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Title: Bishop Lavis Drive, Cape Town
Subject: Bishop Lavis (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Townships, Apartheid, Youth, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Coloured people (South Africa)
Description: Bishop Lavis Drive in Bishop Lavis township, Cape Town
Identifier: islandora:16852

Title: New housing development, Blue Downs, Cape Town
Subject: Blue Downs (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Townships, Apartheid, Housing, Architecture
Description: A new housing development at Blue Downs, Cape Town
Identifier: islandora:16879

Title: Firemen, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Cape Town (South Africa), Emergency management, Water, Fire departments
Description: Anthony Rhode and Cedric Lakey, 21.
Identifier: islandora:14979

Title: Police break up a demonstration, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Demonstrations, Law enforcement
Description: Police break up a demonstration, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:16057

Title: Salt River Power Station, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Salt River (Cape Town, South Africa), Urban areas, Infrastructure, Electric industries
Description: Salt River Power Station.
Identifier: islandora:18118

Title: Protesters shout anti-Semitic slogans at Jewish old age home, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Demonstrations, Religion
Description: Angry words ... Barbed wire kept angry workers from entering a city Jewish old-age home yesterday, as protesters shouted anti-Semitic slogans and scuffled with police.
Identifier: islandora:17847

Title: Head of maximum security prison, Robben Island, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Robben Island (South Africa), Jails, Historic sites, Prison administration
Description: Lieutenant Piet Prins, head of the maximum security prison.
Identifier: islandora:16542

Title: Pupils carry the coffin od a friend, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Civil unrest, Violence, Demonstrations, Youth, Grief
Description: Members of the Langa Haarlem Boys' Boxing Club were pallbearers at the funeral of a schoolboy, Xolile Mosi, 18, who was killed in the recent rioting.
Identifier: islandora:16355

Title: Signal Hill, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Signal Hill (Cape Town, South Africa), Disasters, Fires
Description: Signal Hill.
Identifier: islandora:14958

Title: AIDS march, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Demonstrations, AIDS activists
Description: AIDS march: One of a number of events to mark World AIDS Day yesterday was a city-centre march to Parliament to hand over a memorandum addressed to the present and a future government. These inflated condoms caused a bit of a stir, though, when the Catholic assistant bishop of Cape Town, Reginald Cawcutt, decided not to participate because it was "turning into a condom march". The marchers were received at parliament by African National Congress (ANC) MP Jannie Momberg who said he was accepting it on behalf of all MPs who were concerned about AIDS.
Identifier: islandora:17635

Title: Archbishop Desmond Tutu faces police, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Demonstrations, Apartheid, South African Police, Tutu, Desmond, Gerwel, G. J. (G. Jakes)
Description: Archbishop Desmond Tutu to face with police at a protest march in the city yesterday. Next to him is the head of the University of the Western Cape, Professor Jakes Gerwel, who also took part in the march.
Identifier: islandora:17718

Title: Cape Youth Congress picket in support of hunger strike, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Demonstrations, Apartheid, South African Police, Youth, Groote Schuur Hospital (Cape Town, South Africa)
Description: Freedom plea: Rain and bitterly cold weather didn't deter these members of the Gardens branch of the Cape Youth Congress from their picket in support of hunger striker Mr Willie Hofmeyer outside Groote Schuur Hospital yesterday.
Identifier: islandora:17721

Title: Clothing Industry Training Centre, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Woodstock (Cape Town, South Africa), Labour, Clothing trade, Business, Industry
Description: Watching closely at the Clothing Industry Training Centre in Woodstock.
Identifier: islandora:14877

Title: Cathedral of District Six, Cape Town
Subject: District Six (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Forced removals (South Africa), Religion, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950
Description: Top: St Mark's Anglican Church stands steadfast on the hill in District Six. A symbol of tradition for some, the church was once called the "Cathedral of District Six" and the "small Vatican", and still holds High Mass three times a month. Here, the congregation streams down the hill after a Sunday morning service. Many once lived in the now bare land of District Six.
Identifier: islandora:17989

Title: Gate to servants quarters, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Domestic workers, Apartheid, South Africa. Separate Amenities Act, 1953
Description: Maggie Dewies, domestic worker, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:18045

Title: Cape Times Big Walk, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Sports, Charity, Newspapers, Women
Description: First woman across the finishing line, Cape Times 50 mile Big Walk, 1967
Identifier: islandora:16976

Title: Foreshore freeway construction, Cape Town City
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Urban areas, Land, Urban development, Infrastructure, Transport, Building
Description: View of the Foreshore, Cape Town, shows progress on the freeways. At the start of the major contract, which will provide about 1 km of elevated dual carriageways parallel to the harbour fence, Murray & Stewart (Cape Town) offered to cut six months from the contract time. Three years later, with allowable extensions, they are still ahead of that speeded-up schedule. This means that the project should be completed in September 1976. Allowing for escalation, the total value of the work now being handled on the freeways will be in the region of R21-million.
Identifier: islandora:15125

Title: Opening of a new factory, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Cape Town (South Africa), Industry, Business
Description: Opening of a new factory.
Identifier: islandora:14876

Title: Looters run away with store goods, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Demonstrations, Vandalism
Description: Haui March - looting.
Identifier: islandora:16206

Title: Flower sellers, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Cape Town (South Africa), Street vendors, Plants, Informal sector (Economics), Flower vending
Description: Flower sellers, Cape Town
Identifier: islandora:15061

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