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Title: Land Bank, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Banking, Apartheid, Buildings, Architecture
Description: The Land Bank in Queen Victoria Street, Gardens, Cape Town. Built in 1938 and designed by architect Brian Mansergh
Identifier: islandora:16746

Title: ANC supporter with "Free Mandela Now" badge, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), African National Congress, State of Emergency, Detention, Political activists, United Democratic Front (South Africa),
Description: "Free Mandela Now" reads the badge on his beret, but this man himself risks imprisonment for showing the colours of a banned organisation at the height of the State of Emergency
Identifier: islandora:15926

Title: Tangled water weed, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Cape Town (South Africa), Environment, Pollution, Health, Nature, Rivers, Water
Description: A substantial load of tangled water weed is deposited on the vlei bank by the new "thresher" demonstrated during the week.
Identifier: islandora:16587

Title: Transkeian 'citizens' in a Whites-only restaurant, Cape Town
Subject: Camps Bay (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, South Africa. Separate Amenities Act, 1953, Bantustans, Xhosa (African people)
Description: Transkeian citizens Mr Mbongeni Mvana and Mr Mlami Gomo enjoy a soft drink on the veranda of a Camps Bay White restaurant this week after showing their passports to the manager. 'I don't mind who comes here as long as they behave,' said the manager. [Transkei was granted 'independence' by South Africa in 1976, meaning those born in the Transkei, such as these two men, automatically became 'foreigners' in South Africa.]
Identifier: islandora:16650

Title: Guard gives prisoner advice on his artwork, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Jails, Reformatories, Emblems, Tools
Description: A prisoner gets some advice while making two replicas in brass of the crest of the Department of Prisons, to be used on two of the boats making regular trips to Robben Island.
Identifier: islandora:16038

Title: Crossroads residents trying to salvage their possessions, Cape Town
Subject: Crossroads (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Squatter settlements, Apartheid
Description: Crossroads residents try to salvage sodden possessions from the remains of their shelter in a badly-flooded section of the squatter camp.
Identifier: islandora:17523

Title: Flag protest, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Demonstrations, Politics
Description: Flag protest, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:17771

Title: PFP members, Cape Town, early 1980s
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Politics, Progressive Federal Party (South Africa), Governments
Description: The Leader of the Opposition, Dr F van Zyl Slabbert, shares a joke with some of his colleagues at today's meeting of the joint parliamentary electoral college. Next to him are Dr. Marius Barnard (PFP, Parktown) and Mr Ken Andrew (PFP, Gardens). On the left behind Dr Slabbert is Mr Harry Schwarz (PFP, Yeoville).
Identifier: islandora:16920

Title: King's blockhouse, Devil's Peak, Cape Town, 1974
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Weapons, Devil's Peak (Western Cape, South Africa)
Description: Cannon and King's Blockhouse on the slopes of Devil's Peak.
Identifier: islandora:17122

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: Railway accident, Bellville, Cape Town
Subject: Bellville (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Railways, Apartheid, Labour, Industrial accident, Transport
Description: Workers repair damage after a railway accident at Bellville, Cape Town, in 1979
Identifier: islandora:16834

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: Bellstar Junction, Cape Town
Subject: Bellville (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Business, Apartheid, Commerce, Transport
Description: Bellstar Junction shopping mall adjacent to Bellville Station
Identifier: islandora:16831

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: Shelters being demolished, Cape Town
Subject: Crossroads (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Squatter settlements, Apartheid
Description: Crossroads squatters look on angrily as their shelter are torn down.
Identifier: islandora:17555

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

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