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Title: Woman walks past house on Meadway Road, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Gardens, Residential buildings, Architecture, Historic buildings
Description: No. 12 Meadway, declared a national monument, belongs to Mr J.W. Smith.
Identifier: islandora:15831

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: Demonstrations, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Demonstrations, Apartheid
Description: Township residents addressed by an official outside Parliament, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:17683

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: Demonstrations, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Demonstrations, Apartheid, South African Police
Description: Police watch as township residents protest, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:17673

Title: The Pollsmoor Prison band, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Jails, Reformatories, Prisoners, Music
Description: The Pollsmoor Prison Band and SHAWCO drum majorettes will provide a floodlit performance.
Identifier: islandora:16024

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: 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: Cranes, Cape Town Harbour, 1978
Subject: Table Mountain (Western Cape, South Africa), Harbours, Infrastructure, Building, Industry
Description: An everyday sight at the docks, perhaps, but it needed the keen eye of Argus photographer to recognise the artistic possibilities of strong geometric shapes set off against the muted backdrop of Table Mountain, and compose this picture.
Identifier: islandora:17136

Title: Two punk-rock performers pose for the camera, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Rock music, Cosmetics
Description: Shoppers stopped and stared in disbelief yesterday when these two "punk-rock" performers popped into an Adderley Street button shop to stock up on safety pins. The one on the left is male and called Guillaume, while the other is Andrea Fine. Both are appearing in the "cartoon rock opera", Zombie, now playing at a Cape Town theatre.
Identifier: islandora:16122

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: Docks pre-1950, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Cape Town Harbour (South Africa), Ships, History
Description: Cape Town docks, pre-1950.
Identifier: islandora:17961

Title: Aerial view, Observatory, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Observatory (Cape Town, South Africa), Cemeteries, Aerial views, Buildings, Infrastructure, Urban areas
Description: St Peter's Cemetery, Observatory, is on the left of the picture, between Main Road and Groote Schuur Hospital.
Identifier: islandora:15126

Title: AIDS campaigns, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), AIDS activists, HIV-positive persons
Description: Being positive: Peter Uitdenbosch, left, Noel Pillay and Cindy Robins, right, are all HIV positive and not afraid to say so. With them is Cape Town mayoress Mrs Trish van der Velde, an active AIDS campaigner.
Identifier: islandora:17637

Title: World War I Battle of Delville Wood memorial service, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), World War, 1914-1918, Veterans, Memorials
Description: George Rusell, 70, left, met up with World War 1 veterans Mr Peter Coetzee, 98, Mr Ben Crouss and Mr Reg Linden, 92, at a Delville Wood Memorial Service in the Gardens yesterday.
Identifier: islandora:16639

Title: Flower sellers, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Cape Town (South Africa), Street vendors, Plants, Informal sector (Economics), Flower vending
Description: Mrs Gazeba Jacobs, who has sold flowers in or near the City centre for 60 years, was able to produce heer permit to sell proteas when Nature Conservation Officer Mr John Samuels (left) and trainee inspector Mr Peter Walker visited the Adderley Street flower arcade.
Identifier: islandora:15050

Title: Flower sellers, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Cape Town (South Africa), Street vendors, Plants, Informal sector (Economics), Flower vending
Description: Mrs Gazeba Jacobs, who has sold flowers in or near the City centre for 60 years, was able to produce heer permit to sell proteas when Nature Conservation Officer Mr John Samuels (left) and trainee inspector Mr Peter Walker visited the Adderley Street flower arcade.
Identifier: islandora:14649

Title: Mother with five children, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Robben Island (South Africa), Historic sites, Monuments, Armed forces
Description: Babeta, wife of Lieutenant Commander John Henry Wicht, who is in charge of the Robben Island naval base, poses with their five children (left to right) Jolene, Louise, David, Peter and Johan. Mrs Wicht was once a social worker in Harlem, New York.
Identifier: islandora:16517

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