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Title: Freedom in our time, Cape Town
Subject: Mitchell's Plain (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Politics, Youth, African National Congress, Freedom, Liberation
Description: Youths hold aloft a homemade placard demonstrating their support at a Mitchell's Plain rally featuring African National Congress (ANC) Deputy President Mr Nelson Mandela, SA Communist Party chief Mr Joe Slovo and ANC Secretary-General Mr Alfred Nzo
Identifier: islandora:15912

Title: Dr Allan Boesak on the election trail for the first democratic elections in 1994
Subject: Mitchell's Plain (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Politics, African National Congress, Election campaigns, Democracy, Informal sector (economics)
Description: Wish realised: Mitchell's Plain hawker Mr John Solomons shakes the hand of African National Congress (ANC) Western Cape leader Dr Allan Boesak yesterday. Mr Solomons told Dr Boesak he had always wanted to meet him. Dr Boesak said hawkers were the "backbone of our re-entry into the economy". His campaign yesterday also took him through Strandfontein Village.
Identifier: islandora:15889

Title: Opening of ANC's regional conference, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Politics, African National Congress, Leadership
Description: Attentive: African National Congress (ANC) regional secretary Mr Tony Yengeni, left, Dr Pallo Jordan, ANC's head of publicity and information, and former regional chairman Mr Christmas Tinto, sing Nkosi Sikelelei iAfrika at the opening of ANC's regional conference yesterday.
Identifier: islandora:15924

Title: Waiting for Mandela at Nyanga, Cape Town
Subject: Nyanga (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Politics, African National Congress, Election campaigns, Democracy
Description: African National Congress (ANC) supporters wait for Nelson Mandela at Nyanga, Cape Town, during the 1994 democratic elections campaign
Identifier: islandora:15891

Title: Headquarters of local ANC cell, Cape Town
Subject: Wynberg (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Ammunition, African National Congress, Armed struggle, South African Police
Description: Undercover: the headquarters of a local African National Congress (ANC) cell was allegedly in a flat in this block in Wynberg. One of the 11 alleged ANC guerrillas (Jenny Schreiner) was arrested here. Police confiscated terrorist weaponry found in the flat. [Schreiner was one of 14 people detained under Section 29 of the Internal Security Act and charged with terrorism. The Yengeni trial (named after accused number 1, Tony Yengeni) lasted from March 1989 to March 1991, when the accused were finally granted amnesty.]
Identifier: islandora:15917

Title: End Conscription and conscientious objectors, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Conscientious objection, South African Defence Force, Apartheid
Description: End Conscription and conscientious objectors.
Identifier: islandora:18094

Title: Khayelitsha residents celebrate Nelson Mandela's release, Cape Town
Subject: Khayelitsha (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Townships, Apartheid, African National Congress, Liberation, Political prisoners
Description: Celebration: People dance at a spontaneous "victory" celebration in Khayelitsha at the weekend after President F W de Klerk's announcement in Parliament on Friday that Nelson Mandela was to released soon and the African National Congress (ANC) had been unbanned.
Identifier: islandora:15921

Title: Electioneering before the 1994 democratic elections, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Politics, African National Congress, Election campaign, Apartheid, Democracy
Description: Parade pennant: An African National Congress (ANC )supporter holds the organisation's flag, right, as the citizens of Cape Town hear a message from Mandela on the Parade.
Identifier: islandora:15888

Title: Members of South Africa's 8th Antarctic expedition , Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Exploration and discovery, South African National Antarctic Expedition, Discovery II (Ship), Research, Polar regions
Description: Some of the men who sailed with South Africa's eighth Antarctic expedition in 1966 were photographed in Cape Town docks with their wives and sweethearts. In the front, with dark glasses, is the team leader, Mr Eddie Rossow. Next to him is his son Jaco.
Identifier: islandora:16672

Title: Cape Town contingent to Lusaka talks with the ANC
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Politics, Democratic Party, Whites, African National Congress
Description: ANC Safari: Some of the Cape Town contingent, part of a group of 120 white South Africans who left to meet the African National Congress in Lusaka today, gather at D.F.Malan Airport before their departure. They are, from left, city councillor Ian Iversen, Democratic Party regional chairman Bill Sewell, University of Cape Town deputy vice-chancellor David Woods, Cape Democrats members llana Korber and John Greene and head of the DP's national youth organisation Michelle Guttler. They will attend a conference on the role of whites in a changing society, organised by the Five Freedoms Forum.
Identifier: islandora:15920

Title: Transkei's Kei Air Service, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Travel, Africans, Transkei (South Africa), Bantustan, Families
Description: First time up: A group of Cape Town people about to board the Kei Air Service Dakota at D.F.Malan Airport yesterday for their first air journey. It was also a new venture for the Kei airline which has started its services for Africans between Cape Town and Umtata (Transkei), with request landings at King William's Town, Elliot, Idutywa and Queenstown. The service was inaugurated officially yesterday.
Identifier: islandora:15863

Title: Armistice Day commemoration, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), South African Police, Memorials, World War, 1914-1918, Veterans, Railways
Description: Constable J B Uys of the Railway Police makes a salute at the South African Railways and Harbour War Services Union annual Remembrance Day ceremony at Cape Town Station in 1982 to commemorate Armistice Day - the end of World War 1. Wreaths were laid after the playing of the Last Post and a two minute silence.
Identifier: islandora:16643

Title: Ikwezi Housing Complex for dockworkers in Guguletu, Cape Town
Subject: Guguletu (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Townships, Dock workers, Apartheid, Housing, Africans
Description: Stevedores return home from the docks. The name of their block, Ikwezi, means morning star. The housing complex in Guguletu was officially opened yesterday.
Identifier: islandora:15841

Title: Fingo dancers at Langa, Cape Town
Subject: Langa (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Township, Traditions, Women, Xhosa (African people), Dance
Description: Fingo women dance at their community's annual celebrations in Cape Town's African township, Langa
Identifier: islandora:15862

Title: Fingo women in traditional dress, Cape Town
Subject: Langa (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Traditions, Xhosa (African people), Transkei (South Africa), Women
Description: Some of the Fingo women in their dance costumes - an interesting blend of ancient and modern style.
Identifier: islandora:15858

Title: Nelson Mandela and ANC leaders, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Politics, African National Congress, South African Communist Party, Democracy, Liberation movements
Description: Nelson Mandela, flanked by African National Congress/South Africa Communist Party (ANC/SACP) leaders Alfred Nzo, Walter Sisulu and Joe Slovo, addresses a Cape Town crowd shortly after his release from prison
Identifier: islandora:15910

Title: Members of the African National Congress of the Western Cape , Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Politics, African National Congress, Leadership
Description: ANC leadership in the Western Cape, 1991. Back row, left to right: Trevor Manuel; Lizo Nqungwana; Noel Williams; Basil Davidson; Mai Mildred Letsia; Chris Nissan; Johnny Issel; James (surname unknown)Front row, left to right: Dullah Omar; Bulelani Ngcuka; Reg September; Christmas Tinto; Hilda Ndude; Amos Lingisi; Neville van de Rheede
Identifier: islandora:15928

Title: Van Riebeeck tercentenary celebrations, 1952, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Traditional, Zulus (African People), Apartheid, Afrikaners Nationalism, Tribal
Description: A Zulu hut being constructed as part of the Native Affairs Department display at the Culemborg Pavilion as part of the 1952 celebrations to mark the 300th anniversary of arrival of Jan van Riebeeck at the Cape.
Identifier: islandora:15864

Title: ANC marshals, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Politics, African National Congress, Militarisation, Election campaigns, Youth
Description: African National Congress (ANC) marshalls toyitoyi (dance) in the runup to the 1994 democratic elections
Identifier: islandora:15899

Title: Hoisting the Malawi flag, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Sea Point (Cape Town, South Africa), Apartheid, Memorials, African countries, Patriotism
Description: Malawi flag: hoisting the first Black African flag to be flown in Cape Town are two staff members of the Elizabeth Hotel in Sea Point yesterday. Waiter Sidney Cooper hoists the Malawi flag while employee Tim Wilkinson (left) hoists the South African flag. The Malawi flag flies at the hotel because Malawi's first envoy to South Africa, Mr P. A. Richardson, stays at the hotel.
Identifier: islandora:14604

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