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Title: Husband reunited with wife after being detained, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Political prisoners, Apartheid
Description: Mrs Ruth Aboobaker hugs her husband, Goolam, a medical physicist, who was in detention for 49 days.
Identifier: islandora:17912

Title: Teachers strike, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Demonstrations, Education, Labor unions
Description: No cutbacks: Striking teachers, right, fear the rationalising education will lead to unacceptable pupil/teacher ratios.
Identifier: islandora:17783

Title: Passer-by clasps the hand of a detainee through the bars, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), circa 1985, Prisons, Segregation, Race discrimination, Education, Youth
Description: Clasped hands, a show of solidarity between a detained student and a passer-by during today's symbolic attempt to reopen coloured schools in Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:16220

Title: Groot Constantia: Contxt Plan - Jonkershuis Complex
Subject: South Africa ; Western Cape, Province of the ; Cape Town, Wine estates, Groot Constantia (Cape Town, South Africa), Historic farms--South Africa--Cape Town--Design and plans, Historic farms--Conservation and restoration--South Africa--Cape Town, Wineries--South Africa--Cape Town--Design and plans, Landscape architecture--South Africa--Cape Town
Description: Existing Content Plan: Sepia copy of an original hand drawn pen and ink drawing, showing the general layout and existing conditions of the historic farm werf of the Groot Constantia Wine Estate, Groot Constantia Road, Cape Town, South Africa; prior to the detailed architectural and landscape architectural interventions and restoration proposal of the period 1991 - 1993, Scale 1:1000 on A1 size. Project number 9055. drawing number 0 01
Identifier: islandora:22457

Title: Protesters push against locked gates of Table View police station, Cape Town
Subject: Table View (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Demonstrations, Police stations
Description: Locked out: Protesters push against the locked gates of the Table View police station yesterday.
Identifier: islandora:17757

Title: Treason trial, Wynberg Magistrate's court, Cape Town
Subject: Wynberg (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Politics, Courts, Treason Trial, Pretoria, South Africa, 1956-1961
Description: Crowd gathers at Treason Trial, Wynberg Magistrate's Court, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:17604

Title: Cabinet members, Cape Town, 1983
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Politics, Cabinet ministers, National Party (South Africa), Governments
Description: Minister of Defence Magnus Malan (second from right), shares a joke with Dawid de Villiers (second from left) and other Cabinet members, Cape Town, 1983
Identifier: islandora:16946

Title: Two police officers wearing their riot gear, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Law enforcement, Protection, Civil unrest, Demonstrations, Weapons
Description: Members of the railways police regional task force after a confrontation with 1000 marching youths in Guguletu yesterday.
Identifier: islandora:15944

Title: Wage strike, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Demonstrations, Labor unions
Description: Wage strike, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:17747

Title: Fishing industry, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Cape Town (South Africa), Fishing industry, Recreation, Ocean, Seafood
Description: Japanese fishing boats take a break at Cape Town docks to take on supplies and overhaul their deep-sea crayfish nets. The heavily equipped vessels have been fishing beyond South Africa's territorial limits.
Identifier: islandora:15021

Title: Retrenchment protest, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Demonstrations, Labour
Description: Retrenchment protest, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:17853

Title: House of Representatives, Tricameral Parliament, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Politics, Coloured people (South Africa), South Africa. Tricameral Parliament, Segregation
Description: New House: The new National Party Ministers' Council in the House of Representatives got down to business with its first official meeting today. Council chairman, centre, Mr Jac Rabie and Reverend Andrew Julies, left, Minister of Health and Welfare, are in front with Mr Patrick McEnery, Director General of the House. In the back row are Mr Pieter Saaiman, Minister of Local Government, Housing and Agriculture, Education and culture Minister Mr Abe Williams, Budget Minister Mr Gerald Morkel, and Mr Cecil Heradien, Deputy Minister of Local Government, Housing and Agriculture.
Identifier: islandora:16923

Title: Lampranthus calcaratus (Wolley-Dod) N.E.Br.
Subject: South Africa--Western Cape, Province of the--Cape Town, Aizoaceae--South Africa--Western Cape, Botany--South Africa--Western Cape--Pictorial works, Vygie
Description: Botanical illustration - coloured - Lampranthus calcaratus (Wolley-Dod) N.E.Br. Dissected drawing of flower included. Drawn from a collection made at Fish Hoek (Simon's Town District) by H.M.L. Bolus , 11 July 1926.
Identifier: islandora:24080

Title: Young dancers pose in Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Tribes, Traditions, Performing Arts, Music, Economic development
Description: Members of a traditional dance troupe pose against a backdrop of central Cape Town and the Cape Flats
Identifier: islandora:15857

Title: Aerial view of Otto du Plessis Drive, Cape Town
Subject: Aerial views, Ocean, Lion's Head (Cape Town, South Africa), Table Mountain (Western Cape, South Africa), Infrastructure, Building, ,
Description: The Otto du Plessis Drive over the new railway to the container berths in Table Bay harbour has been opened to traffic. The bridge was constructed by Murray and Stewart (Cape Town).
Identifier: islandora:15302

Title: Parking at D.F.Malan Airport, Cape Town, in the 1970s
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Cape Town International Airport, Apartheid, Travel, City planning, Architecture
Description: "Frustration Centre". Lack of covered space at D.F.Malan Airport in which cars and buses can off-load passengers out of the weather is illustrated in this picture of the entrance. Also shown is part of the parking area, which stretches a long distance from the terminal. Mr. Michael Chambers, who has just completed a thesis on airport design, believes that the money being spent on alterations to the airport could be better used on another design system.
Identifier: islandora:15877

Title: Stalplein, Parliamentary Precinct
Subject: South Africa ; Western Cape, Province of the ; Cape Town, Stalplein (Cape Town, South Africa)
Description: Stalplein, Cape Town, Western Cape. Hand-drawn pencil exploration of landscape details, shown in plan and elevation., Scale not shown
Identifier: islandora:22718

Title: Government officials pose for a photograph, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Politics
Description: Dr Diederichs and Executive: The state president Dr N. Diederichs, with the Executive of the Coloured Representative Council and the CRC Executive chairman designate, Mr Sonny Leon, after the presidential inauguration at the weekend. From left are Mr Leon, Mr P.J. Pietersen, Mr W.J. Bergins, Dr Diederichs, Mr W.J. Louw, Mr S.S. Cloete and Mr A.J. Domingo, the Coloured Representative Council (CRC) secretary.
Identifier: islandora:16003

Title: Albian Road, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Rondebosch (Cape Town, South Africa), Suburbs, Buildings, Roads, Infrastructure, Residential buildings
Description: House on Albian Road, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:16598

Title: Nelson Mandela supporter, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Politics, African National Congress, Political prisoners, Leadership
Description: There's a little doubt who this man came to see as he holds aloft a portrait of Nelson Mandela, shortly after his release from prison.
Identifier: islandora:15925

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