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Title: Cape Youth Congress picket in support of hunger strike, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Demonstrations, Apartheid, South African Police, Youth, Groote Schuur Hospital (Cape Town, South Africa)
Description: Freedom plea: Rain and bitterly cold weather didn't deter these members of the Gardens branch of the Cape Youth Congress from their picket in support of hunger striker Mr Willie Hofmeyer outside Groote Schuur Hospital yesterday.
Identifier: islandora:17721

Title: Demonstrations, Cape Town
Subject: Guguletu (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Demonstrations, Apartheid, Political activists
Description: An activist addresses a gathering, Gugulethu, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:17679

Title: Cathedral of District Six, Cape Town
Subject: District Six (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Forced removals (South Africa), Religion, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950
Description: Top: St Mark's Anglican Church stands steadfast on the hill in District Six. A symbol of tradition for some, the church was once called the "Cathedral of District Six" and the "small Vatican", and still holds High Mass three times a month. Here, the congregation streams down the hill after a Sunday morning service. Many once lived in the now bare land of District Six.
Identifier: islandora:17989

Title: NUMSA National Congress, Johannesburg, 1991
Subject: Apartheid--South Africa--Johannesburg, Labor unions--South Africa--Johannesburg, Public meetings--South Africa--Johannesburg, National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa
Description: Members of the National Union of Mineworkers (NUMSA) at their National Congress, Johannesburg, 1991.
Identifier: islandora:1444

Title: Political prisoners released from Robben Island, Cape Town, 1990
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Politics, Political prisoners, Apartheid, African National Congress, Freedom
Description: Going home: elated to be free, Mr Wellington Gumenge of Port Elizabeth (front) and Mr Johannes Boesak of Oudtshoorn leave Table Bay harbour yesterday. They were two of 15 Robben Island African National Congress (ANC) prisoners granted early release.
Identifier: islandora:15903

Title: Nelson Mandela and Cabinet in the Government of National Unity, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Post-Apartheid era, Politics, Cabinet ministers, National Party (South Africa), South Africa. Government of National Unity 1994-1998,
Description: Nelson Mandela with members of his first Cabinet outside Tuynhys, Cape Town. He is flanked by former President F.W. de Klerk (left) and Roelf Meyer, government's chief negotiated in the Multiparty Negotiating Forum and Minister of Constitutional Development and Provincial Affairs in the government of national unity of the new President.
Identifier: islandora:16906

Title: Gate to servants quarters, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Domestic workers, Apartheid, South Africa. Separate Amenities Act, 1953
Description: Maggie Dewies, domestic worker, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:18045

Title: Women in defiance, Johannesburg, 1952
Subject: Johannesburg (South Africa)--Social conditions, Apartheid--South Africa--Johannesburg, Women political activists--South Africa--Johannesburg, Race discrimination--South Africa--Johannesburg, Women, Black--South Africa--Johannesburg
Description: Women of the African National Congress (ANC) in Johannesburg participating in the Defiance Campaign, 1952.
Identifier: islandora:7463

Title: Released from prison, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Political prisoners, Apartheid
Description: Mr Saleem Badat (left), Mr Jack Jaggers (obscured), Mr Marcus Solomon and Mr Logan Wort were among 37 people released from Victor Verster Prison yesterday.
Identifier: islandora:17931

Title: Black Sash protest against apartheid on public transport, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Demonstrations, Women, Political activists, Black Sash (Society)
Description: Protest demonstration by members of the Black Sash in Cape Town today while bus apartheid was being applied for the second day on the Milnerton route.
Identifier: islandora:16863

Title: The Cabinet, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Politics, Cabinet ministers, National Party (South Africa), Governments
Description: The Cabinet on the steps outside Parliament, days after the assassination of Prime Minister H.F. Verwoerd on 6 September 1966. The new Prime Minister, B.J. Vorster, is in the centre behind the speaker.
Identifier: islandora:16904

Title: Dirt road, Crossroads, Cape Town
Subject: Crossroads (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Squatter settlements, Apartheid, Roads
Description: Dirt road at Crossroads, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:17546

Title: Housing development, Bellville
Subject: Bellville (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Housing, Afrikaners, Architecture, Urban development
Description: Apartheid-era housing development at Welgemoed, Bellville, looking up Goewerneur St.
Identifier: islandora:16810

Title: Young child, Johannesburg, 1975
Subject: Children--South Africa, Apartheid--South Africa, South Africa--Social conditions, Winer Batch01,
Description: Child from Newclare "coloured" township, Johannesburg, 1975.
Identifier: islandora:12519

Title: Oral history interview with Yoliswa Yvonne Mzozoyana
Subject: Oral history, Drinking of alcoholic beverages--Social aspects--South Africa, Apartheid--South Africa, Alcohol--Government policy--South Africa
Description: This project spans three sub-collections. This case study in Langa in the Western Cape examines the socio-political environment and racial/gender discrimination with regards to alcohol under apartheid policies. Themes include: African traditional beer (umqombothi), anti-government protests, discriminatory laws, the Eastern Cape, government beer halls, government policy with respect to alcohol, hostels, housing, migrant labour, racialised spaces, the 1976 riots, shebeens (a bar, predominately in the townships where alcohol is sold) and the smuggling of alcohol by residents., Pin8.10.mp3: Part 1 of 1 ; 32:00 min. ; interview 10 of 17
Identifier: islandora:29656

Title: Sisulu and wife on his release from prison, Soweto, 1989
Subject: Apartheid--South Africa, South Africa--Politics and government--1978-1989, South Africa--History--1961-1994, Political prisoners--South Africa, Political activists--South Africa, Sisulu, Walter Max, Kathrada, A. M. (Ahmad M.),
Description: Walter Sisulu with his wife, Albertina, and Ahmed Kathrada, amongst others, at an ANC (African National Congress) rally for released leaders, including Walter Sisulu, Soweto, 29 October, 1989.
Identifier: islandora:12596

Title: Political demonstration, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Demonstrations, Apartheid, South African Police, South Africa. Separate Amenities Act, 1953
Description: Political demonstration, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:17724

Title: Frances Baard at UDF launch, Cape Town, 1983
Subject: Women political activists, Public meetings, Anti-apartheid movements, Apartheid, Political history--South Africa, Beyond the Barricades
Description: Frances Baard, a former president of the African National Congress's Women's League (ANCWL), salutes the crowd gathered to launch the United Democratic Front (UDF) in Mitchell's Plain, Cape Town. The UDF drew together over 600 democratically-based community, student, trade union, women's, and church organisations and was the major legal oppositional force until the government severely curtailed its activities in 1988.
Identifier: islandora:889

Title: Released from Pollsmoor after 5 months, Cape Town
Subject: Guguletu (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Political prisoners, Apartheid
Description: Back home ... Mr Ngconde Balfour was yesterday released after spending nearly five months in detention at Pollsmoor. Here he is seen at his Gugulethu home with his wife Khanyisa and daughter Nellie.
Identifier: islandora:17935

Title: Sea Point swimming pool, Cape Town
Subject: Sea Point (Cape Town, South Africa), Apartheid, South Africa. Separate Amenities Act, 1953, Water
Description: The public swimming pool at Sea Point, Cape Town, 1985.
Identifier: islandora:17197

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