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Title: Swimming race from the Cape Town pier, 1922
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Historical, Sport, Recreation, Swimming
Description: Competitors in the Gordons Gala in Cape Town in 1922 had a tough venue for their races: the old Cape Town pier, where this picture was taken of the mens' two-mile event. [The photograph is one of several appearing on special sepia pages of the prestige 56-page Cape Times Centenary Supplement, which appears as an extra section with all copies of the Cape Times on Saturday, March 27.]
Identifier: islandora:17185

Title: Discovery II research ship departs from Cape Town Docks, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Exploration & discovery, South African National Antarctic Expedition, RRS Discovery 2, Research, Polar regions
Description: Spick and span in new paint, the little research steamer, Discovery II, steamed out of Cape Town Docks yesterday afternoon for another long spell in the Antarctic.
Identifier: islandora:16675

Title: Panic-stricken passenger jumps from moving train, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Railroad trains, Railroad accidents
Description: Escaping the danger ... A panic-stricken passenger, fearing for his safety, jumps from a moving train as it approaches Nonkqubela railway station, shortly after it sliced through a pile of burning tyres placed on the railway line. Witnesses said the screams of terrified passengers could be heard some distance from the train as it entered the pall of black smoke.
Identifier: islandora:17695

Title: A policewoman protects her eyes from the sun at a march, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Law enforcement, Protection, Civil unrest, Gender, Weapons
Description: Outnumbered: A woman member of the Police's Internal Stability Unit, left, keeps a watchful eye on events near the intersection of Plein and Roeland Streets during yesterday's mass march.
Identifier: islandora:15948

Title: "Call forth thy pow'rs, my soul, and dare" from Judas Maccabeus
Subject: Handel, George Frideric, 1685-1759. Judas Maccabaeus. Call forth thy pow'rs, my soul, and dare, Songs (High voice), Concerts--South Africa--Cape Town
Description: The Schock Prize for Singing 2006, Baxter Concert Hall, Cape Town, South Africa
Identifier: islandora:30176

Title: Dawn from Signal Hill, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa)
Description: Winter's Dawn in the Cape Town. A shaft of sunlight lights the sky as the city sheds its overnight blanket of fog. This striking picture was taken from Signal Hill.
Identifier: islandora:17018

Title: Mpumelelo Melane graduated from the full-time training course for cultural workers
Subject: Community Arts Project (Cape Town, South Africa)--History, Community arts projects--South Africa--Cape Town--History, Arts--Study and teaching --South Africa--Cape Town
Description: Mpumelelo Melane, of Imvaba visual arts, newly graduated from the full-time training course for cultural workers at the Community Arts Project.
Identifier: islandora:29021

Title: Men from opposition parties shake hands, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Politics
Description: In opposition camps - Mr E.C. Rooks (Social Democratic Party) and Mr Dennis Young (Labour) right, who are fighting the Sparks Estate-Greenwood Park seat in the Coloured Representative Council elections taking place today.
Identifier: islandora:15989

Title: Freed prisoners disembark from the boat, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Cape Town (South Africa), Political prisoners, Historic sites, Monuments
Description: Prisoners.
Identifier: islandora:16494

Title: "Come scoglio" from Cosi fan tutte
Subject: Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791. Così fan tutte. Come scoglio, Songs (High voice), Concerts--South Africa--Cape Town
Description: The Schock Prize for Singing 2006, Baxter Concert Hall, Cape Town, South Africa
Identifier: islandora:30170

Title: Protests fall on top of one another to get away from flying bullets, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Communities, Law enforcement
Description: Under fire: a group of panicking demonstrators scampering for cover in front of a take-away restaurant on the Grand Parade.
Identifier: islandora:16198

Title: Protesters flee from the teargas, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Civil unrest, Violence, Demonstrations, Weapons
Description: A teargas bomb explodes and disperses a crowd in a Guguletu field.
Identifier: islandora:16328

Title: Released from prison, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Political prisoners, Apartheid
Description: Mrs Mymoena Achmat with her son, Abdurazzack, who was released from Victor Verster Prison yesterday morning after spending seven months in detention.
Identifier: islandora:17937

Title: Confined to bed since move from District Six, Cape Town
Subject: Bontheuwel (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Relocation
Description: Mr Christian Smith, 87, who has been confined to his bed since his move from District Six to Bonteheuwel four months ago.
Identifier: islandora:17978

Title: Table Mountain, Cape Town, from the City Bowl
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Historical monuments, Environment, Conservation of natural resources
Description: Before Table Mountain can be declared a national monument as urged by public bodies, the area, about 180 morgen, between the dotted line and the white line (municipal boundary) [not visible on image] will first have to be expropriated. There is a similar large tract of land on the Camps Bay side of the mountain.
Identifier: islandora:17042

Title: A new chart of the southern coast of Africa, from the Cape of Good Hope to Dalagoa [sic] Bay, including the Bank of Cape Agulhas, its soundings, currents, within and without &c.
Subject: Shipwrecks -- South Africa -- Cape of Good Hope -- History -- 18th century., Cape of Good Hope (South Africa) -- Maps -- Early works to 1800., Cape Agulhas (South Africa) -- Maps -- Early works to 1800., Cape Town (South Africa) -- Pictorial works.
Description: Map shows detailed soundings and other hydrographic information along the Cape coast. Map includes an engraving of "A view of the Cape of Good Hope" showing elevations of Table Mountain ("The Table"), "Devils Burg", "the Sugar Loaf" and "Lyon's Rump". Also depicted are houses and other buildings on the slopes of the mountain and a small rowing boat heading for harbour., "Drawn chiefly from the Papers of Mr Gerard De Ruyter., Captain of the Port at the Cape of Good Hope; with the track of the Worcester, Capt. Hall in 1786.", Extract from note on map: "On Thursday the 17th of July 1755, about a quarter before one in the morning, the Doddington outward bound East Indiaman struck on a rock about 3 leagues from the Main of Africa ... Judging they were on the Madagascar shore, and the passage open, they bore away to the Northward. The time they were lost they saw the breakers and in less than a quarter of an hour went all to pieces ...", This copy of the map is defective and the sections north of 28 degrees 5 minutes and east of 32 degrees are missing. Only the final line of the cartouche is visible. Only the lower portions of the two inset maps ("A Plan of Saldhanha Bay geometrically surveyed in 1752", and, "A Plan of Dalagoa Bay called by the Portuguese Bahia de Lorenzo Marques, and by the French Baye du St. Espirit" remain., Restored and placed between acid-free boards., Robert Laurie and James Whittle.
Identifier: islandora:19655

Title: Beth Mayekiso graduated from the full-time training course for cultural workers
Subject: Community Arts Project (Cape Town, South Africa)--History, Community arts projects--South Africa--Cape Town--History, Arts--Study and teaching --South Africa--Cape Town
Description: Beth Mayekiso, of the Alexandra Civic Association, upon graduation from the full-time training course for cultural workers. Community Arts Project staff member Sicelio 'Theo' Nkohla is in the background.
Identifier: islandora:29020

Title: View from the Castle of Good Hope, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Castle of Good Hope (Cape Town, South Africa), Colonialism, Architecture, Marching bands
Description: View of the City Hall from the ramparts of the Castle, Cape Town
Identifier: islandora:17105

Title: "Un'aura amorosa" from Cosi fan tutte
Subject: Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791. Così fan tutte. Aura amorosa, Songs (High voice), Concerts--South Africa--Cape Town
Description: The Schock Prize for Singing 2006, Baxter Concert Hall, Cape Town, South Africa
Identifier: islandora:30175

Title: Man holds onto the wire mesh that separates him from a waterslide, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Segregation, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950
Description: Apartheid / Mr Abubakar Abdol, of Parkwood Estate, looks through the wire mesh at the water slide at Muizenberg which he may not use. The slide is the only facility in the pavilion area not open to all races. The owner says he is not willing to risk prosecution and will only open the slide to all when the law is changed.
Identifier: islandora:16130

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