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Title: Carpet sellers, Umbumbulu, KwaZulu-Natal
Subject: Self-employed women--South Africa, Urban poor--South Africa, Informal sector (Economics)--South Africa, Women--South Africa, South Africa--Social conditions--20th century, Apartheid, The Cordoned Heart
Description: Informal carpet sellers carry off-cuts on their heads. Buying off-cuts from a factory provided them with material and the opportunity to make a little money.
Identifier: islandora:5717

Title: Carpet sellers, Umbumbulu, KwaZulu-Natal
Subject: Self-employed women--South Africa, Urban poor--South Africa, Informal sector (Economics)--South Africa, Women--South Africa, South Africa--Social conditions--20th century, Apartheid, The Cordoned Heart
Description: Informal carpet sellers work with off-cuts. Buying off-cuts from a factory provided them with material and the opportunity to make a little money.
Identifier: islandora:5716

Title: 109/81 looking south south west [Farm Bonnieglen - Peter Stockhill ' 300m up i.e. north east from district road & 400m south east of house]
Subject: Botany--South Africa, Plants--South Africa, ,
Identifier: islandora:9511

Title: Bakoven, Cape Town
Subject: Bakoven (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Coasts, Weather, Storms, Environment
Description: Stormy waters off Bakoven, Cape Town
Identifier: islandora:16761

Title: Divisional Council offices, Atlantis, Cape Town
Subject: Atlantis (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Apartheid, Coloured Labour Preference Area Policy (South Africa), Local government, Demonstrations
Description: Angry crowds outside the offices of the Divisional Council in Atlantis, the dormitory suburb built for Coloured people outside Cape Town
Identifier: islandora:16713

Title: Crossroads riots, Cape Town
Subject: Crossroads (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Squatter settlements, Demonstrations, South African Police, Riots
Description: Crossroads riots, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:17537

Title: Crossroads refugees gathered at Parliament, Cape Town
Subject: Crossroads (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Politics, Demonstrations
Description: These women were in a group of about 60 Crossroads refugees who gathered at the gates of Parliament yesterday imploring that the authorities stop the killing and burning.
Identifier: islandora:17670

Title: Dr. Allan Boesak walks past police officers, Cape Town
Subject: Boesak, Allan Aubrey, 1946-, Political activists, South African Police, Apartheid era
Description: Allan Boesak
Identifier: islandora:14816

Title: Security forces, Modderdam Road forced removal, Cape Town
Subject: Bellville (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Townships, Apartheid, Housing, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Forced removals (South Africa)
Description: Police and dogs out in force during the bulldozing of Modderdam Road squatter camp
Identifier: islandora:16837

Title: Man kneels next to the grave of his son, Cape Town
Subject: Apartheid, Forced removals (South Africa), Relocation, Agriculture, Demonstrations, ,
Description: A white Phillipi farmer has vowed to barricade himself, his wife and two children inside his farmhouse to protect their property and the grave of his infant son from Department of Community Development bulldozers. For Mr Derek Galloway, of the farm Reiersvlei, could soon become a victim of the Group Areas Act. / Mr Galloway at the gravesite of his child on the farm at Philippi.
Identifier: islandora:15820

Title: Principal of Noxolo School at Crossroads, Cape Town
Subject: Crossroads (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Squatter settlements, Apartheid, Youth, Education
Description: Mrs A.N. Mene, principal of the Noxolo School at Crossroads, teaches her Std 5 class. The school was built by the Urban Foundation in co-operation with the Crossroads residents. Money is now required to buy desks for two recently added classrooms at the school.
Identifier: islandora:17542

Title: Allan Boesak at a UDF [United Democratic Front] meeting, Cape Town
Subject: Boesak, Allan Aubrey, 1946-, Religious leaders, Political activists, United Democratic Front (South Africa), Apartheid era
Description: Allan Boesak at an United Democratic Front meeting in Cape Town
Identifier: islandora:14821

Title: Cape Show, Goodwood, Cape Town
Subject: Goodwood (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Agricultural shows, Entertainment, Women, Youth
Description: Round and round they go - one of the attractions at the Cape Showground, Goodwood, next week will be a hula-hoop competition. It should revive many memories of the early 1960s when the craze swept South Africa. Starting off the competition with a shapely wiggle will be (from left), Erika Spies, 15, Debbie Coetzee, 17, Antoinette de Wet, 20, and Lizette Totos, 17.
Identifier: islandora:16983

Title: Dr. Allan Boesak walks past police officers, Cape Town
Subject: Boesak, Allan Aubrey, 1946-, Political activists, South African Police, Apartheid era
Description: Allan Boesak
Identifier: islandora:14472

Title: Land that was to be used for a township is now on sale, Cape Town
Subject: Property, Landscapes, Environment, Table Mountain (Western Cape, South Africa), ,
Description: This 9 hectare Milnerton site, with planning permission for a township of about 200 houses, is coming on the market and expected to realise about R1-m.
Identifier: islandora:15301

Title: Retha Tait sheltered Crossroads refugees, Cape Town
Subject: Crossroads (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Squatter settlements, Apartheid
Description: Left: Miss Retha Tait co-ordinator of the centre, shows the summons served on her for sheltering Crossroads refugees in a white area.
Identifier: islandora:17527

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

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