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Title: Tombstone
Subject: Bushman, San, South Africa, indigenous, identity, ritual, land rights, Maria Duma, tombstone, path, San (African people)--South Africa--KwaZulu-Natal--Rites and ceremonies, San (African people)--Drakensberg Mountains--Rites and ceremonies, Pilgrims and pilgrimages--Drakensberg Mountains, KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa)
Identifier: islandora:12415

Title: Oral history interview with A. Fataar [ Part 2 of 4]
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, Fataar, A
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., Cwc2.58b.mp3: Part 2 of 4 ; 29:30 min. ; interview 58 of 208
Identifier: islandora:18843

Title: Initiates drink soup of goat
Subject: tribal initiation, traditional food, Xhosa cultureXhosa (African people)--Social life and customs, Young adults--South Africa, Food
Description: Initiates drinking soup of goat.
Identifier: islandora:8271

Title: San man
Subject: Bushman, Southern Africa, indigenous, San, man, portrait, bushveld, trees, sand, talk, discussion, San (African people)--Relocation--South Africa, Kalahari Gemsbok National Park (South Africa)
Description: A San man, of the last of the San who defied their removal from the Kalahari Gemsbok National Park, South Africa.
Identifier: islandora:12024

Title: San community elders assist with the data collection for the Land Claims process, Print # 95
Subject: Rooi, |Una, Koper, Abaka ; Brou, Kheis ; Vaalbooi, Elsie, San (African people)--Botswana and South Africa--Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, Khomani (African people)--Botswana and South Africa--Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, San (African people)--Social life and customs, Khomani (African people)--Social life and customs, Women--Botswana and South Africa--Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, Indigenous peoples--Land tenure--Africa, Southern, ,
Description: A meeting of the Group of Elders, including |Abaka Koper, Kheis Brou, |Una Rooi and Elsie Vaalbooi come together to share their knowledge.
Identifier: islandora:27184

Title: Oral history interview with Zubeida Booley [ Part 9 of 16]
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, Booley, Zubeida
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., Cwc2.23a.mp3: Part 9 of 16 ; 29:42 min. ; interview 23 of 208
Identifier: islandora:12785

Title: Oral history interview with Miriam Newman [Part 1 of 4]
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, Newman, Miriam, ,
Description: Karen Daniels interviews Miriam Newman, 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, Cwc6.27a.mp3: Part 1 of 4 ; 30:32 min; interview 27 of 39
Identifier: islandora:24706

Title: Mpempe
Subject: Musical instruments--South Africa, Zulu (African people)--Music
Description: Hornbostel-Sachs number: 421.221.11 (Single) flutes with internal duct without fingerholes, A. Length: 129mm (4.7in), Diameter: 21mm (0.8in), B. Length: 140mm (5.5in), Diameter: 20mm (0.8in), Place of production: KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa)
Identifier: islandora:20106

Title: Oral history interview with Mary-Anne Elizabeth Franka [ 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, Franka, Mary-Anne Elizabeth
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., Cwc2.63b.mp3: Part 1 of 2 ; 48:21 min. ; interview 63 of 208
Identifier: islandora:18853

Title: Hut framework
Subject: Bushman, Southern Africa, indigenous, San, hut, bushveld, trees, sand, settlement, sticks, building, construction, San (African people)--Relocation--South Africa, Ghost towns--South Africa, Kalahari Gemsbok National Park (South Africa)
Description: Remains of a removed settlement. The framework of a hut. Kalahari Gemsbok National Park, South Africa.
Identifier: islandora:12030

Title: Sub A class, Auckland Village Primary School.
Subject: Pondo (African people), Ethnology--South Africa--Eastern Cape, Eastern Cape (South Africa)--Rural conditions, School children--South Africa--Eastern Cape, Primary school facilities--South Africa--E
Description: Sub A class, Auckland Village Primary School. The school mistress may well have been Monica Hunter's research assistant during her three months of fieldwork in the village.
Identifier: islandora:5440

Title: Cutting up an eland
Subject: Bushman, San, South Africa, indigenous, identity, ritual, land rights, men, cutting meat, hanging buck, San (African people)--South Africa--KwaZulu-Natal--Rites and ceremonies, San (African people)--Drakensberg Mountains--Rites and ceremonies, Animal sacrifice--South Africa--KwaZulu-Natal, KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa)
Identifier: islandora:12410

Title: The ruins of a house and kitchen area within the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park
Subject: San (African people)--Botswana and South Africa--Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, Khomani (African people)--Botswana and South Africa--Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, San (African people)--Social life and customs, Khomani (African people)--Social life and customs, San (African people)--Dwellings, Khomani (African people)--Dwellings, Indigenous peoples--Land tenure--Africa, Southern, ,
Description: Remnants of dwelling found within the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park.Images from this trip document the first excursions into the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park and were a central part of the work on oral history and mapping in the first years of research.
Identifier: islandora:27008

Title: Church gathering
Subject: Bushman, Southern Africa, indigenous, San, dance, ritual, celebration, dress, traditional, woman, man, women, men, mud, sand, drums, stick, religion, San (African people)--South Africa--Religion, Zionist Christian Church, Independent churches--South Africa, Schmidtsdrift (South Africa)
Description: An outdoor church gathering. Schmidtsdrift, South Africa. Circa 1992.
Identifier: islandora:12090

Title: |Una Rooi beneath the Tree of Life
Subject: Tree of Life ; Rooi, |Una, San (African people)--Botswana and South Africa--Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, Khomani (African people)--Botswana and South Africa--Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, San (African people)--Social life and customs, Khomani (African people)--Social life and customs, Women--Botswana and South Africa--Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, Trees--Botswana and South Africa--Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park--Religious aspects, Indigenous peoples--Land tenure--Africa, Southern, ,
Description: |Una Rooi was delivered under the Tree of Life in 1931 by her grandmother, |Uruke, a medicine woman. This is her first time coming back to the tree since being evicted from the park, Tweeriviere. |Una Rooi was instrumental in the data collection process for the Land Claim application. She was a fluent N|uu speaker and taught N|uu and San cultural history to children in Andriesvale, Northern Cape, South Africa, and was a member of Council of Elders. She was born in the Kalahari Gemsbok Park in 1931 and passed away in 2012
Identifier: islandora:27170

Title: Oral history interview with Fagmia Kiemie [Part 3 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, Kiemie, Fagmia, ,
Description: Karen Daniels interviews Fagmia Kiemie, 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, Cwc6.24a.mp3: Part 3 of 3 ; 00:46 min; interview 24 of 39
Identifier: islandora:24686

Title: Oral history interview with Reg September [Part 2 of 4]
Subject: Oral history, Political activists-- South Africa--Interviews, Government, Resistance to--South Africa, South African Coloured People's Organisation, September, Reg
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), Pin4.42b.mp3: Part 2 of 4 ; 32:04 min. ; interview 42 of 52
Identifier: islandora:29723

Title: Language transcriptions and translations of ǂKhomani San Brody Archive, The three sisters revisited, Upington
Subject: Rooi, Katriena |Una Kassie, Koper, |Abaka Vytjie, Bot, Griet, N|uu language, Khomani language, Khomani (African people)--History, Eviction--South Africa--Northern Cape, ,
Description: Katriena |Una Kassie Rooi, |Abaka Vytjie Koper, and Griet Bot in conversation with Nigel Crawhall discussing their history.
Identifier: islandora:31465

Title: A Kalahari heritage : Vaalbooi family territory
Subject: Vaalbooi Family, San (African people), San (African people)--Africa, Southern--Ethnic identity, South Africa--Maps,
Description: This map shows the Vaalbooi family territories in Northern Cape, South Africa. It includes a family tree and photographs of family members as well as personal anecdotes and notes relating to how and why the family moved. [Scale included]
Identifier: islandora:27311

Title: Rikki Kruiper
Subject: Kruiper, Rikki, San (African people)--Botswana and South Africa--Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, Khomani (African people)--Botswana and South Africa--Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, San (African people)--Social life and customs, Khomani (African people)--Social life and customs, San (African people)--Rites and ceremonies, Khomani (African people)--Rites and ceremonies, Indigenous peoples--Land tenure--Africa, Southern, ,
Description: Rikki Kruiper poses above a grave of an unidentified San community member marked by springbok horns. When a member of the San community dies they are buried, according to San tradition, with their feet facing towards the rising sun and with the sand touching their skin.
Identifier: islandora:27126

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