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Title: Exhumation, Vlakplaas, 1998
Subject: Apartheid--South Africa, Political violence--South Africa, South Africa--Social conditions, War crimes investigation--South Africa, Truth and Lies,
Description: Tholakele Ngqulunga, during an exhumation at her husband's grave, Vlakplaas 1998.
Identifier: islandora:803

Title: The Tree of Healing
Subject: Tree of Healing, San (African people)--Botswana and South Africa--Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, Khomani (African people)--Botswana and South Africa--Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, San (African people)--Social life and customs, Khomani (African people)--Social life and customs, Trees--Botswana and South Africa--Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park--Religious aspects, Indigenous peoples--Land tenure--Africa, Southern, ,
Description: The Tree of Healing marks the gravesite of a powerful San healer and diviner, |Qano#î. He was famous for his ability to summon rain from the South West by dancing and singing ancient songs. Each family usually has at least one healer and they pass their knowledge on from one generation from the next. Data collected from elders during the cultural mapping process reveals that when the San community lost their land the younger generations could not learn to be healers and much of this knowledge was lost. Today, the use of healing plants and the healing dance is only practiced by a few members of the San community but this is a part of their surviving heritage. Images from this trip document the first excursions into the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park and were a central part of the work on oral history and mapping in the first years of research.
Identifier: islandora:27036

Title: Dephnie Mzakie Bottoman "My Best Friend", Eastern Cape, South Africa
Subject: Women--South Africa,
Description: Dephnie Mzakie Bottoman "My Best Friend", Eastern Cape, South Africa.
Identifier: islandora:18422

Title: Winnowing wheat
Subject: Wheat farmers--South Africa--Steinkopf, Subsistence farming--South Africa--Steinkopf,
Description: Subsistence farmers winnowing wheat.
Identifier: islandora:5104

Title: Church of the Good Shepherd, Kirstenbosch, Cape Town, 1993
Subject: Kirstenbosch (South Africa), Architecture, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Forced removals (South Africa), Community development
Description: Memories: former Protea Village residents Reggie Benjamin, left, and Kenneth Jacobs outside the Church of the Good Shepherd, which was their local church, before the whole community was evicted in terms of the Group Areas Act. Tomorrow a special service at the church will be dedicated to the residents.
Identifier: islandora:17324

Title: Oral history interview with Lionel Louw [Part 1 of 2]
Subject: Oral history, United Democratic Front (South Africa), Anti-apartheid activists--South Africa--Interviews, Anti-apartheid movements--South Africa, Government, Resistance to--South Africa, South Africa--Politics and government, ,
Description: The United Democratic Front (UDF) was established as a non-racial, anti-apartheid coalition in 1983. The interviews in this collection deal with the formation and impact of the UDF in the Western Cape in the 1980s. Key figures involved with the UDF are interviewed, including Cheryl Carolus, Lionel Louw, Sydney Luckett and Phyllis Orner. Themes include: community based organisations affiliated to the UDF; the effects of apartheid; religious affiliation; role of the UDF in the community; trade unions. These interviews originate from research conducted for the Albert Luthuli Young Historians Award 2008., Por6.03a.mp3: Part 1 of 2 ; 01:05:28 min. ; interview 3 of 6
Identifier: islandora:24451

Title: Upper slope of Zachariashoek
Subject: Plants--Wemmershoek (South Africa), Mountain plants--Wemmershoek (South Africa), Mountains--Wemmershoek (South Africa), ,
Description: District: Paarl, Location: La Motte State Forest, Zachariashoek., Ecology: Patchy vegetation.
Identifier: islandora:3057

Title: Female dance group preparing to perform at a coming of age ceremony
Subject: Initiation rites--South Africa--KwaZulu-Natal, Marinovich african spirituality
Description: Msinga Top, Msinga, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, December 1998. A dance group in Msinga, KwaZulu-Natal prepare to perform at a young girl's coming of age, or memulo, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
Identifier: islandora:7236

Title: Nqaba Forest Manina station
Subject: Botany--South Africa, Plants--South Africa, ,
Description: Nqaba Forest Manina station. Mthatha
Identifier: islandora:10061

Title: 45/80 [Little Berg Plateau - just south south east of Matterhorn Summit][139]
Subject: Botany--South Africa, Plants--South Africa, ,
Identifier: islandora:9250

Title: Swartboschkloof
Subject: Vegetation monitoring--Stellenbosch (South Africa), Plants--Stellenbosch (South Africa), Mountain plants--Stellenbosch (South Africa), Botanists--Stellenbosch (South Africa), ,
Description: District: Stellenbosch, Location: Jonkershoek Nature Reserve, Swartboskloof., Ecology: Unknown.
Identifier: islandora:2797

Title: Little Tugela Valley north facing slopes. Looking west from vicinity 147/81
Subject: Botany--South Africa, Plants--South Africa, ,
Identifier: islandora:9217

Title: Swartkops, Port Elizabeth
Subject: Botany--South Africa, Plants--South Africa, ,
Description: Swartkops, Port Elizabeth
Identifier: islandora:10179

Title: NUMSA National Congress, Johannesburg, 1991
Subject: Apartheid--South Africa--Johannesburg, Labor unions--South Africa--Johannesburg, Public meetings--South Africa--Johannesburg, National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa
Description: Members of the National Union of Mineworkers (NUMSA) at their National Congress, Johannesburg, 1991.
Identifier: islandora:1444

Title: Lambonja Valley
Subject: Botany--South Africa--Kwazulu-Natal, Botany--Drakensberg Mountains, ,
Description: Near [Cathedral Peak] Hotel
Identifier: islandora:8823

Title: |Abaka Koper resting among the dunes between two graveyards
Subject: Koper, |Abaka, San (African people)--Botswana and South Africa--Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, Khomani (African people)--Botswana and South Africa--Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, San (African people)--Social life and customs, Khomani (African people)--Social life and customs, Women--Botswana and South Africa--Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, Sand dunes--Botswana and South Africa--Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, Indigenous peoples--Land tenure--Africa, Southern, ,
Description: During one of the early research trips to the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, a trip was made to two adjacent grave sites near a former settlement near Twee Rivieren. Several historically significant Bushmen are buried in these graveyards. While walking between these graveyards, the elders rest to catch their breath and the children play on the dunes.Images from this trip document the first excursions into the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park and were a central part of the work on oral history and mapping in the first years of research.
Identifier: islandora:27161

Title: Officer sits apart from his peers during the ceremony, Cape Town
Subject: South Africa. Parliament, Governments, Transport, ,
Description: Today's ceremony took place in relatively cool, cloudy conditions, but the heat of the moment was a bit too much for this young guardsman.
Identifier: islandora:15751

Title: Jakob Malgas gathering tsamma melons on the dunes.
Subject: tsamma melons ; Malgas, Jakob, San (African people)--Botswana and South Africa--Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, Khomani (African people)--Botswana and South Africa--Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, San (African people)--Social life and customs, Khomani (African people)--Social life and customs, Plants, Edible--Botswana and South Africa--Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, Hunting and gathering societies--Botswana and South Africa--Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, Indigenous peoples--Land tenure--Africa, Southern, ,
Description: Jakob Malgas gathering tsamma melons (Citrullus lanatus) on the dunes in the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park. Depending on where the melons grow in the park, they will have a different chemical composition, and therefore, taste due to centuries of water accumulation, evaporation and drought.Images from this trip document the first excursions into the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park and were a central part of the work on oral history and mapping in the first years of research.
Identifier: islandora:26997

Title: Interior, Tentedorp, Port Nolloth
Subject: Port Nolloth (South Africa)--Social conditionsDwellings--South Africa--Port Nolloth, Self-help housing--South Africa--Port Nolloth,
Description: Interior of a house in Tentedorp featuring a woman standing between the bed and the cooking area. Tentedorp is an informal settlement in Port Nolloth in South Africa. This particular dwelling consists of one room and the walls are papered with newspaper.
Identifier: islandora:5264

Title: Map of Transkei Indigenous Forests
Subject: Botany--South Africa, Plants--South Africa,
Description: Map of Transkei Indigenous Forests (fieldwork conducted in 1990)
Identifier: islandora:9877

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