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Title: Man shows the deeds of sale of a piece of land, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Forced removals (South Africa)
Description: The leader of the Fingo delegation, Mr Isaac Tembani, displays the deeds of sale of the land from which the government removed the 3000-strong Fingo community in 1977. In the background are other members of the eight-person delegation. The deeds indicate that the land, in the Humansdorp-Tsitsikamma area, was given to the Fingos in 1834 by the British Govenor of the Cape Colony, Sir George Grey.
Identifier: islandora:16072

Title: Man celebrates after being elected to represent the Labour Party, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Politics
Description: Mr Babs Essop is shouldered after winning the Strandfontein seat for the Labour Party. Mr Essop was opposed by former Labour Party candidate Mr Esau Jones (Ind).
Identifier: islandora:15995

Title: Man smiles for the camera while smoking, Cape Town
Subject: Woodstock (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Rock music, Cosmetics
Description: Dove Solomon - Woodstock, in Whale Street.
Identifier: islandora:16120

Title: Woman checks for man's name at the voting booth, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Politics, University of the Western Cape
Description: Mr Adam Small, the Coloured poet and lecturer of philosophy at the University College of the Western Cape, was at the polling booths early today to cast his vote in the Coloured Persons' Representative Council elections. Miss M Benjamin, a canvasser at the polling station of the Lansdowne Civic Centre, in the constituency of Liesbeeck, checks his name on the voters' roll before he casts his vote.
Identifier: islandora:15981

Title: Man with baton walks to wards a protester on the ground, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Civil unrest, Violence, Demonstrations, Weapons, Law enforcement
Description: Man with baton walks to wards a protester on the ground, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:16282

Title: Police and paramedics help an injured man, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Civil unrest, Violence, Law enforcement
Description: A man shot by police during intense rioting in Ravensmead last night is brought from the bush by Riot Squad police and ambulance men in Fransie van Zyl Street, Tygerberg. Schoolchildren from a nearby White area look on.
Identifier: islandora:16313

Title: Police watch a paramedics carry an inured man, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Civil unrest, Violence, Law enforcement, Wounds and Injuries
Description: A woman injured in the head by police gunfire is taken by ambulance from the Guguletu police station.
Identifier: islandora:16337

Title: People listen to man speaking on a loudspeaker, Cape Town
Subject: Apartheid, United Democratic Front (South Africa), Demonstrations, Concord, ,
Description: People listen to man speaking on a loudspeaker, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:15805

Title: Man releases pigeon while others reach in basket for more, Cape Town
Subject: National Party (South Africa), Politics, ,
Description: Man releases pigeon while others reach in basket for more, Cape Town. NP Election camp.
Identifier: islandora:15516

Title: Man inspecting damaged window, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Cape Town (South Africa), Civil unrest, Demonstrations, Vandalism
Description: One of the 15 windows shattered by the crowd during the rioting in the city last night. This window was in Spin Street.
Identifier: islandora:16472

Title: Man inspects damage done to his house by a petrol bomb, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Civil unrest, Violence, Vandalism, Weapons
Description: Mr Cyril Mandindi looks through the broken windows of his house, which had been attacked with petrol bombs on Monday night.
Identifier: islandora:16294

Title: Paramedic helps an injured man, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Civil unrest, Violence, Wounds and injuries, Demonstrations, Ambulances
Description: Paramedic helps an injured man, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:16266

Title: Man sleeping on pavement with dog, 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 man sleeps on the pavement with his dog while women chat in the background, District Six, Cape Town in the 1970's prior to the state orchestrated forced removals to locations further from the city.
Identifier: islandora:18516

Title: Man signs the Declaration of Sympathy, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Civil unrest, Violence, Peace, Theft
Description: Cape Town resident Mr A.J. Paulsen was one of the last people to sign the Declaration of Sympathy before it was stolen yesterday morning. Nearly 300 signatures had been collected by the time the 24-hour vigil ended yesterday at 5pm.
Identifier: islandora:16309

Title: Man speaks to an audience, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Politics, Muslims, Religion
Description: Preaching to the converted: Ishmael Effendi addresses a meeting of the Islamic Party in Kensington. Other speakers at last night's meeting included Aly Kahn, secretary-general of the party.
Identifier: islandora:15967

Title: Man inspecting sick bird, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Cape Town (South Africa), Historic sites, Monuments, Birds
Description: Warrant-Officer Mynhard Kitshoff of Prison Services inspects a sickly Hartlaubs's gull. The gulls have an extensive breeding ground on the island.
Identifier: islandora:16510

Title: Armed man removed from ANC meeting in Parow, Cape Town
Subject: Parow (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Politics, African National Congress, Election campaigns, Right wing
Description: An armed man, a suspected member of the Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (AWB), is ejected from an African National Congress's (ANC) meeting in Parow before the 1994 democratic elections.
Identifier: islandora:15900

Title: Man leans against a "Whites only" sign, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Segregation, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950
Description: A park in Vredehoek (above right) reserved for whites only. The Coloured man leaning against the signpost is standing on the borderline of petty apartheid.
Identifier: islandora:16124

Title: Man writes the name of a fallen comrade on a tombstone, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Religion, Islam, Funerals, Grief
Description: Man writes the name of a fallen comrade on a tombstone, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:16221

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