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Title: Amina Vallie, 1996
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa)--Social conditions, Portraits, Bedrooms--South Africa, Older people--South Africa, Muslim women--South Africa, Islamic clothing and dress--South Africa,
Description: Zubeida Vallie's mother, Amina "Mum" Vallie (n�e Patel), October 1996.
Identifier: islandora:12664

Title: Feeding pigeons in the Company's Gardens, Cape Town, 1960
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Recreation, Older people, Birds
Description: Feeding the pigeons in the Company's Gardens, Cape Town, 1960.
Identifier: islandora:17259

Title: Hottentots - Street Scene
Subject: Khoikhoi (African people) in art, Cape Town (South Africa)--Pictorial works, Cape Town (South Africa)--Social life and customs--Pictorial works, South Africa--In art
Description: Cape Town street scene showing one man with a bottle in his hand, who appears to be under the influence of alcohol, with two women, one of whom is smoking a pipe, watching the man, with a third woman asleep at the edge of the road beneath a wall on which appear various notices, one of which is about a meeting of the Temperance Society. Title taken from original painting.
Identifier: islandora:26371

Title: Carbonatji Tents - Market square
Subject: Malays (Asian people) in art, Cape Town (South Africa)--Pictorial works, Cape Town (South Africa)--Social life and customs--Pictorial works, South Africa--In art
Description: Depicts a group of Malays' partaking of refreshments under a large umbrella-like shelter. Location possibly Greenmarket Square, Cape Town. Title taken from original painting.
Identifier: islandora:26381

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: Township, 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:16974

Title: Black Consciousness demonstration, Athlone, Cape Town
Subject: Athlone (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Politics, Coloured people (South Africa), Black consciousness, Demonstrations
Description: In the crowd there were something like 12 000 people. On the platform there were speakers from far and wide representing all the races in South Africa - except the Whites. This was at Athlone, Cape Town, last Sunday. According to organisers of the meeting and to many political observers, it was a significant day indeed for Black Consciousness and the growth of Black Power in South Africa.
Identifier: islandora:16876

Title: Fingo dancers at Langa, Cape Town
Subject: Langa (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Township, Traditions, Women, Xhosa (African people), Dance
Description: Fingo women dance at their community's annual celebrations in Cape Town's African township, Langa
Identifier: islandora:15862

Title: Marching band, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Festivals, Apartheid, Culture, Music, Coloured people (South Africa)
Description: Moslem bagpipe band, Cape Town
Identifier: islandora:16741

Title: Van Riebeeck tercentenary celebrations, 1952, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Traditional, Zulus (African People), Apartheid, Afrikaners Nationalism, Tribal
Description: A Zulu hut being constructed as part of the Native Affairs Department display at the Culemborg Pavilion as part of the 1952 celebrations to mark the 300th anniversary of arrival of Jan van Riebeeck at the Cape.
Identifier: islandora:15864

Title: ""Free the beaches""
Subject: coloured children, '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:8389

Title: Marching band, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Festivals, Apartheid, Culture, Music, Coloured people (South Africa)
Description: Moslem bagpipe band, Cape Town
Identifier: islandora:16739

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: Gang hideouts, Belhar
Subject: Belhar (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Crime, Gangs, Coloured people (South Africa)
Description: A girl is dwarfed by the dunes in which gangsters hide out. People are attacked and robbed almost daily on their way to the bus and railway stations.
Identifier: islandora:16772

Title: Marching band, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Festivals, Apartheid, Culture, Music, Coloured people (South Africa)
Description: Moslem bagpipe band, Cape Town
Identifier: islandora:16744

Title: Bishop Lavis residents protest, Cape Town
Subject: Bishop Lavis (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Townships, Apartheid, South African Police, Housing, Coloured people (South Africa)
Description: Bishop Lavis residents outside the office of the Citizens' Housing League in Dorp Street, confronted by police today. They dispersed soon afterwards. Report on facing page.
Identifier: islandora:16853

Title: Marching band, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Festivals, Apartheid, Culture, Music, Coloured people (South Africa)
Description: Boys in the band: Moslem bagpipe band, Cape Town
Identifier: islandora:16745

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), Poverty, Youth
Description: Family evicted from their home in Athlone, Cape Town
Identifier: islandora:16717

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: Fingo leader, Joseph Papu, Cape Town
Subject: Langa (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Traditional leaders, Traditions, Tribes, Xhosa (African people), Christianity
Description: Pride in himself and confidence in his people are reflected in this fine study of 82-year-old Fingo leader, Joseph Papu, who will lead several thousand Fingoes in their annual celebrations in Cape Town today and tomorrow.
Identifier: islandora:15860

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