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Title: Amanda Tiffin and Andrew Lilley present students from the SACM Jazz Piano Studio and the Jazz Vocal Studio, Chisholm Recital Room, South African College of Music, Cape Town, South Africa
Subject: Concert programs, Concerts--South Africa--Cape Town
Description: Concert programme
Identifier: islandora:30292

Title: Old lady stands next to two students sporting the punk rock style, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Rock music, Cosmetics
Description: Mavis, I tell you, I nearly died. I nearly died! Just minding my own business like I always do in town, when I'm surrounded by ag. What are they called? Punks, hey? Hooh, I was scared, hey, I thought, this is the jungle or something, and all my pension still in my handbag. But they were so nice, really. Said they are students at the Cape Technikon. But I mean how can you concentrate with blue hair?
Identifier: islandora:16123

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: Rondebosch Congregational Church, Cape Town, 1961
Subject: Rondebosch (Cape Town, South Africa), Church buildings, Historic buildings, Architecture, Christianity
Description: Congregational Church (Rondebosch) - In the porch of a pretty stone-and-brick church at Rondebosch, where Devil's Peak dominates the skyline, is the stone which once lay on the grave of Dr. Johannes van der Kemp - one of the pioneer missionaries who brought Congregationalism to South Africa.
Identifier: islandora:17276

Title: Father and child on the beach, Cape Town, South Africa
Subject: South Africa--Social life and customs, Men--South Africa, Women--South Africa, Children--South Africa, Cities and towns--Cape Town,
Description: A father plays with his young child on a beach in Cape Town, South Africa.
Identifier: islandora:18660

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: Aerial view, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Cape Town (South Africa), Urban development, Urban areas, Transport, Infrastructure, Trains
Description: Sites have been cleared for Cape Town's new railway station and the £1,180,000 S.A. Railways administrative block. They are being built on the seaward side of the present station, shown in this aerial photograph. Dominating the Foreshore is the £3,158,00 Culemborg goods terminal and sheds.
Identifier: islandora:15111

Title: Modern home in Elsies River built by the family, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Elsies River (South Africa), Apartheid, Housing, Residential buildings
Description: A modern home in Elsies River built by the family.
Identifier: islandora:18117

Title: Green Point lighthouse, Cape Town 1950
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Labour, Historic buildings, Shipping
Description: Workmen were today painting vivid bands of yellow, black and white on the Green Point Lighthouse to make it more easily distinguishable.
Identifier: islandora:17402

Title: The S A Railways building on the Foreshore, Cape Town, 1959
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Historic buildings, Architecture, Building
Description: Cape Town Foreshore: S. A. Railway Building.
Identifier: islandora:17433

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: St. Mary's Catholic Cathedral, Cape Town, 1981
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Church buildings, Historic buildings, Architecture, Christianity
Description: Yesterday marked the 130th anniversary of the dedication of St Mary's Cathedral and after Solemn High Mass, His Eminence Owen Cardinal McCann, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Cape Town, braved the rain together with Monsignor C G Watkins (on the archbishop's left), the Rev Father Rodney Hall (on his right) and the choir to pose for the Cape Times outside the cathedral.
Identifier: islandora:17296

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

Title: Police try to contain a protest, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Demonstrations, South African Police
Description: Police try to contain a protest, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:17880

Title: Sentry box at the Castle, Cape Town, 1954
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Castle of Good Hope (Cape Town, South Africa), Environment, Architecture
Description: One of the sentry boxes at the gateway to the Castle, Cape Town, is slowly being broken up by the huge East Indian rubber-type tree which shades the entrance. The picture shows the damage done to one wall of the box.
Identifier: islandora:17096

Title: Policemen climb out of their truck after a tear gas canister went off, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Weapons, Law enforcement
Description: Policemen tumble from a Casspir after a teargas canister was accidentally triggered in the vehicle at Steenberg yesterday.
Identifier: islandora:16234

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