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Title: Rev. Karl August inside his church in District Six, Cape Town
Subject: District Six (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Forced removals (South Africa), Religion, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950
Description: The Rev. Karl August inside his church. The Moravian Chapel in Ashley Street was built in 1884. Its pastor, the Rev. Karl August hopes to build another chapel in Hanover Park. 'We can never replace the history of this chapel,' he says.
Identifier: islandora:17988

Title: Aerial view of the Delft show village, Cape Town
Subject: Delft (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Apartheid
Description: An aerial view of the Delft show village, the House of Representatives' housing project. Phase I, consisting of 2 000 units, should be sold out by the end of January. Houses are priced from R12 500 to R17 500.
Identifier: islandora:17626

Title: Residences in Loader Street, Cape Town
Subject: Apartheid, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Residential buildings, ,
Description: The Loader Street area has been a renovator's paradise for the past few years. According to estate agent, Mr John Hocknell, property in the area is almost completely sold out and there is little still to be had. Some renovated properties are still changing hands for under R20 000 though.
Identifier: islandora:15206

Title: Malay Quarter, Cape Town, 1968
Subject: Bo-Kaap (Cape Town, South Africa), Apartheid, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Housing, Architecture
Description: Boarded up and derelict house in the Malay Quarter, Cape Town, in the late 1960s
Identifier: islandora:17239

Title: Protesters against the development of District Six, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Demonstrations, Housing, Apartheid, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950
Description: Picket line ... Protestors line the owner of Lower Burg and Riebeeck streets yesterday during a legal lunch-time protest against the development of District Six. The protesters later confronted Iico management, one of the companies proposing to build houses in the district.
Identifier: islandora:17762

Title: Piebald Court
Subject: South Africa--Politics and government--1978-1989--Caricatures and cartoons, Apartheid--South Africa--Caricatures and cartoons, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, South African wit and humor, Pictorial, South Africa
Description: Inevitable racial mixing in the urban areas forced the government to make some adaptions to their policy of rigid racial separation, which gave rise to anomalies and inconsistencies, which were explained as 'the natural evolution' of apartheid. Description provided by Tony Grogan.
Identifier: islandora:6146

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: Women and children praying, Crossroads, South Africa, 1982
Subject: South Africa--Social conditions--20th century, Apartheid--South Africa, Children--South Africa, Prayer groups--South Africa, Squatter settlements--South Africa, Some evidence of things seen
Description: Women and children of Crossroads gather to pray for the Nyanga bush squatters, who had staged a hunger strike in St George's Cathedral in an attempt to persuade the authorities not to demolish their plastic shacks. The protest was fruitless - the shacks were torn down during the wet Cape winter, causing hardship, Cape Town, 1982
Identifier: islandora:917

Title: St Mark's Church, and its rector, District Six, Cape Town
Subject: District Six (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Forced removals (South Africa), Religion, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950
Description: Above: The rector of St Mark's, The Rev. Stanley Gray, stands before his church in this, the brick-strewn landscape of District Six.
Identifier: islandora:18000

Title: Maitland Garden Village residents celebrating, Cape Town
Subject: Apartheid, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, ,
Description: The 'best news in years' reached Maitland Garden Village this weekend. Residents learnt the Government had reversed its 1969 decision that the area must be turned over to whites.
Identifier: islandora:15194

Title: Street in Ocean View, Cape Town
Subject: Residential buildings, Communities, Apartheid, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Forced removals (South Africa), , ,
Description: Ocean View.
Identifier: islandora:15607

Title: Pregnant woman stand holding her two kids hands, Cape Town
Subject: Apartheid, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Discrimination, ,
Description: Heavily pregnant: Mrs Nomaliso Mthensi appeared in the Langa Commissioners Court yesterday with her two children clinging to her skirts. Here, she leaves the court after paying a fine of R70 for Pass Law offences.
Identifier: islandora:15796

Title: Street in Atlantis, Cape Town
Subject: Atlantis (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Apartheid, Labour, Industrialisation, City planning
Description: There are now more than 600 houses completed and occupied by employees of new industries at Atlantis.
Identifier: islandora:16701

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: St Mark's Church, and its rector, District Six, Cape Town
Subject: District Six (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Forced removals (South Africa), Religion, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950
Description: St Mark's Church and its rector, the Rev. Stanley Gray ... a stand against the Group Areas Act in the dissolution of District Six.
Identifier: islandora:17999

Title: Children picking spring daisies, Malay Quarter, Cape Town, 1960
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Apartheid, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Environment, Urban development
Description: A hillside of old Cape Town: Malay children pick spring daisies on the Schotsche Kloof hillside in the Malay Quarter, which has one of the most spectacular views in the Peninsula. The area has been referred to as a 'festering sore'.
Identifier: islandora:17130

Title: Oudekraal Picnic site, Cape Town
Subject: Apartheid, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Segregation, , ,
Description: Oudekraal, new non-European picnic site. Nicholls.
Identifier: islandora:15201

Title: Nails holding Delft houses roofs in place, Cape Town
Subject: Delft (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Apartheid, Building materials
Description: Nailed: Natalie Crew shows the small nails used to hold the roofs of Delft houses in place.
Identifier: islandora:17627

Title: Man defies apartheid laws by walking up stairs reserved for non-whites, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Segregation, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950
Description: A white youth comes out of the all-race subway and goes up the steps reserved for non-Whites.
Identifier: islandora:16129

Title: Woman shows her pass book, Cape Town
Subject: Apartheid, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Discrimination, ,
Description: Woman shows her pass book, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:15795

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