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Title: Last meeting of Ministers' Council, House of Representatives, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Politics, Cabinet ministers, National Party (South Africa), Governments
Description: For Old Time's Sake: Minister of Housing Gerald Morkel, Minister's Council chairman Jac Rabie, Minister of Sport Abe Williams and Minister of Education and Culture Pieter Saaiman drink a toast on the last meeting of the minister's council of the House of Representatives.
Identifier: islandora:16928

Title: Divisional Council offices, Atlantis, Cape Town
Subject: Atlantis (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Apartheid, Coloured Labour Preference Area Policy (South Africa), Local government, Demonstrations
Description: Angry crowds outside the offices of the Divisional Council in Atlantis, the dormitory suburb built for Coloured people outside Cape Town
Identifier: islandora:16713

Title: Municipal Council of Johannesburg 1910
Subject: Johannesburg Metropolitan Area (South Africa) -- Maps.
Description: The areas shown on this map of the municipality of Johannesburg include Paardekraal, Waterval no.19, Braamfontein no.127, Middel-Fontein no.128, Langlaagte no.129, Mooifontein no.130, Vierfontein no.131, Ormonde no.134, Turffontein no.135, Klipfontein no. 139, Doornfontein no.140, Klipriversberg no.141 and Cyferfontein no. 380. Concentric circles, creating range rings of 1 mile each, radiate from the city centre from 1 mile to 6 mile radii, from Randjeslaagte to the municipal boundary. The map also shows the municipal boundary, names of suburbs, street names, electric tramways, parks, mynpachts and other mine claims, mining operations, cemeteries, the show ground, clubs, the Oval, sewerage operations and installations, dams and other waterways (e.g. rivers)., Bar scale given in Cape feet and English feet.
Identifier: islandora:19755

Title: Letter to Mrs B Grieve, National Council of Women
Description: Letter from Mary Burton, Chairman of the Black Sash Cape Western Region, to Mrs B Grieve, of the National Council of Women, sending her the text of the resolution passed at the meeting to oppose the Prevention of Illegal Squatting Bill, which had taken place at the Rondebosch Town Hall on 20 May 1976
Identifier: islandora:6723

Title: The Coloured Representative Council (CRC) building, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Politics, Gardens, Architecture, Landscapes
Description: Coloured Representative Council building - symbol of apartheid.
Identifier: islandora:16002

Title: Dear old Grandpa ' Twenty-five years on the City Council housing list and they've finally given him a plot.
Subject: South Africa--Social conditions--1994- --Caricatures and cartoons, Housing policy--South Africa--Caricatures and cartoons, South African wit and humor, Pictorial, South Africa
Description: A sad comment on Cape Town's housing backlog where people sometimes spent a lifetime on the waiting list.Description provided by Tony Grogan.
Identifier: islandora:6127

Title: Crossroads Council of Churches Chairman, Cape Town
Subject: Crossroads (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Squatter settlements, Apartheid, Clergy
Description: Bishop Sydney Myilikazi - chairman of Crossroads Council of Churches.
Identifier: islandora:17595

Title: Professor Chris Barnard studies the University Council's Gold Medal of Merit, Cape Town
Subject: Barnard, Christiaan, 1922-2001, Surgeons--South Africa, University of Cape Town--Awards
Description: Gold Medal: Prof. Chris Barnard studies the University Council's Gold Medal of Merit which was presented to him at UCT's [University of Cape Town] mid-year graduation ceremony yesterday. The heat surgeon us the first recipient of the new award for outstanding achievement.
Identifier: islandora:14805

Title: B.J. Vorster and Indian Council
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Politics
Description: B.J. Vorster and Indian Council.
Identifier: islandora:15990

Title: Council flats, Kew Town
Subject: Poor children--South Africa, Children--South Africa, Public housing--South Africa, Dwellings--Social aspects--South Africa, South Africa--Social conditions--20th century, Apartheid, The Cordoned Heart
Description: Children play outside their council flat homes.
Identifier: islandora:5711

Title: Men taking care of the Coloured Representative Council's (CRC) gardens, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Politics, Gardens, Architecture
Description: Two of the Coloured Representative Council's (CRC) 12 full-time gardeners tend the flower beds at the unused council building.
Identifier: islandora:16001

Title: The Black Sash memorandum to the Divisional Council
Description: Draft memorandum from the Black Sash, to the Divisional Council, Western Cape, regarding the forced removal of Africans from the Western Cape
Identifier: islandora:6705

Title: Divisional council workers divert flooding, Cape Town
Subject: Elsies River (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Housing, Floods, Apartheid
Description: Many Elsie's River houses, like this one, were threatened with flooding by Saturday's heavy downpour. Here, Divisional Council workers divert the dammed-up water by digging a canal around the house.
Identifier: islandora:18106

Title: Demonstration against local councils, Durban, 1981
Subject: Local government, Demonstrations, Community activists, Apartheid, Political history--South Africa, Beyond the Barricades
Description: Residents of Newlands East township demonstrate against government-nominated town councilors in Durban 1981. Because local councils were imposed on the people of the townships by the apartheid government, the residents, for the most part, refused to support them.
Identifier: islandora:887

Title: Chairman of Crossroads Council of Churches, Cape Town
Subject: Crossroads (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Squatter settlements, Apartheid
Description: The chairman of the Crossroads Council of Churches, Bishop Sydney Mzilikazi of the Jerusalem Church, addresses a group of predominantly Afrikaans churchmen who visited Crossroads yesterday.
Identifier: islandora:17525

Title: Human Rights in Namibia: 10 Years after Security Council Resolution 435: Paper Presented at National Conference 1988
Description: Human Rights in Namibia: 10 Years after Security Council Resolution 435: Paper Presented at National Conference on 11 March 1988 discussing Universal Declaration of Human Rights, United Nations Security Council, SADF raid at Cassinga, Namibia, health care, poverty, Namibia as a South African state.
Identifier: islandora:7147

Title: City Council ordered [this Cadillac] for Jan Dommisse, Cape Town
Subject: Fleetwood automobile, Cadillac automobile, Apartheid era
Description: A 1971 Cadillac Fleetwood 75 - the car the City Council decided yesterday to order for the Mayor of Cape Town, at a cost of R20 300
Identifier: islandora:14684

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