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Title: Street in Atlantis, Cape Town
Subject: Atlantis (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Apartheid, Labour, Industrialisation, City planning
Description: There are now more than 600 houses completed and occupied by employees of new industries at Atlantis.
Identifier: islandora:16701

Title: Atlantis development, Cape Town
Subject: Atlantis (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Apartheid, Coloured Labour Preference Area Policy (South Africa), City planning, Labour
Description: Man from Atlantis - Piet Burger, project Director for Atlantis with the status of deputy secretary of the Cape Divisional Council, is the man whose vision saw the plans for the country's biggest Coloured city off the drawing boards to the vista he surveys. Burly and amiable, Mr Burger says: "I would like to devote my whole life to Atlantis...there is no bigger job satisfaction. But then my job will probably be filled by a Coloured man eventually."
Identifier: islandora:16698

Title: Divisional Council offices, Atlantis, Cape Town
Subject: Atlantis (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Apartheid, Coloured Labour Preference Area Policy (South Africa), Local government, Demonstrations
Description: Angry crowds outside the offices of the Divisional Council in Atlantis, the dormitory suburb built for Coloured people outside Cape Town
Identifier: islandora:16713

Title: Aerial shot of Atlantis, Cape Town
Subject: Atlantis (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Development, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Apartheid, City planning, Housing
Description: Arial view of the apartheid-era Coloured dormitory suburb of Atlantis, outside Cape Town
Identifier: islandora:16706

Title: Sand-covered Atlantis street, Cape Town
Subject: Atlantis (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Development, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Apartheid, City planning, Environment
Description: Built on sand: Sand-covered streets in Atlantis after a strong wind.
Identifier: islandora:16704

Title: Atlantis resident, Cape Town
Subject: Atlantis (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Apartheid, Housing, Coloured Labour Preference Area Policy (South Africa), Women
Description: Resident of apartheid-era Atlantis, the dormitory suburb built for Coloured people outside Cape Town
Identifier: islandora:16710

Title: Protest meeting, Atlantis, Cape Town
Subject: Atlantis (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Apartheid, Civic organisations, Trade unions, State of Emergency (South Africa)
Description: Noel Williams, Chairperson of the Atlantis Residents Association (ARA), the leading organization for radical politics in Atlantis in the 1980s, addresses a protest meeting at Atlantis
Identifier: islandora:16708

Title: Aerial view, Atlantis ,Cape Town
Subject: Atlantis (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Apartheid, City planning, Urban development, Coloured Labour Preference Area Policy (South Africa),
Description: Aerial view of sub-economic housing construction in apartheid-era Atlantis, the dormitory suburb built for Coloured people outside Cape Town
Identifier: islandora:16714

Title: Prime Minister Vorster inspects houses at Atlantis, Cape Town
Subject: Atlantis (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Apartheid, Coloured Labour Preference Area Policy (South Africa), City planning, Governments
Description: The Prime Minister , Mr Vorster, after inspecting one of the R11 400 houses built at Atlantis. On his left are Dr Schalk van der Merwe, Minister of Coloured Relations, Mr J H Heyns, chairman of the Divisional Council of the Cape, and Mr W O Kuhne, a Cape Town journalist.
Identifier: islandora:16703

Title: Sand dunes near Atlantis, Cape Town
Subject: Atlantis (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Apartheid, Coloured Labour Preference Area Policy (South Africa), City planning, Environment
Description: The huge, moving sand dunes near the proposed development of Atlantis, rimmed by sparsely vegetated barrier dunes. If the delicate environmental balance of these barrier dunes is disturbed will it be possible to contain the moving dune?
Identifier: islandora:16699

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: Retrenched resident of Atlantis, Cape Town
Subject: Atlantis (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Apartheid, Labour, Economy, Unemployment
Description: Miss Charmaine van Wyk, foreground, recently retrenched, stands with a friend on the stairs of their Atlantis council block: " If you can't get work, how can you pay rent?"
Identifier: islandora:16700

Title: Pensioner from Atlantis, Cape Town
Subject: Atlantis (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Pensions, Poverty, Older people
Description: Against all odds - Mrs Audrey Aries, 65, with her "useless" pension book, electricity and other accounts. Her husband earns R245 a month and after her rent and other accounts have been paid she has very little money left.
Identifier: islandora:16702

Title: Library in Atlantis, Cape Town
Subject: Atlantis (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Apartheid, Education, Coloured Labour Preference Area Policy (South Africa), South Africa. Separate Amenities Act, 1953
Description: Library in apartheid-era Atlantis, the dormitory suburb built for Coloured people outside Cape Town
Identifier: islandora:16711

Title: Atlantis resident, Cape Town
Subject: Atlantis (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Apartheid, Housing, Coloured Labour Preference Area Policy (South Africa), Women
Description: Resident of apartheid-era Atlantis, the dormitory suburb build for Coloured people outside Cape Town
Identifier: islandora:16709

Title: Houses in Atlantis , Cape Town
Subject: Atlantis (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Development, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Apartheid, City planning, Housing
Description: Apartheid-era housing development in Atlantis, Cape Town
Identifier: islandora:16705

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