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Title: Signal Hill, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Signal Hill (Cape Town, South Africa), Disasters, Fires
Description: Signal Hill.
Identifier: islandora:14958

Title: AIDS march, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Demonstrations, AIDS activists
Description: AIDS march: One of a number of events to mark World AIDS Day yesterday was a city-centre march to Parliament to hand over a memorandum addressed to the present and a future government. These inflated condoms caused a bit of a stir, though, when the Catholic assistant bishop of Cape Town, Reginald Cawcutt, decided not to participate because it was "turning into a condom march". The marchers were received at parliament by African National Congress (ANC) MP Jannie Momberg who said he was accepting it on behalf of all MPs who were concerned about AIDS.
Identifier: islandora:17635

Title: Archbishop Desmond Tutu faces police, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Demonstrations, Apartheid, South African Police, Tutu, Desmond, Gerwel, G. J. (G. Jakes)
Description: Archbishop Desmond Tutu to face with police at a protest march in the city yesterday. Next to him is the head of the University of the Western Cape, Professor Jakes Gerwel, who also took part in the march.
Identifier: islandora:17718

Title: Cape Youth Congress picket in support of hunger strike, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Demonstrations, Apartheid, South African Police, Youth, Groote Schuur Hospital (Cape Town, South Africa)
Description: Freedom plea: Rain and bitterly cold weather didn't deter these members of the Gardens branch of the Cape Youth Congress from their picket in support of hunger striker Mr Willie Hofmeyer outside Groote Schuur Hospital yesterday.
Identifier: islandora:17721

Title: Demonstrations, Cape Town
Subject: Guguletu (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Demonstrations, Apartheid, Political activists
Description: An activist addresses a gathering, Gugulethu, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:17679

Title: Clothing Industry Training Centre, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Woodstock (Cape Town, South Africa), Labour, Clothing trade, Business, Industry
Description: Watching closely at the Clothing Industry Training Centre in Woodstock.
Identifier: islandora:14877

Title: Newlands House, Newlands, Cape Town, 1934
Subject: Newlands (Cape Town, South Africa), Historic buildings, Urban development
Description: Newlands House in Newlands Avenue, Cape Town, before the front door was moved to the back of the house after the estate's sub-division in 1938.
Identifier: islandora:17477

Title: Shortmarket Street, Cape Town, 1951
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Historic buildings, Architecture, Roads, Transport
Description: Shortmarket Street from Darling Street, 1951.
Identifier: islandora:17391

Title: Cathedral of District Six, Cape Town
Subject: District Six (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Forced removals (South Africa), Religion, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950
Description: Top: St Mark's Anglican Church stands steadfast on the hill in District Six. A symbol of tradition for some, the church was once called the "Cathedral of District Six" and the "small Vatican", and still holds High Mass three times a month. Here, the congregation streams down the hill after a Sunday morning service. Many once lived in the now bare land of District Six.
Identifier: islandora:17989

Title: Political prisoners released from Robben Island, Cape Town, 1990
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Politics, Political prisoners, Apartheid, African National Congress, Freedom
Description: Going home: elated to be free, Mr Wellington Gumenge of Port Elizabeth (front) and Mr Johannes Boesak of Oudtshoorn leave Table Bay harbour yesterday. They were two of 15 Robben Island African National Congress (ANC) prisoners granted early release.
Identifier: islandora:15903

Title: Nelson Mandela and Cabinet in the Government of National Unity, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Post-Apartheid era, Politics, Cabinet ministers, National Party (South Africa), South Africa. Government of National Unity 1994-1998,
Description: Nelson Mandela with members of his first Cabinet outside Tuynhys, Cape Town. He is flanked by former President F.W. de Klerk (left) and Roelf Meyer, government's chief negotiated in the Multiparty Negotiating Forum and Minister of Constitutional Development and Provincial Affairs in the government of national unity of the new President.
Identifier: islandora:16906

Title: Vineyard Hotel, Newlands, Cape Town
Subject: Vineyard Hotel (Cape Town, South Africa), Hotels--Landscape architecture--South Africa--Cape Town--Designs and plans,
Description: Vineyard Hotel, Newlands, Cape Town. Landscape design., Original, hand-drawn, ink on tracing paper.
Identifier: islandora:27955

Title: Young girl posing on the pavement, 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, ,
Description: A young girl poses on the pavement against a tall building in District Six, Cape Town in the 1970's prior to the state orchestrated forced removals to locations further from the city.
Identifier: islandora:18548

Title: Gate to servants quarters, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Domestic workers, Apartheid, South Africa. Separate Amenities Act, 1953
Description: Maggie Dewies, domestic worker, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:18045

Title: Foundation-stone for Van Rieebeck Festival's Gateway to Africa, Cape Town, 1952
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Afrikaner nationalism, Urban development
Description: The foundation-stone for the Gateway to Africa stands protected by a strong wire fence, but whipped by loose sand and rain in a desolate part of the Foreshore. The stone, then surrounded by the pageantry of the Van Riebeeck Festival, was laid on April 5 by a boy scout, a girl guide and a Voortrekker boy and girl. No decision has been made about making a start on building the monumental approach on the Foreshore.
Identifier: islandora:17116

Title: Protest outside Church Square House, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Demonstrations, Religion, Politics
Description: Protest outside Church Square House, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:17835

Title: Long Street, Cape Town, circa 1900
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Architecture, Urban development, Commerce, Roads
Description: Long Street near the turn of the century. The building in the middle still houses John Marcus and Son.
Identifier: islandora:17362

Title: Anglican Church of St. Barnabas, Tamboerskloof, Cape Town, 1961
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Church buildings, Historic buildings, Architecture, Christianity
Description: Built of Table Mountain sandstone and Kloof granite, St. Barnabas's Church has a red roof which contrasts pleasing with the pines that stand as sentinels. The building has the charm that is derived from solid mellowness of weathered stone.
Identifier: islandora:17290

Title: Map of central Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa) -- Maps.
Description: Map shows names of principal streets, the railway system, Table Bay, foreshore development, and an index to main buildings and places of interest., The map is torn and poorly mended.
Identifier: islandora:19922

Title: Cape Times Big Walk, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Sports, Charity, Newspapers, Women
Description: First woman across the finishing line, Cape Times 50 mile Big Walk, 1967
Identifier: islandora:16976

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