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Title: Girls pose in their traditional German dresses, Cape Town
Subject: Lederhosen, Dirndls, Youth, Gender, ,
Description: With their Aryan blond hair and blue eyes, many of the children are keen to dress up in their traditional German costumes.
Identifier: islandora:15822

Title: Young Muslim woman with her first in the air, Cape Town
Subject: Religion, Islam, Demonstrations, Youth, Political activists, ,
Description: Young Muslim woman with her first in the air, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:15473

Title: Muslim boy holds Koran, Cape Town
Subject: Religion, Islam, Worship, Youth, Education, ,
Description: Nine months of intensive study after his ordinary school hours ended for a 10-year-old Moslem boy of Elsies River, Dien Mukkaddam, today, when he completed reading all the 30 suras (chapters) of the Koran. Dien, a pupil of Sheik Amien at Elsie's River, is in Standard 4 at St. Augustine's School, Parow. He will now set out to memorise the Koran, chapter by chapter.
Identifier: islandora:15504

Title: Anti-conscription protest, Cape Town
Subject: Apartheid--South Africa, South Africa--Politics and government--1978-1989, South Africa--History--1961-1994, Demonstrations--South Africa, Youths--South Africa, Conscientious objectors--South Africa, Political activists--South Africa,
Description: Conscientious objectors protesting for the release of imprisoned objectors, including David Bruce, Charles Bester and Saul Batzofin. Protesters' T-shirts read, "I refuse to serve in the SADF (South African Defense Force)". Cape Town., circa 1980s
Identifier: islandora:12661

Title: Children carry buckets of water hanging from sticks, Cape Town
Subject: Youth, Poverty, Water supply, ,
Description: Children carry buckets of water hanging from sticks, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:15817

Title: Young Muslim boys listen to their teacher, Cape Town
Subject: Religion, Islam, Worship, Youth, Education, ,
Description: Muslim boys listen to their teacher delivering instruction.
Identifier: islandora:15502

Title: Schoolboy arrested, Cape Town, 1987
Subject: Student protesters, Youth--Political activity, Political prisoners, Apartheid, Political history--South Africa, Beyond the Barricades
Description: A schoolboy is arrested during protests against the 1987 white parliamentary elections in Athlone township, Cape Town, May 1987. In 1986, some 25,000 people were imprisoned without trial under the Emergency regulations. Of that number, 10,000 were children under the age of eighteen. In April 1987, the government stated that only 1,400 children were still in detention.
Identifier: islandora:880

Title: Two Democratic Party youths, Cape Town
Subject: Bellville (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Politics, Democratic Party (South Africa), Youth
Description: Running the gauntlet: Two Democratic Party youth members, escorted by a University of the Western Cape campus control marshal, hurry from a group of students who allegedly assaulted them outside the Bellville Magistrate's Court yesterday.
Identifier: islandora:17629

Title: Man calling Cape Town Muslims to prayers, Cape Town
Subject: Religion, Islam, Youth, ,
Description: Calling Cape Town Muslims to prayers on the tower of the Hoop Street Mosque.
Identifier: islandora:15505

Title: Anti-conscription protest, Cape Town
Subject: Apartheid--South Africa, South Africa--Politics and government--1978-1989, South Africa--History--1961-1994, Demonstrations--South Africa, Youths--South Africa, Conscientious objectors--South Africa, Political activists--South Africa,
Description: Conscientious objectors, Ivan Toms and Cameron Dugmore, protesting for the release of imprisoned objectors. T-shirt reads, "I refuse to serve in the SADF (South African Defense Force)". Cape Town., circa 1980s
Identifier: islandora:12660

Title: Group of Muslim children walking down a street, Cape Town
Subject: Religion, Islam , Youth, ,
Description: Group of Muslim children walking down a street, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:15480

Title: Boy warms his hands near a burn barrel, Cape Town
Subject: Youth, Poverty, ,
Description: Boy warms his hands near a burn barrel, Crossroads, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:15522

Title: Crowd of students congregated outside of a supermarket, Cape Town
Subject: Bellville (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Demonstrations, Education, Youth, South African Police
Description: ... in Bellville charge a crowd of students - they had congregated in front of a supermarket and started singing protest songs.
Identifier: islandora:18055

Title: Election protest, Cape Town
Subject: Apartheid--South Africa, South Africa--Politics and government--1978-1989, South Africa--History--1961-1994, Youths--South Africa, Political activists--South Africa, Demonstrations--South Africa,
Description: Protest against unfair elections, Cape Town. Signs read, "Don't vote on 26 October" and "Down with the racist puppet dummy. October elections"., circa 1980s
Identifier: islandora:12649

Title: Principal of Noxolo School at Crossroads, Cape Town
Subject: Crossroads (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Squatter settlements, Apartheid, Youth, Education
Description: Mrs A.N. Mene, principal of the Noxolo School at Crossroads, teaches her Std 5 class. The school was built by the Urban Foundation in co-operation with the Crossroads residents. Money is now required to buy desks for two recently added classrooms at the school.
Identifier: islandora:17542

Title: Cape Show, Goodwood, Cape Town
Subject: Goodwood (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Agricultural shows, Entertainment, Women, Youth
Description: Round and round they go - one of the attractions at the Cape Showground, Goodwood, next week will be a hula-hoop competition. It should revive many memories of the early 1960s when the craze swept South Africa. Starting off the competition with a shapely wiggle will be (from left), Erika Spies, 15, Debbie Coetzee, 17, Antoinette de Wet, 20, and Lizette Totos, 17.
Identifier: islandora:16983

Title: Brothers born and bred on Robben Island, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Robben Island (South Africa), Historic sites, Monuments, Youth, Education
Description: Fourth generation of the Luden family, born and bred on Robben Island, is represented by the Luden twins, Clive and Graham, aged five and a half. Here they are on their way along the village main street to the post office to deliver a packet of sandwiches to their father, Mr Ian Luden, the postmaster. Mr Luden will be sorry to leave the island - he is an authority on its history. But he will be glad about the change for other reasons - there is no high school on the island. Children must go to boarding school or travel to and from school on the ferry.
Identifier: islandora:16530

Title: Queuing, Atlantis, Cape Town
Subject: Atlantis (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Apartheid, Local government, Youth, Women
Description: Queuing at government offices in apartheid-era Atlantis, the dormitory suburb built for Coloured people outside Cape Town
Identifier: islandora:16712

Title: Protest meeting, Atlantis, Cape Town
Subject: Atlantis (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Apartheid, Youth, Trade unions, State of Emergency (South Africa)
Description: Frank Wewers of the Atlantis Youth Congress addresses a protest meeting in Atlantis
Identifier: islandora:16707

Title: Residents of an informal settlement, Cape Town
Subject: Squatter settlements, Homeless persons, Youth, Poverty, ,
Description: Residents of an informal settlement, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:15238

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