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Title: Protesters barricade the street with burning tyres and barrels, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Civil unrest, Violence, Vandalism, Demonstrations
Description: Protesters barricade the street with burning tyres and barrels, Cape Town. Boland unrest.
Identifier: islandora:16238

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: Burnt remains of church pew, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Langa (Cape Town, South Africa), Civil unrest, Church buildings, Vandalism, Law enforcement
Description: The Rev. W.T. Majodina, Methodist minister at Langa, and a policeman survey the damage done after an attempt had been made to burn down the Methodist Church early today. The only damage caused was a pew burnt.
Identifier: islandora:16470

Title: The remains of a public library that was set alight, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Civil unrest, Violence, Vandalism, Books and reading
Description: Only the walls and window frames were left after the rioters fired the Gugulethu public library on Wednesday night.
Identifier: islandora:16310

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: People armed with sticks walk past a destroyed house, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Civil unrest, Violence, Vandalism, Demonstrations, Weapons
Description: Armed with sticks, Nyanga migrant workers - "White caps" - move through the veld with a burnt-out house in the background.
Identifier: islandora:16267

Title: Police inspect a flat tyre on one of their vans, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Civil unrest, Violence, Motorcars, Vandalism, Law enforcement
Description: A riot squad van's tyre was knifed by Blacks during rioting in Langa yesterday. Here with a crowd of about 2 000 milling around police vehicles, riot squad members battle to change the wheel, Colonel A.P. van Zyl, head of the Riot Squad, looks on.
Identifier: islandora:16338

Title: Fireman puts out a fire that engulfed a train, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Railroads, Transport, Infrastructure, Vandalism, Railroad trains
Description: Gutted: A fireman puts out the blaze that wrecked a Metro train coach at Esplanade station. Marchers returning from Cape Town set the train alight.
Identifier: islandora:16150

Title: Police presence at a riot, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Demonstrations, Vandalism
Description: Police presence at a riot, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:16189

Title: Officer kicks debris off the road, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Civil unrest, Violence, Vandalism, Demonstrations, Law enforcement
Description: Officer kicks debris off the road, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:16249

Title: Driver inspects his smashed windscreen, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Civil unrest, Violence, Vandalism, Motorcars
Description: Mr Arthur Samuel Vlotman, driver of a hydraulic refuse truck, peers through his smashed windscreen. He had dropped workers at their homes in Guguletu yesterday when he was stoned by a large crowd of youths along NY1. Nobody was hurt.
Identifier: islandora:16291

Title: Destruction done to property due to riots, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Civil unrest, Violence, Vandalism, Property development
Description: Destruction done to property due to riots, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:16287

Title: Fireman inspects damage done by petrol bomb, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Civil unrest, Violence, Vandalism, Weapons, Education
Description: Fire Officer D. Arnold points out the circle of destroyed plaster typical of petrol bomb damage after a blaze which swept through classrooms, a library, a storeroom and parts of a laboratory at Langa High School last night.
Identifier: islandora:16293

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