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Title: Robben Island prisoners' relatives, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Robben Island (South Africa), Government, Justice, Administration of, Families
Description: Nolinda Wontota (left) was due to see her father, a Robben Island prisoner, for the first time this Saturday. Then all visiting privileges to the prisoners were withdrawn. Now, with other relatives of prisoners from all over the country, she is waiting to hear the outcome of an urgent application before the Supreme Court to have the ban on visits lifted. With her is her sister Theresa, 17, and elderly heart patient Mrs L. Mafuna who travelled down to Cape Town from Port Elzabeth to see the nephew she regards as her own son.
Identifier: islandora:16538

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: Apartheid-era Mayor of Bellville, Cape Town
Subject: Bellville (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Urban development, Apartheid, Local government, City planning, Afrikaners
Description: The Mayor of Bellville, Mr W. J. Bezuidenhout, looks out over his rapidly-developing town. He visualizes it one day becoming a sprawling city with a population of about 150,000.
Identifier: islandora:16796

Title: Clock tower, Bellville Civic Centre, Cape Town
Subject: Bellville (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Local government, Civil services, Architecture, Afrikaners
Description: The pulse of civic life in Bellville - the Civic Centre with its impressive clock tower.
Identifier: islandora:16791

Title: Child's funeral, Bellville, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Bellville (South Africa), Politics, Apartheid, Government, Resistance to, Funerals
Description: An emotional choir sings during the funeral service for Patrick Muller, 13, at the N G Sendingkerk in Bellville South. On the left is his mother, a member of the choir. He died during violence on election night.
Identifier: islandora:15136

Title: Bellville Civic Centre, Cape Town
Subject: Bellville (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Townships, Apartheid, City planning, Local government, Architecture
Description: Bellville Civic Centre in the mid-1960s
Identifier: islandora:16817

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: 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: Mounted guard of honour at Cape Show, Goodwood, Cape Town
Subject: Goodwood (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Agricultural shows, Gymkhanas (Horsemanship), Agriculture, Apartheid, Governments
Description: Show opening: A mounted guard of honour, consisting of 40 competitors in the national inter-provincial gymkhana team championships at the Cape Show, escorted the car of Mr. S.P.Botha, the Minister of Water Affairs, when he arrived at the Goodwood showgrounds to open the show.
Identifier: islandora:15867

Title: Enviromentalists protest building of restaurant at Cape Point, Cape Town
Subject: Cape of Good Hope Nature Reserve (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Environmental activists, Demonstrations, Environment, Local government, Urban development
Description: We protest: Environmentalists objecting to the proposed restaurant get their message across to councillors during their visit.
Identifier: islandora:17007

Title: Coloured Civic Centre in Bellville, Cape Town
Subject: Bellville (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Townships, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Apartheid, South Africa. Separate Amenities Act, 1953, Local government
Description: Mr. H. D. Campbell, secretary to the Coloured Management Committee for Bellville South, in front of the new civic centre which the Town Council of Bellville has built for the people of this township.
Identifier: islandora:16782

Title: UDF salute murdered ANC guerrillas, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Politics, Apartheid, Government, Resistance to, Funerals
Description: At Saturday's mass funeral in Gugulethu, a United Democratic Front guard of honour salutes the seven alleged African National Congress guerrillas shot dead by police on March 3.
Identifier: islandora:15133

Title: Apartheid-era Bellville South Community Centre, Cape Town
Subject: Bellville (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Architecture, Coloured people (South Africa), Local government, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950
Description: The modern frontage of the Community Centre in Bellville South, part of a large complex.
Identifier: islandora:16819

Title: Civic Centre, Bellville, Cape Town
Subject: Bellville (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Buildings, Civil society, Local government, Architecture
Description: The Civic Centre at Bellville where the annual congress of the Cape Western Regional Publicity Association will be opened by the Mayor of Bellville, Mr. W. J. Bezuidenhout, to-day. The Civic Centre contains a civic theatre, council chamber and administrative offices. A city hall will be added in 1967. The "Cape Times" will publish next Wednesday, November 4, a special supplement on the great progress that has been made in recent years at Bellville.
Identifier: islandora:16785

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