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Title: Woman checks for man's name at the voting booth, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Politics, University of the Western Cape
Description: Mr Adam Small, the Coloured poet and lecturer of philosophy at the University College of the Western Cape, was at the polling booths early today to cast his vote in the Coloured Persons' Representative Council elections. Miss M Benjamin, a canvasser at the polling station of the Lansdowne Civic Centre, in the constituency of Liesbeeck, checks his name on the voters' roll before he casts his vote.
Identifier: islandora:15981

Title: Silhouette of a woman fleeing from teargas, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Civil unrest, Violence, Demonstrations, Weapons, Law enforcement
Description: Flashback: A woman flees a cloud of teargas as a canister explodes near Electricity House on the corner of Strand Street and St George's Street, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:16289

Title: Woman wearing sunglasses posing in a tree
Subject: Women--South Africa, South Africa—Social life and customs—20th century, South Africa—Social conditions—1961-1994,
Description: A woman wearing sunglasses poses in the branches of a tree, Eastern Cape, South Africa
Identifier: islandora:18459

Title: Woman protesting rural conditions, South Africa, circa 1985
Subject: Rural poor, Demonstrations, South Africa--Rural conditions, Apartheid, Political history--South Africa, Beyond the Barricades
Description: A barefoot woman protests against living conditions in rural areas. Her banner reads "We starve in rural areas". Black people often went hungry in the remote "homelands" where they were forced to live, because they were unable to farm the poor, crowded land, and there were few jobs for them to earn sufficient income to feed, clothe, and house their families.
Identifier: islandora:876

Title: Woman walks past house on Meadway Road, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Gardens, Residential buildings, Architecture, Historic buildings
Description: No. 12 Meadway, declared a national monument, belongs to Mr J.W. Smith.
Identifier: islandora:15831

Title: Young Xhosa woman dressed in traditional clothing, Eastern Cape, South Africa
Subject: Women--South Africa, Xhosa (African people)--South Africa, South Africa—Social life and customs—20th century, Traditional dress--South Africa,
Description: A young Xhosa woman, dressed in traditional clothing, poses for a portrait, Eastern Cape, South Africa.
Identifier: islandora:18432

Title: Woman and baby, Malay Quarter, Cape Town
Subject: Bo-Kaap (Cape Town, South Africa), Apartheid, Children, Community development, Historic districts
Description: A woman and baby in the streets of the Malay Quarter, Cape Town, in the late 1970s
Identifier: islandora:17238

Title: |Auni woman at Johannesburg
Subject: San (African people)--Africa, Southern, San (African people)--Africa, Southern--Pictorial works, San (African people)--Social life and customs, Women--Africa, Southern, Hunting and gathering societies--Africa, Southern, British Empire Exhibition (1936 : Johannesburg, South Africa), ,
Description: This image was included in Alfred Martin Duggan Cronin's The Bantu tribes of South Africa : reproductions of photographic studies, the outcome of his major ethnographic research study of the San of Southern African.
Identifier: islandora:26902

Title: Elderly woman sitting on a bench, Genadendal, South Africa
Subject: Genadendal (South Africa)—Social conditions, Women—South Africa—Genadendal,
Description: An elderly woman sits on a bench in Genadendal, South Africa.
Identifier: islandora:18296

Title: Woman wearing SA flag mask, Johannesburg, South Africa
Subject: Women--South Africa, City dwellers--South Africa, Social conditions--South Africans,
Description: A woman wearing a SA flag mask stands in front of a 'ghost' themed ride, presumably at an amusement park in Nasrec, Johannesburg, South Africa.
Identifier: islandora:1284

Title: A woman novice confesses her dreams
Subject: Pondo (African people), Ethnology--South Africa--Pondoland, Eastern Cape (South Africa)--Rural conditions, Women--South Africa--Pondoland, Pondo (African people)--Social life and customs
Description: A woman novice confesses her dreams., Missing negative (a).
Identifier: islandora:5706

Title: Man and woman in cart
Subject: Bushman, Southern Africa, indigenous, San, donkey carriage, couple, dispossessed, land rights, San (African people)--South Africa, San (African people)--Relocation--South Africa, Carriages and carts--South Africa, San (African people)--Transportation--South Africa, Northern Cape (South Africa)
Description: A husband and wife riding in a cart. They are dispossessed San who once lived inside the Kalahari Gemsbok National Park. Northern Cape, South Africa.
Identifier: islandora:12106

Title: Woman dressed smartly posing on a train, Eastern Cape, South Africa
Subject: Women--South Africa, South Africa—Social life and customs—20th century,
Description: A woman dressed in formal clothing poses on a train, Eastern Cape, South Africa.
Identifier: islandora:18448

Title: Married woman
Subject: Pondo (African people), Ethnology--South Africa--Pondoland, Eastern Cape (South Africa)--Rural conditions, Young women--South Africa--Pondoland, Pondo (African people)--Clothing
Description: Portrait of a Pondo woman. Notice the head-ring, a symbol of her married status.
Identifier: islandora:5469

Title: Woman in kitchen, Johannesburg, South Africa
Subject: Women--South Africa--Johannesburg, Johannesburg (South Africa)--Social conditions, City dwellers--South Africa--Johannesburg
Description: A woman stands in a kitchen dressed in formal clothing, Johannesburg, South Africa.
Identifier: islandora:18558

Title: Xhosa woman carrying a load, Transkei, South Africa
Subject: Transkei (South Africa)—Rural conditions, Xhosa (African people)—South Africa—Social conditions, Xhosa (African people)—South Africa,
Description: A Xhosa woman walks through an open field carrying a heavy load in Transkei, South Africa.
Identifier: islandora:18279

Title: Woman wearing mask, Johannesburg, South Africa
Subject: City dwellers--South Africa, Urban areas--South Africa, Social conditions--South Africa, Masks--South Africa,
Description: Woman wearing a mask in Braamfontein, Johannesburg, South Africa.
Identifier: islandora:1285

Title: Woman brushing hair while looking in mirror, Eastern Cape, South Africa
Subject: Women--South Africa, South Africa—Social life and customs—20th century, South Africa—Social conditions—1961-1994,
Description: A woman, dresseed in her underwear, brushes hair while looking in a mirror in her home in the Eastern Cape, South Africa.
Identifier: islandora:18418

Title: Studio portrait of Zulu woman
Subject: Women--South Africa, Zulu (African people)--South Africa, Zulu (African people)--South Africa--Clothing,
Description: A Zulu woman dressed in a traditional patterned blanket poses on set for a self-commissioned studio portrait.
Identifier: islandora:18320

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