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Title: Nelson Mandela, Robben Island, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Robben Island (South Africa), Political prisoners, Historic sites, Monuments, Media
Description: President Mandela and crew on Robben Island: Tony Bensusan, Dewald Aukena, President Mandela, Jo Menell, Angus Gibson and Amina Frense.
Identifier: islandora:16511

Title: Two policemen grapple with demonstrator, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Demonstrations, Politics
Description: Grapple: Two policemen grapple with a demonstrator on the Grand Parade during a march yesterday.
Identifier: islandora:17862

Title: Pregnant women released from prison, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Political prisoners, Apartheid, Women political activists
Description: Released ... Ms Jack, released yesterday on R5 000 bail after being detained under Section 29 of the Internal Security Act for six months. A mother of two, she is due to give birth on Monday.
Identifier: islandora:17932

Title: Prison watch tower overlooking field , Robben Island, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Robben Island (South Africa), Political prisoners, Physical fitness, Historic sites
Description: On guard: A stone watch tower overlooks a rugby field that serves the maximum security prison on Robben Island.
Identifier: islandora:16488

Title: Election referendum, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Politics, Apartheid, Elections,
Description: Election posters during the Apartheid referendum, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:18061

Title: Uniformed ANC marshals, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Politics, Demonstrations, African National Congress, Militarisation
Description: Keeping order.Two marshals at yesterday's march through central Cape Town strike up military poses for the camera.
Identifier: islandora:15933

Title: Arms cache, Cape Town
Subject: Wynberg (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Ammunition, African National Congress, Armed struggle, Apartheid, Political activists
Description: Part of an arms cache found in a raid on an ANC cell in Wynberg, Cape Town, where 14 people were arrested and charged with terrorism under the Internal Security Act. The Yengeni trial, as it became known, lasted from March 1989 to March 1991 when the accused were granted amnesty and released.
Identifier: islandora:15931

Title: UCT student civil rights campaign, Cape Town
Subject: Rondebosch (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Demonstrations, Youth, Apartheid, Politics, University of Cape Town
Description: As part of the University of Cape Town (UCT) student civil rights campaign, students are holding a vigil on the UCT Summer House below De Waal Drive. The vigil began shortly after lunch-time on Wednesday this week, and will continue until about the same time on Wednesday August 23. Students are standing in relays which are interrupted only between the hours 1 am and 6 am each day.
Identifier: islandora:17645

Title: POPCRU members march, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Demonstrations, South African Police, Apartheid, Politics, Prison wardens
Description: On the march ... Uniformed prison warders - all members of the Police and Prison Civil Rights Union (POPCRU) and carrying African National Congress (ANC) flags - took part in a protest march against racial discrimination on Saturday. They handed a petition to law and order spokesman Captain Hendrik Opperman.
Identifier: islandora:17686

Title: Black Sash worker points to list of detainees' names, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Poltical prisoners, Apartheid, Women political activists
Description: Black Sash worker Ms Evelyn van der Riet points to part of a long list of names of the hundreds of people detained in the Western Cape since the beginning of the emergency.
Identifier: islandora:17926

Title: Colin Petersen acquitted, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Politics, Acquittals
Description: Free: Mr Colin Petersen, one of the four men acquitted in the Supreme Court, is welcomed back into the "civvy street" by a well-wisher.
Identifier: islandora:17611

Title: Crossroads refugees gathered at Parliament, Cape Town
Subject: Crossroads (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Politics, Demonstrations
Description: These women were in a group of about 60 Crossroads refugees who gathered at the gates of Parliament yesterday imploring that the authorities stop the killing and burning.
Identifier: islandora:17670

Title: Bishopscourt residence of Anglican archbishop, Cape Town
Subject: Bishopscourt (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Apartheid, Religion, Political activists, Housing
Description: Cape Town. South Africa. 13 May ---- Tutu's house --- The Anglican church has challenged the South African government on the removal of Archbishop Desmond Tutu from his home in the White area of Bishopscourt. The Group Areas Act is being enforced and many mixed married couples have been told they have to leave their homes in the European areas.
Identifier: islandora:16854

Title: Yengeni trialist Chris Giffard acquitted, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Politics, African National Congress, Courts, Apartheid, Political activists
Description: Tears of joy: acquitted Yengeni trialist Mr Chris Giffard, with two Yengeni Defendants' Support Group members and Mrs Christina Kruser, mother of Mr Gary Kruser.
Identifier: islandora:15905

Title: Themba Mthembu and Mandla Sibisi, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Political prisoners, Apartheid, Youth
Description: Themba Mthembu, left, and Mandla Sibisi.
Identifier: islandora:17939

Title: Apartheid-era crowd control, Camps Bay Beach, Cape Town
Subject: Camps Bay (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, South Africa. Separate Amenities Act, 1953, Beaches, Political activists
Description: Glen Beach - the ugly side of crowd control.
Identifier: islandora:16993

Title: Elections, 1987, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Politics, Apartheid
Description: Elections SA - referendum, personalities.
Identifier: islandora:18076

Title: People protest for the release of prisoners and justice for Jeffrey Benzien, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Political prisoners, Demonstrations
Description: People protest for the release of prisoners and justice for Jeffrey Benzien, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:16113

Title: ANC supporters, arms raised in victory, Paarl sportsground, Cape Town
Subject: Paarl (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Politics, Post-apartheid era, African National Congress
Description: Victorious: African National Congress (ANC) supporters, arms raised in victory, celebrated at the Paarl Sports Ground yesterday after an ANC victory in the local government elections in the Boland town.
Identifier: islandora:18057

Title: Two Democratic Party youths, Cape Town
Subject: Bellville (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Politics, Democratic Party (South Africa), Youth
Description: Running the gauntlet: Two Democratic Party youth members, escorted by a University of the Western Cape campus control marshal, hurry from a group of students who allegedly assaulted them outside the Bellville Magistrate's Court yesterday.
Identifier: islandora:17629

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