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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: Dredging soil from Rietvlei, Cape Town
Subject: Table Mountain (Western Cape, South Africa), Industries, Building, ,
Description: Dredging of five million cubic metres of soil from Rietvlei, near Milnerton, started at the weekend. Picture shows the end of an 8.5km pipeline through which the soil, mixed with sea water, is pumped to Table Bay (opposite Paarden Eiland) to fill a huge area being reclaimed from the sea to extend Cape Town Docks. Reclamation will continue till November.
Identifier: islandora:15307

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: Mule teams at Cape Show, Goodwood, Cape Town
Subject: Goodwood (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Agricultural shows, Agriculture, Apartheid
Description: Mule teams in the arena at the Cape Show. It was claimed by the announcer that the Western Province is the only place in the world where such a show of spans of mules can be seen.
Identifier: islandora:15865

Title: Re-enactment of the discoverer's arrival, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Festivals, Colonization
Description: "Bartolomeu Dias" arrival in 1488 re-enactment 500 years later, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:17946

Title: Fishing industry, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Cape Town (South Africa), Ships, Army, Navies, Ocean
Description: Recent visitors to Cape Town were these five fishing vessels which came in under the Frelimo flag - the first visitors to be seen locally. The craft which were registered in Maputo, Beira and Angoche, came in for minor repairs but crewmen would not say where they had come from or where they were bound.
Identifier: islandora:14627

Title: Demonstrations, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Demonstrations, Labor unions
Description: Demonstrations, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:17752

Title: F. Johnson, blinded while serving, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Cape Town (South Africa), Memorials, Veterans, Apartheid
Description: F. Johnson, blinded while serving, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:14860

Title: Student protestors, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Cape Town (South Africa), Civil unrest, Demonstrations
Description: Student protesters sat down in the City Hall passages while awaiting the outcome of discussions between student leaders and the Town Clerk of Cape Town, Mr H.G. Heugh, yesterday afternoon. More than 250 students packed the foyer and passages in the City Hall during the talks.
Identifier: islandora:16384

Title: Interior of prison cell, Robben Island, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Robben Island (South Africa), Historic sites, Jails, Interior architecture
Description: The inside of a typical communal cell. The wall cupboard is used as a locker for personal belongings as well as a writing table.
Identifier: islandora:16548

Title: Fire brigades, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Cape Town (South Africa), Fires, Disasters, Fire departments
Description: Fire station, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:14924

Title: The Cape Times building, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Press, Southern African Newspapers, Architecture
Description: The Cape Times building, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:16045

Title: Ivan Toms, End Conscription Campaign, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Conscientious objection, South African Defence Force, Apartheid, End Conscription Campaign (South Africa)
Description: Dr Ivan Toms, a conscientious objector and founder of the End Conscription Campaign (ECC), Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:18089

Title: Crying school pupil is escorted by two men, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Youth, Civil unrest, Demonstrations
Description: Crying school pupil is escorted by two men, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:16283

Title: Land Bank, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Banking, Apartheid, Buildings, Architecture
Description: The Land Bank in Queen Victoria Street, Gardens, Cape Town. Built in 1938 and designed by architect Brian Mansergh
Identifier: islandora:16746

Title: Tangled water weed, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Cape Town (South Africa), Environment, Pollution, Health, Nature, Rivers, Water
Description: A substantial load of tangled water weed is deposited on the vlei bank by the new "thresher" demonstrated during the week.
Identifier: islandora:16587

Title: Transkeian 'citizens' in a Whites-only restaurant, Cape Town
Subject: Camps Bay (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, South Africa. Separate Amenities Act, 1953, Bantustans, Xhosa (African people)
Description: Transkeian citizens Mr Mbongeni Mvana and Mr Mlami Gomo enjoy a soft drink on the veranda of a Camps Bay White restaurant this week after showing their passports to the manager. 'I don't mind who comes here as long as they behave,' said the manager. [Transkei was granted 'independence' by South Africa in 1976, meaning those born in the Transkei, such as these two men, automatically became 'foreigners' in South Africa.]
Identifier: islandora:16650

Title: Guard gives prisoner advice on his artwork, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Jails, Reformatories, Emblems, Tools
Description: A prisoner gets some advice while making two replicas in brass of the crest of the Department of Prisons, to be used on two of the boats making regular trips to Robben Island.
Identifier: islandora:16038

Title: Crossroads residents trying to salvage their possessions, Cape Town
Subject: Crossroads (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Squatter settlements, Apartheid
Description: Crossroads residents try to salvage sodden possessions from the remains of their shelter in a badly-flooded section of the squatter camp.
Identifier: islandora:17523

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