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Title: Beach apartheid inspection, Melkbosstrand, Cape Town
Subject: Melkbosstrand (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, South Africa. Separate Amenities Act, 1953, Recreation, Segregation
Description: Beach apartheid inspectors on patrol at Melkbosstrand, Cape Town
Identifier: islandora:16892

Title: Apartheid beach signage, Cape Town
Subject: Fish Hoek (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, South Africa. Separate Amenities Act, 1953, Race discrimination, Segregation, Apartheid signage
Description: "This beach and the amenities thereof have been reserved for non-white persons". Apartheid signage at Fish Hoek, Cape Town
Identifier: islandora:16653

Title: First beach with an entrance fee, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, South Africa. Separate Amenities Act, 1953, Apartheid signage
Description: The 'Whites only' sign at Hottentot's Huisie will disappear after the announcement today of the deproclamation of a number of beaches in the Peninsula. The Divisional Council is to levy an entrance fee at this beach, making it the first in the Peninsula where visitors will have to pay.
Identifier: islandora:16670

Title: Apartheid beach signage, Cape Town
Subject: Simon's Town (Cape of Good Hope, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, South Africa. Separate Amenities Act, 1953, Race discrimination, Segregation, Apartheid signage
Description: Simonstown beach reserved for whites only in the apartheid era
Identifier: islandora:16654

Title: Beach segregation, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, South Africa. Separate Amenities Act, 1953, Race discrimination, Segregation
Description: The decision by the Cape Town City Council not to enforce beach apartheid does not protect individuals from prosecution. From left, Mr Colin Magnus, Mr Deon Smart (sitting) and Mr January Magnus, all from Steenberg, point to a sign which shows that government policy is still to retain segregated beaches.
Identifier: islandora:16659

Title: Apartheid-era public swimming pool, Bellville, Cape Town
Subject: Bellville (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), South Africa. Separate Amenities Act, 1953, Apartheid, Recreation, City planning, Sport
Description: The imposing entrance to Bellvilles's R170,000 swimming bath where four Springbok swimmers -Jon Reen, Geoff Grylls, Neil Oldridge and Vernon Slovin -will take part in a gala on November 21. As the bath is Olympic size, any records set will be official.
Identifier: islandora:16797

Title: Camps Bay beach, Cape Town
Subject: Camps Bay (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Beaches, Apartheid, South Africa. Separate Amenities Act , 1953, Weather, Floods
Description: High seas threaten to flood Main Road at Camps Bay, Cape Town
Identifier: islandora:16997

Title: Bellville railway station, Cape Town
Subject: Bellville (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Railways, Architecture, South Africa. Separate Amenities Act, 1953, Transport
Description: Entrance to the Bellville Station, Cape Town
Identifier: islandora:16811

Title: Integrated buses, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, South Africa. Separate Amenities Act, 1953, Apartheid signage
Description: All aboard on the buses: black and white riding together after 10 years of total segregation.
Identifier: islandora:16669

Title: Apartheid-era crowd control, Camps Bay Beach, Cape Town
Subject: Camps Bay (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, South Africa. Separate Amenities Act, 1953, Beaches, Political activists
Description: Late afternoon sun throws a fence diving Camps Bay beach in half into silhouette.
Identifier: islandora:16994

Title: Modderdam Road, Cape Town
Subject: Bellville (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Townships, Apartheid, Transport, South Africa. Separate Amenities Act, 1953
Description: Passengers wait to board buses at Modderdam Road, Bellville
Identifier: islandora:16839

Title: Rocks and fishing amenities at False Bay reserved for Whites, Cape Town
Subject: False Bay (Western Cape, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, South Africa. Separate Amenities Act, 1953, Apartheid signage
Description: Not only beaches, but also rocks and fishing amenities along the False Bay coast have been segregated, as this Whites Only notice shows.
Identifier: islandora:16666

Title: Coloured Civic Centre in Bellville, Cape Town
Subject: Bellville (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Townships, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Apartheid, South Africa. Separate Amenities Act, 1953, Local government
Description: Mr. H. D. Campbell, secretary to the Coloured Management Committee for Bellville South, in front of the new civic centre which the Town Council of Bellville has built for the people of this township.
Identifier: islandora:16782

Title: Blouberg Beach, Cape Town
Subject: Bloubergstrand (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Demonstrations, South Africa. Separate Amenities Act, 1953, Politics,
Description: Protesting beach apartheid at Blouberg, Cape Town
Identifier: islandora:16884

Title: Apartheid signage at Hout Bay, Cape Town
Subject: Hout Bay (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, South Africa. Separate Amenities Act, 1953, Race discrimination, Segregation, Apartheid signage
Description: Coloured youth such as these were prohibited from using Hout Bay beach under apartheid legislation
Identifier: islandora:16655

Title: Sea Point swimming pool, Cape Town, 1968
Subject: Sea Point (Cape Town, South Africa), Apartheid, South Africa. Separate Amenities Act, 1953, Water
Description: Sea Point swimming-pool is a popular spot in the hot weather and it gets its full share of local holidaymakers and tourists.
Identifier: islandora:17179

Title: Beach apartheid, Blouberg, Cape Town
Subject: Bloubergstrand (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), South Africa. Separate Amenities Act, 1953, Apartheid, Demonstrations
Description: Beach bound - These people were among the many who were excluded from whites-only Blouberg beaches on Saturday. They were bussed to the beaches, but turned back.
Identifier: islandora:16887

Title: Apartheid signage at Simonstown,Cape Town
Subject: Simon's Town (Cape of Good Hope, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, South Africa. Separate Amenities Act, 1953, Race discrimination, Segregation, Apartheid signage
Description: Apartheid signage reserving Boulders Beach at Simonstown for whites only.
Identifier: islandora:16657

Title: Library in Atlantis, Cape Town
Subject: Atlantis (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Apartheid, Education, Coloured Labour Preference Area Policy (South Africa), South Africa. Separate Amenities Act, 1953
Description: Library in apartheid-era Atlantis, the dormitory suburb built for Coloured people outside Cape Town
Identifier: islandora:16711

Title: Boesak beach protest, Strand, Cape Town
Subject: Strand (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, South Africa. Separate Amenities Act, 1953, Demonstrations, United Democratic Front (South Africa), Leadership
Description: Allan Boesak underneath a 'Whites Only' sign at one of numerous protests against beach apartheid, 1989, the Strand
Identifier: islandora:16651

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