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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: 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: 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: 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: 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

Title: Fireman lifts colleague from scene of fire, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Cape Town (South Africa), Emergency management, Water, Fire departments
Description: The famous fireman's lift: a fireman lifts a colleague from the scene of a fire.
Identifier: islandora:14973

Title: Aerial view from Signal Hill over the City Bowl and Cape Flats, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Urban development, City planning, Environment
Description: This unusual aerial view of Cape Town has all the boldness, optimism and excitement of the New Year. The great vista stretching over the Cape Flats towards Hottentots Holland to symbolize the future. Indeed it is in this direction that much of the Peninsula's expansion is taking place. But Table Mountain is still dominant and timeless, defying any further encroachment up its slopes. The picture was taken at a height of 4,500 ft. The four famous beaches of Clifton are easily recognized at the bottom on the left. Bottom right is Camps Bay, some of whose residents might even be able to point out their own houses. Voortrekker Road (top left) through Kensington, Goodwood, Parow and Bellville, is clearly visible, so are the two cooling towers of the Athlone power station, with Langa just beyond them.
Identifier: islandora:17087

Title: People gasp for breath having run from the teargas, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Demonstrations, Weapons, Law enforcement
Description: Two victims of yesterday's teargassing at the Zolani Centre - a nun and a township resident gasp for air.
Identifier: islandora:16201

Title: Cape Town and Table Bay from upper Cableway station, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), City planning, Urban development, Environment, Architecture
Description: Cape Town from upper Cableway station
Identifier: islandora:17052

Title: Youth detainee released from detention, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Political prisoners, Apartheid, Youth
Description: Helene Thornton, 17, (second from left) with her family after her release from detention yesterday. With her are (from left) her eldest sister, Juanita, another sister, Dorothy, and her mother, Mrs Amy Thornton.
Identifier: islandora:17938

Title: Members from various unions march in solidarity, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Labor Unions, Political participation, Demonstrations
Description: Members from various unions march in solidarity, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:16083

Title: Barbed wire separating Nyanga from Crossroads, Cape Town
Subject: Nyanga (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Squatter settlements, Apartheid
Description: The barbed wire entanglement cutting off Crossroads from Nyanga.
Identifier: islandora:17528

Title: Riot police and protesters watch one another from a distance, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Civil unrest, Law enforcement
Description: A large crowd of demonstrators faces a line of heavily-armed men close to the Guguletu police station yesterday.
Identifier: islandora:16278

Title: Pollution over Cape Town from De Waal Drive
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Environment, Pollution
Description: While people in the Western Cape are delighted by the beautiful calm days that arrive between blasting north-westers, there is a disadvantage - smog lies heavily over the city and surroundings. This picture taken from De Waal Drive shows buildings looming through the smog, which was caused by a temperature inversion. The tall buildings in the middle of the picture are at Goodwood, with the Tygerberg and Boland mountains beyond.
Identifier: islandora:17015

Title: Man pulls out trunk from the ground, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Civil unrest, Violence, Vandalism, Law enforcement
Description: Detective Sergeant Frank Madconci of the Langa CID unearths a metal trunk containing looted goods which was buried by Tsotsis at the height of the looting.
Identifier: islandora:16333

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