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Title: Closure of Stuttafords department store, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Economic recession, Economy, Urban development, Architecture
Description: The site was sold after flagging sales caused the branch to run at a loss. The company will continue to operate from Cavendish Square in Claremont.
Identifier: islandora:17035

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: 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: Soldiers stand next to their motorcycles as their commander inspects them, Cape Town
Subject: South Africa. Parliament, Governments, Legislation, Transport, ,
Description: Soldiers stand next to their motorcycles as their commander inspects them, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:15749

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: 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: Demonstrations, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Demonstrations, Apartheid, Politics
Description: Demonstrations, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:17830

Title: Walmer Estate candlelight vigil, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Housing, Demonstrations, Politics
Description: Cecile-Ann Pearce joined residents of Walmer Estate and surrounding areas in a candlelight vigil last night to show their rejection of the plan to build homes in the area for members of Parliament.
Identifier: islandora:17754

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: 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: Church Street, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Urban development, Historic buildings, Roads
Description: Looking up Church Street, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:17507

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

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