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Title: Govan Mbeki's release from prison, Port Elizabeth, South Africa
Subject: Ex-convicts--South Africa--Port Elizabeth, Political history--South Africa--Port Elizabeth, Apartheid--South Africa--Port Elizabeth, Mbeki, Govan, 1910-2001
Description: Rivonia trialist and African National Congress (ANC) leader, Govan Mbeki, who spent 23 years in jail on Robben Island with Nelson Mandela, greets supporters and well-wishers on his first full day of release into freedom, Port Elizabeth, South Africa, 6 November 1987.
Identifier: islandora:5351

Title: Farewell to pilgrims departing for Mecca from Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Pilgrims and pilgrimages, Mecca (Saudi Arabia), Muslims, Apartheid, Travel
Description: Farewell from behind wire fencing for relatives and friends of a batch of 60 Moslem pilgrims who left for Mecca today.
Identifier: islandora:15885

Title: "Whites only" sign prohibits others from using the water slide, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Apartheid signage, Segregation, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950
Description: "Whites only" sign prohibits others from using the water slide, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:16131

Title: View of Bellville from the N2, Cape Town
Subject: Bellville (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Housing, City planning, Urban development, Transport
Description: Housing development at Bellville, as seen from the N2 in the mid 1960s.
Identifier: islandora:16802

Title: Pensioner from Atlantis, Cape Town
Subject: Atlantis (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Pensions, Poverty, Older people
Description: Against all odds - Mrs Audrey Aries, 65, with her "useless" pension book, electricity and other accounts. Her husband earns R245 a month and after her rent and other accounts have been paid she has very little money left.
Identifier: islandora:16702

Title: Unconditionally released from Robben Island, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Political prisoners, Apartheid
Description: Freed: Unconditionally released from Robben Island today are, from left, Mr Monde Tshete, Mr Gallo Veto, Mr Keno Hlatshwayo, Mr Richard Chauke, 38, and Mr Ben Mashinini.
Identifier: islandora:17908

Title: ANC prisoners released from Robben Island, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Political prisoners, Apartheid, African National Congress
Description: Released: the first six ANC prisoners from Robben Island yesterday after spending three to 10 years are from left, Eddie Humalog, Nelson Topeka, Mohan Mmoledi, Vuyisile Mbundu, Bushy Maape and Norman Yengeni. Western Cape United Democratic Front (UDF) spokesman Trevor Manuel is in the white shirt. At the back is Mr Amos Lengisi, joint secretary of the UDF in the Western Cape.
Identifier: islandora:17907

Title: Passengers board a flight to Windhoek from Cape Town in 1970
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Cape Town International Airport, Apartheid, Travel, Weather
Description: Passengers show their seating cards at the gate before boarding the plane bound for Windhoek at 10.10 this morning. This was the first plane to leave D.F.Malan Airport since late yesterday afternoon. The Airways terminal was crowded with more than 300 would-be travellers this morning, waiting for the fog to lift.
Identifier: islandora:15879

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