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Title: Africae descriptio
Subject: Africa -- Maps -- Early works to 1800.
Description: Scale bar at bottom right is in German miles., The map is crisply engraved and decorated with title set in strapwork cartouche at bottom left. Map depicts a sea monster south of Madagascar, and a sea battle off the coast of C. Negro., Latitude and longitude coordinates are given on all four sides of the map. Details drawn from Richard L. Betz, The mapping of Africa : a cartobibliography of printed maps of the African continent to 1700. 't Goy-Houten : Hes & de Graaf, c2007, p. 211-213., Probably extracted from the Atlas minor (Gerhard Mercator and Jodocus Hondius) Amsterodami: Iudoci Hondij. Arnhemi, 1607., Restored and hinged between acid-free boards.
Identifier: islandora:19732

Title: Postcard from Lisel Alsberg, Cape Town to Edith Bruch, Green Point (Cape Town, South Africa), 1937
Subject: Bruch, Edith--Correspondence, Alsberg, Lisel--Correspondence
Description: Postcard from Lisel Alsberg, Cape Town to Edith Bruch, Green Point (Cape Town, South Africa), 1937. On the front of the postcard is a photograph of a farmer ploughing a field with a horse-drawn plough. There is a South African Springbok stamp on the reverse.
Identifier: islandora:29870

Title: Street clashes, South Africa, 1991
Subject: Apartheid--South Africa--Sebokeng, Political violence--South Africa--Sebokeng, Weapons--South Africa--Sebokeng, Demonstrations--South Africa--Sebokeng, Children--South Africa--Sebokeng, Best of Marinovich
Description: A young boy brandishes a toy gun at police armoured vehicles as his friend spots another police vehicle coming up a side street, Sebokeng, 1991.
Identifier: islandora:1210

Title: Southern Africa
Subject: Southern Africa
Description: An American edition was issued by Inskeep and Bradford in 1815 (see NOR 0186a)., London. Cadell and Davies, Strand, and Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme
Identifier: islandora:25739

Title: Image from rock painting site. Site of Tradouw Pass Cave, Swellendam, South Africa.
Subject: Rock paintings--South Africa--Western Cape., , ,
Description: Photograph of the signposted shelter at the Tradouw Pass Cave site.
Identifier: islandora:21550

Title: Image from rock painting site. Site of Kanetvlei I, Hex River Valley, Western Cape, South Africa.
Subject: Rock paintings--South Africa--Western Cape., , ,
Description: Rock painting of antelopes in red.
Identifier: islandora:21428

Title: Right wing conservatives at election rally, Pretoria, South Africa
Subject: Political history--South Africa--Pretoria, Elections--South Africa--Pretoria, Apartheid--South Africa--Pretoria, Segregation--South Africa--Pretoria, Race discrimination--South Africa--Pretoria
Description: Right-wing conservatives rally for another all-white by-election, which increased pro-apartheid representation in the all-white Parliament, Pretoria, South Africa, February 1982.
Identifier: islandora:5331

Title: Waiting for the 'whites only' bus, Pretoria, South Africa
Subject: Buses--South Africa--Pretoria, Apartheid--South Africa--Pretoria, Social conditions--South Africa--Pretoria, Segregation----South Africa--Pretoria, Race discrimination--South Africa--Pretoria
Description: Waiting for a 'whites only' bus under apartheid's policies of racial segregation, Pretoria, South Africa, November 1988.
Identifier: islandora:5352

Title: HIV positive, orphaned brothers, Hlabisa, South Africa
Subject: AIDS (disease)--South Africa, Orphans--South Africa, Children--South Africa,
Description: HIV positive brothers and orphans, Sanele Khanyi (4 years old, on right), and Samkelisiwe Khanyi (3 years old, on left), Hlabisa, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
Identifier: islandora:1362

Title: Africa
Subject: Africa
Description: Similar to Abraham Ortelius map of Africa. Includes a scroll-type cartouche, with a lion's head on the lower border. Sea monsters and sailing vessels occupy the stippled sea., Spain. Solis, Hermando de
Identifier: islandora:25237

Title: Dephnie Mzakie Bottoman "My Best Friend", Eastern Cape, South Africa
Subject: Women--South Africa,
Description: Dephnie Mzakie Bottoman "My Best Friend", Eastern Cape, South Africa.
Identifier: islandora:18422

Title: Young girl posing on the pavement, 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 young girl poses on the pavement against a tall building in District Six, Cape Town in the 1970's prior to the state orchestrated forced removals to locations further from the city.
Identifier: islandora:18548

Title: Basil Coetzee and Abdullah Ibrahim surveying an empty venue during a soundcheck, Cape Town, South Africa
Subject: Musicians, Black--South Africa, Jazz musicians--South Africa, Ibrahim, Abdullah, 1934-, Coetzee, Basil
Description: Basil Coetzee and Abdullah Ibrahim survey an empty venue during a soundcheck before a live performance in Strandfontein, Cape Town, South Africa.
Identifier: islandora:18203

Title: Foundation-stone for Van Rieebeck Festival's Gateway to Africa, Cape Town, 1952
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Afrikaner nationalism, Urban development
Description: The foundation-stone for the Gateway to Africa stands protected by a strong wire fence, but whipped by loose sand and rain in a desolate part of the Foreshore. The stone, then surrounded by the pageantry of the Van Riebeeck Festival, was laid on April 5 by a boy scout, a girl guide and a Voortrekker boy and girl. No decision has been made about making a start on building the monumental approach on the Foreshore.
Identifier: islandora:17116

Title: Mine worker, Carltonville, South Africa
Subject: Men--South Africa, Miners--South Africa, Mines and mining--South Africa, Dormitories--South Africa,
Description: A man listens to the radio at the Stilfontein mine's hostel for men in Carltonville, Gauteng, South Africa, 1991.
Identifier: islandora:18379

Title: Saxophonists, Dudu Pukwana and Kippie Moeketsi, playing a duet, Johannesburg, South Africa
Subject: Men--South Africa, Musicians, Black--South Africa, Jazz musicians--South Africa, Saxophonists--South Africa,
Description: Saxophonists, Dudu Pukwana and Kippie Moeketsi, play a duet live in Johannesburg, South Africa.
Identifier: islandora:18167

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