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Title: Colour. Aerial view
Subject: Chancellor’s Walk, Colour image, Aerial view
Description: "Officially opened June 1985 by Chancellor Harry Oppenheimer. Chancellor’s Walk"
Identifier: islandora:7520

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:16743

Title: Township, Cape Town
Subject: Athlone (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Coloured people (South Africa), Apartheid, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Housing, City planning
Description: Township housing development at 'Q' Town the Cape Flats in the 1940s.
Identifier: islandora:16974

Title: Protest at University of the Western Cape, Cape Town
Subject: Bellville (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Youth, Coloured people (South Africa), Black consciousness, Politics
Description: Protesting Black Consciousness students at the University of the Western Cape, Bellville, Cape Town
Identifier: islandora:16878

Title: Young boy is an Argus newspaper vendor, 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: Argus newspaper vendor Donovan October, 13, and his dogs Cha-Cha Boy and Sheba are inseparable companions. The three are such good friends that newspaper-buyers outside the Meadowridge Service Station have seen Donovan covering his dogs up with his jersey and raincoat when it rains while he gets drenched. The dogs take the job seriously and they growled fiercely when an Argus photographer came too near their master to take this picture.
Identifier: islandora:16690

Title: A district midwife on her way to work, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Children, Primary health care, Medical personnel, Apartheid, Coloured people (South Africa)
Description: There is no easy road for the district midwives. Visits are often a hard slog over sand dunes and through scrub with the added burden of a medical bag.
Identifier: islandora:16730

Title: Oral history interview with Reg September [Part 3 of 4]
Subject: Oral history, Political activists-- South Africa--Interviews, Government, Resistance to--South Africa, South African Coloured People's Organisation, September, Reg
Description: This is a series of unrelated interviews from the period 1985-1990 with people involved in different spheres of political life in Africa, with particular reference to the politics of South Africa, Namibia, Kenya, Zambia and the Congo. Interviewees include, Jane Gool, Hassan Howa, Hosea Jaffe, I.B. Tabata, Jack Cope and Otillie Abrahams. Themes include: African National Congress (ANC) training camps, anti-discrimination in sport, life in exile in Botswana and Namibia, gender empowerment , the history of St. Francis, Langa in the Western Cape, Non-European Unity Movement (NUEM), political upheaval in Kenya, rural life and work and the South West African Peoples Organisation (SWAPO), Pin4.43a.mp3: Part 3 of 4 ; 31:50 min. ; interview 43 of 52
Identifier: islandora:29724

Title: Argie boy, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Newspapers, Labour, Apartheid, Coloured Labour Preference Area Policy (South Africa), Children's rights
Description: 1950s depiction of an Argie Boy (newspaper vendor selling the Argus newspaper)
Identifier: islandora:16697

Title: Protest by Blue Downs residents, Cape Town
Subject: Blue Downs (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Apartheid, Banking, Coloured people (South Africa), Demonstrations
Description: The Downs Blues: Hundreds of placard-wielding Blue Downs residents march through the streets to protest against soaring repayments on their homes
Identifier: islandora:16880

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

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