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Title: Police dog bites school girl, Mowbray school, Cape Town
Subject: Mowbray (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Demonstrations, Education, Youth, School children
Description: Police dog bites school girl at Mowbray school after illegal occupation.
Identifier: islandora:17790

Title: Woman holds a tissue as she cries over the loss of her son, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Demonstrations, Grief, Youth, Law enforcement
Description: Mrs Elizabeth Fortuin weeps over the death of her son Bernard, 15, who was shot dead by police in Halt Road, Elsie's River, yesterday. Bernard, a standard five pupil, was one of two youths shot dead when police opened fire on a stone throwing crowd.
Identifier: islandora:16179

Title: Policeman keeps students at bay outside the gates to Parliament, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Demonstrations, Education, Youth, Student protestors
Description: Hold it: A policeman keeps students at bay outside the gates to parliament. The students were addressed by the education minister who said the government had allocated R1 billion to help them.
Identifier: islandora:17780

Title: The accused in the Trojan Horse Trial, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Youth, South African Police, Trials
Description: Accused: The accused in the Trojan Horse case at the scene of the shooting in Thornton Road, Athlone, today when the court held an inspection in loco.
Identifier: islandora:17602

Title: Demonstations and protests, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Demonstrations, Politics, Youth
Description: African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL) protest, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:17889

Title: Schoolboy arrested, Cape Town, 1987
Subject: Student protesters, Youth--Political activity, Political prisoners, Apartheid, Political history--South Africa, Beyond the Barricades
Description: A schoolboy is arrested during protests against the 1987 white parliamentary elections in Athlone township, Cape Town, May 1987. In 1986, some 25,000 people were imprisoned without trial under the Emergency regulations. Of that number, 10,000 were children under the age of eighteen. In April 1987, the government stated that only 1,400 children were still in detention.
Identifier: islandora:880

Title: Students in silent protest, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Youth, Demonstrations, Apartheid, Politics
Description: A student gives her name to a police major during yesterday's confrontation with police, while other students stand by, gagged in silent protest.
Identifier: islandora:17656

Title: Gangsters, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Cape Town (South Africa), Gangsters, Crime, Youth, Violence
Description: Gangs and gangsters, Cape Town
Identifier: islandora:15155

Title: Former YMCA and home of the Space Theatre, corner of Long and Hout Streets, Cape Town, 1976
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Historic buildings, Theatre, Performing arts, Youth
Description: The YMCA building on the corner of Hout and Long Streets, Cape Town, built in 1883 and occupied by the Space Theatre in the 1970s.
Identifier: islandora:17514

Title: School pupils watching police, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Athlone (Cape Town, South Africa), circa 1976, Civil unrest, Youth, Demonstrations, Law enforcement
Description: Students from high schools in Athlone combined on the grounds of the Alexander Sinton High School, Thornton Road, in a planned protest. Here they watch as Riot Squad police (left) cross the road with a loud hailer. The Riot Squad prepares to enter the school grounds of Alexander Sinton to disperse the students of the Belgravia High School and Sinton High schools. Students wisely remained inside the grounds to avoid action by the riot squad.
Identifier: islandora:16382

Title: UCT student civil rights campaign, Cape Town
Subject: Rondebosch (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Demonstrations, Youth, Apartheid, Politics, University of Cape Town
Description: As part of the University of Cape Town (UCT) student civil rights campaign, students are holding a vigil on the UCT Summer House below De Waal Drive. The vigil began shortly after lunch-time on Wednesday this week, and will continue until about the same time on Wednesday August 23. Students are standing in relays which are interrupted only between the hours 1 am and 6 am each day.
Identifier: islandora:17645

Title: Themba Mthembu and Mandla Sibisi, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Political prisoners, Apartheid, Youth
Description: Themba Mthembu, left, and Mandla Sibisi.
Identifier: islandora:17939

Title: Two Democratic Party youths, Cape Town
Subject: Bellville (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Politics, Democratic Party (South Africa), Youth
Description: Running the gauntlet: Two Democratic Party youth members, escorted by a University of the Western Cape campus control marshal, hurry from a group of students who allegedly assaulted them outside the Bellville Magistrate's Court yesterday.
Identifier: islandora:17629

Title: Youth detainee, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Political prisoners, Apartheid, Youth
Description: 15-year-old detainee, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:17921

Title: Protesters with their firsts in the air, Cape Town
Subject: Langa (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Civil unrest, Violence, Demonstrations, Youth
Description: Riots - Langa, 1976
Identifier: islandora:16324

Title: Man calling Cape Town Muslims to prayers, Cape Town
Subject: Religion, Islam, Youth, ,
Description: Calling Cape Town Muslims to prayers on the tower of the Hoop Street Mosque.
Identifier: islandora:15505

Title: Gangsters, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Cape Town (South Africa), Gangsters, Crime, Youth, Violence
Description: Gangs and gangsters, Cape Town
Identifier: islandora:15156

Title: Youths saluting, Cape Town
Subject: Athlone (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Demonstrations, Youth, Apartheid, Courts
Description: Youths give clenched fist salute as they leave the Athlone Magistrate's Court yesterday where 69 people appeared following the Crossroads raids this week. Police cleared the court at one stage and also dispersed a crowd which gathered in front of the court buildings.
Identifier: islandora:17560

Title: ANC Youth toyitoyi at the Grand Parade, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Youth, Politics, African National Congress, Apartheid, National Party (South Africa)
Description: African National Congress (ANC) youth toyitoyi (dance) in protest against President FW de Klerk at the Grand Parade, Cape Town
Identifier: islandora:15906

Title: Anti-conscription protest, Cape Town
Subject: Apartheid--South Africa, South Africa--Politics and government--1978-1989, South Africa--History--1961-1994, Demonstrations--South Africa, Youths--South Africa, Conscientious objectors--South Africa, Political activists--South Africa,
Description: Conscientious objectors, Ivan Toms and Cameron Dugmore, protesting for the release of imprisoned objectors. T-shirt reads, "I refuse to serve in the SADF (South African Defense Force)". Cape Town., circa 1980s
Identifier: islandora:12660

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