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Title: Political prisoners released from Robben Island, Cape Town, 1990
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Politics, Political prisoners, Apartheid, African National Congress, Freedom
Description: Going home: elated to be free, Mr Wellington Gumenge of Port Elizabeth (front) and Mr Johannes Boesak of Oudtshoorn leave Table Bay harbour yesterday. They were two of 15 Robben Island African National Congress (ANC) prisoners granted early release.
Identifier: islandora:15903

Title: Young man injured in the crush to hear Mandela speak, Athlone Stadium, Cape Town
Subject: Athlone (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Politics, African National Congress, Election campaigns, democracy, security guards
Description: Trampled: a security official at the Athlone Stadium tends to one more than 20 people injured yesterday shortly after the arrival of African National Congress (ANC) leader Mr Nelson Mandela. Three people, including a small boy, were killed in the crush.
Identifier: islandora:15895

Title: New printing press for the Cape Times, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Press, Southern African Newspapers, Printing presses
Description: The new R300,000 printing press which is to be installed in the Cape Times building in Burg Street. It is expected that it will be in operation before the end of the year. The new press is capable of producing a 32 page newspaper, four pages of which will take three superimposed colours, and four other pages which will take one superimposed colour. This picture was taken at Hoe & Crabtree's works in London where the press was assembled and test run prior to shipment.
Identifier: islandora:16047

Title: Man inspects his shattered windscreen, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), South African Labour Party, Politics, Motorcars, Vandalism
Description: Man inspects his shattered windscreen, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:15964

Title: Rev Beyers Naude, Cheryl Carolus and Thabo Mbeki share a joke, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), African National Congress, Politics, United Democratic Front, Liberation theology, South African Council of Churches
Description: The Rev Beyers Naude, left, United Democratic Front publicity officer Ms Cheryl Carolus and director of the African National Congress ' (ANC) international affairs Mr Thabo Mbeki share a joke.
Identifier: islandora:15919

Title: The Cape Times building, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Press, Southern African Newspapers, Architecture
Description: The Cape Times building, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:16045

Title: Ivan Toms, End Conscription Campaign, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Conscientious objection, South African Defence Force, Apartheid, End Conscription Campaign (South Africa)
Description: Dr Ivan Toms, a conscientious objector and founder of the End Conscription Campaign (ECC), Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:18089

Title: ANC supporter with "Free Mandela Now" badge, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), African National Congress, State of Emergency, Detention, Political activists, United Democratic Front (South Africa),
Description: "Free Mandela Now" reads the badge on his beret, but this man himself risks imprisonment for showing the colours of a banned organisation at the height of the State of Emergency
Identifier: islandora:15926

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: Nelson Mandela supporter, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Politics, African National Congress, Political prisoners, Leadership
Description: There's a little doubt who this man came to see as he holds aloft a portrait of Nelson Mandela, shortly after his release from prison.
Identifier: islandora:15925

Title: Crispian Olver, local chairman of End Conscription Campaign, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Conscientious objection, South African Defence Force, Apartheid, End Conscription Campaign (South Africa)
Description: Dr Crispian Olver, local chairman of the End Conscription Campaign (ECC), seen yesterday with false posters he said had been distributed as part of an anti-ECC smear effort.
Identifier: islandora:18093

Title: Coloured supporter of the Nationalist Party gives ANC the finger, Cape Town
Subject: Grassy Park (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Politics, African National Congress, National Party (South Africa), Election campaigns, Democracy
Description: Strong sentiments: A Nationa Party (NP) supporter demonstrates his feelings towards African National Congress (ANC) supporters at a Grassy Park rally addressed by ANC president Mr Nelson Mandela
Identifier: islandora:15893

Title: The accused in the Trojan Horse Trial, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Youth, South African Police, Trials
Description: Accused: The accused in the Trojan Horse case at the scene of the shooting in Thornton Road, Athlone, today when the court held an inspection in loco.
Identifier: islandora:17602

Title: Lancashire flatbed printing press , Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), circa 1899, Press, Southern African Newspapers, Printing presses
Description: Cape Times - Lancashire flatbed newspaper printing press, Reel fed. The first printing press the Cape Times had printing from flat type format; with reel. Before the Boer War.
Identifier: islandora:16049

Title: Arms cache, Cape Town
Subject: Wynberg (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Ammunition, African National Congress, Armed struggle, Apartheid, Political activists
Description: Part of an arms cache found in a raid on an ANC cell in Wynberg, Cape Town, where 14 people were arrested and charged with terrorism under the Internal Security Act. The Yengeni trial, as it became known, lasted from March 1989 to March 1991 when the accused were granted amnesty and released.
Identifier: islandora:15931

Title: Nearing Cape Town after walking from Grahamstown
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Africans, Poverty, Families, Rural areas
Description: Still erect and proud, 80-year-old Mr July Nanise plods along Settlers Way after his 700km walk from Grahamstown in search of his long-lost brother.
Identifier: islandora:15851

Title: Soldiers on a break watch a helicopter take off, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Civil unrest, Violence, Law enforcement, South Africa. South African Air Force
Description: Disturbances at Langa. Soldiers watch a SAAF helicopter taking off from a field near Langa late yesterday afternoon. Between spells of sentry duty, men relaxed on the grass.
Identifier: islandora:16301

Title: End Conscription Campaign, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Conscientious objection, South African Defence Force, Apartheid, End Conscription Campaign (South Africa)
Description: End Conscription Campaign march, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:18097

Title: Yengeni trialist Chris Giffard acquitted, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Politics, African National Congress, Courts, Apartheid, Political activists
Description: Tears of joy: acquitted Yengeni trialist Mr Chris Giffard, with two Yengeni Defendants' Support Group members and Mrs Christina Kruser, mother of Mr Gary Kruser.
Identifier: islandora:15905

Title: Discovery II research ship departs from Cape Town Docks, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Exploration & discovery, South African National Antarctic Expedition, RRS Discovery 2, Research, Polar regions
Description: Spick and span in new paint, the little research steamer, Discovery II, steamed out of Cape Town Docks yesterday afternoon for another long spell in the Antarctic.
Identifier: islandora:16675

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