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Title: Commercial centre, Athlone, Cape Town
Subject: Athlone (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Apartheid, Commerce, Economy, Coloured people (South Africa)
Description: Commercial district in apartheid-era Athlone, Cape Town
Identifier: islandora:16725

Title: Athlone, Cape Town
Subject: Athlone (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Labour, Local government, Coloured people (South Africa)
Description: Nightwatchman waits while White officials hold a meeting in Athlone, Cape Town
Identifier: islandora:16724

Title: Aerial view, Atlantis ,Cape Town
Subject: Atlantis (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Apartheid, City planning, Urban development, Coloured Labour Preference Area Policy (South Africa),
Description: Aerial view of sub-economic housing construction in apartheid-era Atlantis, the dormitory suburb built for Coloured people outside Cape Town
Identifier: islandora:16714

Title: Overcrowding in Kewtown, Athlone , Cape Town
Subject: Athlone (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Apartheid, Housing, Poverty, Coloured people (South Africa)
Description: Seventeen people - man, women and children - live, eat, cook and wash in this one-bedroom Kewtown council house. Architects provided it with a front room but that has also been turned into a bedroom, which helps but is a long way from solving the overcrowding.
Identifier: islandora:16726

Title: War-time housing development in Kew Town, Athlone, Cape Town
Subject: Athlone (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Townships, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Apartheid, Housing, Coloured people (South Africa),
Description: Q-town (later Kew Town) in Athlone, Cape Town, a war-time sub-economic housing development for the coloured (slum) population of the inner city areas.
Identifier: islandora:16721

Title: Colour. Residence halls covered with ivy
Subject: Colour image, Residence halls
Identifier: islandora:7518

Title: Street in Extension 9, Belhar, Cape Town
Subject: Belhar (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Housing, Coloured people (South Africa), City planning
Description: The bleak moonscape of a street in Belhar's new Extension 9 which residents don't see as 'a great leap forward for mankind.'
Identifier: islandora:16774

Title: Newspaper vendor's customers, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Newspapers, Labour, Apartheid, Coloured Labour Preference Area Policy (South Africa), Children's rights
Description: A young newspaper vendor doing a brisk trade
Identifier: islandora:16696

Title: ""Free the beaches""
Subject: coloured family, 'whites only' sign, discriminationDemonstrations--South Africa--Cape Town, Discrimination--South Africa, Children, Colored people (South Africa)
Description: ""Open the beaches"" protest. This protest was a reaction to the Separate Amenities Act of 1953, which declared that people of colour were not to use the same public facilities (such as toilets, park benches, buses and beaches) as white people.
Identifier: islandora:8388

Title: Prime Minister Vorster inspects houses at Atlantis, Cape Town
Subject: Atlantis (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Apartheid, Coloured Labour Preference Area Policy (South Africa), City planning, Governments
Description: The Prime Minister , Mr Vorster, after inspecting one of the R11 400 houses built at Atlantis. On his left are Dr Schalk van der Merwe, Minister of Coloured Relations, Mr J H Heyns, chairman of the Divisional Council of the Cape, and Mr W O Kuhne, a Cape Town journalist.
Identifier: islandora:16703

Title: Marching band, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Festivals, Apartheid, Culture, Music, Coloured people (South Africa)
Description: Moslem bagpipe band, Cape Town
Identifier: islandora:16744

Title: Marching band, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Festivals, Apartheid, Culture, Music, Coloured people (South Africa)
Description: Young Zinnias Platoon marching band, Cape Town
Identifier: islandora:16737

Title: Sand dunes near Atlantis, Cape Town
Subject: Atlantis (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Apartheid, Coloured Labour Preference Area Policy (South Africa), City planning, Environment
Description: The huge, moving sand dunes near the proposed development of Atlantis, rimmed by sparsely vegetated barrier dunes. If the delicate environmental balance of these barrier dunes is disturbed will it be possible to contain the moving dune?
Identifier: islandora:16699

Title: Flower sellers at the Cape Town Festival, 1984
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Culture, Flower sellers, Coloured people (South Africa), Fynbos
Description: Festival over soon: with flags and flowers, the atmosphere of the Cape Town festival is reflected on the face of Adderley Street flower seller, Mrs Frances Boldman.
Identifier: islandora:17222

Title: Newspaper vendor, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Newspapers, Labour, Apartheid, Coloured Labour Preference Area Policy (South Africa), Commerce
Description: [Newspaper vendor] who has been delivering The Argus in the Wittebome area since 1961 [who is] eligible for the R500 (or an overseas trip) News Carrier of the Year prize, the winner of which will be chosen in December from the monthly winners.
Identifier: islandora:16689

Title: Eviction in Athlone,Cape Town
Subject: Athlone (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Apartheid, Coloured people (South Africa), Poverty, Youth
Description: Family evicted from their home in Athlone, Cape Town
Identifier: islandora:16717

Title: Newspaper vendor, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Newspapers, Labour, Apartheid, Coloured Labour Preference Area Policy (South Africa), Commerce
Description: Selling newspapers from a tub on flooded Adderley Street
Identifier: islandora:16695

Title: Gang hideouts, Belhar
Subject: Belhar (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Crime, Gangs, Coloured people (South Africa)
Description: A girl is dwarfed by the dunes in which gangsters hide out. People are attacked and robbed almost daily on their way to the bus and railway stations.
Identifier: islandora:16772

Title: Housing, Athlone, Cape Town
Subject: Athlone (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Housing, Development, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Apartheid, Coloured people (South Africa)
Description: Mrs. W. Brooks with her children outside her "home" in Third Ave, Athlone, which flanks one of the modern house in this "elite" Coloured suburb. Mrs Brooks has had her name down for a council house for two years but sees no prospect of being given one soon.
Identifier: islandora:16729

Title: Oral history interview with Reg September [Part 4 of 4]
Subject: Oral history, Political activists-- South Africa--Interviews, Government, Resistance to--South Africa, South African Coloured People's Organisation, September, Reg
Description: This is a series of unrelated interviews from the period 1985-1990 with people involved in different spheres of political life in Africa, with particular reference to the politics of South Africa, Namibia, Kenya, Zambia and the Congo. Interviewees include, Jane Gool, Hassan Howa, Hosea Jaffe, I.B. Tabata, Jack Cope and Otillie Abrahams. Themes include: African National Congress (ANC) training camps, anti-discrimination in sport, life in exile in Botswana and Namibia, gender empowerment , the history of St. Francis, Langa in the Western Cape, Non-European Unity Movement (NUEM), political upheaval in Kenya, rural life and work and the South West African Peoples Organisation (SWAPO), Pin4.43b.mp3: Part 4 of 4 ; 23:06 min. ; interview 43 of 52
Identifier: islandora:29726

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