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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: 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: 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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