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Title: Sabel Centre, Bellville, Cape Town
Subject: Bellville (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Business, Apartheid, Commerce, Afrikaners, Architecture
Description: Sabel Centre in Bellville, Cape Town, with Truworths as the anchor tenant in the late 1970s
Identifier: islandora:16832

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: Chairman of Crossroads Council of Churches, Cape Town
Subject: Crossroads (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Squatter settlements, Apartheid
Description: The chairman of the Crossroads Council of Churches, Bishop Sydney Mzilikazi of the Jerusalem Church, addresses a group of predominantly Afrikaans churchmen who visited Crossroads yesterday.
Identifier: islandora:17525

Title: Teargas at funeral, Gugulethu, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Guguletu (Cape Town, South Africa), Politics, Apartheid, Government, Resistance to, Funerals
Description: Pallbearers abandon the coffins and scatter as they are overcome with teargas during the funeral procession in Guguletu on Saturday.
Identifier: islandora:15132

Title: Table View , Cape Town, 1970s
Subject: Table View (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Aerial views, Urban development, City planning, Apartheid, Beaches
Description: Plot by the sea: Table View is one of the few areas in the Peninsula where one can buy a plot on the sea front and build a house. There are 1 631 plots in the area. Most of them are for sale.
Identifier: islandora:16969

Title: Home after 40 days in detention, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Political prisoners, Apartheid
Description: Overwhelmed and relieved to be home after 40 days in detention, Helena Thornton, second from left, is given welcoming hugs from sisters Juanita, left, Dorothy, right, and her mother, Mrs Amy Thornton.
Identifier: islandora:17905

Title: Temba Lucas Tshibika acquitted of terrorism today, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Politics, Acquittals
Description: Mr Temba Lucas Tshibika ... acquitted of terrorism today.
Identifier: islandora:17617

Title: Council members sit around a table having a meeting, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Politics
Description: Committee of the Coloured Representative Council (CRC) after registration of S. Leon.
Identifier: islandora:15982

Title: Acquitted terrorist, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Politics, Acquittals, Courts
Description: Free man: Arcadia High School teacher Mr Neville van Der Rheede on the steps of the Supreme Court with well-wishers after he and Mr Temba Tshibika were acquitted of terrorism and released today.
Identifier: islandora:17618

Title: Youth in Nooitgedaght Cape Town
Subject: Bishop Lavis (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Townships, Apartheid, Infrastructure, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Coloured people (South Africa)
Description: Young boy sharpens a knife at Nooitgedaght, Bishop Lavis, on the Cape Flats
Identifier: islandora:16851

Title: Young boy is an Argus newspaper vendor, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Newspapers, Apartheid, Coloured Labour Preference Area Policy (South Africa), Child labour, Children's rights
Description: Argus newspaper vendor Donovan October, 13, and his dogs Cha-Cha Boy and Sheba are inseparable companions. The three are such good friends that newspaper-buyers outside the Meadowridge Service Station have seen Donovan covering his dogs up with his jersey and raincoat when it rains while he gets drenched. The dogs take the job seriously and they growled fiercely when an Argus photographer came too near their master to take this picture.
Identifier: islandora:16690

Title: Maties students assist with canvassing, Rondebosch, Cape Town
Subject: Rondebosch (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Politics, Apartheid
Description: As a gesture to Professor F. van Zyl Slabbert, Progressive parliamentary candidate for Rondebosch, who worked at Stellenbosch University for 12 years, 40 Matie students helped with canvassing in Rondebosch. The gesture was organised by Mr Jan van Eck, Progressive parliamentary candidate for Stellenbosch. At work are Mrs van Zyl Slabbert, Professor van Zyl Slabbert (centre), Mr van Eck and some of their helpers.
Identifier: islandora:18075

Title: Searle street resident receives blessing, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Religion, Forced removals, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950
Description: Mrs Mabel Dias, 91, of Searle Street hopes that she will die before the bulldozers reach there. Here she receives a blessing from Father Basil Van Rensburg of Holy Cross parish.
Identifier: islandora:17984

Title: Bulldozer destroys shacks at Modderdam Road, Cape Town
Subject: Bellville (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Townships, Apartheid, Housing, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Forced removals (South Africa)
Description: Shacks at Modderdam Road squatter camp in Bellville South, home to Africans regarded as being in Cape Town illegally by apartheid authorities, was destroyed by two bulldozers during one week in August 1977
Identifier: islandora:16838

Title: Aerial view of Chrysler's Elsies River plant, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Elsies River (South Africa), Apartheid, Urban development
Description: Aerial view of Chrysler's Elsies River plant.
Identifier: islandora:18115

Title: Party members arrive for the council's opening session, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Politics
Description: Federal Party members arrive at the Committee of the Coloured Representative Council (CRC) today for the official opening of the council's third session at Bellville. From left (front): Mr Peter Swartz, administrative secretary of the party, Mr Tom Swartz, leader of the party and chairman of the CRC executive, and Dr C.C. Pilcher, chief whip.
Identifier: islandora:15983

Title: Government of National Unity, Western Cape Cabinet, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Politics, Cabinet ministers, South Africa. Government of National Unity (1994-1997)
Description: Province! Western Cape Premier Hernus Kriel, centre, chairs the first meeting of the Cabinet of provincial unity. From left: Patrick McKenzie (Police), Martha Olckers (Education), Lerumo Kalako (Conservation), Allan Boesak (Economic Affairs), Gerald Morkel (Housing, Leader of the House), Mr Kriel, Kobus Meiring (Finance), Lampie Fick (Agriculture Development), Peter Marais (Local Government), Ebrahim Rassol (Health Services) and Leonard Ramatlakane (Roads and Public Transport).
Identifier: islandora:16927

Title: Members of the Coloured Representative Council, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Politics
Description: Coloured Representative Council (CRC). Here are 58 of the 60 members of the CRC, pictured during the first sitting last year. Front row )from left): P.J. Pietersen (Wupperthal), Mrs M.M. Gabriels (nominated), S.S. Cloete (Steinkopf), A.C. Jacobs (O.F.S. North, W.J. Louw (Protea), G. du Preez (Swartberg), W.J. Bergins (nominated), L.W. Holander (Karoo), T.R. Swartz (nominated), I.S. Petersen (nominated), P.T. Sanders (O.F.S. South), S.M. Brown (Haarlem), M.D. Arendse (Tafelberg), J.E. Nash (Eastern Cape), E.G. Rooks (Greenwood Park), G.J. Fortuin (Breerivier), Mrs Nora Potts (Outeniqua), M.T. Fakier (Southern Cape), E.D. Dunn (Natal Country), F.E. Peters (Heideveld), E. Domindo (Rust-Ter-Vaal). Second Row (From left): H.J. Coverdale (Northern Transvaal), D.S. Habelgaarn (nominated), J.A. Rabie (Reigerpark), J. Poley (nominated), J.A. Ferris (nominated), E.C. Swales (nominated), G.I. Julies (Gelvandale), L.S. Leon (Diamant), A. Stanley (Liesbeek), W.D. Plaatjies (O.F.S. Central), W.E. Johannes (Kasselsvlei), P.J.J. Meyer (Genadendal). Third row (from left): J. Muller (nominated), S.P.J. Smith (Adendorp), J.C. Inglis (nominated), W.J. Swarts (Witwatersrand), A.J.L. Winnaar (nominated), A.A.S. le Fleur (nominated), Solly Essop (Bokkeveld), W. Pieterse (nominated), J.D. Pietersen (Rietvlei), J.C. Osthuizen (Mamre), W.J. Meyer (Bonteheuwel), Dr. R.H Arende (Berg Rivier), V. Sass (Elisiesrivier). Fourth row (From left): A. Adams (nominated), P. Swartz (Nominated), D.E. September (nominated), P.J. Jacobs (nominated), W.S. Africa (nominated), Dr. C.C. Pilcher (nominated), E.F. Jones (Strandfontein), H.J. Hendrickse (Bethelsdorp), F.W. Theron Kalahari), N.S. Middleton (Wentworth), L.V. du Preez (Newclare), J.L. Segers (Fissh River). Absent: D.M.G. Curry (Pniel), M.B. Savahl (nominated). Nominated members are those appointed to the council by the government.
Identifier: islandora:16000

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