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Title: Oral history interview with Asa Jassiem [ Part 5 of 6]
Subject: Forced removals, Oral history, District Six (Cape Town, South Africa)--History, District Six (Cape Town, South Africa)--Social conditions, Colored people (South Africa)--Relocation--South Africa--Cape Town, Jassiem, Asa
Description: District Six refers to a former inner-city residential area in Cape Town, South Africa. It is best known for the forced removal of over 60 000 of its residents by the apartheid government. This extensive sub-collection contains interviews from various projects conducted between 1985 and 2002. The majority of interviewees resided or worked in District Six prior to being forcibly removed. Themes include: children, the Coon Carnival, crime, resident’s experiences of relocation, gangs, household arrangements, jazz, marriage, mixed marriages across racial lines, music, nostalgia, recreation, religion, schooling, social and racial issues and work., Cwc2.101a.mp3: Part 5 of 6 ; 29:27 min. ; interview 101 of 208
Identifier: islandora:18960

Title: Elandskloof
Subject: Plants--Western Cape (South Africa), Mountain plants--Western Cape (South Africa), Plants--Effect of fires on--Western Cape (South Africa), ,
Description: District: Clanwilliam, Location: Cederberg Wilderness Area, Elandskloof., Ecology: Burnt patches.
Identifier: islandora:4376

Title: The Ape. Festuca
Subject: Botany--South Africa, Plants--South Africa, Fescue--South Africa, Grasses--South Africa, ,
Identifier: islandora:8995

Title: Kogelberg Nature Reserve
Subject: Leucadendron conocarpodendron--Western Cape (South Africa), Proteaceae--Western Cape (South Africa), Vegetation monitoring--Western Cape (South Africa), Plants--Western Cape (South Africa), Botanists--Western Cape (South Africa), ,
Description: District: Caledon, Location: Kogelberg Nature Reserve., Ecology: Leucadendron conocarpodendron.
Identifier: islandora:3490

Title: Ocarina
Subject: Musical instruments--Austria
Description: Hornbostel-Sachs number: 421.221.42 Vessel flutes with duct, with fingerholes, Height: 38mm (1.2 in.), Width: 73mm (2.8 in.), Length: 146mm (5.5 in.), Place of production: Austria, Stamp: 'M. (illegible), Vienna Made in Austria'
Identifier: islandora:20469

Title: Bakkerskloof catchment
Subject: Vegetation monitoring--Western Cape (South Africa), Plants--Western Cape (South Africa), Mountain plants--Western Cape (South Africa), Botany--Research--Western Cape (South Africa), ,
Description: District: Paarl, Location: La Motte State Forest, Bakkerskloof., Ecology: Unknown.
Identifier: islandora:3947

Title: Correspondence and notes on witchcraft
Subject: Witchcraft--Angola, Drennan, M. R. (Matthew Robertson), 1885-1965--Correspondence.
Description: Five letters and notes, handwritten and typed, on witchcraft regalia from Angola. Correspondents include: ? Edes, Rose Weinberg, Louis Fernard Maingard, and Clement Martyn Doke.
Identifier: islandora:20934

Title: Interior, Paulshoek, Namaqualand
Subject: House furnishings--South Africa--Paulshoek, Older people--South Africa--Paulshoek, Dwellings--South Africa--Paulshoek,
Description: Man sitting in the living area of a home in Paulshoek, Namaqauland
Identifier: islandora:5169

Title: Australian 17th Construction Squadron Royal Engineers prepares food
Subject: Military life--Namibia, Australia--Armed Forces
Description: The Australian 17th Construction Squadron Royal Engineers, deployed with the United Nations Transition Assistance Group (UNTAG), prepares food at the Catholic Mission Station, Oshikuku.
Identifier: islandora:6759

Title: Police wearing gas masks fire teargas, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Law enforcement, Weapons, Demonstrations
Description: Police wearing gas masks and armed with rifles used for firing teargas canisters stand in Bonteheuwel where stoning took place yesterday.
Identifier: islandora:16195

Title: Equestrian feats at Cape Show, Cape Town
Subject: Goodwood (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Agricultural show, Agriculture, Gymkhanas (Horsemanship), Coloured people (South Africa)
Description: Equestrian Feats such as this - one rider balanced on three galloping horses - have long been the arena attractions of the Cape Show at Goodwood and its predecessor, the Rosebank Show.
Identifier: islandora:16986

Title: Spring daisies, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Cape Town (South Africa), Urban areas, Infrastructure, Architecture, Land, Urban development, Flowers
Description: Magic carpet of spring for city. Daisies are blooming on the Foreshore on land that is valued up to £11 a square foot.
Identifier: islandora:15101

Title: Trunk found in terrorist apartment, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Politics, Trials, Weapons
Description: Weapons exhibit: Constable Karen Dalhouzie looks into the trunk containing AK-47 rifles and ammunition, limpet mines, hand grenades and other arms and ammunition, allegedly found in the Wynberg flat of terrorism accused Ms Jenny Schreiner. It is one of the more than 400 exhibits before court in the Yengeni trial which began earlier this year.
Identifier: islandora:17614

Title: Report on a cave site with rock paintings and artefacts.
Subject: South Africa--Antiquities, Rock paintings--South Africa, ,
Description: Report on a cave site with rock paintings and artefacts at Soutgat (Zeekooigat) Cave. Many artefacts, including points were found. Rock paintings are of red and brown finger dots.
Identifier: islandora:22124

Title: |Una Rooi and Anna Swarts pose for a photograph
Subject: Rooi, |Una ; Swarts, Anna, San (African people)--South Africa--Welkom, Khomani (African people)--South Africa--Welkom, San (African people)--Social life and customs, Khomani (African people)--Social life and customs, Women--South Africa--Welkom, Indigenous peoples--Land tenure--Africa, Southern, ,
Description: |Una Rooi was instrumental in the data collection process for the Land Claim application. She was a fluent N|uu speaker and taught N|uu and San cultural history to children in Andriesvale, Northern Cape, South Africa, and a member of Council of Elders. She was born in the Kalahari Gemsbok Park in 1931 and passed away in 2012.Anna Swart was a N|uu speaker and was instrumental in the data collection process for the Land Claim application.
Identifier: islandora:27045

Title: Man in traditional dress
Subject: Nyakyusa (African people), Men--Tanzania--Rungwe District, Older people--Tanzania--Rungwe District, Nyakyusa (African people)--Clothing
Description: A man in traditional dress. Photograph taken by Monica Wilson during joint fieldwork at different periods from April 1935-December 1937.
Identifier: islandora:5635

Title: Rugaya Jeram, 1996
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa)--Social conditions, Portraits, Bathrooms--South Africa, Women--South Africa,
Description: Rugaya Jeram, October 1996.
Identifier: islandora:12666

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