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Title: First Speaker's Chair, Cape Town
Subject: South Africa. Parliament, Governments, Politics, Furniture, Laws, ,
Description: First Speaker's Chair.
Identifier: islandora:15711

Title: View of Nyanga residences, Cape Town
Subject: Residential buildings, ,
Description: A far cry from the barren land at Nyanga - the Chulayo family have tea at the surburban home where they are being sheltered. From left are Jackson Chulayo, his wife Winfred and children Stella and Stanley.
Identifier: islandora:15595

Title: Image from rock painting site. Site of Kanetvlei 2, Hex River Valley, Western Cape, South Africa.
Subject: Rock paintings--South Africa--Western Cape., , ,
Description: Photograph of the entrance to the rock painting site, Kanetvlei 2, Hex River Valley.
Identifier: islandora:21430

Title: Cape Times Big Walk, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Sports, Charity, Newspapers, Women
Description: First woman across the finishing line, Cape Times 50 mile Big Walk, 1967
Identifier: islandora:16976

Title: Released from prison, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Political prisoners, Apartheid
Description: Mr Saleem Badat (left), Mr Jack Jaggers (obscured), Mr Marcus Solomon and Mr Logan Wort were among 37 people released from Victor Verster Prison yesterday.
Identifier: islandora:17931

Title: Foreshore freeway construction, Cape Town City
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Urban areas, Land, Urban development, Infrastructure, Transport, Building
Description: View of the Foreshore, Cape Town, shows progress on the freeways. At the start of the major contract, which will provide about 1 km of elevated dual carriageways parallel to the harbour fence, Murray & Stewart (Cape Town) offered to cut six months from the contract time. Three years later, with allowable extensions, they are still ahead of that speeded-up schedule. This means that the project should be completed in September 1976. Allowing for escalation, the total value of the work now being handled on the freeways will be in the region of R21-million.
Identifier: islandora:15125

Title: Moravian Chapel in District Six, Cape Town, 1987
Subject: District Six (Cape Town, South Africa), Historic buildings, Religion, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Race discrimination
Description: The battered 101 year old Moravian Chapel in what was District Six.
Identifier: islandora:17320

Title: David Vithi assists a disabled advice seeker at the Cape Town A[dvice] O[ffice], 1993
Description: Athlone Advice Office, Black Sash. David Viti assisting a client, 1993
Identifier: islandora:6550

Title: Opening of a new factory, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Cape Town (South Africa), Industry, Business
Description: Opening of a new factory.
Identifier: islandora:14876

Title: Looters run away with store goods, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Demonstrations, Vandalism
Description: Haui March - looting.
Identifier: islandora:16206

Title: Young man injured in the crush to hear Mandela speak, Athlone Stadium, Cape Town
Subject: Athlone (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Politics, African National Congress, Election campaigns, democracy, security guards
Description: Trampled: a security official at the Athlone Stadium tends to one more than 20 people injured yesterday shortly after the arrival of African National Congress (ANC) leader Mr Nelson Mandela. Three people, including a small boy, were killed in the crush.
Identifier: islandora:15895

Title: Black Sash protest against apartheid on public transport, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Demonstrations, Women, Political activists, Black Sash (Society)
Description: Protest demonstration by members of the Black Sash in Cape Town today while bus apartheid was being applied for the second day on the Milnerton route.
Identifier: islandora:16863

Title: Deserted village, Robben Island, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Robben Island (South Africa), Historic sites, Monuments, Urban areas, Development, Roads
Description: The deserted village - a street scene in Robben Island.
Identifier: islandora:16539

Title: The Cabinet, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Politics, Cabinet ministers, National Party (South Africa), Governments
Description: The Cabinet on the steps outside Parliament, days after the assassination of Prime Minister H.F. Verwoerd on 6 September 1966. The new Prime Minister, B.J. Vorster, is in the centre behind the speaker.
Identifier: islandora:16904

Title: Image from rock painting site, Western Cape, South Africa.
Subject: Rock paintings--South Africa--Western Cape., ,
Description: Rock painting of what is possibly human figures in a combination of red or orange and black.
Identifier: islandora:21487

Title: Dirt road, Crossroads, Cape Town
Subject: Crossroads (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Squatter settlements, Apartheid, Roads
Description: Dirt road at Crossroads, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:17546

Title: Muslim woman shows religious cloth, Cape Town
Subject: Religion, Islam, Worship, ,
Description: Muslim woman shows religious cloth, Cape Town. Muslim Shrines (Bakoven).
Identifier: islandora:15492

Title: Muizenberg Station, Cape Town
Subject: Historic sites, Railroads, ,
Description: Muizenberg Station, about 1898. The photograph is from an album entitled A Souvenir Of A Pleasant Holiday, compiled by a great-aunt of Mrs Phyllis Leeson of Constantia.
Identifier: islandora:15394

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