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Title: Political exile returns to Western Cape, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Politics, African National Congress, Repatriation
Description: Home at last. Mr Ben "Koppie" Baardman of Zwelethemba, was among the first group of rank-and-file ANC exiles to return to the Western Cape on Saturday. He was served with a banning order in 1959 and has been in exile since then, living mainly in Lusaka. Ninety returnees came into South Africa last week and four of them - Mr Baardman, Ms Thami Ngwevela of Langa, her baby Lindiwe, and Mr Enoch Faas, 28, of Victoria West - returned to a tumultuous welcome at D F Malan airport on Saturday.
Identifier: islandora:15932

Title: End Conscription Campaign, Cape Town
Subject: Rondebosch (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Conscientious objection, South African Defence Force, Apartheid, End Conscription Campaign (South Africa)
Description: Protest against the banning of the End Conscription Campaign, University of Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:18099

Title: Apartheid-era housing at Khayelethu Park in Guguletu, Cape Town
Subject: Guguletu (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Housing, Townships, Apartheid, Africans, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950
Description: House proud: Mrs Cynthia Mabaso, of Khayelethu Park in Guguletu, in front of her attractive R65 00 house.
Identifier: islandora:15837

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: Democratic Party MPs join ANC, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Politics, African National Congress, Democratic Party (South Africa), Political parties
Description: Welcome - The African National Congress's (ANC's) Western Cape chairman, Dr Allan Boesak, yesterday welcomed four of the five former Democratic Party MPs into the organisation. They are (left-to-right) Mr Jan van Eck (Claremont), Mr Jannie Momberg (Simon's Town), Mr Pierre Cronje (Greytown) and Mr Rob Haswell (Pietermaritzburg South). The fifth MP, Mr David Dalling, could not be present for medical reasons.
Identifier: islandora:15935

Title: El Alamein commemorative service, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Memorials, World War, 1939-1945, South African Defence Force, Civil society
Description: El Alamein: Military and civilian guests at the annual El Alamein commemorative service in 1986. Wreaths were laid by the Defence Force, service organisations and civilian dignitaries, while Major Lionel Murray, MC and Bar, delivered the address. An old soldier pays tribute to comrades who fell during the battle of El Alamein 44 years ago.
Identifier: islandora:16642

Title: Celebrating the news of the unbanning of the ANC, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Politics, African National Congress
Description: Ms Cheryl Carolus, left, United Democratic Front publicity secretary in the Western Cape, Black Sash president, Mrs Mary Burton, and lawyer, Mr Ibrahim Mohammed, share the news of the unbanning of the African National Congress (ANC).
Identifier: islandora:17873

Title: ANC Cape Regional Conference, Cape Town
Subject: Constantia (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Politics, African National Congress, political activists, political parties, democracy
Description: Sharing a joke: African National Congress spokesman Mr Willie Hofmeyr, left, Western Cape Secretary Mr Tony Yengeni and Western Cape Chairman Dr Allan Boesak share a laugh at a cocktail party in Constantia on the eve of the two-day ANC Cape Regional Conference which began at the Civic Centre early today.
Identifier: islandora:15911

Title: Trojan Horse Trial, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Youth, South African Police, Trials
Description: Trojan Horse Trial, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:17600

Title: 11 ANC members treason trial charges, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Politics, African National Congress, Treason
Description: Treason, Terrorism - 11 African National Congress (ANC) members to face treason charges.
Identifier: islandora:17624

Title: ANC arms cache, Cape Town
Subject: Wynberg (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Politics, Apartheid, Ammunition, African National Congress, Armed struggle
Description: Part of an arms cache found in a raid on an African National Congress (ANC) cell in Wynberg, Cape Town, where 14 people were arrested and charged with terrorism under the Internal Security Act. The Yengeni trial, as it became known, lasted from March 1989 to March 1991 when the accused were granted amnesty and released.
Identifier: islandora:15904

Title: Rondebosch members of Conscientious Objectors, Cape Town
Subject: Rondebosch (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Conscientious objection, South African Defence Force, Apartheid
Description: Making a stand - Pioneering objector Dr Anton Eberhard, an energy researcher at the University of Cape Town (UCT), speaks at the Rondebosch meeting of 152 conscientious objectors yesterday. Similar meetings were held throughout South Africa in a national campaign against conscription.
Identifier: islandora:18098

Title: Women work at microfilming old newspapers, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), circa 1950-5, Press, Southern African Newspapers
Description: Microfilming of old volumes of the Cape Times.
Identifier: islandora:16048

Title: ANC supporters dress for success in the 1994 democratic elections
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Politics, African National Congress, Election campaigns, South African National Civic Organisation, Textile industry
Description: African National Congress (ANC) models: As part of its election campaign, the African National Congress has come up with traditional clothes made by the Mndandi Textile Design in conjunction with an Athlone co-operative team. Rose Sonto, regional secretary of the South African National Civic Organisation, is flanked by his colleagues, Xoliswa Sibeko and Virginia Engel.
Identifier: islandora:15894

Title: Steve Tshwete, nd Nelson Mandela, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Politics, African National Congress, Election campaigns, United Democratic Front, sports
Description: United Democratic Front leader Steve Tshwete (left) with Brian De Lacey Figaji, Vice-Record of the Peninsula Technikon (centre) and African National Congress (ANC) leader Nelson Mandela (right), shortly before the first democratic elections.
Identifier: islandora:15896

Title: Nelson Mandela shares a joke with F.W. De Klerk, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Politics, African National Congress, De Klerk, F. W. (Frederik Willem), Mandela, Nelson, 1918-
Description: Nelson Mandela shares a joke with F.W. De Klerk, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:15957

Title: ANC supporters, Khayelitsha, Cape Town
Subject: Khayelitsha (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Townships, Politics, African National Congress, Liberation, Crowds
Description: Members of the ANC fly the organisation's flag at a rally in Khayelitsha, potentially the ANC's biggest support base in Cape Town
Identifier: islandora:15923

Title: Young ANC supporters with replica AK-47s, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Politics, African National Congress, Children, Election campaigns, Militarisation
Description: Guard of honour: Young comrades line the street holding wooden replica AK-47s.
Identifier: islandora:15897

Title: Mandela at May Day celebrations, 1996, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Labour, African National Congress, Workers, Leadership, Festivals
Description: Nelson Mandela, Ahmed Kathrada and Derek Hanekom were among the ANC heavyweights who attended May Day celebrations in Cape Town
Identifier: islandora:16637

Title: ANC Youth League demonstrates against Ciskei repression, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), African National Congress. Youth League, Apartheid, Freedom of expression, Bantustans, Ciskei (South Africa)
Description: Making a point: African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL)member demanding free political activity in Ciskei brandishes a spear during the sit-in at the homeland's consulate on Monday.
Identifier: islandora:15918

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