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Title: Report on an open air site near Duynefontein.
Subject: South Africa--Antiquities, , ,
Description: Report on an open air site in Duynefontein, Western Cape, South Africa. Bone and stone artefacts were found.
Identifier: islandora:21905

Title: Lampranthus sp.
Subject: South Africa, Aizoaceae--South Africa, Botany--South Africa--Pictorial works, Vygie
Description: Botanical illustration - coloured - Lampranthus sp. Dissected drawing of flower included. Drawn from a collection made by Dr. Luckhoff.
Identifier: islandora:24084

Title: Image from rock painting site. Site of Tradouw Pass Cave, Swellendam, South Africa.
Subject: Rock paintings--South Africa--Western Cape., , ,
Description: Photograph of the signposted shelter at the Tradouw Pass Cave site.
Identifier: islandora:21550

Title: A bird's nest in a dead Camel Thorn tree within the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park
Subject: San (African people)--South Africa--Witdraai, Khomani (African people)--South Africa--Witdraai, San (African people)--Social life and customs, Khomani (African people)--Social life and customs, Birds--Nests--South Africa--Witdraai, Landscapes--South Africa--Witdraai, Indigenous peoples--Land tenure--Africa, Southern, ,
Description: According to folklore, the San attempted to live their lives like birds. As much as possible, they never quarrelled and looked out for one another when danger appeared.
Identifier: islandora:27224

Title: Image from rock painting site. Site of Kanetvlei I, Hex River Valley, Western Cape, South Africa.
Subject: Rock paintings--South Africa--Western Cape., , ,
Description: Rock painting of antelopes in red.
Identifier: islandora:21428

Title: Witbank-Middelburg coalfield
Subject: Coal mines and mining--South Africa--Mpumalanga--Maps, Coal--South Africa--Witbank, Coal--South Africa--Middelburg, ,
Description: Map of Witbank and Middelburg Coalfield showing collieries administered by the Central Mining-Rand Mines Group, with names of places, collieries producers, collieries non-producers, railways, rivers, and roads. Some colours. Scale 1:120,000.
Identifier: islandora:30024

Title: Woman protests army occupation, Soweto, 1985
Subject: Military occupation, Women--Political activity, Apartheid, Political history--South Africa, Beyond the Barricades
Description: A lone woman protests against the presence of troops in Soweto. Women played a significant role against the army's occupation of the townships. In Chesterville, a township near Durban, women patrolled the streets nightly to protect families from security force and vigilante harassment.
Identifier: islandora:909

Title: Laingsburg
Subject: South African War, 1899-1902 -- Maps., Laingsburg Region (South Africa) -- Maps., Western Cape (South Africa) -- Maps.
Description: This map forms part of the Imperial map of the Cape Colony., The map shows grand trunk roads, trunk roads, branch roads, farm roads, rivers, hills, pans, railways, telegraph lines, homesteads, farm names, farm boundaries and divisional boundaries in the Laingsburg area., Relief shown by hachures., The Imperial map of the Cape Colony was "compiled by the Field Intelligence Division or Department of the British Army in Cape Town during the second Anglo-Boer War. ... [P.H. du P.] Casgrain ... superintended its production ..." (Board, C. "Certainly better than nothing at all" : a re-examination of the Imperial map of South Africa 1899-1902. Proceedings of the 21st International Cartographic Conference, Durban, 2003. Available online: http://icaci.org/files/documents/ICC_proceedings/ICC2003/Papers/109.pdf (accessed 5 Sept. 2012))., "This map is not to be considered as absolutely accurate"., Projection not given., Printed in black and red., Map folds into an outer cover., The map is mounted on linen.
Identifier: islandora:24838

Title: Church gathering
Subject: Bushman, Southern Africa, indigenous, San, dance, ritual, celebration, dress, traditional, woman, man, women, men, mud, sand, drums, stick, religion, San (African people)--South Africa--Religion, Zionist Christian Church, Independent churches--South Africa, Schmidtsdrift (South Africa)
Description: An outdoor church gathering. Schmidtsdrift, South Africa. Circa 1992.
Identifier: islandora:12071

Title: Right wing conservatives at election rally, Pretoria, South Africa
Subject: Political history--South Africa--Pretoria, Elections--South Africa--Pretoria, Apartheid--South Africa--Pretoria, Segregation--South Africa--Pretoria, Race discrimination--South Africa--Pretoria
Description: Right-wing conservatives rally for another all-white by-election, which increased pro-apartheid representation in the all-white Parliament, Pretoria, South Africa, February 1982.
Identifier: islandora:5331

Title: Report on a site close to Touwsriver, on the farm Nooitgedacht.
Subject: South Africa--Antiquities, Rock paintings--South Africa, , ,
Description: Report on a site is close to Touwsriver, on the farm Nooitgedacht. The report relates to a very shallow rock shelter that faces east over plain. Rock paintings showing human and animal figures were found.
Identifier: islandora:21786

Title: Report on a surface site, yielding artefacts.
Subject: South Africa--Antiquities, ,
Description: Report on a surface site yielding Mid Stone Age and Late Stone Age flakes, Mid Stone Age cores, Western Cape, South Africa.
Identifier: islandora:21959

Title: Glottiphyllum sp.
Subject: South Africa--Eastern Cape, Province of, Aizoaceae--South Africa--Eastern Cape, Botany--South Africa--Eastern Cape--Pictorial works, Vygie
Description: Botanical illustration - coloured - Glottiphyllum sp. Drawn from a collection made at Dassie Klip near Grahamstown [Albany District] by Bolus (sub-National Botanical Garden 938/31), July 1931.
Identifier: islandora:23917

Title: Glottiphyllum grandiflorum (Haw.) N.E.Br.
Subject: South Africa--Eastern Cape, Province of, Aizoaceae--South Africa--Eastern Cape, Botany--South Africa--Eastern Cape--Pictorial works, Vygie
Description: Botanical illustration - coloured - Glottiphyllum grandiflorum (Haw.) N.E.Br. Drawn from a collection made by J. Kreft (sub-National Botanical Garden 299/26). [Refer to Bolus Herbarium 132636. Photo is a different specimen]. [No locality details are given. Plant species endemic to South Africa; Eastern Cape Provincial distribution].
Identifier: islandora:23881

Title: Waiting for the 'whites only' bus, Pretoria, South Africa
Subject: Buses--South Africa--Pretoria, Apartheid--South Africa--Pretoria, Social conditions--South Africa--Pretoria, Segregation----South Africa--Pretoria, Race discrimination--South Africa--Pretoria
Description: Waiting for a 'whites only' bus under apartheid's policies of racial segregation, Pretoria, South Africa, November 1988.
Identifier: islandora:5352

Title: Lampranthus sp.
Subject: South Africa--Western Cape, Province of the, Aizoaceae--South Africa--Western Cape, Botany--South Africa--Western Cape--Pictorial works, Vygie
Description: Botanical illustration - coloured - Lampranthus sp. Dissected drawing of flower included. Drawn from a collection made in Calvinia Division by C.F.L. Leipoldt
Identifier: islandora:23997

Title: Walter Sisulu, Trevor Manuel and Dullah Omar in Parliament , Cape Town
Subject: South Africa. Parliament, Governments, Politics, Legislation, ,
Description: Parliament 1994.
Identifier: islandora:15698

Title: Hereroa odorata (L.Bolus) L.Bolus
Subject: South Africa--Western Cape, Province of the, Aizoaceae--South Africa--Western Cape, Botany--South Africa--Western Cape--Pictorial works, Vygie
Description: Botanical illustration - coloured - Hereroa odorata (L.Bolus ) L.Bolus. Drawn from a collection made at the top of Ouberg Pass [Oubergspas], Montagu by F.M. Leighton (sub-National Botanical Garden 2656/33), September 1933-October 1933. [Refer to Bolus Herbarium 132748].
Identifier: islandora:24361

Title: HIV positive, orphaned brothers, Hlabisa, South Africa
Subject: AIDS (disease)--South Africa, Orphans--South Africa, Children--South Africa,
Description: HIV positive brothers and orphans, Sanele Khanyi (4 years old, on right), and Samkelisiwe Khanyi (3 years old, on left), Hlabisa, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
Identifier: islandora:1362

Title: Oral history interview with Thembani Dyule [Part 1 of 2]
Subject: Oral history, Gun Free South Africa (Organization), Gun control--South Africa
Description: Gun Free South Africa is an advocacy group formed in 1994 with the aim of building a safer country through the reduction of firearms in society. In association with "Gun Free South Africa", the interviewer focuses on youth activists and young members of the community sharing their experiences of gun violence and opinions on gun control. Themes include: biographical information; civic organisations; community involvement; crime and organisational affiliations., Por1.04a.mp3: Part 1 of 2 ; 47:29 min. ; interview 4 of 6
Identifier: islandora:24641

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