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Title: Oral history interview with Thembani Dyule [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., Por1.04a.mp3: Part 1 of 2 ; 47:29 min. ; interview 4 of 6
Identifier: islandora:24641

Title: Oral history interview with Lionel Louw [Part 1 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., Por6.03a.mp3: Part 1 of 2 ; 01:05:28 min. ; interview 3 of 6
Identifier: islandora:24451

Title: Oral history interview with Violet Tshwili [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., Pin8.17a.mp3: Part 1 of 2 ; 31:45 min. ; interview 17 of 17
Identifier: islandora:29669

Title: General plan of the European Reserve in the District of Port St. Johns, Pondoland. Sheet no. 1
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:30086

Title: Oral history interview with Trevor Adams, a survivor of the St. James Church massacre [Part 1 of 2]
Subject: Oral history, St. James Church (Kenilworth, South Africa), Forgiveness--South Africa, Reconciliation, ,
Description: On the 25th July 1993, four operatives of the Azanian People's Liberation Army (APLA), the armed wing of the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) attacked St James Church in Kenilworth, Cape Town, during a Sunday evening service. Approximately one hundred congregants were inside the Church. During the attack, the congregants were fired on with automatic weapons and two hand grenades were thrown into the Church. Eleven members of the congregation died and fifty-eight were injured. This research explores the intra- and inter-personal tensions within the testimonies of survivors on the process of forgiveness and reconciliation. Themes include: the amnesty application by the APLA cadets to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC); personal responses to trauma; memories of the event; Christian beliefs in context of personal trauma; congregational mapping; political violence and the public and personal processes of forgiveness., Pol2.01.mp3: Part 1 of 2 ; 25:04 min. ; interview 1 of 6
Identifier: islandora:22639

Title: Image from rock painting site. Site of Towerkop Staatsbos 1, Seweweekspoort, Swartberg Mountain range, Western Cape, South Africa.
Subject: Rock paintings--South Africa--Western Cape., , ,
Description: Rock painting of a male figure carrying what could be a quiver in red.
Identifier: islandora:21578

Title: Oral history interview with Mr D.K. Alderman [Part 1 of 2]
Subject: Oral history, World War, 1939-1945--Veterans--South Africa--Interviews, World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, South African
Description: This sub-collection centres on the diverse war experiences of the interviewees, mainly in in North Africa, Italy and South Africa. It contains information about prisoner of war experiences in Italy and Germany and repatriation through the Port of Odessa in 1945. Themes include: 1948 elections in South Africa, desert warfare at El Alamain, entry into the armed forces, family background, war experiences in Mogadishu and Normandy, post-war politics in South Africa, the psychological effects of war, schooling; war and women's employment in the armed forces., Pin5.01a.mp3: Part 1 of 2 ; 31:55 min. ; interview 1 of 19
Identifier: islandora:24987

Title: Image from rock painting site. Site of Cango-Cave 1, Outdshoorn, Western Cape, South Africa.
Subject: Rock paintings--South Africa--Western Cape., , ,
Description: Rock painting of a human figure in faded red.
Identifier: islandora:21740

Title: Oral history interview with Gary Kriel, a bassist [Part 1 of 2]
Subject: Oral history, Kriel, Gary, Jazz musicians--South Africa--Western Cape--Interviews, Bassist--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., Amu1.12a.mp3: Part 1 of 2 ; 31:15 min ; interview 12 of 23
Identifier: islandora:24591

Title: Oral history interview with Miriam Siyaka [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., Pin7.12a.mp3: Part 1 of 2 ; 31:49 min. ; interview 12 of 16
Identifier: islandora:22557

Title: Image from rock painting site, Bainskloof Pass 1, Western Cape, South Africa.
Subject: Rock paintings--South Africa--Western Cape., , ,
Description: Rock painting of an animal figure in black.
Identifier: islandora:21454

Title: Map no. 1 shewing the relative positions of Griqualand West and the adjoining territories
Subject: Griqualand West (South Africa)--Boundaries--Maps,
Description: A map demarcating the boundaries of Griqualand West. Also shows boundaries, rivers, mountain ranges in the Northern Cape. Boundary proclaimed by M. Brand 1870, boundaries of Griqualand West as proclaimed by Sir H. Barkly, 1871. Relief shown by hachures. Colour. Scale 4/8 th inch to 1 mile. Appendix map F
Identifier: islandora:25179

Title: Radio interview [Part 1 of 2]
Subject: Oral history, Political activists-- South Africa--Interviews, Government, Resistance to
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), Pin4a-rm.mp3: Part 1 of 2 ; 32:37 min.
Identifier: islandora:29718

Title: Oral history interview with Zelda Benjamin, a jazz vocalist [Part 1 of 2]
Subject: Oral history, Benjamin, Zelda, Jazz musicians--South Africa--Western Cape-- Interviews, Vocalist--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., Amu1.03a.mp3: Part 1 of 2 ; 31:57 min ; interview 3 of 23
Identifier: islandora:12857

Title: Image from rock painting site, Bainskloof Pass 1, Western Cape, South Africa.
Subject: Rock paintings--South Africa--Western Cape., , ,
Description: Rock painting of human figures in red.
Identifier: islandora:21472

Title: Image from rock painting site. Site of Ruiterbosch 1, Hartenbos, Western Cape, South Africa.
Subject: Rock paintings--South Africa--Western Cape., , ,
Description: Rock painting of human and animal images in red.
Identifier: islandora:21694

Title: Image from rock painting site. Site of Rondable 124, 1, Prince Albert, Western Cape, South Africa.
Subject: Rock paintings--South Africa--Western Cape., , ,
Description: Same image as slide 292
Identifier: islandora:21719

Title: Image from rock painting site, Bainskloof Pass 1, Western Cape, South Africa.
Subject: Rock paintings--South Africa--Western Cape., , ,
Description: Rock painting of figures, possibly animal and human in black.
Identifier: islandora:21453

Title: Image from rock painting site. Site of Bosluiskloof 1, Western Cape, South Africa.
Subject: Rock paintings--South Africa--Western Cape., , ,
Description: Rock painting of male and animal figures, an eland and a buck, in red.
Identifier: islandora:21593

Title: Map of the District of Matatiela, sheet no. 1
Subject: Matatiele (South Africa)--Description and travel--Maps, Surveying--South Africa, Land use--South Africa--Matatiele (Eastern Cape),
Description: Map of the District of Matatiela showing Ongeluks Nek, with surrounding areas, commonages, names of places, roads, rivers, district boundaries, and location reserves. Scale 1 English mile to 1 inch.
Identifier: islandora:30008

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