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Title: Policemen stand around armoured vehicle, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Law enforcement, Civil unrest, Protection, Weapons, Motorcars
Description: Policemen stand around armoured vehicle, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:15955

Title: Flower sellers, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Cape Town (South Africa), Street vendors, Plants, Informal sector (Economics), Flower vending
Description: Cape Town flower sellers.
Identifier: islandora:15051

Title: Flaming tyres barricade a street in Guguletu, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Civil unrest, Violence, Law enforcement
Description: Black youths stand in front of a flaming barricade as a taxi attempts to drive through. Police in an ambush in Guguletu township outside Cape Town had earlier killed seven alleged guerrilla fighters.
Identifier: islandora:16240

Title: Sea Point swimming pool, Cape Town
Subject: Sea Point (Cape Town, South Africa), Apartheid, South Africa. Separate Amenities Act, 1953, Water
Description: The public swimming pool at Sea Point, Cape Town, 1985.
Identifier: islandora:17197

Title: University of Cape Town workers gather in preparation to protest, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Demonstrations, Civil unrest
Description: Coloured and African workers at University of Cape Town (UCT) held a demonstration yesterday to "show fellow feeling with those killed and injured and with their relatives".
Identifier: islandora:16261

Title: Image from rock painting site. Site of Cango-Cave 1, Outdshoorn, Western Cape, South Africa.
Subject: Rock paintings--South Africa--Western Cape., , ,
Description: Rock painting of a human figure in faded red.
Identifier: islandora:21740

Title: Choir performs at the Cape Malay Choir Board's competition at the Green Point Stadium during Nautical Week, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Malay, Musicians, Performing arts, ,
Description: [Me]mbers of the Rosebuds choir team singing [en]thusiastically in the finals of [th]e Cape Malay Choir Board's horal competition at the Green Point Stadium last night, organised as part of the programme for Nautical Week this year.
Identifier: islandora:15172

Title: UCT Opera School presents: UCT Opera Kaleidoscope, aka Opera Unknown, Baxter Concert Hall, Cape Town, South Africa
Subject: Concert programs, Concerts--South Africa--Cape Town
Description: Concert programme
Identifier: islandora:30289

Title: Muslim community demonstrates, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Demonstrations, Religion
Description: City demonstration - About 70 members of the Muslim community demonstrated yesterday outside the Monte Carlo Cinema on the Foreshore where the city's first Gay and Lesbian Film Festival is being staged.
Identifier: islandora:17845

Title: Castle of Good Hope, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Castle of Good Hope (Cape Town, South Africa), Colonialism, Architecture, Marching bands
Description: Outer court or Bailey at the Castle, Cape Town, before restoration, looking towards De Kat balcony.
Identifier: islandora:17107

Title: Salvation Army citadel, Cape Town, 1971
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Church buildings, Historic buildings, Architecture, Christianity
Description: Citadel: The Salvation Army's new citadel in the Gardens, which will be opened on Saturday.
Identifier: islandora:17308

Title: A domestic worker speaks out, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Labour, Domestic workers, Apartheid
Description: Mrs Hester George: "I think it is really disgusting because we, as domestic workers, are denied our private lives."
Identifier: islandora:18034

Title: Company's Gardens, Cape Town, 1966
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Children, Birds, Recreation
Description: For the birds: feeding the pigeons in the Company's Gardens, Cape Town, 1966.
Identifier: islandora:17262

Title: Segregation on buses, Cape Town
Subject: Milnerton (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, South Africa. Separate Amenities Act, 1953, Apartheid signage
Description: Sign on a 'Mixed' bus (lower deck: Whites only; upper deck: non-Whites only) on the Cape Town-Milnerton route in the apartheid era.
Identifier: islandora:16667

Title: Camps Bay Pavilion burned down, Cape Town, 1973
Subject: Camps Bay (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Fires, Entertainment, Disaster, Local government
Description: 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.
Identifier: islandora:16990

Title: Koeberg intersection, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Cape Town (South Africa), c1973, Urban areas, Development, Transport, Motorcars, Railways
Description: Koeberg intersection, Cape Town
Identifier: islandora:16559

Title: Amanda Tiffin and Andrew Lilley present students from the SACM Jazz Piano Studio and the Jazz Vocal Studio, Chisholm Recital Room, South African College of Music, Cape Town, South Africa
Subject: Concert programs, Concerts--South Africa--Cape Town
Description: Concert programme
Identifier: islandora:30292

Title: Old lady stands next to two students sporting the punk rock style, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Rock music, Cosmetics
Description: 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?
Identifier: islandora:16123

Title: Police officer runs after protester, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Civil unrest, Violence, Weapons, Demonstrations, Law enforcement
Description: Member of the anti-riot unit chases a Coloured youth across Adderley Street.
Identifier: islandora:16273

Title: Sasko's new 250,000 pounds silo in Rondebosch, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Rondebosch (Cape Town, South Africa), Labour, Industry
Description: 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.
Identifier: islandora:14519

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