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Title: Milnerton 'Whites Only' bus, Cape Town
Subject: Milnerton (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, South Africa. Separate Amenities Act, 1953, Race discrimination, Transport, Buses
Description: Whites Only' sign on a bus on the Milnerton route during the apartheid era.
Identifier: islandora:16663

Title: Beachfront, Milnerton to Blaauberg, Cape Town
Subject: Milnerton (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Beaches, South Africa. Separate Amenities Act, 1953, Recreation, Environment
Description: The beachfront stretching from Milnerton to Blaauberg
Identifier: islandora:16893

Title: Fencing at Camps Bay beach, Cape Town
Subject: Camps Bay (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, South Africa. Separate Amenities Act, 1953, Beaches, Political activists
Description: Sections of the controversial Camps Bay beach fence, which were last night taken down by a group opposed to the fencing, wait for workers to erect them again.
Identifier: islandora:16992

Title: Apartheid signage at the beach,Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, South Africa. Separate Amenities Act, 1953, Race discrimination, Segregation, Apartheid signage
Description: Apartheid signage at one of Cape Town's beaches, shortly before the demise of apartheid.
Identifier: islandora:16658

Title: Protesting gender inequality Mowbray Hotel, Cape Town
Subject: Mowbray (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), South Africa. Separate Amenities Act, 1953, Apartheid, Women--s rights, Gender, Feminism
Description: Protesting the exclusion of women from bars not designated as "Ladies Bars"
Identifier: islandora:16771

Title: Hout Bay beach apartheid, Cape Town
Subject: Hout Bay (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, South Africa. Separate Amenities Act, 1953, Apartheid signage
Description: Apartheid notices, reserving the beach for the use of Whites only, have been raised on the beach at Hout Bay.
Identifier: islandora:16668

Title: Cape Town Station, Cape Town, 1966
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Infrastructure, Urban development, City planning, South Africa. Separate Amenities Act, 1953
Description: Since the hoardings round the Adderley Street façade of the new Cape Town railway station were taken down recently, the bright design has been a talking point. In this view the new Airways wing is seen. At the extreme left is the entrance to the square behind the airways terminal, where buses for the airport arrive and depart. The arcade leading to the suburban and main line foyers at the extreme right of the picture. The tall building in the centre is the tower block, house[?] offices, and the new suburban concourse for Whites [is to] be to the right of this.
Identifier: islandora:17398

Title: Shining star
Subject: White, Maurice, 1941-2016. Shining star, Dunn, Larry, 1953- . Shining star, Big band music, Jazz, Concerts--South Africa--Cape Town
Description: UCT Big Band, Baxter Concert Hall, Cape Town, South Africa
Identifier: islandora:28379

Title: Cenotaph war memorial, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), World War, 1914-1918, World War, 1939-1945, Korean War, 1950-1953, Memorials
Description: We Remember: Mrs Gwen Bliquey of the SA Ex-Servicewomen's League pays her respects after laying a wreath at the ceremony at the Cenotaph war memorial in Adderley Street yesterday. The Cenotaph was erected in Adderley Street in 1924 to honour soldiers who died in World War I, World War II and the Korean War.
Identifier: islandora:16638

Title: Mean to me
Subject: Turk, Roy, 1892-1934. Mean to me, Ahlert, Fred E., 1892-1953. Mean to me, Jazz, Concerts--South Africa--Cape Town
Description: Amanda Tiffin and Andrew Lilley present students from the SACM Jazz Piano Studio and the Jazz Vocal Studio, Chisholm Recital Room, South African College of Music, Cape Town, South Africa
Identifier: islandora:28510

Title: Opening of the tearoom at the Company's Gardens, Cape Town, 1969
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), South Africa. Separate Amenities Act, 1953, Recreation, Restaurant, Infrastructure
Description: Many people went to the new tea-room in the Gardens, which was opened yesterday after the long "drought" that ensued after the closing of the old one.
Identifier: islandora:17247

Title: Strand Beach reserved for Whites, Cape Town
Subject: Strand (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, South Africa. Separate Amenities Act, 1953, Race discrimination, Segregation
Description: To be or not to be (White)- Strand's controversial apartheid-era beachfront signs, barring all race groups other than Whites.
Identifier: islandora:16665

Title: Apartheid signage, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, South Africa. Separate Amenities Act, 1953, Race discrimination, Segregation, Apartheid signage
Description: "This scenic reserve is reserved for the Coloured group only". Apartheid signage, Cape Town
Identifier: islandora:16656

Title: Annual war memorial ceremony, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), World War, 1914-1918, World War, 1939-1945, Korean War, 1950-1953, Memorials, Veterans
Description: We Remember: Annual memorial ceremony at the Cenotaph, Adderley Street. The Cenotaph was erected in 1924 to honour soldiers who died in World War I, World War II and the Korean War.
Identifier: islandora:16640

Title: Cloakroom in City Hall reserved for whites only, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, South Africa. Separate Amenities Act, 1953, Race discrimination, Segregation, Apartheid signage
Description: White cloakroom notices in the City Hall enforcing the apartheid-era Separate Amenities Act, 1953
Identifier: islandora:16660

Title: Mass Democratic Movement protest against beach apartheid, Cape Town
Subject: Strand (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Demonstrations, Apartheid, South African Police, South Africa. Separate Amenities Act, 1953, Mass Democratic Movement (South Africa)
Description: People at the beach at Strand today where the Mass Democratic Movement planned a protest against beach apartheid.
Identifier: islandora:17719

Title: Apartheid signage, Cape Town, 20th century
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), South Africa. Separate Amenities Act, 1953, Railways, Race discrimination
Description: Loading SA Transport Services "whites only" signs at Cape Town Station yesterday were Mr J L van Zyl (foreground) and Mr R Roodt. The signs, currently spares, were not destined for the rubbish pile.
Identifier: islandora:17411

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