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Title: Young girl posing on the pavement, 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: A young girl poses on the pavement against a tall building in District Six, Cape Town in the 1970's prior to the state orchestrated forced removals to locations further from the city.
Identifier: islandora:18548

Title: Gate to servants quarters, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Domestic workers, Apartheid, South Africa. Separate Amenities Act, 1953
Description: Maggie Dewies, domestic worker, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:18045

Title: Basil Coetzee and Abdullah Ibrahim surveying an empty venue during a soundcheck, Cape Town, South Africa
Subject: Musicians, Black--South Africa, Jazz musicians--South Africa, Ibrahim, Abdullah, 1934-, Coetzee, Basil
Description: Basil Coetzee and Abdullah Ibrahim survey an empty venue during a soundcheck before a live performance in Strandfontein, Cape Town, South Africa.
Identifier: islandora:18203

Title: Foundation-stone for Van Rieebeck Festival's Gateway to Africa, Cape Town, 1952
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Afrikaner nationalism, Urban development
Description: The foundation-stone for the Gateway to Africa stands protected by a strong wire fence, but whipped by loose sand and rain in a desolate part of the Foreshore. The stone, then surrounded by the pageantry of the Van Riebeeck Festival, was laid on April 5 by a boy scout, a girl guide and a Voortrekker boy and girl. No decision has been made about making a start on building the monumental approach on the Foreshore.
Identifier: islandora:17116

Title: Protest outside Church Square House, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Demonstrations, Religion, Politics
Description: Protest outside Church Square House, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:17835

Title: Long Street, Cape Town, circa 1900
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Architecture, Urban development, Commerce, Roads
Description: Long Street near the turn of the century. The building in the middle still houses John Marcus and Son.
Identifier: islandora:17362

Title: Anglican Church of St. Barnabas, Tamboerskloof, Cape Town, 1961
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Church buildings, Historic buildings, Architecture, Christianity
Description: Built of Table Mountain sandstone and Kloof granite, St. Barnabas's Church has a red roof which contrasts pleasing with the pines that stand as sentinels. The building has the charm that is derived from solid mellowness of weathered stone.
Identifier: islandora:17290

Title: Map of central Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa) -- Maps.
Description: Map shows names of principal streets, the railway system, Table Bay, foreshore development, and an index to main buildings and places of interest., The map is torn and poorly mended.
Identifier: islandora:19922

Title: First Speaker's Chair, Cape Town
Subject: South Africa. Parliament, Governments, Politics, Furniture, Laws, ,
Description: First Speaker's Chair.
Identifier: islandora:15711

Title: Cape Times Big Walk, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Sports, Charity, Newspapers, Women
Description: First woman across the finishing line, Cape Times 50 mile Big Walk, 1967
Identifier: islandora:16976

Title: Released from prison, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Political prisoners, Apartheid
Description: Mr Saleem Badat (left), Mr Jack Jaggers (obscured), Mr Marcus Solomon and Mr Logan Wort were among 37 people released from Victor Verster Prison yesterday.
Identifier: islandora:17931

Title: Foreshore freeway construction, Cape Town City
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Urban areas, Land, Urban development, Infrastructure, Transport, Building
Description: View of the Foreshore, Cape Town, shows progress on the freeways. At the start of the major contract, which will provide about 1 km of elevated dual carriageways parallel to the harbour fence, Murray & Stewart (Cape Town) offered to cut six months from the contract time. Three years later, with allowable extensions, they are still ahead of that speeded-up schedule. This means that the project should be completed in September 1976. Allowing for escalation, the total value of the work now being handled on the freeways will be in the region of R21-million.
Identifier: islandora:15125

Title: Moravian Chapel in District Six, Cape Town, 1987
Subject: District Six (Cape Town, South Africa), Historic buildings, Religion, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Race discrimination
Description: The battered 101 year old Moravian Chapel in what was District Six.
Identifier: islandora:17320

Title: Opening of a new factory, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Cape Town (South Africa), Industry, Business
Description: Opening of a new factory.
Identifier: islandora:14876

Title: Looters run away with store goods, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Demonstrations, Vandalism
Description: Haui March - looting.
Identifier: islandora:16206

Title: Young man injured in the crush to hear Mandela speak, Athlone Stadium, Cape Town
Subject: Athlone (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Politics, African National Congress, Election campaigns, democracy, security guards
Description: Trampled: a security official at the Athlone Stadium tends to one more than 20 people injured yesterday shortly after the arrival of African National Congress (ANC) leader Mr Nelson Mandela. Three people, including a small boy, were killed in the crush.
Identifier: islandora:15895

Title: Black Sash protest against apartheid on public transport, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Demonstrations, Women, Political activists, Black Sash (Society)
Description: Protest demonstration by members of the Black Sash in Cape Town today while bus apartheid was being applied for the second day on the Milnerton route.
Identifier: islandora:16863

Title: Deserted village, Robben Island, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Robben Island (South Africa), Historic sites, Monuments, Urban areas, Development, Roads
Description: The deserted village - a street scene in Robben Island.
Identifier: islandora:16539

Title: The Cabinet, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Politics, Cabinet ministers, National Party (South Africa), Governments
Description: The Cabinet on the steps outside Parliament, days after the assassination of Prime Minister H.F. Verwoerd on 6 September 1966. The new Prime Minister, B.J. Vorster, is in the centre behind the speaker.
Identifier: islandora:16904

Title: Dirt road, Crossroads, Cape Town
Subject: Crossroads (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Squatter settlements, Apartheid, Roads
Description: Dirt road at Crossroads, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:17546

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