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Title: Flaming tyres barricade a street in Guguletu, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Civil unrest, Violence, Law enforcement
Description: Black youths stand in front of a flaming barricade as a taxi attempts to drive through. Police in an ambush in Guguletu township outside Cape Town had earlier killed seven alleged guerrilla fighters.
Identifier: islandora:16240

Title: University of Cape Town workers gather in preparation to protest, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Demonstrations, Civil unrest
Description: Coloured and African workers at University of Cape Town (UCT) held a demonstration yesterday to "show fellow feeling with those killed and injured and with their relatives".
Identifier: islandora:16261

Title: Muslim community demonstrates, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Demonstrations, Religion
Description: City demonstration - About 70 members of the Muslim community demonstrated yesterday outside the Monte Carlo Cinema on the Foreshore where the city's first Gay and Lesbian Film Festival is being staged.
Identifier: islandora:17845

Title: Zionism protest, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Demonstrations, Politics
Description: Zionism protest, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:17856

Title: A domestic worker speaks out, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Labour, Domestic workers, Apartheid
Description: Mrs Hester George: "I think it is really disgusting because we, as domestic workers, are denied our private lives."
Identifier: islandora:18034

Title: Segregation on buses, Cape Town
Subject: Milnerton (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, South Africa. Separate Amenities Act, 1953, Apartheid signage
Description: Sign on a 'Mixed' bus (lower deck: Whites only; upper deck: non-Whites only) on the Cape Town-Milnerton route in the apartheid era.
Identifier: islandora:16667

Title: Camps Bay Pavilion burned down, Cape Town, 1973
Subject: Camps Bay (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Fires, Entertainment, Disaster, Local government
Description: The charred ruins of the old Camps Bay pavilion stands today as a sad monument after a fire ripped through the 57-year-old building early today. It destroyed the equipment and the dreams of the Camps Bay Operatic and Dramatic Society and one of Cape Town's best-known landmarks. Damage is estimated at thousands of rands and the City Council's Amenities Committee is expected to look over the ruins during a scheduled tour of Camps Bay tomorrow.
Identifier: islandora:16990

Title: Koeberg intersection, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Cape Town (South Africa), c1973, Urban areas, Development, Transport, Motorcars, Railways
Description: Koeberg intersection, Cape Town
Identifier: islandora:16559

Title: Re-opening of Adderley Street branch of Standard Bank after renovations
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Banking, Commerce, Architecture, Building
Description: Last-minute preparations before today's opening.
Identifier: islandora:16750

Title: Police officer runs after protester, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Civil unrest, Violence, Weapons, Demonstrations, Law enforcement
Description: Member of the anti-riot unit chases a Coloured youth across Adderley Street.
Identifier: islandora:16273

Title: Sasko's new 250,000 pounds silo in Rondebosch, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Rondebosch (Cape Town, South Africa), Labour, Industry
Description: Sasko's new 250,000 pounds silo at Rondebosch has 74 bins, each 80ft. deep and holding from 1,400 to 3,000 bags of wheat. The manager of the mill (Mr TJ Robarts) is looking at the silo walls, which have been treated with waterproofing.
Identifier: islandora:14519

Title: Young boy pretends to be a riot policeman, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Civil unrest, Violence, Youth, Law enforcement
Description: The peaceful ebb of weekend life returned to Cape Town's riot-torn townships today. Here, a small Guguletu boy dressed in a camouflaged suit parodies riot police as he marches down the quiet main street.
Identifier: islandora:16366

Title: Outside bathroom used by nine domestic servants, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Domestic workers, Apartheid
Description: The outside bathroom and toilet used by nine domestic servants. Some of the girls said that they preferred to take a basin of hot water to their bedrooms as the bathroom only had cold water and they found the conditions unhygienic.
Identifier: islandora:18049

Title: Erepsia anceps (Haw.) Schwantes
Subject: South Africa--Western Cape, Province of the--Cape Town, Aizoaceae--South Africa--Western Cape, Botany--South Africa--Western Cape--Pictorial works, Vygie
Description: Botanical illustration - coloured - Erepsia anceps (Haw.) Schwantes. Dissected drawing of flower included. Drawn from a collection made between Smitswinkel and Olifants Bosch [Olifantsbos, Simon's Town District] by T.M. Salter (4264), 23 January 1934,
Identifier: islandora:23705

Title: Camps Bay, Cape Town, 1946
Subject: Camps Bay (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Roads, Urban development, Commerce, Recreation,
Description: Beach Road in Camps Bay in the late 1940s
Identifier: islandora:16957

Title: Lampranthus elegans (Jacq.) Schwantes
Subject: South Africa--Western Cape, Province of the--Cape Town, Aizoaceae--South Africa--Western Cape, Botany--South Africa--Western Cape--Pictorial works, Vygie
Description: Botanical illustration - coloured - Lampranthus elegans (Jacq.) Schwantes. Dissected drawing of flower included. Drawn from a collection made on the south side of Signal Hill, south side [Cape District] by M.G. Lavis.
Identifier: islandora:23977

Title: Political protests, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Demonstrations, Apartheid, Politics
Description: Political protests, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:17713

Title: Anti-drug protests, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Demonstrations
Description: Anti-drug protests, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:17738

Title: New printing press for the Cape Times, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Press, Southern African Newspapers, Printing presses
Description: The new R300,000 printing press which is to be installed in the Cape Times building in Burg Street. It is expected that it will be in operation before the end of the year. The new press is capable of producing a 32 page newspaper, four pages of which will take three superimposed colours, and four other pages which will take one superimposed colour. This picture was taken at Hoe & Crabtree's works in London where the press was assembled and test run prior to shipment.
Identifier: islandora:16047

Title: Pig and Whistle, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Rondebosch (Cape Town, South Africa), Bars (Drinking establishments), Restaurants
Description: Pig and Whistle, Rondebosch, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:16624

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