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Title: People come to an old woman's aid, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Civil unrest, Violence, Wounds and injuries, Older people, Audiences
Description: People come to an old woman's aid, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:16344

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: Marching band, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Festivals, Apartheid, Culture, Music, Coloured people (South Africa)
Description: Young Zinnias Platoon marching band, Cape Town
Identifier: islandora:16737

Title: Flower sellers at the Cape Town Festival, 1984
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Culture, Flower sellers, Coloured people (South Africa), Fynbos
Description: Festival over soon: with flags and flowers, the atmosphere of the Cape Town festival is reflected on the face of Adderley Street flower seller, Mrs Frances Boldman.
Identifier: islandora:17222

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: 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: 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: Housing, Athlone, Cape Town
Subject: Athlone (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Housing, Development, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Apartheid, Coloured people (South Africa)
Description: Mrs. W. Brooks with her children outside her "home" in Third Ave, Athlone, which flanks one of the modern house in this "elite" Coloured suburb. Mrs Brooks has had her name down for a council house for two years but sees no prospect of being given one soon.
Identifier: islandora:16729

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: Cluster housing in Belhar, Cape Town
Subject: Belhar (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Housing, Coloured people (South Africa), City planning
Description: Cluster housing in Belhar. The second house from the right has been plastered and painted. It shows what a difference improvements (at owner expense) make.
Identifier: islandora:16773

Title: Feeding pigeons on the Grand Parade, Cape Town, 1952
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Business, Flea markets, Birds, Coloured people (South Africa)
Description: Mr Salie Isaacs, a stall-holder on the Grand Parade, has fed hundreds of pigeons at 2 o'clock each day for the last 20 years. He is seen in this photograph, paper bag in hand, feeding his feathered friends yesterday.
Identifier: islandora:17159

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:16741

Title: Fruiterers
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: Cape Town street scene showing two women seated on the side of the street, left foreground, and two Malay fruit sellers with baskets suspended from poles held across their shoulders. Title taken from original painting.
Identifier: islandora:26380

Title: War-time housing development in Kew Town, Athlone, Cape Town
Subject: Athlone (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Townships, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Apartheid, Housing, Coloured people (South Africa)
Description: Q-town (later Kew Town) in Athlone, Cape Town, a war-time sub-economic housing development for the coloured (slum) population of the inner city areas.
Identifier: islandora:16719

Title: War-time housing development in Kew Town, Athlone, Cape Town
Subject: Athlone (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Townships, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Apartheid, Housing, Coloured people (South Africa),
Description: Q-town (later Kew Town) in Athlone, Cape Town, a war-time sub-economic housing development for the coloured (slum) population of the inner city areas.
Identifier: islandora:16720

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: 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: Strolling through the Company's Gardens, Cape Town, 1976
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Botanical, Recreation, Older people
Description: A pleasant pastime for many is a lunch-hour stroll through the shady lane in the Gardens, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:17249

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

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