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Title: High Constantia, Constantia, Cape Town, 1954
Subject: Constantia (Cape Town South Africa), Colonialism, Culture, Historic buildings, Urban development
Description: Rambling High Constantia, built by Robertson Fuller Bertram early this century, with its chimneys and gables. High Constantia - it has 29 bedrooms - [?] six acres of land was brought today (subject to confirmation) by Mr Duncan Taylor for - 0, 100[?] The seller was the Royal Institute of International Affairs, which received the property as a gift from Sir Henry Price, one of the founders of the Institute. The auctioneers were Zoutendyk and Brand, Ltd.
Identifier: islandora:17467

Title: Day of the Covenant ceremony at Groote Schuur Estate, Cape Town
Subject: Rondebosch (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Afrikaner Nationalism, Apartheid, Memorials, Culture, Religion
Description: A crowd of about 400 people attended the Day of the Covenant ceremony at the Groote Schuur Estate in 1976, including numerous women in Voortrekker costume. The service was led by Dr A. J. G. Dreyer. Professor D. J. Kotze, of the faculty of history at the University of Stellenbosch, was the main speaker.
Identifier: islandora:16649

Title: Marching band, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Festivals, Apartheid, Culture, Music, Coloured people (South Africa)
Description: Girls marching band, Cape Town
Identifier: islandora:16738

Title: Long Street, Cape Town, 1981
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Arts, Culture, Antiques
Description: The top storey of John Marcus and Sons it is today, retaining the original glass and cast iron roof. One of the many artists that lived and worked in Long Street in the first half of the century rented this gallery.
Identifier: islandora:17450

Title: Workers' theatre, Johannesburg, 1987
Subject: Workers' theater, Labor union members--Political activity, Politics and culture, Apartheid, Political history--South Africa, Beyond the Barricades
Description: Workers turn actors in a play staged during Culture Day as part of the 2nd National Conference of the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU). In spite of severely repressive measures imposed by the State of Emergency, people found ways to express their deepest feelings and ideas, creating new art forms like this "workers' play".
Identifier: islandora:862

Title: Day of the Covenant ceremony, Cape Town
Subject: Rondebosch (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Afrikaner Nationalism, Apartheid, Memorials, Culture, Religion
Description: A crowd of about 400 people attended the Day of the Covenant ceremony at the Groote Schuur Estate in 1976. The service was led by Dr A. J. G. Dreyer. Professor D. J. Kotze, of the faculty of history at the University of Stellenbosch, was the main speaker. These four women attended the ceremony in traditional Voortrekker costume. They are (from left): Miss Annie Sadie of Bellville, Miss Gwen Swanepoel and Mrs Joey Swanepoel, both of Goodwood and Mrs Anna Sadie.
Identifier: islandora:16641

Title: Art Nouveau architecture on Long Street, Cape Town, 1982
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Art, Culture, Historic buildings
Description: Merchants, Long Street, Cape Town. One of the oldest buildings on Long Street, the original building at Merchants dates back 350 years and was made [with] slate from Table Mountain. After many iterations through the centuries it survives today as a fine example of Art Nouveau architecture.
Identifier: islandora:17456

Title: Marching band, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Festivals, Apartheid, Culture, Music, Coloured people (South Africa)
Description: Coloured Scout brigade marching band, Cape Town
Identifier: islandora:16740

Title: Marching band, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Festivals, Apartheid, Culture, Music, Coloured people (South Africa)
Description: Slaurca Fete- Good Shepherd Band
Identifier: islandora:16742

Title: Adderley Street shops, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Urban development, City planning, Architecture, Culture
Description: Another bit of old Cape Town is about to disappear. The occupants of three little shops nestling on a corner at the top of Adderley Street - an optometrist, a button shop and a bookshop - have been ordered to move by the end of June.
Identifier: islandora:17034

Title: Striking workers put on a play, Durban, 1986
Subject: Workers' theater, Strikes and lockouts--Rubber industry, Politics and culture, Apartheid, Political history--South Africa, Beyond the Barricades
Description: Striking workers at the British-owned BTR-Sarmcol plant, use a play called The Long March to tell their story. The location of the play is Mpophomeni, a resettlement area where many BTR-Sarmcol workers lived. This early version of the play explored the dispossession and forced removal of workers from their homes to Mpophomeni. Later, other worker groups changed the play's content in order to focus on current problems.
Identifier: islandora:863

Title: Voorspoed Manor, Tokai, 1936
Subject: Tokai (Cape Town, South Africa), Historical monuments, Culture
Description: Cape Dutch-style Voorspoed Manor, Tokai, built in 1903.
Identifier: islandora:17476

Title: Koopmans de Wet House, Cape Town, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Antiques, Koopmans-De Wet House (Museum), Culture, Recreation, History
Description: Christine's Day-VI - "Even the rain cannot really spoil one's holiday in the Peninsula. I took a bus to the Koopmans de Wet House and spent an interesting time there. I saw so much -that lovely old four-poster bed, the silver-faced stinkwood wardrobe, the sedan chair and many other things..." [ This is the last of a series of photographs showing some of the episodes in the 14-day holiday of Miss Christine Steyn, a Cape Town stenographer, who decided to spend her vacation inexpensively at home and visit beauty spots and places of historical interest.]
Identifier: islandora:17001

Title: About time for criticism and self-criticism! : notes on an exhibition
Subject: Politics and culture--South Africa, Arts--Censorship--South Africa
Description: A reflection on the process leading to the banned 'About Time' exhibition, the opening event of the banned 'Towards a People's Culture' Festival.
Identifier: islandora:19033

Title: Joseph Weinberg at the Bushmen Cave Museum
Subject: Bushman, Southern Africa, child, cave, diorama, San, indigenous, boy, museum, education, heritage, culture, Weinberg, Joseph, San (African people)--Museums--South Africa, KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa)
Description: A child, Joseph Weinberg and a life-size figure of a San man at the Bushmen Cave Museum. Giant's Castle Drakensburg, South Africa.
Identifier: islandora:11997

Title: Cape Town Festival, Cape Town, 1984
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Culture, Parade
Description: The fun of the festival is reflected on the face of Mr Joseph Ngalo who, wearing a spectacular head-dress, took part in the parade that marked the opening of the Cape Town Festival.
Identifier: islandora:17223

Title: Circus and Pier, Adderley Street, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Cape Town Harbour, Recreation, Music, Culture
Description: Do you remember? Cape Town pier at the bottom of Adderley Street all lit up in 1929, a scene which is forever lost to the city.
Identifier: islandora:17061

Title: Rheezigt, Cape Dutch estate, Cape Town
Subject: Oranjezicht (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Architecture, Cape Dutch architecture, History, Culture
Description: Rheezigt, a property on the higher slopes of Oranjezicht, is one of the finest examples of 18th-century Cape architecture. Its preservation was discussed by the Historical Monuments Commission in Cape Town yesterday.
Identifier: islandora:17013

Title: Cape Town Highlanders Pipe Band, Castle, Cape Town, 1977
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Culture, Military, Pipe bands, Marching bands
Description: The Cape Town Highlanders Pipe Band march through the outer court, or bailey, at the Cape Town Castle, passing under the vertical wall-mounted sundial.
Identifier: islandora:17173

Title: Cape Town Highlanders, Cape Town, 1995
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Military forces, Culture
Description: Highlanders: Sergeant Jack and the young Capetonians he trained to become the first regimental volunteers to pass into the Cape Town Highlanders in more than 30 years.
Identifier: islandora:17174

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