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Title: Fortified tower
Subject: Military bases--Namibia, Namibia--History, Military--20th century
Description: Fortified tower.
Identifier: islandora:6957

Title: Tramway, Camps Bay , Cape Town
Subject: Camps Bay (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Infrastructure, Tramways, Recreation, Transport, History,
Description: Mountain Tramway, Camps Bay.
Identifier: islandora:16958

Title: União Nacional para a Independência Total de Angola soldier opens fire on Police
Subject: Angola--History--Civil War, 1975-2002,
Description: Television footage of a UNITA soldier opening fire on Angolan Police, 12 October 1992.The footage goes worldwide and plunges Angola is in a state of shock.
Identifier: islandora:7050

Title: z/hai (Tsau)
Subject: KhoeSan languages -- African languages--History
Description: Sound recording by Ernst Westphal., Additional notes on tape box: (1) z/hai (Tsau); (2) Yei songs (Nokaam?)/ !xũ (G!angwa) speech & songs, Tape numbered 28.
Identifier: islandora:22520

Title: Dock workers, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Ships, History, Cape Town Harbour (South Africa), Stevedores
Description: Dock workers, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:17972

Title: Woman hanging washing, District Six, Cape Town, South Africa
Subject: District Six (Cape Town, South Africa)--Social conditions, District Six (Cape Town, South Africa)--History, Cape Town (South Africa)--History, ,
Description: A woman hangs up her washing in the backyard of her home in District Six, Cape Town in the 1970's prior to the state orchestrated forced removals to locations further from the city.
Identifier: islandora:18503

Title: Language transcriptions and translations of ǂKhomani San Brody Archive, Elsie and Petrus Vaalbooi at Rietfontein
Subject: Vaalbooi, Pieter, Koper, Jan, Khomani language, Khomani (African people)--History, Khomani (African people)--Social life and customs, ,
Description: Pieter Vaalbooi, Jan Koper and Nigel Crawhall discuss local history
Identifier: islandora:31480

Title: Basutoland. N.E. sheet
Subject: Lesotho--Maps, Lesotho--History--To 1966--Maps, ,
Description: Map of Basutoland [Lesotho] "prepared from a reconnaissance survey in 1904-9 by captain M.C. Dobson R.F.A.". The map shows towns, villages, "native locations", railways, telegraph and telephone lines, mission stations, ruins and rivers. Scale 1:250 000
Identifier: islandora:30071

Title: N|amani (1)
Subject: KhoeSan languages, African languages--History
Description: Title on box: ŋ, amani (1), Sound recording by Ernst Westphal., Recording with Abbedis (also spelled Abadis in Westphal's notes) in the N, amani language
Identifier: islandora:22635

Title: Docks post 1950, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Ships, History, Aerial views,
Description: View of docks, Cape Town post-1950.
Identifier: islandora:17970

Title: Injured soldiers belonging to the Forças Armadas Angolanan (FAA) wait to be evacuated
Subject: Angola--History--Civil War, 1975-2002, Soldiers--Angola, War--Angola--Relief of sick and wounded, Soldiers--Wounds and injuries--Angola,
Description: Forças Armadas Angolanan (FAA) recruits, injured in battle, wait, hoping to be evacuated from the frontline. Their chances were slim. The FAA was hesistant to expose their helicopters to União Nacional para a Independência Total de Angola (UNITA) who were armed with stinger missiles.
Identifier: islandora:7071

Title: Union celebrations in St George's Street, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Cape Town (South Africa), date unknown, Festivals, History, Colonialism
Description: Union celebrations in St George's Street, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:14530

Title: Language transcriptions and translations of ǂKhomani San Brody Archive, Elsie and Petrus Vaalbooi, Rietfontein
Subject: Vaalbooi, Elsie, Khomani (African people)--History, Khomani (African people)--Social life and customs, ,
Description: Elsie Vaalbooi and Nigel Crawhall in a conversation discussing local history, with particular reference to a time during World War II
Identifier: islandora:31474

Title: Art and medicine
Subject: Anatomy--History, Medicine and art, Medical illustration
Description: Several drafts of a speech Professor Drennan gave at the opening of a display of medical student art. The notes are typed with handwritten notes and annotations. Included is a list of 29 illustrations and a clipping from the newspaper about the art exhibition.
Identifier: islandora:21400

Title: The deserted Angolan border post at Ruacana
Subject: Namibia--History, Military--20th century
Description: The deserted Angolan border post at Ruacana.
Identifier: islandora:6964

Title: Carte de l'Afrique méridionale au pays entre la ligne Cap de Bonne Espérance et l'Isle de Madagascar
Subject: Slaves -- South Africa -- Cape of Good Hope -- History., Farm ownership -- South Africa -- Cape of Good Hope -- History., Cape of Good Hope (South Africa) -- Maps -- Early works to 1800., Africa, Southern -- Maps -- Early works to 1800.
Description: The details regarding Elizabeth, Nicolas Visscher's widow, are drawn from Gallica, Bibliothèque Nationale de France: http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b7759505j.notice. See also: Atlas nouveau … by Guillaume de L'Isle (Amsterdam: Covens & Mortier, 1730); R.V. Tooley, Collectors’ guide to maps of the African continent and Southern Africa (London: Carta Press, 1969), p. 120; Norwich's maps of Africa : an illustrated and annotated carto-bibliography (Norwich, Vt. : Terra Nova Press, 1997), map 180 (note)., The inset of the Cape of Good Hope is of particular importance. It indicates the presence of slaves on Robben Island ("daar de Slaven in de Ketting loopen"). It also gives "extensive detailed and fairly accurate topographical information ... together with the names of owners of farms and plots of that period. Amongst these are de Beer, Swart Pieter, Martin de Smit, Roelof Pasman, Gerrit Kloeton, and the French Huguenot settlement. These place names add considerably to the knowledge of the history of the ... Cape of Good Hope"--Norwich's Maps of Africa, p. 203., Three insets: "Élévation du Port et Mont Table au Cap de Bonne Espérance" (5 x 11 cm); "Plan du Port et Mont Table au Cap de Bonne Espérance" (10 x 11 cm); "[Cabo de Bona Esperanca]" (13 x 23 cm)., Text primarily in French. The inset of the Cape is also in Dutch with some Portuguese notations., Restored and hinged between acid-free boards.
Identifier: islandora:19819

Title: Woman holding tea in a kitchen, District Six, Cape Town, South Africa
Subject: District Six (Cape Town, South Africa)--Social conditions, District Six (Cape Town, South Africa)--History, Cape Town (South Africa)--History, ,
Description: A woman holds a cup of tea and poses for a picture in the kitchen of a home in District Six, Cape Town in the 1970's prior to the state orchestrated forced removals to locations further from the city.
Identifier: islandora:18518

Title: Language transcriptions and translations of ǂKhomani San Brody Archive, Elsie and Petrus Vaalbooi, Rietfontein
Subject: Vaalbooi, Elsie, Khomani (African people)--History, Khomani (African people)--Social life and customs, ,
Description: Elsie Vaalbooi and Nigel Crawhall in a conversation discussing local history, with particular reference to a time during World War II where there was contact with German prisoners of war
Identifier: islandora:31473

Title: Maintaining contact with the outside world
Subject: Angola--History--Civil War, 1975-2002, Telecommunication--Angola, Bailundo (Huambo, Angola)--Social conditions,
Description: A satellite dish in Bailundo in the Huambo Province of Angola enable União Nacional para a Independência Total de Angola (UNITA) to maintain contact with the outside world.
Identifier: islandora:7022

Title: Group of young children eating ice-cream on the stairs, District Six, Cape Town, South Africa
Subject: District Six (Cape Town, South Africa)--Social conditions, District Six (Cape Town, South Africa)--History, Cape Town (South Africa)--History, ,
Description: A group of young boys and girls sit and eat ice-cream on the steps leading up to adjacent homes in District Six, Cape Town in the 1970's prior to the state orchestrated forced removals to locations further from the city. Their mothers appear in the background holding babies.
Identifier: islandora:18514

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