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Title: Ex-prisoners walk to court to attend the trial of a friend, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Jails, Reformatories, Prisoners, Freedom
Description: Court visit - Mr Jordan (in raincoat), Mr Tshwete (with pipe) and Mr Stuart (far right) with most of the 28 released Robben Island prisoners on their way to the Supreme Court to visit the trial of Mr Tony Yengeni and five others.
Identifier: islandora:16019

Title: Robben Island prison cell, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Jails, Reformatories, Political prisoners, Interior decoration, Architecture
Description: Journalists inspect a communal cell which houses 22 prisoners. Against the walls are the prisoners' rolled-up sleeping mats and blankets and lockers. Each prisoner is issued with four sleeping mats and seven blankets.
Identifier: islandora:16031

Title: Roeland Street Prison, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Jails, Reformatories, Prisons, Architecture
Description: Prisons, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:16011

Title: Protesters hold banner that reads, "What is happening in our prisons?" Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Civil unrest, Demonstrations, Apartheid
Description: Protesters hold banner that reads, "What is happening in our prisons?" Cape Town
Identifier: islandora:16370

Title: David Moisi welcomed back from prison, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Political prisoners, Apartheid, Demonstrations
Description: Released: A well-wisher welcomes Mr David Moisi back to the mainland after he and two other long-serving prisoners, including Mr Mandala Shabangu, right, were freed from Robben Island. They had been on a hunger strike for seven days.
Identifier: islandora:17903

Title: Women protest for the release of political prisoners, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Demonstrations
Description: Women protest for the release of political prisoners, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:16109

Title: Prisoners from Robben Island pose for photo , Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Jails, Reformatories, Political prisoners
Description: Prisoners from Robben Island pose for photo, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:16027

Title: Prisoner reunited with family, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Political prisoners, Apartheid
Description: "It's still unreal" ... Arcadia High school teacher Mr Neville Van Der Rheede hugs his wife Carol for the first time in over a year after being discharged by the Supreme Court yesterday.
Identifier: islandora:17930

Title: Robben Island prisoners, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Political prisoners, Apartheid
Description: Detainees and house arrest.
Identifier: islandora:17918

Title: Protest for release of prisoners, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Political prisoners, Apartheid, Youth, Demonstrations
Description: Protest for release of prisoners, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:17922

Title: People look at the prison library, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Jails, Reformatories, Press, Prisons, Prison libraries
Description: Local and foreign journalists inspecting the prison library which contains 6 584 books (3 934 are fiction and 2 650 are non-fiction). Prisoners are allowed to change books every second week.
Identifier: islandora:16043

Title: The kitchen at Pollsmoor Prison, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Jails, Reformatories, Prisoners, Food
Description: Spacious kitchens and spotless stainless steel pressure cookers manned here by prisoners are where tonnes of prison farm produce are prepared and served to Pollsmoor's 3385 inmates.
Identifier: islandora:16018

Title: Father Michael Lapsley marching in support of freeing of political prisoners, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Demonstrations, Politics
Description: Supporting strikers: Father Michael Lapsley marching in Cape Town yesterday in support of demands that hunger strikers and all political prisoners be freed.
Identifier: islandora:17864

Title: Prison warden shows the inside of a prison cell, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Jails, Reformatories, Prisoners
Description: Suspect conditions: this stark, poorly ventilated cell, is one of the reasons why Langa station commander Johan Conradie wants a new station.
Identifier: islandora:16030

Title: Prisoners exercise in courtyard, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Jails, Reformatories, Architecture
Description: Coloured prisoners exercise / Exercising in the prison courtyard.
Identifier: islandora:16025

Title: Sharp objects found concealed on prisoners, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Jails, Reformatories, Families
Description: Some of the weapons confiscated in prison. All, with the exception of the sharpened spoons, were worn internally when found by the warders.
Identifier: islandora:16013

Title: Couple reunited after being released from prison, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Jails, Reformatories, Prisons, Political prisoners
Description: Released from Robben Island after conviction under the Terrorism Act, sentenced with five years banning order.
Identifier: islandora:16040

Title: Prison administrator stands at door, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Jails, Reformatories
Description: Roeland Street Prison / A warder stands at the massive steel door which leads into the prison building.
Identifier: islandora:16016

Title: Prisoners arrive in the harbour, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Political prisoners, Apartheid
Description: Detainees and house arrest.
Identifier: islandora:17916

Title: The Pollsmoor Prison band, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Jails, Reformatories, Prisoners, Music
Description: The Pollsmoor Prison Band and SHAWCO drum majorettes will provide a floodlit performance.
Identifier: islandora:16024

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