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Title: Protest, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Cape Town (South Africa), Civil unrest, Demonstrations, Government, Resistance to, Justice, Administration of
Description: Protesters hold a banner that reads "Our courts have been castrated", Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:16380

Title: Protest, St. George's Cathedral, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Cape Town (South Africa), Civil unrest, Demonstrations, Church buildings, Law enforcement, Weapons
Description: Protesters disperse as a smoke canister explodes outside St George's Cathedral, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:16444

Title: Injured man sits on ground, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Civil unrest, Violence, Motorcars
Description: Building contractor Mr Frederic Jansen, 46, his burnt-out bakkie in the background, waits for an ambulance to arrive after the vehicle had been overturned and set alight in Klipfontein Road adjoining Crossroads yesterday.
Identifier: islandora:16239

Title: Riot policemen smiles as he walks, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Civil unrest, Violence, Demonstrations, Law enforcement
Description: Major F.J. Mostert, head of the Fraud Squad and former Murder and Robbery squad chief, joined riot police on Adderley Street to assist a force badly hit by widespread rioting across the Peninsula. Here he enjoys a light moment during a brief let-up in the unrest.
Identifier: islandora:16357

Title: Policeman drags man caught looting, Cape Town
Subject: Nyanga (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Civil unrest, Violence, Law enforcement, Robbery
Description: A constable drags a prisoner to the patrol van after police surprised looters at a burnt Nyanga bottle store yesterday.
Identifier: islandora:16348

Title: Two policemen take a break and play cards, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Civil unrest, Violence, Demonstrations, Law enforcement
Description: The situation in Cape Town's three Black townships, Langa, Nyanga and Gugulethu was quiet at the weekend following sporadic riots during the week in which at least 30 people were killed and many injured. These two policemen, on standby at the Guguletu police station yesterday, whiled away the time by playing cards. Others sat around chatting on the lawns round the police station.
Identifier: islandora:16257

Title: Protesters fighting, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Cape Town (South Africa), circa 1972, Civil unrest, Demonstrations, Law enforcement
Description: Protesters fight amongst themselves, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:16445

Title: Riot policemen approach protesters, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Civil unrest, Violence, Demonstrations, Law enforcement, Weapons
Description: Riot policemen in Greenmarket Square, where crowds were dispersed with teargas.
Identifier: islandora:16365

Title: Protesters fighting, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Cape Town (South Africa), Civil unrest, Demonstrations, Law enforcement
Description: Protesters fight amongst themselves, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:16447

Title: Property damaged by the recent riots, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Civil unrest, Violence, Demonstrations, Vandalism
Description: Gugulethu.
Identifier: islandora:16361

Title: Anti-Apartheid banners, Jameson Hall, UCT, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Rondebosch (Cape Town, South Africa), Civil unrest, Apartheid signage, Demonstrations, University of Cape Town
Description: Anti-Apartheid banners outside Jameson Hall, University of Cape Town, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:16451

Title: Policeman restrains his dog from chasing protesters, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Civil unrest, Violence, German shepherd dog, Demonstrations, Law enforcement
Description: Policeman restrains his dog from chasing protesters, Cape Town, 1976.
Identifier: islandora:16260

Title: Riot police face protesters, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Civil unrest, Violence, Demonstrations, Law enforcement, Weapons
Description: Riot police face protesters, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:16323

Title: Policemen march up a road, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Civil unrest, Violence, Weapons, Demonstrations, Law enforcement
Description: Determined policemen with gas masks slung across their chests advance up Burg Street in an attempt to clear rioters from the city centre.
Identifier: islandora:16255

Title: Police officials talk to one another, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Civil unrest, Violence, Demonstrations, Law enforcement
Description: Top police officers confer in Adderley Street during the height of the unrest yesterday. They are, from left, Colonel A.P. van Zyl, head of the Riot Squad, Colonel P.A. Cerff, staff officer to the Divisional Commissioner, Colonel D.A.L. van Lill, District Commandant for Cape Town, and Major Koos Le Roux, at present with the Riot Squad.
Identifier: islandora:16362

Title: School pupils watching police, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Athlone (Cape Town, South Africa), circa 1976, Civil unrest, Youth, Demonstrations, Law enforcement
Description: Students from high schools in Athlone combined on the grounds of the Alexander Sinton High School, Thornton Road, in a planned protest. Here they watch as Riot Squad police (left) cross the road with a loud hailer. The Riot Squad prepares to enter the school grounds of Alexander Sinton to disperse the students of the Belgravia High School and Sinton High schools. Students wisely remained inside the grounds to avoid action by the riot squad.
Identifier: islandora:16382

Title: Two policemen help injured comrade, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Law enforcement, Civil unrest, demonstrations, Protection, Weapons
Description: Injured: Policemen help Constable L. Cruickshank to his feet. His head was injured in a scuffle between police and protesters in Wale Street.
Identifier: islandora:15951

Title: Soldiers on a break watch a helicopter take off, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Civil unrest, Violence, Law enforcement, South Africa. South African Air Force
Description: Disturbances at Langa. Soldiers watch a SAAF helicopter taking off from a field near Langa late yesterday afternoon. Between spells of sentry duty, men relaxed on the grass.
Identifier: islandora:16301

Title: The remains of a road block erected by protesters, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Civil unrest, Violence, Demonstrations, Vandalism, Law enforcement
Description: Police clear a street in Tiervlei where eight people were reported injured after demonstrators erected a road-block and set it alight and police used shotguns and revolvers to break up a band of stone-throwing youths.
Identifier: islandora:16330

Title: Policeman holding protestor, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Cape Town (South Africa), Civil unrest, Violence, Demonstrations, Law enforcement, Animals
Description: Policeman holds onto a protester who sees to his dog, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:16406

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