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Title: Alliance for Radical Change meeting, Cape Town
Subject: Mowbray (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Politics, Apartheid, Elections, Youth
Description: Mr Jack Curtis (left), who was the main speaker at the Alliance for Radical Change meeting in Mowbray on Thursday night. The meeting was attended by about 250 people. Mr Curtis, father of the banned student leader Mr Neville Curtis, addressed students at the University of Cape Town (UCT) yesterday.
Identifier: islandora:18065

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: Protest, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Demonstrations, Apartheid, South African Police, Youth
Description: Part of a group of about 250 protesters move along Sir Lowry Road before their protest march was stopped by police at the intersection at Darling Street today.
Identifier: islandora:17720

Title: Bishop Lavis Drive, Cape Town
Subject: Bishop Lavis (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Townships, Apartheid, Youth, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Coloured people (South Africa)
Description: Bishop Lavis Drive in Bishop Lavis township, Cape Town
Identifier: islandora:16852

Title: Pupils carry the coffin od a friend, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Civil unrest, Violence, Demonstrations, Youth, Grief
Description: Members of the Langa Haarlem Boys' Boxing Club were pallbearers at the funeral of a schoolboy, Xolile Mosi, 18, who was killed in the recent rioting.
Identifier: islandora:16355

Title: Cape Youth Congress picket in support of hunger strike, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Demonstrations, Apartheid, South African Police, Youth, Groote Schuur Hospital (Cape Town, South Africa)
Description: Freedom plea: Rain and bitterly cold weather didn't deter these members of the Gardens branch of the Cape Youth Congress from their picket in support of hunger striker Mr Willie Hofmeyer outside Groote Schuur Hospital yesterday.
Identifier: islandora:17721

Title: Young boy pretends to be a riot policeman, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Civil unrest, Violence, Youth, Law enforcement
Description: The peaceful ebb of weekend life returned to Cape Town's riot-torn townships today. Here, a small Guguletu boy dressed in a camouflaged suit parodies riot police as he marches down the quiet main street.
Identifier: islandora:16366

Title: Capdema youth, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Demonstrations, Politics, Youth
Description: Capdema youth, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:17772

Title: Crying school pupil is escorted by two men, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Youth, Civil unrest, Demonstrations
Description: Crying school pupil is escorted by two men, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:16283

Title: Passer-by clasps the hand of a detainee through the bars, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), circa 1985, Prisons, Segregation, Race discrimination, Education, Youth
Description: Clasped hands, a show of solidarity between a detained student and a passer-by during today's symbolic attempt to reopen coloured schools in Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:16220

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: Political detainees and house arrest, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Political prisoners, Apartheid, Youth
Description: Political detainees, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:17919

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: UWC march to DET offices, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Demonstrations, Education, Youth, University of Western Cape, South Africa. Department of Education and Training
Description: University of the Western Cape (UWC) march to the Department of Education and Training (DET) offices, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:17799

Title: Pupils hold posters and protest, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Civil unrest, Violence, Demonstrations, Youth
Description: Pupils at the Grassy Park High School demonstrate yesterday, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:16331

Title: Pupils protests for the release of their friends, Cape Town
Subject: Langa (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), circa 1976, Civil unrest, Violence, Youth, Demonstrations, African National Congress
Description: Flashback - Langa High pupils march in 1976. A similar photograph was shown yesterday to Joseph Ngoma, who saw a friend shot dead by police at the end of the march - an incident he cited in the "long story" of why he joined the African National Congress (ANC).
Identifier: islandora:16341

Title: Security forces manned Nonqubela station in Khayelitsha, Cape Town
Subject: Khayalitsha (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Demonstrations, Education, Youth
Description: Tight security: Members of the security forces manned Nonqubela station in Khayelitsha yesterday, barring protesting school pupils from boarding trains.
Identifier: islandora:17782

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