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Title: General plan of the European Reserve in the District of Port St. Johns, Pondoland. Sheet no. 2
Subject: Pondoland (South Africa)--History--Maps, Land use--South Africa--Pondoland, Pondoland (South Africa)--Description and travel--Maps,
Description: Plan of the European Reserve in the District of Port St. Johns, Pondoland, showing farmlands, names of places, forests, rivers, mountains, and main roads. Relief shown by shading. Some colours. Scale 100 Cape Roods to the inch.
Identifier: islandora:30101

Title: Piano Concerto no. 3 in D Minor op. 30 (2. Intermezzo: Adagio)
Subject: Rachmaninoff, Sergei, 1873-1943. Concertos, piano, orchestra, no. 3, op. 30, D minor., Concertos (Piano), Concerts--South Africa--Cape Town
Description: The 11th Laura Searle Prize for Concerto Playing - Final Round, Baxter Concert Hall, Cape Town, South Africa
Identifier: islandora:28924

Title: Oral history interview with Basil van Rensburg and Hadji Levy [ Part 2 of 2]
Subject: Forced removals, Oral history, District Six (Cape Town, South Africa)--History, District Six (Cape Town, South Africa)--Social conditions, Colored people (South Africa)--Relocation--South Africa--Cape Town, Van Rensburg, Basil, Levy, Hadji
Description: District Six refers to a former inner-city residential area in Cape Town, South Africa. It is best known for the forced removal of over 60 000 of its residents by the apartheid government. This extensive sub-collection contains interviews from various projects conducted between 1985 and 2002. The majority of interviewees resided or worked in District Six prior to being forcibly removed. Themes include: children, the Coon Carnival, crime, resident’s experiences of relocation, gangs, household arrangements, jazz, marriage, mixed marriages across racial lines, music, nostalgia, recreation, religion, schooling, social and racial issues and work., Cwc2.180b.mp3: Part 2 of 2 ; 42:55 min. ; interview 180 of 208
Identifier: islandora:24509

Title: Transect 2 from Pt 73 to Protea Hill [North facing slope behind Hotel in Mlambonja Valley - just below cave southern stone Cliffs][73]
Subject: Botany--South Africa, Plants--South Africa, ,
Identifier: islandora:9351

Title: Oral history interview with Blanche Hammond [ Part 1 of 2]
Subject: Forced removals, Oral history, District Six (Cape Town, South Africa)--History, District Six (Cape Town, South Africa)--Social conditions, Colored people (South Africa)--Relocation--South Africa--Cape Town, Hammond, Blanche
Description: District Six refers to a former inner-city residential area in Cape Town, South Africa. It is best known for the forced removal of over 60 000 of its residents by the apartheid government. This extensive sub-collection contains interviews from various projects conducted between 1985 and 2002. The majority of interviewees resided or worked in District Six prior to being forcibly removed. Themes include: children, the Coon Carnival, crime, resident’s experiences of relocation, gangs, household arrangements, jazz, marriage, mixed marriages across racial lines, music, nostalgia, recreation, religion, schooling, social and racial issues and work., Cwc2.69a.mp3: Part 1 of 2 ; 29:43 min. ; interview 69 of 208
Identifier: islandora:18888

Title: Oral history interview with Regina Seleka [Part 1 of 2]
Subject: Oral history, Drinking of alcoholic beverages--Social aspects--South Africa, Apartheid--South Africa, Alcohol--Government policy--South Africa
Description: This project spans three sub-collections. This case study in Langa in the Western Cape examines the socio-political environment and racial/gender discrimination with regards to alcohol under apartheid policies. Themes include: African traditional beer (umqombothi), anti-government protests, discriminatory laws, the Eastern Cape, government beer halls, government policy with respect to alcohol, hostels, housing, migrant labour, racialised spaces, the 1976 riots, shebeens (a bar, predominately in the townships where alcohol is sold) and the smuggling of alcohol by residents., Pin8.13a.mp3: Part 1 of 2 ; 31:49 min. ; interview 13 of 17
Identifier: islandora:29661

Title: Oral history interview with Gathu Motsweni [Part 2 of 2]
Subject: Oral history, Political activists-- South Africa--Interviews, Government, Resistance to--South Africa
Description: This sub-collection of interviews with political activists includes themes such as African National Congress (ANC) party politics, ANC underground training in Angola and Soviet Union, Jabulani Nobleman 'Mzala' Nxumalo, 1980s schools boycotts and the United Democratic Front(UDF). Interviewees include Gertrude Fester, Joe Marks, Lizo Ngqugwana, and Ray Alexander., Pin6.07b.mp3: Part 2 of 2 ; 02:19 min. ; interview 6 of 10
Identifier: islandora:19466

Title: Termitaria vicinity 140/81 looking north [Erasmus Dam Drakensberg No 2 Location]
Subject: Botany--South Africa, Plants--South Africa,
Identifier: islandora:9534

Title: Oral history interview with Cyril Danisa [Part 1 of 2]
Subject: Oral history, Drinking of alcoholic beverages--Social aspects--South Africa, Apartheid--South Africa, Alcohol--Government policy--South Africa
Description: This project spans three sub-collections. This case study in Langa in the Western Cape examines the socio-political environment and racial/gender discrimination with regards to alcohol under apartheid policies. Themes include: African traditional beer (umqombothi), anti-government protests, discriminatory laws, the Eastern Cape, government beer halls, government policy with respect to alcohol, hostels, housing, migrant labour, racialised spaces, the 1976 riots, shebeens (a bar, predominately in the townships where alcohol is sold) and the smuggling of alcohol by residents., Pin7.02a.mp3: Part 1 of 2 ; 31:49 min. ; interview 2 of 16
Identifier: islandora:22541

Title: L'Histoire du Tango (2. Café 1930)
Subject: Piazzolla, Astor. Histoire du tango. Café 1930, Flute and guitar music, Concerts--South Africa--Cape Town
Description: The 5th Annual Schock Foundation Prize for Chamber Music, Baxter Concert Hall, Cape Town, South Africa
Identifier: islandora:28531

Title: Oral history interview with Cadoc (Tsolo) Kobus [Part 1 of 2]
Subject: Oral history, Political activists-- South Africa--Interviews, Non-European Unity Movement, Government, Resistance to--South Africa
Description: This is a series of unrelated interviews from the period 1985-1990 with people involved in different spheres of political life in Africa, with particular reference to the politics of South Africa, Namibia, Kenya, Zambia and the Congo. Interviewees include, Jane Gool, Hassan Howa, Hosea Jaffe, I.B. Tabata, Jack Cope and Otillie Abrahams. Themes include: African National Congress (ANC) training camps, anti-discrimination in sport, life in exile in Botswana and Namibia, gender empowerment , the history of St. Francis, Langa in the Western Cape, Non-European Unity Movement (NUEM), political upheaval in Kenya, rural life and work and the South West African Peoples Organisation (SWAPO), Pin4.27a.mp3: Part 1 of 2 ; 31:56 min. ; interview 27 of 52
Identifier: islandora:25878

Title: Oral history interview with Mr. and Mrs Cupido [Part 2 of 4]
Subject: Oral history, Drinking of alcoholic beverages--Social aspects--South Africa, Apartheid--South Africa, Alcohol--Government policy--South Africa
Description: This project spans three sub-collections. This case study in Windermere/Kensington in the Western Cape focuses on the coloured residents of the area and examines the socio-political environment and racial/gender discrimination with regards to alcohol under apartheid policies. Themes include: discriminatory laws, government policy, housing, racialised spaces and the smuggling of alcohol by residents and shebeens (a bar, predominately in the townships where alcohol is sold)., Pin9.03b.mp3: Part 2 of 4 ; 17:15 min. ; interview 3 of 15
Identifier: islandora:29628

Title: Oral history interview with Ushane Malik Mthongana [Part 1 of 2]
Subject: Oral history, Gun Free South Africa (Organization), Gun control--South Africa
Description: Gun Free South Africa is an advocacy group formed in 1994 with the aim of building a safer country through the reduction of firearms in society. In association with "Gun Free South Africa", the interviewer focuses on youth activists and young members of the community sharing their experiences of gun violence and opinions on gun control. Themes include: biographical information; civic organisations; community involvement; crime and organisational affiliations., Por1.02a.mp3: Part 1 of 2 ; 47:31 min. ; inerview 2 of 6
Identifier: islandora:24638

Title: Oral history interview with Cliffie Moses, a guitarist [Part 1 of 2]
Subject: Oral history, Moses, Cliffie, Jazz musicians--South Africa--Western Cape--Interviews, Guitarist--South Africa--Western Cape--Interviews,
Description: This is one interview in a collection of interviews composed of the life histories of twenty Cape Town jazz musicians. Some of the themes explored are the effects of apartheid in the music scene in the 1950's and 1960's; priorities of recording labels; music reception across social groupings in District Six and the extensive influence of American jazz. Music genres referred to span big band, the avant garde, bebop, dance, jive, marabi, township jazz, goema and Latin., Amu1.14a.mp3: Part 1 of 2 ; 31:52 min ; interview 14 of 23
Identifier: islandora:24595

Title: Symphony No. 1 in F minor, op. 10 (2. Allegro)
Subject: Shostakovich, Dmitriĭ Dmitrievich, 1906-1975. Symphonies, no. 1, op.10, Symphonies, Concerts--South Africa--Cape Town
Description: UCT Symphony Orchestra, Baxter Concert Hall, Cape Town, South Africa
Identifier: islandora:30155

Title: Oral history interview with Nicholas Henwood [Part 2 of 2]
Subject: Oral history, United Democratic Front (South Africa), Anti-apartheid activists--South Africa--Interviews, Anti-apartheid movements--South Africa, Government, Resistance to--South Africa, South Africa--Politics and government, ,
Description: The United Democratic Front (UDF) was established as a non-racial, anti-apartheid coalition in 1983. The interviews in this collection deal with the formation and impact of the UDF in the Western Cape in the 1980s. Key figures involved with the UDF are interviewed, including Cheryl Carolus, Lionel Louw, Sydney Luckett and Phyllis Orner. Themes include: community based organisations affiliated to the UDF; the effects of apartheid; religious affiliation; role of the UDF in the community; trade unions. These interviews originate from research conducted for the Albert Luthuli Young Historians Award 2008., Por6.02b.mp3: Part 2 of 2 ; 45:58 min. ; interview 2 of 6
Identifier: islandora:24450

Title: C.G.R. Caledon surveys. Sheet 2, 1896
Subject: Railroads--South Africa--Caledon--Maps, Railroads--South Africa--Swellendam--Maps, ,
Description: Map showing proposed railway lines from Caledon to Swellendam, with farms, rivers, roads and outspans. Some colour. Scale 1/2 inch to 1 mile.
Identifier: islandora:29796

Title: Site of Plot 48/80 in Drakensberg Location No. 2 [Drakensberg location no. 1 or 2 - just ' 1km east of Benwoods Kraal][142]
Subject: Botany--South Africa, Plants--South Africa, ,
Identifier: islandora:8998

Title: 48/80 [Drakensberg location No. 1 or 2 - just ('1km) east of Benwood's Kraal][142]
Subject: Botany--South Africa, Plants--South Africa, ,
Identifier: islandora:9247

Title: Oral history interview with Mrs Juliega Gaffoor [Part 2 of 3]
Subject: Oral history, Harfield Village (Cape Town, South Africa)--History, Claremont (Cape Town, South Africa)--History, Colored people (South Africa)--Relocation--South Africa--Cape Town, Gaffoor, Juliega, ,
Description: Karen Daniels interviews Mrs Juliega Gaffoor, an ex-resident of Harfield Village, Cape Town. These interviews provide a very rich source or oral history regarding social life in Harfield Village and Claremont, as well as forced removals and their after-effects. Harfield Village, before the Group Areas Act, was a small mixed area of African, coloured and white inhabitants and was also known as "die vlak" by the locals. The themes included in the interviews are: inter-racial mixing and romanticisation of racial harmony, community and family relationships, religion - both Christian (Anglican, Methodist, Dutch Reformed) and Muslim (Harvey Road, Stegman Road and Main Road Mosques) - and schooling, leisure activities such as the Coon Carnival, music and jazz, shebeens and drinking. Class issues are discussed with reference to crime, gangs, "skollies", home ownership, rentals, incomes and employment. The physical, emotional and economic hardships endured by Harfield residents during and after the forced removals and the Group Areas Act are also discussed. Each interview in this collection contains a useful summary of the interview dynamics and the date of the interview., Forced removals, Cwc6.13b.mp3: Part 2 of 3 ; 30:29 min; interview 13 of 39
Identifier: islandora:24722

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