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Title: Community Arts Project information 1987
Subject: Community Arts Project (Cape Town, South Africa), Community Arts Project (Cape Town, South Africa)--Curricula
Description: Brochure from the Community Arts Project giving details of the courses offered in 1987.
Identifier: islandora:19015

Title: Schoolboy arrested, Cape Town, 1987
Subject: Student protesters, Youth--Political activity, Political prisoners, Apartheid, Political history--South Africa, Beyond the Barricades
Description: A schoolboy is arrested during protests against the 1987 white parliamentary elections in Athlone township, Cape Town, May 1987. In 1986, some 25,000 people were imprisoned without trial under the Emergency regulations. Of that number, 10,000 were children under the age of eighteen. In April 1987, the government stated that only 1,400 children were still in detention.
Identifier: islandora:880

Title: Workers' theater, Johannesburg, 1987
Subject: Women labor union members, Workers' theatre, Apartheid, Political history--South Africa, Beyond the Barricades
Description: A delegation of women from the Food and Allied Workers Union participates in the Congress of South African Trade Unions' Culture Day, held as part of the union federation's 2nd National Conference. Theater is used for political expression. Women from Crossroads squatter town, for example, performed a well-received play, Imfuduso, dramatising their long struggle to preserve their homes.
Identifier: islandora:864

Title: Elections, 1987, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Politics, Apartheid
Description: Elections SA - referendum, personalities.
Identifier: islandora:18076

Title: Free the Children balloon launch, Durban, January 1987
Description: Large group of people, participating in the Free the Children balloon launch, 1987
Identifier: islandora:6516

Title: Municipal Police in the Eastern Cape: Paper Presented at National Conference 1987
Description: Municipal Police in the Eastern Cape: Paper Presented at National Conference on 13 March 1987 discussing assaults by police, torture, human rights abuses, civil actions, forced removals, housing, State of Emergency, training and pay for police.
Identifier: islandora:7140

Title: Chesterville: Paper Presented at National Conference 1987
Description: Chesterville: Paper Presented at National Conference on 14 March 1987 discussing housing, urbanisation, forced removals, poverty, protest, violence.
Identifier: islandora:7144

Title: Labour strike meeting, Johannesburg, 1987
Subject: Labor union meetings, Strikes and lockouts--Retail trade, Apartheid, Political history--South Africa, Beyond the Barricades
Description: Striking OK Bazaars workers meet at union headquarters in Cosatu House, Johannesburg. A major supermarket chain, OK Bazaars has a large work force, organised by the Commercial, Catering, and Allied Workers Union (CCAWUSA), which led many campaigns on behalf of food store workers.
Identifier: islandora:861

Title: UDF rally, Cape Town, 1987
Subject: Political activists, Public meetings, Anti-apartheid movements, Apartheid, Political history--South Africa, Beyond the Barricades
Description: Masked youths raise the flag of the African National Congress (ANC) at a rally marking the fourth anniversary of the United Democratic Front (UDF). For the majority of people in South Africa, the ANC remained a positive symbol for liberation from poverty and oppression.
Identifier: islandora:875

Title: Funeral of Ashley Kriel, Langa township, 1987
Subject: Funeral service, Kriel, Ashley, -1987--Death and burial, Police, Apartheid, Political history--South Africa, Beyond the Barricades
Description: Police attempt to remove an African National Congress (ANC) flag draped over the coffin of slain ANC member, Ashley Kriel, in Langa township, Cape Town. Symbols of the ANC, though illegal, were visible at funerals, an insistent reminder of the political meaning of the deaths.
Identifier: islandora:894

Title: Police inform families of executions, Pretoria, 1987
Subject: Political prisoners, Executions and executioners, Apartheid, Political history--South Africa, Beyond the Barricades
Description: A prison official approaches the families of death-row prisoners, Wellington Meilies and Moses Jantjies, to inform them that the two men were hanged earlier that morning. In 1987, when Meilies and Jantjies were executed, thirty-two political prisoners remained on death row in Pretoria Central Prison, and South Africa had the highest number of hangings in the world.
Identifier: islandora:855

Title: Moravian Chapel in District Six, Cape Town, 1987
Subject: District Six (Cape Town, South Africa), Historic buildings, Religion, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Race discrimination
Description: The battered 101 year old Moravian Chapel in what was District Six.
Identifier: islandora:17320

Title: Cape Western Advice Office Report 1987
Description: Report of the Cape Western Advice Office presented at the Black Sash National Conference 1988. Includes reports on pensions, labour matters and squatters
Identifier: islandora:8016

Title: Government Avenue, Company's Gardens, Cape Town, 1987
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Recreation, Environment, Botanical gardens, Trees
Description: Walking under a canopy of oak trees in Government Avenue, Cape Town, late 1980s.
Identifier: islandora:17255

Title: Community Arts Project annual report 1987/1988
Subject: Community Arts Project (Cape Town, South Africa)
Description: Narrative report of the activities of the Community Arts Project (CAP) during the period from 1987 to 1988.
Identifier: islandora:19007

Title: The mid 1986 Crossroads/KTC Squatter Camp Demolitions in Wider Context: Paper Presented at National Conference 1987
Description: The mid 1986 Crossroads/KTC Squatter Camp Demolitions in Wider Context: Paper Presented at National Conference on 14 March 1987 discussing social conditions, political context, housing, townships, land ownership, violence and vigilantism, forced removals.
Identifier: islandora:7143

Title: Defending ANC flag, Langa township, 1987
Subject: Funeral service, Police, Youth--Political activity, Apartheid, Political history--South Africa, Beyond the Barricades
Description: The Muslim leader, Moulana Faried Essack, tries to stop police from removing an African National Congress (ANC) flag draped over the coffin of slain ANC member, Ashley Kriel, in Langa township, Cape Town, July 1987. Symbols of the ANC, though illegal, were visible at funerals, an insistent reminder of the political meaning of the deaths.
Identifier: islandora:904

Title: Removals Continue: The case of the Brits Old Location Removal: Paper Presented at National Conference 1987
Description: Removals Continue: The case of the Brits Old Location Removal: Paper Presented at National Conference on 14 March 1987 discussing forced removals, housing, violence, social conditions, community mobilisation.
Identifier: islandora:7142

Title: Workers' theatre, Johannesburg, 1987
Subject: Workers' theater, Labor union members--Political activity, Politics and culture, Apartheid, Political history--South Africa, Beyond the Barricades
Description: Workers turn actors in a play staged during Culture Day as part of the 2nd National Conference of the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU). In spite of severely repressive measures imposed by the State of Emergency, people found ways to express their deepest feelings and ideas, creating new art forms like this "workers' play".
Identifier: islandora:862

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