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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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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

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