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Title: Marching band, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Festivals, Apartheid, Culture, Music, Coloured people (South Africa)
Description: Boys in the band: Moslem bagpipe band, Cape Town
Identifier: islandora:16745

Title: Bishop Lavis residents protest, Cape Town
Subject: Bishop Lavis (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Townships, Apartheid, South African Police, Housing, Coloured people (South Africa)
Description: Bishop Lavis residents outside the office of the Citizens' Housing League in Dorp Street, confronted by police today. They dispersed soon afterwards. Report on facing page.
Identifier: islandora:16853

Title: Cluster housing in Belhar, Cape Town
Subject: Belhar (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Housing, Coloured people (South Africa), City planning
Description: Cluster housing in Belhar. The second house from the right has been plastered and painted. It shows what a difference improvements (at owner expense) make.
Identifier: islandora:16773

Title: Feeding pigeons on the Grand Parade, Cape Town, 1952
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Business, Flea markets, Birds, Coloured people (South Africa)
Description: Mr Salie Isaacs, a stall-holder on the Grand Parade, has fed hundreds of pigeons at 2 o'clock each day for the last 20 years. He is seen in this photograph, paper bag in hand, feeding his feathered friends yesterday.
Identifier: islandora:17159

Title: ""Free the beaches""
Subject: coloured children, 'whites only' sign, discriminationDemonstrations--South Africa--Cape Town, Discrimination--South Africa, Children, Colored people (South Africa)
Description: ""Open the beaches"" protest. This protest was a reaction to the Separate Amenities Act of 1953, which declared that people of colour were not to use the same public facilities (such as toilets, park benches, buses and beaches) as white people.
Identifier: islandora:8389

Title: Marching band, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Festivals, Apartheid, Culture, Music, Coloured people (South Africa)
Description: Moslem bagpipe band, Cape Town
Identifier: islandora:16741

Title: Apartheid-era Cape Corps soldier, Cape Show, Cape Town
Subject: Goodwood (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Militarisation, Apartheid, Coloured people (South Africa), Armed forces
Description: Show goes on. This Cape Corps soldier stoically continued his precision march despite his helmet having come undone during last night's Cape Tattoo at the Cape Showgrounds. The tattoo started last night and the final performance is on March 5.
Identifier: islandora:15870

Title: Students demonstrate outside CRC grounds, Cape Town
Subject: Bellville (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Youth, Demonstrations, Apartheid, Politics, Coloured Persons Representative Council of South Africa
Description: Some of the placard-bearing students who demonstrated outside the grounds of the Coloured Persons Representative Council (CRC) at Bellville yesterday afternoon shortly before the opening of the 3rd session of the Council.
Identifier: islandora:17653

Title: War-time housing development in Kew Town, Athlone, Cape Town
Subject: Athlone (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Townships, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Apartheid, Housing, Coloured people (South Africa)
Description: Q-town (later Kew Town) in Athlone, Cape Town, a war-time sub-economic housing development for the coloured (slum) population of the inner city areas.
Identifier: islandora:16719

Title: War-time housing development in Kew Town, Athlone, Cape Town
Subject: Athlone (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Townships, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Apartheid, Housing, Coloured people (South Africa),
Description: Q-town (later Kew Town) in Athlone, Cape Town, a war-time sub-economic housing development for the coloured (slum) population of the inner city areas.
Identifier: islandora:16720

Title: Marching band, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Festivals, Apartheid, Culture, Music, Coloured people (South Africa)
Description: Moslem bagpipe band, Cape Town
Identifier: islandora:16739

Title: Apartheid-era Bellville South Community Centre, Cape Town
Subject: Bellville (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Architecture, Coloured people (South Africa), Local government, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950
Description: The modern frontage of the Community Centre in Bellville South, part of a large complex.
Identifier: islandora:16819

Title: Argie boy, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Newspapers, Apartheid, Coloured Labour Preference Area Policy (South Africa), Child labour, Children's rights
Description: Little 'Argie Boy' looks rather like an opera singer hitting a high note as he attracts customers with the traditional cry of 'Argeee.'
Identifier: islandora:16693

Title: Library in Atlantis, Cape Town
Subject: Atlantis (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Apartheid, Education, Coloured Labour Preference Area Policy (South Africa), South Africa. Separate Amenities Act, 1953
Description: Library in apartheid-era Atlantis, the dormitory suburb built for Coloured people outside Cape Town
Identifier: islandora:16711

Title: Argie boy, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Newspapers, Apartheid, Coloured Labour Preference Area Policy (South Africa), Child labour, Children's rights
Description: Cape Town's newspaper sellers are known for their ingenuity. And Argie seller Gavin Simons is no exception. He has found the answer to beat the cold of winter winds at his beat on the corner of St George's and Church streets by utilising a discarded cardboard box. With his copies of The Argus hot from the press, he is quite comfortable, thank you.
Identifier: islandora:16692

Title: Argie boys, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Newspapers, Apartheid, Coloured Labour Preference Area Policy (South Africa), Child labour, Children's rights
Description: Before the city comes to life, newspaper boys huddle round a fire (above) as they wait in the wintry cold for fresh bundles to sell.
Identifier: islandora:16691

Title: Cape Show, Goodwood, Cape Town
Subject: Goodwood (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Agricultural show, Agriculture, Gymkhanas (Horsemanship), Coloured people (South Africa)
Description: Ticky, a Welsh pony for delivering milk in Athlone, scored impressively at the Cape Show. Here his owner, Mr E. Shabodien holds the whip. Also in the cart is the groom, Mr. Michael Charles.
Identifier: islandora:16985

Title: Black Consciousness demonstration, Athlone, Cape Town
Subject: Athlone (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Politics, Coloured people (South Africa), Black consciousness, Demonstrations
Description: In the crowd there were something like 12 000 people. On the platform there were speakers from far and wide representing all the races in South Africa - except the Whites. This was at Athlone, Cape Town, last Sunday. According to organisers of the meeting and to many political observers, it was a significant day indeed for Black Consciousness and the growth of Black Power in South Africa.
Identifier: islandora:16876

Title: Youth in Nooitgedaght Cape Town
Subject: Bishop Lavis (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Townships, Apartheid, Infrastructure, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Coloured people (South Africa)
Description: Young boy sharpens a knife at Nooitgedaght, Bishop Lavis, on the Cape Flats
Identifier: islandora:16851

Title: Atlantis resident, Cape Town
Subject: Atlantis (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Apartheid, Housing, Coloured Labour Preference Area Policy (South Africa), Women
Description: Resident of apartheid-era Atlantis, the dormitory suburb build for Coloured people outside Cape Town
Identifier: islandora:16709

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