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Title: Church of the Good Shepherd, Kirstenbosch, Cape Town, 1993
Subject: Kirstenbosch (South Africa), Architecture, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Forced removals (South Africa), Community development
Description: Memories: former Protea Village residents Reggie Benjamin, left, and Kenneth Jacobs outside the Church of the Good Shepherd, which was their local church, before the whole community was evicted in terms of the Group Areas Act. Tomorrow a special service at the church will be dedicated to the residents.
Identifier: islandora:17324

Title: Family sits outside their house in Ocean View, Cape Town
Subject: Residential buildings, Communities, Apartheid, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Forced removals (South Africa), , ,
Description: Ocean View.
Identifier: islandora:15609

Title: Nat Removals Ltd.
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 African wit and humor, Pictorial, Forced removals (South Africa)--Caricatures and cartoons, South Africa
Description: The implementation of the policy of� apartheid resulted in the removal of 3.5 million people to remote homelands or their own racially designated areas. Description provided by Tony Grogan.
Identifier: islandora:6149

Title: Couple in convenience store who were told to move out, Cape Town
Subject: Apartheid, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Convenience stores, Stores, Retail, Forced removals (South Africa), Historic districts, ,
Description: Mr Mohamed Hoosain and his wife Amina - they have been warned by a Cape Town magistrate that their family must move out of their property in all-White Loader Street by July 30.
Identifier: islandora:15210

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: Group of people sit on back of truck with their possessions, Cape Town
Subject: Apartheid, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Forced removals (South Africa), ,
Description: New Crossroads.
Identifier: islandora:15525

Title: Man speaks to crowd facing eviction, Cape Town
Subject: Agricultural laborers, Forced removals (South Africa), ,
Description: Mr E.M. ('Babs') Essop, acting chairman of the Athlone and District Management Committee (centre), addressed families facing eviction at a farm in Phillipi today.
Identifier: islandora:15816

Title: Man kneels next to the grave of his son, Cape Town
Subject: Apartheid, Forced removals (South Africa), Relocation, Agriculture, Demonstrations, ,
Description: A white Phillipi farmer has vowed to barricade himself, his wife and two children inside his farmhouse to protect their property and the grave of his infant son from Department of Community Development bulldozers. For Mr Derek Galloway, of the farm Reiersvlei, could soon become a victim of the Group Areas Act. / Mr Galloway at the gravesite of his child on the farm at Philippi.
Identifier: islandora:15820

Title: Black influx
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 African wit and humor, Pictorial, Influx control--Caricatures and cartoons, Forced removals (South Africa)--Caricatures and cartoons, South Africa
Description: Legislation to stem the tide of black influx to the urban areas became increasingly futile. The government�s forcible return of immigrants from Cape Town back to Transkei, from whence they would immediately board trains to return, was a dismal annual cycle. Description provided by Tony Grogan.
Identifier: islandora:6152

Title: Family facing eviction, Cape Town
Subject: Forced removals (South Africa), ,
Description: Members of one of the eight families facing eviction on Friday stand outside their house on a Noordhoek farm yesterday. They are Mr Ronald Corker and his wife Edith and their grandchildren, from left, Fabian, 2, Lucia, 6, Patricia, 7, Bernadette, 11, and Sean, 10.
Identifier: islandora:15568

Title: Muslim prayer caller voices his concerns, Cape Town
Subject: Religion, Islam, Forced removals (South Africa), South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, ,
Description: Mr Ismail Bohwoodien, the 54 year old "Belal" (prayer caller) of the Chapel Street Mosque, who has resided for more than 30 years in District Six, fears the prospect of going to live on the Cape Flats.
Identifier: islandora:15513

Title: Maitland Garden pensioner washing clothes, Cape Town
Subject: Apartheid, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Residential buildings, Pensioners and Senior Citizens Organisation (South Africa), Forced removals (South Africa), ,
Description: At the age of 109, Mrs Rachel Wrentz may soon have to start a new life. She is still active, doing washing and cleaning. But, she says, to expect her to begin a new life now is asking too much. The oldest resident in Maitland Garden Village, she is one of many old-age pensioners in the area threatened with removal under the Group Areas Act. Many still living in the village are among those who originally moved there in 1921 when the City Council built 220 homes for employees, most of whom had apparently fought in World War 1. To Mrs Wrentz the thought of having to move is bad enough. But the spectre of being pushed into a Cape Flats township with a high crime rate haunts her.
Identifier: islandora:15190

Title: But, Grandma: what big tears you have!
Subject: South Africa--Politics and government--1978-1989--Caricatures and cartoons, Apartheid--South Africa--Caricatures and cartoons, South African wit and humor, Pictorial, Forced removals (South Africa)--Caricatures and cartoons, South Africa
Description: A response of the government to the misery and suffering caused by the Group Areas Act which had people being moved out of their homes to their own racial areas was that some pain was necessary for the greater good of grand apartheid. Piet Koornhof, Minister of Cooperation and Development, as it was quaintly known, an affable person, was one of those who expressed this regret. Description provided by Tony Grogan.
Identifier: islandora:6148

Title: Clerk and interpreter talk to squatters about relocating, Cape Town
Subject: Authority, Forced removals (South Africa), Homeless persons, ,
Description: Transit talk: Milnerton town clerk Mr Peter Gerber uses an interpreter in discussions with squatters about their relocation to the temporary transit area next week.
Identifier: islandora:15298

Title: Block of flats in Ocean View, Cape Town
Subject: Residential buildings, Communities, Apartheid, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Forced removals (South Africa), , ,
Description: Ocean View.
Identifier: islandora:15608

Title: Maitland Garden pensioner washing clothes, Cape Town
Subject: Apartheid, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Residential buildings, Pensioners and Senior Citizens Organisation (South Africa), Forced removals (South Africa), ,
Description: Maitland Garden pensioner washing clothes, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:15191

Title: Good Shepherd Church, Kirstenbosch, Cape Town, 1986
Subject: Kirstenbosch (South Africa), Architecture, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Forced removals (South Africa), Community development
Description: Memories: former Protea Village residents outside the Church of the Good Shepherd, which was their local church, before the whole community was evicted in terms of the Group Areas Act.
Identifier: islandora:17329

Title: Street in Ocean View, Cape Town
Subject: Residential buildings, Communities, Apartheid, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Forced removals (South Africa), , ,
Description: Ocean View.
Identifier: islandora:15607

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