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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: 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: 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: 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: 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:14477

Title: Colony of Natal
Subject: Missions -- South Africa -- KwaZulu-Natal., Geology -- South Africa -- KwaZulu-Natal., KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa) -- Maps.
Description: Vertical and horizontal scales given., Coloured map of the Colony of Natal showing geological formations and mission stations., Inset: "Section, along the main Road from the Drakenberg [sic] at Van Reenen Pass, to the Sea at Bluff Point, Port Natal.", Note on map: "Mission stations are shewn thus ... +. The figures in the section shew the heights above the Sea Level, in feet.", Colour-coded key to geological formations.
Identifier: islandora:19751

Title: Film crew
Subject: Bushman, Southern Africa, camera, film crew, bushveld, San, indigenous, cigarette, smoke, lion T-shirt, earphones, hut, thatch, Camera operators--Namibia, Sound engineers--Namibia, Otjozondjupa (Namibia)
Description: Cameraman Peter Baker (working for John Marshall) with the sound technician. Bushmanland, Namibia.
Identifier: islandora:11850

Title: Africae inTabula Geographica Delineatio
Subject: Africa
Description: Cartouche contains a fat-tail sheep, tail supported by a wheeled platform., Amsterdam. Schenk, Peter, 1660-1718 or 9
Identifier: islandora:25573

Title: Clerk and interpreter talk to squatters about relocating, Cape Town
Subject: Authority, Forced removals (South Africa), Homeless persons, ,
Description: Transit talk: Milnerton town clerk Mr Peter Gerber uses an interpreter in discussions with squatters about their relocation to the temporary transit area next week.
Identifier: islandora:15298

Title: Mother mourning her son's death, Soweto, 1987
Subject: Funeral service, Assassination, Political activists, Apartheid, Political history--South Africa, Beyond the Barricades
Description: On 16 July 1987, Peter Sello Motau, thirty-two years old, was gunned down in Swaziland by South African agents. Motau was a dedicated young activist who had joined the African National Congress (ANC) in 1976, living in exile since his departure on Christmas Eve 1975. His mother is shown in this picture mourning his death at a severely restricted funeral in her home in Soweto.
Identifier: islandora:905

Title: [Map of the Caledon division]
Subject: Caledon (South Africa) -- Maps.
Description: Map of the division of Caledon giving cadastral details including farm boundaries, farm names, quitrent and field-cornetcy numbers. Also shown are Caledon, Stanford, Genadendal, Hawston, Hermanus Peters Fontein, Sandown Bay, Walker Bay, the wreck of the Kitty, Dyer Island, Geyser Island, Stanford Cove, Hydra Bay, hills, mountains and mountain passes, rivers and vleis., Relief shown by contours and shading.
Identifier: islandora:19600

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