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Title: Political demonstration, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Demonstrations, Apartheid, South African Police, South Africa. Separate Amenities Act, 1953
Description: Political demonstration, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:17724

Title: Image from rock painting site. Anysberg Forest Reserve (ANY 3), Western Cape, South Africa.
Subject: Rock paintings--South Africa--Western Cape., , ,
Description: Rock painting consisting of red markings, possibly hand prints on a rock wall.
Identifier: islandora:21532

Title: Frances Baard at UDF launch, Cape Town, 1983
Subject: Women political activists, Public meetings, Anti-apartheid movements, Apartheid, Political history--South Africa, Beyond the Barricades
Description: Frances Baard, a former president of the African National Congress's Women's League (ANCWL), salutes the crowd gathered to launch the United Democratic Front (UDF) in Mitchell's Plain, Cape Town. The UDF drew together over 600 democratically-based community, student, trade union, women's, and church organisations and was the major legal oppositional force until the government severely curtailed its activities in 1988.
Identifier: islandora:889

Title: Petitioning to release prisoners, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Demonstrations, Politics
Description: Petitioning to release prisoners, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:17881

Title: Released from Pollsmoor after 5 months, Cape Town
Subject: Guguletu (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Political prisoners, Apartheid
Description: Back home ... Mr Ngconde Balfour was yesterday released after spending nearly five months in detention at Pollsmoor. Here he is seen at his Gugulethu home with his wife Khanyisa and daughter Nellie.
Identifier: islandora:17935

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: [Taxi wars, Cape Town, 1991]
Description: View of damage done in Cape Town township during taxi wars in September 1991
Identifier: islandora:6559

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: Winnie Mandela talks to Oscar Mpetha, Cape Town
Subject: Mandela, Winnie, Anti-apartheid activists, Mpetha, Oscar
Description: Veteran Honoured: Winnie Mandela wishes struggle veteran Oscar Mpetha a peaceful Christmas during a visit to his Guguletu home yesterday before speaking at an Umkhonto we Sizwe rally in Stellenbosch
Identifier: islandora:14745

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: Winnie Mandela leaves the airport, Cape Town
Subject: Mandela, Winnie, Anti-apartheid activists
Description: Mrs Winnie Mandela leaves DF Malan airport today on her way to visit her husband, Nelson
Identifier: islandora:14709

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: Deserted football field in Maitland, Cape Town
Subject: Apartheid, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Soccer, Recreation areas, ,
Description: The limp goalposts on the football field, residents say, tell a story of despondency - 23 years in the shadow of the Group Areas Act has taken its toll of soccer, once the most popular sport in the area.
Identifier: islandora:15196

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: Desmond Tutu, Cape Town, 2000
Subject: Apartheid--South Africa, Political violence--South Africa, South Africa--Social conditions, War crimes investigation--South Africa, Tutu, Desmond, Truth and Lies,
Description: Desmond Tutu, formerly Archbishop, at the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) headquarters, Cape Town, South Africa, 2000.
Identifier: islandora:795

Title: Map of the Eastern Frontier of the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope
Subject: Eastern Africa
Description: First published in 1836 by John Arrowsmith of London. "This map provides a great deal of historical and geographical information regarding the important part of the Cape Colony which was the scene of nine frontier wars between the Cape government and the Xhosa tribe." Inset shows 'Statistical notes 1833'. Dedicated to Sir Benjamin D'Urban., London. Arrowsmith, Aaron, 1750-1823
Identifier: islandora:25463

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