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Title: Oral history interview with Hassan Howa [Part 2 of 4]
Subject: Oral history, Political activists-- South Africa--Interviews, Discrimination in sports--South Africa, Sports--Political aspects--South Africa, Racism in sports--South Africa, Government, Resistance to--South Africa, Howa, Hassan
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), Pin4.23b.mp3: Part 2 of 4 ; 32:22 min. ; interview 23 of 52
Identifier: islandora:25873

Title: Oral history interview with Thembeki Solomon Somdaka [Part 2 of 2]
Subject: Oral history, Drinking of alcoholic beverages--Social aspects--South Africa, Apartheid--South Africa, Alcohol--Government policy--South Africa
Description: This project spans three sub-collections. This case study in Langa in the Western Cape examines the socio-political environment and racial/gender discrimination with regards to alcohol under apartheid policies. Themes include: African traditional beer (umqombothi), anti-government protests, discriminatory laws, the Eastern Cape, government beer halls, government policy with respect to alcohol, hostels, housing, migrant labour, racialised spaces, the 1976 riots, shebeens (a bar, predominately in the townships where alcohol is sold) and the smuggling of alcohol by residents., Pin7.14b.mp3: Part 2 of 2 ; 22:57 min. ; interview 14 of 16
Identifier: islandora:22564

Title: Oral history interview with Mr P.W. McMinn [Part 2 of 3]
Subject: Oral history, World War, 1939-1945--Veterans--South Africa--Interviews, World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, South African
Description: This sub-collection centres on the diverse war experiences of the interviewees, mainly in in North Africa, Italy and South Africa. It contains information about prisoner of war experiences in Italy and Germany and repatriation through the Port of Odessa in 1945. Themes include: 1948 elections in South Africa, desert warfare at El Alamain, entry into the armed forces, family background, war experiences in Mogadishu and Normandy, post-war politics in South Africa, the psychological effects of war, schooling; war and women's employment in the armed forces., Pin5.13b.mp3: Part 2 of 3 ; 31:58 min. ; interview 13 of 19
Identifier: islandora:25009

Title: U.C.Tattle, v.3(2), 30 July 1936
Identifier: islandora:7553

Title: Oral history interview with Jasmine Sprinkle [Part 1 of 2]
Subject: Oral history, Gun Free South Africa (Organization), Gun control--South Africa
Description: Gun Free South Africa is an advocacy group formed in 1994 with the aim of building a safer country through the reduction of firearms in society. In association with "Gun Free South Africa", the interviewer focuses on youth activists and young members of the community sharing their experiences of gun violence and opinions on gun control. Themes include: biographical information; civic organisations; community involvement; crime and organisational affiliations., Por1.01a.mp3: Part 1 of 2 ; 47:32 min. ; interview 1 of 6
Identifier: islandora:24636

Title: Oral history interview with Maria Fortune [Part 2 of 2]
Description: This project spans three sub-collections. This case study in Windermere/Kensington in the Western Cape focuses on the coloured residents of the area and examines the socio-political environment and racial/gender discrimination with regards to alcohol under apartheid policies. Themes include: discriminatory laws, government policy, housing, racialised spaces and the smuggling of alcohol by residents and shebeens (a bar, predominately in the townships where alcohol is sold)., Pin9.06b.mp3: Part 2 of 2 ; 13:11 min. ; interview 6 of 15
Identifier: islandora:29675

Title: Oral history interview with Yandisa Mtambeka [Part 1 of 2]
Subject: Oral history, Gun Free South Africa (Organization), Gun control--South Africa
Description: Gun Free South Africa is an advocacy group formed in 1994 with the aim of building a safer country through the reduction of firearms in society. In association with "Gun Free South Africa", the interviewer focuses on youth activists and young members of the community sharing their experiences of gun violence and opinions on gun control. Themes include: biographical information; civic organisations; community involvement; crime and organisational affiliations., Por1.06a.mp3: Part 1 of 2 ; 47:39 min. ; interview 6 of 6
Identifier: islandora:24644

Title: Extract from the register of births for Edith Bruch, born in Zülpich, Germany, 1915. The extract is dated 2 August 1978
Subject: Bruch, Edith--Birth, Birth certificates--Germany--Zülpich, Registers of births, etc.--Germany--Zülpich, Bruch, birth certificate, Germany
Description: An extract from the register of births for Edith Bruch, born in Zülpich, Germany, 1915. The extract is dated 2 August 1978.
Identifier: islandora:29890

Title: Oral history interview with Gus Gamba, a jazz saxophonist [Part 1 of 2]
Subject: Oral history, Gamba, Gus, Jazz musicians--South Africa--Western Cape-- Interviews, Saxophonist--South Africa--Western Cape--Interviews,
Description: This is one interview in a collection of interviews composed of the life histories of twenty Cape Town jazz musicians. Some of the themes explored are the effects of apartheid in the music scene in the 1950's and 1960's; priorities of recording labels; music reception across social groupings in District Six and the extensive influence of American jazz. Music genres referred to span big band, the avant garde, bebop, dance, jive, marabi, township jazz, goema and Latin., Amu1.05a.mp3: Part 1 of 2 ; 32:00 min ; interview 5 of 23
Identifier: islandora:22666

Title: Oral history interview with Hazel Solomon, a survivor of the St. James Church massacre [Part 2 of 3]
Subject: Oral history, St. James Church (Kenilworth, South Africa), Forgiveness--South Africa, Reconciliation, ,
Description: On the 25th July 1993, four operatives of the Azanian People's Liberation Army (APLA), the armed wing of the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) attacked St James Church in Kenilworth, Cape Town, during a Sunday evening service. Approximately one hundred congregants were inside the Church. During the attack, the congregants were fired on with automatic weapons and two hand grenades were thrown into the Church. Eleven members of the congregation died and fifty-eight were injured. This research explores the intra- and inter-personal tensions within the testimonies of survivors on the process of forgiveness and reconciliation. Themes include: the amnesty application by the APLA cadets to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC); personal responses to trauma; memories of the event; Christian beliefs in context of personal trauma; congregational mapping; political violence and the public and personal processes of forgiveness., Pol2.04a.mp3: Part 2 of 3 ; 01:00:44 min. ; interview 4 of 6
Identifier: islandora:22641

Title: Renal artery anomalies 2
Identifier: islandora:30429

Title: Oral history interview with Robbie Jansen, a jazz saxophonist, flutist and vocalist [Part 1 of 2]
Subject: Oral history, Jansen, Robbie, Jazz musicians--South Africa--Western Cape-- Interviews, Saxophonist--South Africa--Western Cape--Interviews,
Description: This is one interview in a collection of interviews composed of the life histories of twenty Cape Town jazz musicians. Some of the themes explored are the effects of apartheid in the music scene in the 1950's and 1960's; priorities of recording labels; music reception across social groupings in District Six and the extensive influence of American jazz. Music genres referred to span big band, the avant garde, bebop, dance, jive, marabi, township jazz, goema and Latin., Amu1.07a.mp3: Part 1 of 2 ; 32:10 min ; interview 7 of 23
Identifier: islandora:12876

Title: Cathkin Dam breached 2 Mar 1979
Subject: Botany--South Africa, Plants--South Africa, ,
Identifier: islandora:9153

Title: Oral history interview with Dumile Cuba [Part 1 of 2]
Subject: Oral history, Drinking of alcoholic beverages--Social aspects--South Africa, Apartheid--South Africa, Alcohol--Government policy--South Africa
Description: This project spans three sub-collections. This case study in Langa in the Western Cape examines the socio-political environment and racial/gender discrimination with regards to alcohol under apartheid policies. Themes include: African traditional beer (umqombothi), anti-government protests, discriminatory laws, the Eastern Cape, government beer halls, government policy with respect to alcohol, hostels, housing, migrant labour, racialised spaces, the 1976 riots, shebeens (a bar, predominately in the townships where alcohol is sold) and the smuggling of alcohol by residents., Pin7.01a.mp3: Part 1 of 2 ; 31:46 min. ; interview 1 of 16
Identifier: islandora:22543

Title: Oral history interview with Ruth Cookson (Goodwin) [Part 2 of 2]
Subject: Oral history, Political activists--Interviews, Government, Resistance to
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), Pin4.17b.mp3: Part 2 of 2 ; 32:20 min. ; interview 17 of 52
Identifier: islandora:25858

Title: Image from rock painting site. Site of Ruiterbosch 2, Hartenbos, Western Cape, South Africa.
Subject: Rock paintings--South Africa--Western Cape., , ,
Description: Rock painting of human figures, possibly female in procession in red. They are seen with digging sticks. There are other figures, possibly male also in red.
Identifier: islandora:21695

Title: Bladder 2
Identifier: islandora:30662

Title: Oral history interview with Mr R.D Donnelly [Part 2 of 2]
Subject: Oral history, World War, 1939-1945--Veterans--South Africa--Interviews, World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, South African
Description: This sub-collection centres on the diverse war experiences of the interviewees, mainly in in North Africa, Italy and South Africa. It contains information about prisoner of war experiences in Italy and Germany and repatriation through the Port of Odessa in 1945. Themes include: 1948 elections in South Africa, desert warfare at El Alamain, entry into the armed forces, family background, war experiences in Mogadishu and Normandy, post-war politics in South Africa, the psychological effects of war, schooling; war and women's employment in the armed forces., Pin5.06b.mp3: Part 2 of 2 ; 24:45 min. ; interview 6 of 19
Identifier: islandora:25014

Title: Oral history interview with Lionel (Rusty) Bernstein [Part 2 of 2]
Subject: Oral history, Political activists-- South Africa--Interviews, Whites--Political activity--South Africa, South Africa--Politics and government--1948-1994, Government, Resistance to--South Africa, Bernstein, Rusty
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), Pin4.12b.mp3: Part 2 of 2 ; 30:40 min. ; interview 12 of 52
Identifier: islandora:25828

Title: Oral history interview with I.B. Tabata and Jane Gool [Part 2 of 10]
Subject: Oral history, Political activists-- South Africa--Interviews, Government, Resistance to--South Africa, Non-European Unity Movement, Tabata, I. B., Gool, Zainunnissa, 1897-1963
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), Pin4.44b.mp3: Part 2 of 10 ; 32:03 min. ; interview 44 of 52
Identifier: islandora:29730

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