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Title: The Saambou National Building Society's new building in Bellville, Cape Town
Subject: Bellville (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Business, Apartheid, Architecture, Building, Afrikaners
Description: An example of the office building accommodation available in Bellville's growing central business district district is this modern building society block. The Saambou National Building Society's new building in Bellville was officially opened this week by Dr C.F. Albertyn. In addition to the shopping space on the ground floor, there are seven floors of office space and the banking hall also provides for art exhibitions. Saambou now owns buildings in Bellville valued at more than R1 500 000. With office accommodation in big demand in the rapidly developing Tygeberg area, office blocks are going up all over. One of the latest and largest blocks is the Saambou National Building, opened towards the end of last year. This building offers shopping space on the ground floor and seven floors of office space.
Identifier: islandora:16830

Title: Bellville railway station, Cape Town
Subject: Bellville (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Railways, Architecture, South Africa. Separate Amenities Act, 1953, Transport
Description: Entrance to the Bellville Station, Cape Town
Identifier: islandora:16811

Title: Child's funeral, Bellville, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Bellville (South Africa), Politics, Apartheid, Government, Resistance to, Funerals
Description: An emotional choir sings during the funeral service for Patrick Muller, 13, at the N G Sendingkerk in Bellville South. On the left is his mother, a member of the choir. He died during violence on election night.
Identifier: islandora:15136

Title: Stark homestead in Bellville,Cape Town
Subject: Bellville (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Housing, Development, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Apartheid, Older people
Description: This stately Stark homestead of Bellville is the centre of a series of homes being built to house old people and needy children.
Identifier: islandora:16783

Title: Apartheid-era public swimming pool in Bellville, Cape Town
Subject: Bellville (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, South Africa. Separate Amenities Act, 1953, Recreation, Segregation, Sports
Description: Bellville's R 170,000 new Olympic-size swimming bath is set back from Voortrekker Road. The entrance is through an attractive, modern double-storeyed building finished in decorative tiles, coloured glass and polished wood. There are spacious changing rooms.
Identifier: islandora:16786

Title: 1950s traffic in Voortrekker Road, Bellville, Cape Town
Subject: Bellville (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Urban development, Roads, Apartheid, Commerce, City planning
Description: Saturday morning traffic. A view of the island where Voortrekker Road and Durbanville Road meet at Bellville.
Identifier: islandora:16789

Title: Bellville Fire Department,Cape Town
Subject: Bellville (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Fires departments, History, Civil services, Transport
Description: Bellville firemen lined up today to say farewell to the town council's 30-year-old fire-engine (left), which has been given to the Cape Town Crankhandle Club. On the right is the new R19,000 fire-engine.
Identifier: islandora:16792

Title: Lowenstein Estate, Bellville, Cape Town
Subject: Bellville (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Urban development, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Architecture, City planning, Environment
Description: Lowenstein Estate: An area of 291 morgen opposite the Karl Bremer Hospital on the northern side of the national road to Bellville (shown as white lines) has been sold for township development at a price of R550,000. The property ,which belonged to the Duminy family for a long time, has been acquired by Mr. K. W. Bates, of London, and Mr. Allen, of Johannesburg, after negotiations through John Bowie and Co. (Pty) Ltd. in collaboration with Mr. L. Howe. It is the intention to development the area in conjunction with Bellville Municipality and make it the Bishopscourt of the area. It will be laid out in 703 residential sites of between 10,000 and 25,000 sq. ft. each. There will be a school site of 12 acres facing the national road, a shopping centre of 4 acres and a flat site of 5 acres. Possibly a company will be formed to build the houses to accepted minimum qualifications.
Identifier: islandora:16787

Title: Railway accident, Bellville, Cape Town
Subject: Bellville (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Railways, Apartheid, Labour, Industrial accident, Transport
Description: Workers repair damage after a railway accident at Bellville, Cape Town, in 1979
Identifier: islandora:16834

Title: Bellville Wailing Wall, Cape Town
Subject: Bellville (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Infrastructure
Description: Bellville Wailing Wall, Cape Town
Identifier: islandora:16815

Title: Bellville, Cape Town
Subject: Bellville (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, City planning, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950., Housing, Afrikaners,
Description: Aerial view of Bellville in the mid-1960s.
Identifier: islandora:16816

Title: Voortrekker Road, Bellville, Cape Town
Subject: Bellville (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Buildings, Infrastructure, Commerce, Roads
Description: Voortrekker Road, Bellville, is town's biggest business centre.
Identifier: islandora:16799

Title: Apartheid-era military parade down Voortrekker Road, Bellville, Cape Town
Subject: Bellville (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Soldiers, Militarisation, Coloured people (South Africa), Armed forces
Description: The Regiment Westelike Provinsie exercises its right of freedom of entrance to the city of Bellville by marching down Voortrekker Road. The regiment was honoured by the mayor, Mr Danie Uys, during a ceremony at the weekend.
Identifier: islandora:16820

Title: Historic 12 Mile Post, Bellville, Cape Town
Subject: Bellville (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), History, Transport, Roads, City planning, Older people
Description: Present links with the past. A busy modern main street to-day speeds past the location of the old 12th Mile Post, here pointed out by Mr. Frans Duminy and Mr. Pieter Dreyer, who still have vivid memories of the nineteenth-century Bellville.
Identifier: islandora:16784

Title: Voortrekker Road traffice, early 1960s, Bellville, Cape Town
Subject: Bellville (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Urban development, Roads, Apartheid, Commerce, City planning
Description: The heavy traffic in Voortrekker Road Bellville, typifies the vitality of the business centre of Bellville - a town that in commercial, industrial and housing development is fast outstripping others centres in the Cape. Many new, big shopping complexes are going up in the heart of the shopping area.
Identifier: islandora:16788

Title: Office workers in Bellville,Cape Town
Subject: Bellville (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Labour, Apartheid, Commerce, Architecture, Office workers
Description: Three floors of office workers are seen in this picture of the inside of a big Bellville office block. Bellville has many fine commercial buildings and more are being built.
Identifier: islandora:16795

Title: Military parade, Bellville, Cape Town
Subject: Bellville (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Soldiers, Apartheid, South African Defence Force, Militarisation, Security forces
Description: Military parade in Bellville, Cape Town, in the late 1970s
Identifier: islandora:16833

Title: Bellville station, Cape Town
Subject: Bellville (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Railways, Transport, City planning, Urban development
Description: Aerial view of the layout of Bellville Station in the early 1960s.
Identifier: islandora:16807

Title: Bellville, Cape Town, 1970s
Subject: Bellville (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Business, Urban development, Architecture, Transport
Description: Shopping in Bellville, heart of the Tygerberg.
Identifier: islandora:16827

Title: Civic Centre, Bellville, Cape Town
Subject: Bellville (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Buildings, Civil society, Local government, Architecture
Description: The Civic Centre at Bellville where the annual congress of the Cape Western Regional Publicity Association will be opened by the Mayor of Bellville, Mr. W. J. Bezuidenhout, to-day. The Civic Centre contains a civic theatre, council chamber and administrative offices. A city hall will be added in 1967. The "Cape Times" will publish next Wednesday, November 4, a special supplement on the great progress that has been made in recent years at Bellville.
Identifier: islandora:16785

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