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A domestic worker speaks out, Cape Town
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Subject
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Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Labour, Domestic workers, Apartheid
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Description
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Mrs Hester George: "I think it is really disgusting because we, as domestic workers, are denied our private lives."
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Identifier
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islandora:18034
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Segregation on buses, Cape Town
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Subject
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Milnerton (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, South Africa. Separate Amenities Act, 1953, Apartheid signage
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Description
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Sign on a 'Mixed' bus (lower deck: Whites only; upper deck: non-Whites only) on the Cape Town-Milnerton route in the apartheid era.
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Identifier
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islandora:16667
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Camps Bay Pavilion burned down, Cape Town, 1973
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Subject
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Camps Bay (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Fires, Entertainment, Disaster, Local government
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Description
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The charred ruins of the old Camps Bay pavilion stands today as a sad monument after a fire ripped through the 57-year-old building early today. It destroyed the equipment and the dreams of the Camps Bay Operatic and Dramatic Society and one of Cape Town's best-known landmarks. Damage is estimated at thousands of rands and the City Council's Amenities Committee is expected to look over the ruins during a scheduled tour of Camps Bay tomorrow.
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Identifier
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islandora:16990
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Koeberg intersection, Cape Town
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Subject
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Western Cape (South Africa), Cape Town (South Africa), c1973, Urban areas, Development, Transport, Motorcars, Railways
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Description
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Koeberg intersection, Cape Town
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Identifier
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islandora:16559
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Old lady stands next to two students sporting the punk rock style, Cape Town
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Subject
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Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Rock music, Cosmetics
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Description
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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?
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Identifier
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islandora:16123
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Sasko's new 250,000 pounds silo in Rondebosch, Cape Town
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Subject
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Western Cape (South Africa), Rondebosch (Cape Town, South Africa), Labour, Industry
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Description
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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.
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Identifier
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islandora:14519
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Young boy pretends to be a riot policeman, Cape Town
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Subject
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Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Civil unrest, Violence, Youth, Law enforcement
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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.
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Identifier
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islandora:16366
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Outside bathroom used by nine domestic servants, Cape Town
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Subject
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Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Domestic workers, Apartheid
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Description
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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.
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Identifier
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islandora:18049
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Rondebosch Congregational Church, Cape Town, 1961
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Subject
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Rondebosch (Cape Town, South Africa), Church buildings, Historic buildings, Architecture, Christianity
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Description
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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.
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Identifier
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islandora:17276
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Camps Bay, Cape Town, 1946
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Subject
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Camps Bay (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Roads, Urban development, Commerce, Recreation,
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Description
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Beach Road in Camps Bay in the late 1940s
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Identifier
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islandora:16957
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Aerial view, Cape Town
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Subject
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Cape Town (South Africa), Cape Town (South Africa), Urban development, Urban areas, Transport, Infrastructure, Trains
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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.
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Identifier
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islandora:15111
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Green Point lighthouse, Cape Town 1950
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Subject
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Cape Town (South Africa), Labour, Historic buildings, Shipping
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Workmen were today painting vivid bands of yellow, black and white on the Green Point Lighthouse to make it more easily distinguishable.
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Identifier
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islandora:17402
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St. Mary's Catholic Cathedral, Cape Town, 1981
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Cape Town (South Africa), Church buildings, Historic buildings, Architecture, Christianity
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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.
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Identifier
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islandora:17296