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Title: Dr Kildare falls foul of the Immorality Act
Subject: South Africa--Politics and government--1978-1989--Caricatures and cartoons, South Africa. Immorality Act, 1950, South Africa--Social conditions--1961-1994--Caricatures and cartoons, South African wit and humor, Pictorial, South Africa
Description: A reader drew attention to a scandalous matter featuring �in one of the Cape Times comic strips. Popular hero, Dr Kildare was defying the Immorality Act by falling in love with an Indian woman. Description provided by Tony Grogan.
Identifier: islandora:6144

Title: The Maccassar estate where houses were built for Somchem's coloured employees
Subject: Apartheid, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Residential buildings, ,
Description: The Macassar estate where Murray & Roberts' Specialised Contracting Division recently completed 151 houses for Bonaero Park (Pty) Limited, the developer. The houses are all for Somchem's Coloured employees.
Identifier: islandora:15181

Title: General correspondence
Subject: Smuts, Jan Christiaan, 1870-1950--Correspondence, Drennan, M. R. (Matthew Robertson), 1885-1965--Correspondence.
Description: Handwritten letter from Jan Christian Smuts to Matthew Drennan requesting for slides of the principal human figures and skeletons found in South Africa. He wanted to use them is an address he was giving at the Science Association meeting in Durban, South Africa in 1938.
Identifier: islandora:20972

Title: General correspondence
Subject: Smuts, Jan Christiaan, 1870-1950--Correspondence, Drennan, M. R. (Matthew Robertson), 1885-1965--Correspondence.
Description: Transcription of a handwritten letter from Jan Christian Smuts to Matthew Drennan requesting for slides of the principal human figures and skeletons found in South Africa. He wanted to use them is an address he was giving at the Science Association meeting in Durban, South Africa in 1938.
Identifier: islandora:20973

Title: Dumping Bill
Subject: South Africa--Politics and government--1978-1989--Caricatures and cartoons, Apartheid--South Africa--Caricatures and cartoons, Blacks--Relocation--South Africa--Caricatures and cartoons, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, South African wit and humor, Pictorial, Forced removals (South Africa)--Caricatures and cartoons, South Africa
Description: Under apartheid�s so-called dumping bills large numbers of black people were forced to relocate from urban areas to barren and remote areas in the homelands. Description provided by Tony Grogan.
Identifier: islandora:6145

Title: Piebald Court
Subject: South Africa--Politics and government--1978-1989--Caricatures and cartoons, Apartheid--South Africa--Caricatures and cartoons, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, South African wit and humor, Pictorial, South Africa
Description: Inevitable racial mixing in the urban areas forced the government to make some adaptions to their policy of rigid racial separation, which gave rise to anomalies and inconsistencies, which were explained as 'the natural evolution' of apartheid. Description provided by Tony Grogan.
Identifier: islandora:6146

Title: Speak low
Subject: Weill, Kurt, 1900-1950. One touch of Venus. Speak low, Big band music, Jazz, Concerts--South Africa--Cape Town
Description: UCT Big Band, Baxter Concert Hall, Cape Town, South Africa
Identifier: islandora:28817

Title: Gang hideouts, Belhar
Subject: Belhar (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Crime, Gangs, Coloured people (South Africa)
Description: A girl is dwarfed by the dunes in which gangsters hide out. People are attacked and robbed almost daily on their way to the bus and railway stations.
Identifier: islandora:16772

Title: City Bowl and Devil's Peak
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Aerial views, Historic buildings, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950.
Description: View of central Cape Town towards Devil's Peak, before the demolition of District Six.
Identifier: islandora:17047

Title: Bulldozers and lorries in District Six
Subject: District Six (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Forced removals, Demolition
Description: Bulldozers and lorries continue clearing operations in District Six as St Mark's Church stands forlornly in the background. The government plans to build a multi-million rand technikon for whites on the site, but the Anglican church, which owns the building, refuses to budge.
Identifier: islandora:18007

Title: Dr. Wouter Basson, Pretoria, 2000
Subject: Apartheid--South Africa, Political violence--South Africa, South Africa--Social conditions, War crimes investigation--South Africa, Basson, Wouter, 1950-, Truth and Lies,
Description: Wouter Basson, Pretoria, 2000. Basson, an ex-South African Army Brigadier, was founder and head of 'Project Coast', the Army's secret biological and chemical warfare programme between 1981 and 1993. Nicknamed 'Dr. Death', he went to trial in Pretoria 1999, charged with sixty-one counts of murder, conspiracy to murder, possession of addictive drugs, and fraud. He refused to apply for amnesty, but was called to give evidence to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC)'s enquiry into biological and chemical warfare.
Identifier: islandora:759

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