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Title: Mbila mutondo
Subject: Musical instruments--South Africa, Venda (African people)--Music
Description: Hornbostel-Sachs number: 111.212 Sets of percussion sticks, Place of production: Limpopo (South Africa)
Identifier: islandora:20788

Title: Mbila mutondo
Subject: Musical instruments--South Africa, Venda (African people)--Music
Description: Hornbostel-Sachs number: 111.212 Sets of percussion sticks, Place of production: Limpopo (South Africa)
Identifier: islandora:20762

Title: Oral history interview with Derrick Williams [ Part 4 of 6]
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, Williams, Derrick
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., Cwc2.194b.mp3: Part 4 of 6 ; 29:18 min. ; interview 194 of 208
Identifier: islandora:19382

Title: School students
Subject: Bushman, Southern Africa, San, indigenous, removal, school, book, children, reading, San (African people)--Education (Elementary)--South Africa--Western Cape, Community schools--South Africa--Western Cape, Indigenous children--South Africa--Western Cape--Social conditions, Western Cape (South Africa)
Identifier: islandora:12240

Title: Oral history interview with Elizabeth van Niekerk [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, Wolhuter, Anne, ,
Description: Karen Daniels interviews Anne Wolhuter, 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, Cwc6.38b.mp3: Part 2 of 3 ; 30:40 min; interview 38 of 39
Identifier: islandora:24674

Title: Oral history interview with Asa Jassiem [ Part 4 of 6]
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, Jassiem, Asa
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., Cwc2.100b.mp3: Part 4 of 6 ; 29:22 min. ; interview 100 of 208
Identifier: islandora:18959

Title: Monto Masako Hasjenda at home
Subject: Bushman, San, South Africa, indigenous, identity, ritual, land rights, art, crafts, army, dispossession, man, home, tent, washing, paintings, skins, hat, Artists--South Africa--Northern Cape, San (African people)--South Africa--Northern Cape--Social conditions, San (African people)----Northern Cape--Art, Northern Cape (South Africa)
Identifier: islandora:12515

Title: Jakob Malgas childhood area 4 : draft, Map item #10; Map item # 28;
Subject: Malgas, Jakob, Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park (Botswana and South Africa), Indigenous peoples--Land tenure--South Africa, Indigenous peoples--Legal status, laws, etc.--South Africa, San (African people)--Kalahari Desert, Africa, Southern--Maps, ,
Description: A colour map showing the area where Jakob Malgas grew up. The map's text reveals a brief history and insight into the history of the area revealing how Bushmen used to live and contains information about animals (springhare, porcupine, and leopards) and important hunting and gathering grounds with specific reference to berries at the Gray Camel Tree, an important meeting place for the community. [Scale included]
Identifier: islandora:27334

Title: Gora
Subject: Musical instruments--South Africa, Korana (African people)--Music
Description: Hornbostel-Sachs number: 311.22-3 (True) stick zithers (-3 sounded by blowing), Height: 25mm, Width: 22mm, Length: 984mm, Place of production: Christiana (South Africa), Creator: Kolop
Identifier: islandora:20153

Title: Healing dance demonstration at the Kalahari Cultural Week
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)--Rites and ceremonies, Khomani (African people)--Rites and ceremonies, Indigenous peoples--Land tenure--Africa, Southern, ,
Description: During the 2005 Cultural Week in the Kalahari, San community members from Botswana and South Africa were invited to make crafts and demonstrate tracking, hunting and other activities. Here, San people, demonstrate the healing dance know as |qû. The elders are dressed in pants and shirts dancing with the ǂKhomani dance group. The dance is intended to assist in the healing of sick individuals. Traditionally men would dance while the women and children would sing and clap. The men occasionally go into a trance and enter the spirit world where the ancestors would guide them in the healing.
Identifier: islandora:27152

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:12073

Title: Smoking a pipe
Subject: Bushman, Southern Africa, San, indigenous, removal, return, home, land rights, settlement, man, smoking, pipe, Khomani (African people)--South Africa--Western Cape, San (African people)--South Africa--Western Cape, Western Cape (South Africa)
Identifier: islandora:12337

Title: San man
Subject: Bushman, Southern Africa, farm, shepherd, goat, man, San, indigenous, sunset, bushveld, animal, San (African people)--Relocation--South Africa, Goats--South Africa, Kalahari Gemsbok National Park (South Africa)
Description: A San man, with goats in the background. The man is one of the last of the San who defied their removal from the Kalahari Gemsbok National Park, South Africa.
Identifier: islandora:12034

Title: Oral history interview with R. Clark [Part 2 of 2]
Subject: Oral history, Anti-apartheid activists--South Africa--Interviews, Civil rights movements--South Africa, Government, Resistance to--South Africa, Colored people (South Africa)--Political activity, South Africa--Politics and government--1909-1948
Description: The interviews in this collection cover a wide range of topics linked to coloured identity, political organisations and activities in South Africa during the 1940s and post-1948 era. It includes information on protest actions, the defiance campaign, the torch commando, boycotts and train resistance efforts following the 1948 National Party election. Themes include the Anti-Coloured Affairs Department movement (Anti-CAD), civic organisations, education and welfare, the introduction of the Group Areas Act, political parties, race and class issues, the removal of coloured men from the national voters roll in 1956 and the Unity Movement., Pin3.03b.mp3: Part 2 of 2 ; 32:09 min. ; interview 3 of 11
Identifier: islandora:19425

Title: Oral history interview with Garatjie Williams [ Part 4 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, Williams, Garatjie
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., Cwc2.192b.mp3: Part 4 of 4 ; 06:17 min. ; interview 192 of 208
Identifier: islandora:24570

Title: Oral history interview with Mr and Mrs Hiyat
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, ,
Description: Karen Daniels interviews Mr and Mrs Hiyat, ex-residents 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, Cwc6.17a.mp3: Part 1 of 1 ; 27:06 min; interview 17 of 39
Identifier: islandora:24718

Title: Oral history interview with Cassiem Jacobs [ Part 9 of 10]
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, Jacobs, Cassiem
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., Cwc2.88a.mp3: Part 9 of 10 ; 29:28 min. ; interview 88 of 208
Identifier: islandora:18935

Title: Members of the San community pose in front of a Kalahari Gemsbok Park sign
Subject: Swarts, Anna ; Brou, Kheis ; Koper, |Abaka ; Rooi, |Una ; Rooi, Piet, 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, Indigenous peoples--Land tenure--Africa, Southern, ,
Description: Members of the community stand before a park sign before the name of the park was changed to Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park. Those present include Anna Swarts, Kheis Brou, |Abaka Koper, |Una Rooi, and Piet Rooi.
Identifier: islandora:27139

Title: Gora
Subject: Musical instruments--South Africa, Korana (African people)--Music
Description: Hornbostel-Sachs number: 311.22-3 (True) stick zithers (-3 sounded by blowing), Height: 25mm, Width: 22mm, Length: 984mm, Place of production: Christiana (South Africa), Creator: Kolop
Identifier: islandora:20152

Title: Ceramic artists, Platfontein
Subject: Bushman, San, South Africa, indigenous, identity, ritual, land rights, art, crafts, army, dispossession, woman, ceramics workshop, San (African people)--Art, Art, San--South Africa--Northern Cape, Artists--South Africa--Northern Cape, Potters--South Africa--Northern Cape, San (African people)--South Africa--Northern Cape, Northern Cape (South Africa)
Identifier: islandora:12488

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