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Title: Gate to servants quarters, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Domestic workers, Apartheid, South Africa. Separate Amenities Act, 1953
Description: Maggie Dewies, domestic worker, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:18045

Title: Political demonstration, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Demonstrations, Apartheid, South African Police, South Africa. Separate Amenities Act, 1953
Description: Political demonstration, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:17724

Title: Sea Point swimming pool, Cape Town
Subject: Sea Point (Cape Town, South Africa), Apartheid, South Africa. Separate Amenities Act, 1953, Water
Description: The public swimming pool at Sea Point, Cape Town, 1985.
Identifier: islandora:17197

Title: Segregation on buses, Cape Town
Subject: Milnerton (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, South Africa. Separate Amenities Act, 1953, Apartheid signage
Description: Sign on a 'Mixed' bus (lower deck: Whites only; upper deck: non-Whites only) on the Cape Town-Milnerton route in the apartheid era.
Identifier: islandora:16667

Title: Transkeian 'citizens' in a Whites-only restaurant, Cape Town
Subject: Camps Bay (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, South Africa. Separate Amenities Act, 1953, Bantustans, Xhosa (African people)
Description: Transkeian citizens Mr Mbongeni Mvana and Mr Mlami Gomo enjoy a soft drink on the veranda of a Camps Bay White restaurant this week after showing their passports to the manager. 'I don't mind who comes here as long as they behave,' said the manager. [Transkei was granted 'independence' by South Africa in 1976, meaning those born in the Transkei, such as these two men, automatically became 'foreigners' in South Africa.]
Identifier: islandora:16650

Title: Entrance to servants' quarters, Sea Point, Cape Town
Subject: Sea Point (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Domestic workers, Apartheid, South Africa. Separate Amenities Act, 1953
Description: Ms Susan Saal at the entrance to servants' quarters in Milner Road, Sea Point.
Identifier: islandora:18042

Title: Separate Amenities in practice, Cape Town
Subject: Simon's Town (Cape of Good Hope, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, South Africa. Separate Amenities Act, 1953, Race discrimination, Segregation, Apartheid signage
Description: Mr Larrington Dyasi is mystified. The Simon's Town handyman has been bringing his family to the beach at Simon's Town for more than a year. Now suddenly signs have been put up banning him from the beach.
Identifier: islandora:16664

Title: Apartheid-era public swimming pool in Bellville, Cape Town
Subject: Bellville (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, South Africa. Separate Amenities Act, 1953, Recreation, Segregation, Sports
Description: Bellville's R 170,000 new Olympic-size swimming bath is set back from Voortrekker Road. The entrance is through an attractive, modern double-storeyed building finished in decorative tiles, coloured glass and polished wood. There are spacious changing rooms.
Identifier: islandora:16786

Title: This 91,44m of beach is reserved for bona fide non-White employees of the town, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Fish Hoek (South Africa), Beaches, South Africa. Separate Amenities Act, 1953, Apartheid signage
Description: Not only has Fish Hoek an unusual regulation concerning liquor licences, but also a segregated beach with a difference. This 91,44m of beach is reserved for bona fide non-White employees of the town.
Identifier: islandora:15011

Title: Apartheid-era public library at Bellville, Cape Town
Subject: Bellville (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Architecture, South Africa. Separate Amenities Act, 1953, Children, Education
Description: Bellville public library in the mid-1960s.
Identifier: islandora:16803

Title: Apartheid-era crowd control, Camps Bay Beach, Cape Town
Subject: Camps Bay (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, South Africa. Separate Amenities Act, 1953, Beaches, Political activists
Description: Glen Beach - the ugly side of crowd control.
Identifier: islandora:16993

Title: Ms Elizabeth Saal in her sister's room, Sea Point, Cape Town
Subject: Sea Point (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Domestic workers, Apartheid, South Africa. Separate Amenities Act, 1953
Description: Ms Elizabeth Saal in her sister's room in Milner Road, Sea Point.
Identifier: islandora:18043

Title: Political demonstration, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Demonstrations, Apartheid, South African Police, South Africa. Separate Amenities Act, 1953
Description: Political demonstration, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:17727

Title: Glen Beach, Cape Town
Subject: Camps Bay (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, South Africa.Separate Amenities Act, 1953, Beaches, Recreation, Coloured people (South Africa)
Description: This is Glen Beach, which has been proposed for use by Coloured people only. Residents say that only one section of the beach, a narrow channel on the Hout Bay side, can be regarded as safe for bathing. This channel is on the extreme right of the picture. Residents' bungalows are in the background. A sign says: 'Bathing is dangerous.'
Identifier: islandora:16991

Title: Apartheid signage at Hout Bay beach
Subject: Hout Bay (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, South Africa. Separate Amenities Act, 1953, Race discrimination, Segregation, Apartheid signage
Description: Meddlers with Hout Bay's 'Whites Only' beach signs need a long arm, or something to stand on, to get to them.
Identifier: islandora:16661

Title: Apartheid on public transport,Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, South Africa. Separate Amenities Act, 1953, Race discrimination, Transport, Buses
Description: Bus Apartheid: No room (even at the top) for non-whites on this apartheid-era bus.
Identifier: islandora:16662

Title: Domestic worker, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Domestic workers, Apartheid, South Africa. Separate Amenities Act, 1953
Description: Domestic worker, Susan Saal.
Identifier: islandora:18046

Title: Apartheid-era beach scene, Cape Town
Subject: Camps Bay (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Beaches, Apartheid, South Africa. Separate Amenities Act , 1953, Whites, Recreation
Description: Camps Bay at the height of the apartheid era
Identifier: islandora:16996

Title: domestic worker, Cape Town
Subject: Sea Point (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Domestic workers, Apartheid, South Africa. Separate Amenities Act, 1953
Description: Ms Ingrid Pienaar at the gate to the servants' quarters of a block of luxury flats in Sea Point. The gate is locked each night, Sea Point, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:18044

Title: Apartheid signage, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, South Africa. Separate Amenities Act, 1953, Race discrimination, Segregation, Apartheid signage
Description: Public restrooms reserved for 'non-white men' only
Identifier: islandora:16652

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