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Title: Equestrian feats at Cape Show, Cape Town
Subject: Goodwood (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Agricultural show, Agriculture, Gymkhanas (Horsemanship), Coloured people (South Africa)
Description: Equestrian Feats such as this - one rider balanced on three galloping horses - have long been the arena attractions of the Cape Show at Goodwood and its predecessor, the Rosebank Show.
Identifier: islandora:16986

Title: Spring daisies, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Cape Town (South Africa), Urban areas, Infrastructure, Architecture, Land, Urban development, Flowers
Description: Magic carpet of spring for city. Daisies are blooming on the Foreshore on land that is valued up to £11 a square foot.
Identifier: islandora:15101

Title: Trunk found in terrorist apartment, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Politics, Trials, Weapons
Description: Weapons exhibit: Constable Karen Dalhouzie looks into the trunk containing AK-47 rifles and ammunition, limpet mines, hand grenades and other arms and ammunition, allegedly found in the Wynberg flat of terrorism accused Ms Jenny Schreiner. It is one of the more than 400 exhibits before court in the Yengeni trial which began earlier this year.
Identifier: islandora:17614

Title: Cape Western Mowbray Advice Office, January to December '92
Description: Report of the Black Sash Advice Office. Includes reports on welfare grants, paternal maintenance, housing, and Advice Office volunteers
Identifier: islandora:8021

Title: Lighthouse at Cape Point, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Point (Cape of Good Hope, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Lighthouses, Navigation, Shipping
Description: Lamp: The 1 400 watt main lamp shines a beam about 50km out to sea.
Identifier: islandora:17006

Title: Family and friends of the accused sing freedom songs outside the Supreme Court, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Politics, African National Congress, Political prisoners, Apartheid, Political activists
Description: African National Congress (ANC) trial. Family and friends of the 15 accused sing freedom songs as they walk to the station from the Supreme Court building yesterday afternoon.
Identifier: islandora:15936

Title: Insurance plan of Cape Town, Cape Colony, South Africa
Subject: Insurance--South Africa--Cape Town--Maps., Fire risk assessment--South Africa--Cape Town--Maps., Cape Town (South Africa)--Maps., Cape Town (South Africa)--Buildings, structures, etc.--Maps.
Description: The plans record street names, widths and numbers; fire-protection facilities (including the location of salt and fresh water hydrants); materials, shape, height, placement and use of buildings; the location of openings, types of stored materials and areas of high-risk activites on industrial sites., Sheet 1 comprises the key plan indicating 9 areas of central Cape Town surveyed by Goad (scale 1:6,000. 1 in. to 500 feet). This key plan includes notes on the water supply (salt and fresh) in central Cape Town, details of personnel and equipment of the Cape Town Fire Brigade and general comments on the city's climate and buildings. Also included is a sheet comprising an index of streets, buildings and firms. The buildings are colour coded by material type., Title from key plan on sheet 1., The 11 sheets (1 index and 10 maps) are in a hardcover volume, each sheet forming 2 leaves., This volume is one of 18 Cape Town fire-insurance atlases surveyed and drawn by Charles Edward Goad and printed in 1895. The bookplate pasted on the inside of the front cover indicates this copy was intended for the Union Assurance Society.
Identifier: islandora:19825

Title: Fishing industry, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Fishing, Recreation, Ocean, Seafood
Description: Snoek run: the snoek boats are moving with the early morning sun because large shoals have moved in on the Peninsula's Atlantic coastline. Catches of up to 500 fish a boat are being made. Prices have dropped from R3 for a snoek early this week to R1,40. The boats have been working along the coast from Clifton to Slangkop. Fishermen say it could be one of the best snoek seasons in years.
Identifier: islandora:15017

Title: University of the Western Cape students march, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Demonstrations, Education, Higher
Description: University of the Western Cape (UWC) students march, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:16084

Title: Mandela and De Klerk at a meeting, Cape Town, 1990
Subject: Apartheid--South Africa, South Africa--Politics and government--1989-1994, South Africa--History--1961-1994, Ex-presidents--South Africa, Political leadership--South Africa, Mandela, Nelson, 1918-2013, De Klerk, F. W. (Frederik Willem),
Description: Nelson Mandela and F.W. De Klerk at a meeting between the ANC (African National Congress) and the then South African government, the NP (National Party).
Identifier: islandora:12605

Title: [Grand Parade, Cape Town, on day of inauguration of President Mandela]
Description: Crowds on Grand Parade, Cape Town, on day of inauguration of President Mandela, 10 May 1994
Identifier: islandora:6608

Title: Children sitting around a table in a classroom doing art and craft activities, 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: Children sit around a table and partake in arts and crafts activities in a classroom in District Six, Cape Town in the 1970's prior to the state orchestrated forced removals to locations further from the city.
Identifier: islandora:18501

Title: Mandela walks amongst ANC [African National Congress] supporters, Cape Town
Subject: Mandela, Nelson, 1918-2013, Crowds--South Africa, African National Congress, Post-apartheid era
Description: Nelson Mandela and supporters
Identifier: islandora:14428

Title: Long Street, Cape Town, 1980
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Business, Tourism, Women, Economy
Description: Morris, the butcher, with the boerewors which has made him famous. With him is his "right hand man" Odette Dhort.
Identifier: islandora:17452

Title: Old Mill in Mowbray, Cape Town
Subject: Windmills, Historic monuments, ,
Description: Beauty Spot: The old mill on De Waal Drive at Mowbray is one of the Cape's famed relics of earlier and probably one of most photographed tourist attractions in the Peninsula. But it will be a dexterous tourist indeed who will be able to photograph it this summer [...] the bristling barricade of electric standards which are being erected [...]t among the street-name signs and traffic bollards.
Identifier: islandora:15364

Title: Letter from Ernst (last name unknown), Durham, North Carolina, to Edith Bruch, Cape Town, South Africa, 1937
Subject: Bruch, Edith--Correspondence
Description: A letter from Ernst (last name unknown), Durham, North Carolina, to Edith Bruch, Cape Town, South Africa, 1937.
Identifier: islandora:29871

Title: Image from rock painting site, Western Cape, South Africa.
Subject: Rock paintings--South Africa--Western Cape., ,
Description: Rock painting of animal figures in red and black.
Identifier: islandora:21482

Title: Dignitaries inspect armed forces, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Politics, Armed forces
Description: Dignitaries inspect armed forces, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:15997

Title: Soup kitchen, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Soup kitchens, Homeless persons
Description: Right: Homeless squatters at a soup kitchen set up by the Islamic Medical Association and the Muslim Youth Movement. The soup kitchen and a first-aid post are in Lansdowne Road.
Identifier: islandora:17575

Title: SA Airways, station, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Cape Town (South Africa), Urban areas, Infrastructure, Architecture, Land, Buildings
Description: Argus Chief Photographer Jim McLagan goes a bit glassy-eyed when he used the sheet of window pane in the station to get this double image.
Identifier: islandora:15103

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