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Title: Pupils hold posters and protest, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Civil unrest, Violence, Demonstrations, Youth
Description: Pupils at the Grassy Park High School demonstrate yesterday, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:16331

Title: Tramway, Camps Bay , Cape Town
Subject: Camps Bay (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Infrastructure, Tramways, Recreation, Transport, History,
Description: Mountain Tramway, Camps Bay.
Identifier: islandora:16958

Title: Unconscious protester being carried, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Cape Town (South Africa), Civil unrest, Demonstrations, Wounds and injuries
Description: Men help carry unconscious protester down stairs, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:16425

Title: Property damaged by fire and rioting, Cape Town
Subject: Langa (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Civil unrest, Violence, Demonstrations, Vandalism
Description: The burnt out shells of shops and houses in Langa after a night of rioting and arson.
Identifier: islandora:16352

Title: First automated control fire engine, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Cape Town (South Africa), Emergency management, Water, Fire departments
Description: This R88 000 automated control fire engine, the first to be seen in South African, has won orders worth more than R3-million for suppliers, FMC (Pty) of Stikland. FMC makes smaller machines and plans to make this American-designed one locally as well. Pump priming, rewinding of hose reels and other functions are pushbutton controlled. The vehicle can carry a seven-man crew and 2 800 litres of water. Its top speed: 120 km an hour.
Identifier: islandora:14971

Title: Fishing industry, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Table Bay (South Africa), Fishing industry, Recreation, Ocean, Seafood, Weather, Winds
Description: A fairly large number of Saldanha-based trawlers were forced to take shelter in Table Bay this week because of the high winds at sea. According to port officials the vessels were all wooden pelagic catchers and their skippers had indicated that the off-shore area between Saldanha and Cape Town had been hammered by south-easterly winds of up to 70 knots. Table Bay itself was lashed by a gale with gusts of up to 55 knots.
Identifier: islandora:15022

Title: Chairwoman of SADTU, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Demonstrations, Education, Labor unions, South African Democratic Teachers' Union
Description: Wire cordon ... Ms Vivienne Carelse, Western Cape chairwoman of the South African Democratic Teachers' Union (SADTU), stands inside the blade wire cordon placed around the Supreme Court where judgment was delivered yesterday in an application by the Department of Education and Culture (HoR) for three teachers to be jailed for contempt of court for joining an illegal strike.
Identifier: islandora:17822

Title: Athlone , Cape Town
Subject: Athlone (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Apartheid, Coloured people (South Africa), Housing, Poverty
Description: Children at a sub-economic housing development in Athlone, Cape Town
Identifier: islandora:16718

Title: Lindy Wilson, Cape Town
Subject: Crossroads (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Squatter settlements, Apartheid
Description: Mrs Lindy Wilson with the film on Crossroads, which was banned at the weekend. Mrs Wilson directed the documentary.
Identifier: islandora:17550

Title: Street in Pinelands, Cape Town
Subject: Pinelands (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Motorcars, Residential buildings, Roads
Description: Street in Pinelands, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:15827

Title: Cape Town City
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Cape Town (South Africa), Transport, Urban areas, Infrastructure, Urban development
Description: Eastern Boulevard straddles the network of railway lines leading to Cape Town station, and two uncompleted prongs that will link with multilane Table Bay Boulevard on the Foreshore begin their upward sweep over the goods yard at Culemborg.
Identifier: islandora:15080

Title: Protest, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Cape Town (South Africa), Civil unrest, Demonstrations, Law enforcement
Description: Policeman talks to protesters, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:16390

Title: Re-enactment of the discoverer's arrival, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Festivals, Colonization
Description: Dias has landed: Buffels Bay in the Cape Point Nature Reserve took a step back in time yesterday when "Bartolomeu Dias", played by actor Willem Pretorious, rediscovered the Cape in a colourful peagent attended by about 1 500 people. Crewmen from the Dias caravel, which is in Cape Town as part of the Cape Festival, planted a padarao (cross) at the Bay in a re-enactment of the discoverer's arrival at the Cape in 1488.
Identifier: islandora:17945

Title: The clearing away of debris left from a train accident, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Railroads, Transport, Infrastructure
Description: Woodstock crash.
Identifier: islandora:16139

Title: Demonstration, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Demonstrations
Description: Demonstration, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:17810

Title: Media surround police and protesters, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Cape Town (South Africa), Civil unrest, Violence, Demonstrations, Law enforcement
Description: Media surround police and protesters, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:16412

Title: Adult night school student, Cape Town, 1950s
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Adult education, Apartheid, Blacks--Education--South Africa, Race discrimination, Training
Description: African night school student in the early 1950s, before the Department of Bantu Administration denied permission for the Cape Non-European Night Schools Association to continue running four of its ten adult night schools
Identifier: islandora:15850

Title: Fishermen on the beach, Table Bay, Cape Town
Subject: Table Mountain (Western Cape, South Africa), Recreation, Beaches, Environment, Families
Description: Cape Town mountain taken from the beach.
Identifier: islandora:17133

Title: Pupils protests for the release of their friends, Cape Town
Subject: Langa (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), circa 1976, Civil unrest, Violence, Youth, Demonstrations, African National Congress
Description: Flashback - Langa High pupils march in 1976. A similar photograph was shown yesterday to Joseph Ngoma, who saw a friend shot dead by police at the end of the march - an incident he cited in the "long story" of why he joined the African National Congress (ANC).
Identifier: islandora:16341

Title: Destruction of property done by rioters, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Civil unrest, Violence, Vandalism
Description: Destruction of property done by rioters, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:16276

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