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Title: Bishop Lavis Drive, Cape Town
Subject: Bishop Lavis (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Townships, Apartheid, Youth, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Coloured people (South Africa)
Description: Bishop Lavis Drive in Bishop Lavis township, Cape Town
Identifier: islandora:16852

Title: House of Representatives, Tricameral Parliament, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Politics, Coloured people (South Africa), South Africa. Tricameral Parliament, Segregation
Description: New House: The new National Party Ministers' Council in the House of Representatives got down to business with its first official meeting today. Council chairman, centre, Mr Jac Rabie and Reverend Andrew Julies, left, Minister of Health and Welfare, are in front with Mr Patrick McEnery, Director General of the House. In the back row are Mr Pieter Saaiman, Minister of Local Government, Housing and Agriculture, Education and culture Minister Mr Abe Williams, Budget Minister Mr Gerald Morkel, and Mr Cecil Heradien, Deputy Minister of Local Government, Housing and Agriculture.
Identifier: islandora:16923

Title: Marching band, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Festivals, Apartheid, Culture, Music, Coloured people (South Africa)
Description: Girls marching band, Cape Town
Identifier: islandora:16738

Title: Athlone , Cape Town
Subject: Athlone (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Apartheid, Coloured people (South Africa), Housing, Poverty
Description: Children at a sub-economic housing development in Athlone, Cape Town
Identifier: islandora:16718

Title: Commercial district, Athlone, Cape Town
Subject: Athlone (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Apartheid, Commerce, Economy, Coloured people (South Africa)
Description: Shopping centre in Athlone, Cape Town
Identifier: islandora:16715

Title: Marching band, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Festivals, Apartheid, Culture, Music, Coloured people (South Africa)
Description: Coloured Scout brigade marching band, Cape Town
Identifier: islandora:16740

Title: "Q" Town, Cape Flats, Cape Town
Subject: Athlone (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Coloured people (South Africa), Apartheid, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Housing, City planning
Description: Township housing development at 'Q' Town the Cape Flats in the 1940s.
Identifier: islandora:16975

Title: Marching band, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Festivals, Apartheid, Culture, Music, Coloured people (South Africa)
Description: Slaurca Fete- Good Shepherd Band
Identifier: islandora:16742

Title: Pensioners protest delays in disability and maintenance pension pay-outs, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Demonstrations, Older people
Description: Right: As guests arrive, left, pensioners from Worcester and Cape Town gather at the entrance to Leeuwenhof to protest about delays in disability and maintenance pensions pay-outs.
Identifier: islandora:17839

Title: Matilda and Joseph Davids, 1996
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa)--Social conditions, Portraits, Living rooms--South Africa, Married people--South Africa, Older people--South Africa,
Description: The Vallie family's neighbours, Mrs Matilda Evelyn Davids and her husband, Joseph William Davids, in their home, 1996.
Identifier: islandora:12685

Title: Eviction in Athlone,Cape Town
Subject: Athlone (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Apartheid, Coloured people (South Africa), Housing, Poverty
Description: Family evicted from shack settlements in Athlone, Cape Town
Identifier: islandora:16716

Title: Glen Beach, Cape Town
Subject: Camps Bay (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, South Africa.Separate Amenities Act, 1953, Beaches, Recreation, Coloured people (South Africa)
Description: This is Glen Beach, which has been proposed for use by Coloured people only. Residents say that only one section of the beach, a narrow channel on the Hout Bay side, can be regarded as safe for bathing. This channel is on the extreme right of the picture. Residents' bungalows are in the background. A sign says: 'Bathing is dangerous.'
Identifier: islandora:16991

Title: Commercial centre, Athlone, Cape Town
Subject: Athlone (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Apartheid, Commerce, Economy, Coloured people (South Africa)
Description: Commercial district in apartheid-era Athlone, Cape Town
Identifier: islandora:16725

Title: Athlone, Cape Town
Subject: Athlone (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Labour, Local government, Coloured people (South Africa)
Description: Nightwatchman waits while White officials hold a meeting in Athlone, Cape Town
Identifier: islandora:16724

Title: Overcrowding in Kewtown, Athlone , Cape Town
Subject: Athlone (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Apartheid, Housing, Poverty, Coloured people (South Africa)
Description: Seventeen people - man, women and children - live, eat, cook and wash in this one-bedroom Kewtown council house. Architects provided it with a front room but that has also been turned into a bedroom, which helps but is a long way from solving the overcrowding.
Identifier: islandora:16726

Title: War-time housing development in Kew Town, Athlone, Cape Town
Subject: Athlone (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Townships, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Apartheid, Housing, Coloured people (South Africa),
Description: Q-town (later Kew Town) in Athlone, Cape Town, a war-time sub-economic housing development for the coloured (slum) population of the inner city areas.
Identifier: islandora:16721

Title: Street in Extension 9, Belhar, Cape Town
Subject: Belhar (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Housing, Coloured people (South Africa), City planning
Description: The bleak moonscape of a street in Belhar's new Extension 9 which residents don't see as 'a great leap forward for mankind.'
Identifier: islandora:16774

Title: Happy people
Subject: Garret, Kenny. Happy people, Jazz, Concerts--South Africa--Cape Town
Description: The Fourth Jessica and Bernard Lyon Jazz Prize for SACM Student Ensembles, Chisholm Recital Room, South African College of Music, Cape Town, South Africa
Identifier: islandora:28896

Title: Wedding, 1996
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa)--Social conditions, Portraits, Weddings--South Africa, Married people--South Africa, Couples--South Africa,
Description: Rhoesna Ariefdien and Imtiaz Motleker on their wedding day, October 1996.
Identifier: islandora:12696

Title: ""Free the beaches""
Subject: coloured family, 'whites only' sign, discriminationDemonstrations--South Africa--Cape Town, Discrimination--South Africa, Children, Colored people (South Africa)
Description: ""Open the beaches"" protest. This protest was a reaction to the Separate Amenities Act of 1953, which declared that people of colour were not to use the same public facilities (such as toilets, park benches, buses and beaches) as white people.
Identifier: islandora:8388

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