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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: Walking the Black Sash gauntlett, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Demonstrations, Women, Political activists, Black Sash (Society)
Description: Former Prime Minister D F Malan passes through a gauntlet of silent Black Sash protestors on the way to the Nationalist Party Congress in Cape Town, 1955.
Identifier: islandora:16870

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

Title: Man inspects his shattered windscreen, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), South African Labour Party, Politics, Motorcars, Vandalism
Description: Man inspects his shattered windscreen, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:15964

Title: Participants in Buffalo Rally from Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Motorcycles, Apartheid, Recreation, Transport
Description: Grease for peace, says "Mad" Morgan Moodley, as his loaded "Black Wing" rumbles through Cape Town en route for the Buffalo Rally in Maseru. With him is Yolanda Julius and they are flying the flag of the Freedom Riders Motorcycle Club - as slightly modified Stars and Stripes.
Identifier: islandora:16897

Title: Not eligible to vote because of his race, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Politics, Apartheid, Elections
Description: Say yes for me: Though not eligible to vote in yesterday's referendum because of his skin colour, this man made it quite clear where his sympathies lay.
Identifier: islandora:18063

Title: Boekenhoutskloof
Subject: South Africa ; Western Cape, Province of the ; Cape Town, S33--56'33" E19--6'28", Boekenhoutskloof Winery (Franschhoek, South Africa), Farms--South Africa--Franschhoek
Description: Boekenhoutskloof, Franschhoek, Western Cape. Basic plan of the Boekenhoutskloof property., plan: scale 1:2000
Identifier: islandora:22353

Title: Day of the Covenant ceremony at Groote Schuur Estate, Cape Town
Subject: Rondebosch (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Afrikaner Nationalism, Apartheid, Memorials, Culture, Religion
Description: A crowd of about 400 people attended the Day of the Covenant ceremony at the Groote Schuur Estate in 1976, including numerous women in Voortrekker costume. The service was led by Dr A. J. G. Dreyer. Professor D. J. Kotze, of the faculty of history at the University of Stellenbosch, was the main speaker.
Identifier: islandora:16649

Title: Unfinished highway, Cape Town City
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Cape Town (South Africa), Urban areas, Land, Urban development, Infrastructure, Transport
Description: Tthe western approach from Green Point above the Buitengracht intersection.
Identifier: islandora:15120

Title: Holocaust memorial service, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Memorials, Veterans, Jews, Holocaust, Jewish, (1939-1945), Religion
Description: Remembering those who died in the Holocaust, 1994
Identifier: islandora:16647

Title: Aerial view, Rondebosch Common, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Rondebosch (Cape Town, South Africa), Urban parks, City planning, Real estate development, Building
Description: Rondebosch Common: the clump of trees in the middle marks the site of Barnabas Shais Tabernacle and two graveyards. The aerial view of Rondebosch Common shows many of the places mentioned by Jose Burman in his article. A: The Camp Ground Road, flanked by a long strip of stone-pines. B: Park Road, running along the south side of the common. C: The newly built Milner Road North, completed in spite of the protests of lovers of the common. D: The group of pines which marks the place where the old chapel known as the Tabernacle once stood (there were also two graveyards there). E: The Red Cross Children's Hospital. F: The Rustenburg Girls' High School. The network of paths revealed by this photograph is hardly noticeable from the ground.
Identifier: islandora:16613

Title: Cabinet meeting, Cape Town, 1970s
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Politics, Cabinet ministers, National Party (South Africa), Governments
Description: The Cabinet met in Cape Town today to finalise arrangements for the coming session of Parliament. In conversation before the start of the meeting are (from left) Dr. N. Diederichs (Minister of finance), Dr. H. Muller (Minister of Foreign Affairs), Mr. P. W. Botha (Minister of Defence), Mr. S. L. Muller (Minister of Police and Economic Affairs) and Mr. F. Waring (Minister of Sport, Recreation and Tourism).
Identifier: islandora:16921

Title: Capdema youth, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Demonstrations, Politics, Youth
Description: Capdema youth, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:17772

Title: Flower sellers, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Cape Town (South Africa), Street vendors, Plants, Informal sector (Economics), Flower vending
Description: Flower sellers, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:14643

Title: Thousands gather in protest over the increase in violence, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Demonstrations, Communities, Concord, Peace
Description: Thousands gather in protest over the increase in violence, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:16074

Title: Camps Bay and the Twelve Apostles, Cape Town, 1957
Subject: Camps Bay (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Urban development, Building, Architecture, Environment
Description: Visitors and tourists who delight in capturing with their cameras the many beauty spots of the "Incomplete Cape" will recognize this familiar scene view of Camps Bay and the Twelve Apostles, taken from the Glen. Two aspects, however, combining ancient and modern features, are depicted here. In the foreground is the old and famous Round House tearoom, built originally as a shooting box for Lord Charles Somerset. On the left is the ancient Round House Annexe - the feature of which as a Youth Hostel has been the subject of recent municipal discussion. The modern aspect lies in the middle distance where part of the amazing development of Camps Bay can be seen.
Identifier: islandora:16948

Title: Riot police wearing their new gear, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Law enforcement, Protection, Weapons
Description: New bulletproof vest of riot police.
Identifier: islandora:15952

Title: Flower sellers, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Cape Town (South Africa), Street vendors, Plants, Informal sector (Economics), Flower vending
Description: "Licence fees are going up but life must go on," seems to be the stoical grin-and-bear-it reaction of Grand Parade flower seller Mrs K Knowlden to the news that her trade licence will cost her more from next January. The new Licences Draft Ordinance, which provides for increased licence fees and application fees for 68 categories of business, goes before the Cape Provincial Council next month for approval.
Identifier: islandora:15044

Title: Fishing industry, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Cape Town (South Africa), Fishing industry, Recreation, Ocean, Seafood
Description: Japanese, Korean and Formosan fishing vessels operating off the South African coast take advantage of the bad winter weather to carry out checks on gear and minor repairs in Cape Town. A large number of the foreign fishing fleet are at present in port or lying in Table Bay.
Identifier: islandora:14624

Title: Rev Beyers Naude, Cheryl Carolus and Thabo Mbeki share a joke, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), African National Congress, Politics, United Democratic Front, Liberation theology, South African Council of Churches
Description: The Rev Beyers Naude, left, United Democratic Front publicity officer Ms Cheryl Carolus and director of the African National Congress ' (ANC) international affairs Mr Thabo Mbeki share a joke.
Identifier: islandora:15919

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