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Title: Oral history interview with Beauty Xathanga [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., Pin7.15b.mp3: Part 2 of 2 ; 05:28 min. ; interview 15 of 16
Identifier: islandora:22562

Title: David Webster funeral, Johannesburg, South Africa
Subject: Political history--South Africa--Johannesburg, Political violence--South Africa--Johannesburg, Funeral rites and ceremonies--South Africa--Johannesburg, Apartheid--South Africa--Johannesburg, May Day (Labor holiday)--South Africa--Johannesburg
Description: Activists defiantly hoist the banned African National Congress (ANC) flag at the funeral of David Webster, a prominent anti-apartheid activist and champion of labour union rights who was murdered by the apartheid state on May Day (1 May) 1989. Johannesburg, South Africa, 6 May 1989.
Identifier: islandora:5356

Title: ANCWL meeting, Women's Day
Subject: Apartheid--South Africa, South Africa--Politics and government--1978-1989, South Africa--History--1961-1994, Political activists--South Africa, Women--South Africa, Demonstrations--South Africa,
Description: ANC (African National Congress) Women�s League meeting on Women's Day. Community members commemorate female political prisoners at St. Francis Church Hall in Langa, Cape Town., circa 1980s
Identifier: islandora:12574

Title: Oral history interview with Hadji Hoosain Hendricks [ Part 3 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, Hendricks, Hoosain, Hadji
Description: Ebrahim Edries interviews Hadji Hoosain Hendricks, an ex-resident of District Six, Cape Town., Cwc2.75a.mp3: Part 3 of 6 ; 29:36 min. ; interview 75 of 208
Identifier: islandora:18904

Title: Oral history interview with Derrick Williams [ Part 6 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, Williams, Derrick
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., Cwc2.195b.mp3: Part 6 of 6 ; 28:51 min. ; interview 195 of 208
Identifier: islandora:19384

Title: Oral history interview with Mr H.J. Bates [Part 2 of 5]
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., Pin5.02b.mp3: Part 2 of 5 ; 32:09 min. ; interview 2 of 19
Identifier: islandora:24996

Title: Oral history interview with Zelda Benjamin, a jazz vocalist [Part 2 of 2]
Subject: Oral history, Benjamin, Zelda, Jazz musicians--South Africa--Western Cape-- Interviews, Vocalist--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., Amu1.03b.mp3: Part 2 of 2 ; 01:15 min ; interview 3 of 23
Identifier: islandora:12858

Title: Oral history interview with Emily Foza [ Part 4 of 4]
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, Foza, Emily,
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., Cwc2.62b.mp3: Part 4 of 4 ; 30:22 min. ; interview 62 of 208
Identifier: islandora:18859

Title: Language transcriptions and translations of ǂKhomani San Brody Archive, Oupa Andries and the two sisters
Subject: Rooi, Katriena |Una Kassie, Koper, |Abaka Vytjie, Bot, Griet, Nama language, Khomani (African people)--History, British Empire Exhibition (1936 : Johannesburg, South Africa), ,
Description: Katriena |Una Kassie Rooi, |Abaka Vytjie Koper and Griet Bot in conversation with Nigel Crawhall discussing their history, including the 1936 trip to Johannesburg for the Empire Exhibition.
Identifier: islandora:31462

Title: Oral history interview with Cassiem Jacobs [ Part 5 of 10]
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, Jacobs, Cassiem
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., Cwc2.86a.mp3: Part 5 of 10 ; 56:01 min. ; interview 86 of 208
Identifier: islandora:18931

Title: Joint Monitoring Commission (JMC) members and South African Defence Force (SADF) Parabat commander, Colonel Archie Moore with Cuban and Angolan army counterparts at the withdrawal of SADF forces from southern Angola
Subject: Angola--History--South African Incursions, 1978-1990, Soldiers, South Africa--Armed Forces
Description: Joint Monitoring Commission (JMC) members and South African Defence Force (SADF) Parabat commander, Colonel Archie Moore with Cuban and Angolan army counterparts at the withdrawal of SADF forces from southern Angola. Parabat is the 1st Parachute Battalion of the SADF. The JMC was created to oversee the withdrawal of the SADF from a portion of Angola's southern Cunene province and its re-occupation by the People's Armed Forces for the Liberation of Angola (FAPLA). It was to ensure that neither SWAPO nor Cuban forces moved into this area as the SADF withdrew.
Identifier: islandora:6932

Title: Oral history interview with Mr and Mrs Curtis [Part 2 of 4]
Subject: Oral history, Harfield Village (Cape Town, South Africa)--History, Claremont (Cape Town, South Africa)--History, Colored people (South Africa)--Relocation--South Africa--Cape Town, ,
Description: Karen Daniels interviews Mr and Mrs Curtis, ex-residents of Harfield Village, Cape Town. These interviews provide a very rich source or oral history regarding social life in Harfield Village and Claremont, as well as forced removals and their after-effects. Harfield Village, before the Group Areas Act, was a small mixed area of African, coloured and white inhabitants and was also known as "die vlak" by the locals. The themes included in the interviews are: inter-racial mixing and romanticisation of racial harmony, community and family relationships, religion - both Christian (Anglican, Methodist, Dutch Reformed) and Muslim (Harvey Road, Stegman Road and Main Road Mosques) - and schooling, leisure activities such as the Coon Carnival, music and jazz, shebeens and drinking. Class issues are discussed with reference to crime, gangs, "skollies", home ownership, rentals, incomes and employment. The physical, emotional and economic hardships endured by Harfield residents during and after the forced removals and the Group Areas Act are also discussed. Each interview in this collection contains a useful summary of the interview dynamics and the date of the interview., Forced removals, Cwc6.08b.mp3: Part 2 of 4 ; 30:32 min; interview 8 of 39
Identifier: islandora:24713

Title: Oral history interview with Charmaine van Tonder, a neighbour of Robert Sobukwe
Subject: Oral history, Sobukwe, Robert Mangaliso, Political activists--South Africa--Biography, Pan Africanist Congress--History, South Africa--Politics and government--1961-1978, Anti-apartheid movements--South Africa--History, Government, Resistance to--South Africa,
Description: The interviews in this collection focus on the life history of Robert Sobukwe, teacher, lecturer, lawyer, secretary of the African National Congress (ANC) Branch in Standerton and first president of the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC). Interviewees include Achmat Cassiem (activist and Robben Island prisoner), Benjamin Pogrund (author of his autobiography), Charmaine van Tonder (Robert Sobukwe’s neighbour) and Dinilesizwe Sobukwe (Robert Sobukwe’s son). Themes include: the controversy regarding his burial; the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC); reflections on his funeral; his life on Robben Island; Sobukwe as a father; the Sharpeville Massacre and his work at the University of the Witwatersrand (WITS) . This sub-collection originated as research for the Albert Luthuli Young Historians award 2010., Pin13.05.mp3: Part 1 of 1 ; 08:11 min. ; interview 5 of 5
Identifier: islandora:19443

Title: Oral history interview with Donald Tshomela, a jazz vocalist [Part 2 of 2]
Subject: Oral history, Tshomela, Donald, Jazz musicians--South Africa--Western Cape--Interviews, Vocalist--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., Amu1.20b.mp3: Part 2 of 2 ; 31:18 min ; interview 20 of 23
Identifier: islandora:24618

Title: Oral history interview with Ragmat Buffkins [ Part 3 of 4]
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, Buffkins, Ragmat
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., Cwc2.28a.mp3: Part 3 of 4 ; 28:27 min. ; interview 28 of 208
Identifier: islandora:12797

Title: Anti-conscription protest, Cape Town
Subject: Apartheid--South Africa, South Africa--Politics and government--1978-1989, South Africa--History--1961-1994, Demonstrations--South Africa, Youths--South Africa, Conscientious objectors--South Africa, Political activists--South Africa,
Description: Conscientious objectors protesting for the release of imprisoned objectors, including David Bruce, Charles Bester and Saul Batzofin. Protesters' T-shirts read, "I refuse to serve in the SADF (South African Defense Force)". Cape Town., circa 1980s
Identifier: islandora:12661

Title: Girl standing in corridor, District Six, Cape Town, South Africa
Subject: District Six (Cape Town, South Africa)--Social conditions, District Six (Cape Town, South Africa)--History, Cape Town (South Africa)--History, Girls--South Africa--Cape Town, ,
Description: A young woman stands and poses for the camera in the corridor of a home in District Six, Cape Town in the 1970's prior to the state orchestrated forced removals to locations further from the city.
Identifier: islandora:18507

Title: Oral history interview with Emile Maurice, 1997
Subject: Community Arts Project (Cape Town, South Africa)--History, Community arts projects--South Africa--Cape Town--History
Description: Interview with Emile Maurice, member of the Community Arts Project (1980s). The interview was conducted by Robyn Denny and commissioned by Mario Pissarra for Community Arts Project 'Histories of CAP' project.
Identifier: islandora:31425

Title: Commemoration meeting, Merebank
Subject: Memorials--South Africa, Public meetings'South Africa, Political history--South Africa, South Africa--Social conditions--20th century, Apartheid, The Cordoned Heart
Description: Participants gesture with raised fists at a commemoration meeting in Merebank for African National Congress (ANC) members killed in a South African military raid into Maputo.
Identifier: islandora:5731

Title: Plan of the Transkeian Territories, sheet no. 8
Subject: South Africa--Bantustans--Maps, Transkei (South Africa)--History--Maps, , ,
Description: Map showing sheet no. 8 of the Plan of the Transkeian Territories, with the Districts of Mqanduli, Elliotdale, Umtata and parts of Engcobo, reserves, major settlements, names of places, plan numbers, district boundaries, rivers, roads, plantations, and forests. Scale: 800 Cape roods to 1 in. Relief shown by shading. No projection given.
Identifier: islandora:30064

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