a farm in Phillipi today.
Identifier: islandora:15816

Title: Man shows his prison tattoos, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Jails, Reformatories, Prisoners
Description: Mr James D. Petersen, a former long-term convict, shows the rank he received to mark his status as a "General of [the] 26s prison gang in the Cape.
Identifier: islandora:16014

Title: Man holds onto the wire mesh that separates him from a waterslide, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Segregation, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950
Description: Apartheid / Mr Abubakar Abdol, of Parkwood Estate, looks through the wire mesh at the water slide at Muizenberg which he may not use. The slide is the only facility in the pavilion area not open to all races. The owner says he is not willing to risk prosecution and will only open the slide to all when the law is changed.
Identifier: islandora:16130

Title: Man kneels next to the grave of his son, Cape Town
Subject: Apartheid, Forced removals (South Africa), Relocation, Agriculture, Demonstrations, ,
Description: A white Phillipi farmer has vowed to barricade himself, his wife and two children inside his farmhouse to protect their property and the grave of his infant son from Department of Community Development bulldozers. For Mr Derek Galloway, of the farm Reiersvlei, could soon become a victim of the Group Areas Act. / Mr Galloway at the gravesite of his child on the farm at Philippi.
Identifier: islandora:15820

Title: Man walks past discarded teargas canister, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Civil unrest, Violence, Demonstrations, Weapons
Description: A burnt-out teargas canister in an almost deserted Darling Street this afternoon.
Identifier: islandora:16253

Title: A man inspects the damage done by a fire, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Civil unrest, Violence, Vandalism
Description: An employee points out some of the damage caused early yesterday morning when a fire broke out at Sacca Ltd in Brickfield Road, Salt River. Arson is suspected.
Identifier: islandora:16312

Title: Man inspects trap he has set to catch two baby hippo, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Rondevlei (South Africa), Hippopotamus, Animals conservation, Wooden fences
Description: To catch a hippo: Mr Howard Langley, left, warden of the Rondevlei Bird Sanctuary, inspects the boma he has built to catch the two hippo calves.
Identifier: islandora:16571

Title: Man pulls out trunk from the ground, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Civil unrest, Violence, Vandalism, Law enforcement
Description: Detective Sergeant Frank Madconci of the Langa CID unearths a metal trunk containing looted goods which was buried by Tsotsis at the height of the looting.
Identifier: islandora:16333

Title: Man feeding his chickens, 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 man feeds his chickens with a sheep by his side on a cobbled paving behind his 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:18534

Title: People help an injured man, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Civil unrest, Violence, Wounded, Demonstrations
Description: Bystanders lend a helping hand to man injured during this afternoon's uproar on Greenmarket Square.
Identifier: islandora:16254

Title: Man sits resting his head in his hand, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Segregation, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950
Description: Man seeks race change for love: A young white Cape Town man is to appeal to the Government to re-classify him as a Coloured person so he can marry his Coloured girlfriend. "If they won't reclassify me Coloured, I will leave the country of my birth so that I can live legally with the woman I love and have children by her," Mr Dirk Brits, a 32-year-old fitter, said yesterday.
Identifier: islandora:16132

Title: Man blinded by teargas, Cape Town
Subject: Progressive Federal Party (South Africa), Law enforcement, Weapons, Demonstrations, ,
Description: Inside Rondebosch Town Hall a man blinded by teargas staggers on to the stage.
Identifier: islandora:15814

Title: Man waxes his surfboard, Cape Town
Subject: Aquatic sports, Recreation areas, Ocean, Table Mountain (Western Cape, South Africa), ,
Description: "The tanks" beach at Paarden Eiland is still relatively unpolluted. It is also a good surfing spot.
Identifier: islandora:15628

Title: Man speaks to crowd, Cape Town
Subject: Parow (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), National Party (South Africa), Politics, Communities
Description: Herstigte Nasionale Party (HNP) meeting at Parow.
Identifier: islandora:15972

Title: Man walks in the rain with his make-shift weapon at the ready, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Weather, Protection
Description: The cruel tools of two worlds come together at Crossroads as a combatant armed with sticks in the rain passes a few metres of new barbed wire that fences now-vanquished squatter communities.
Identifier: islandora:16117

Title: Man sitting on the ground, 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 man sits on the floor against a wall in District Six, Cape Town in the 1970's prior to the state orchestrated forced removals to locations further from the city.
Identifier: islandora:18532

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