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Title: Digging in
Subject: Angola--History--Civil War, 1975-2002, Soldiers--Angola, Rocket launchers (Ordnance)--Angola,
Description: The crew of a BM-21 Grad 9K51 Multiple Rocket Launcher (MRLS) dig in in the Huambo Province of Angola.
Identifier: islandora:7018

Title: Albie Sachs, circa 1997
Subject: Apartheid--South Africa, Political violence--South Africa, South Africa--Social conditions, War crimes investigation--South Africa, Truth and Lies,
Description: Albie Sachs, circa 1997.
Identifier: islandora:765

Title: Harrismith
Subject: South African War, 1899-1902 -- Maps., Harrismith Region (South Africa) -- Maps.
Description: 1st ed., Map of the Northeastern districts of the Orange Free State showing towns including Harrismith, Fouriesburg and Bethlehem. The map also indicates rivers (including the Caledon River), the Drakensberg Mountains, a small section of Natal and Basutoland, roads, hills, pans (often dry), railways, telegraph lines, farm boundaries and fences, farm names, divisional boundaries, homesteads, cultivated land and trees., Relief shown by hachures., "G.F.N. Henderson [,] Colonel. Director of Military Intelligence"., "This map is not to be considered as absolutely accurate.", Projection not given., Name of publisher and place of publication from label attached to cover., Map folds into an outer cover., The map is mounted on linen.
Identifier: islandora:24833

Title: Bodies of Plan combatants killed during contact with Koevoet are buried at Uupindi
Subject: Mass burials--Namibia, Dead--Namiba, Cemeteries--Namibia, Namibia--Armed Forces, War crimes--Namibia, War victims--Namibia
Description: The crucifixion. The bodies of 133 People's Liberation Army of Namibia (PLAN) combatants killed during contact with Koevoet at Oshimbimbi are buried at Uupindi, west of Oshakati. Koevoet is the common name of the South West African Police Counter-Insurgency Unit (SWAPOL-COIN).
Identifier: islandora:6817

Title: Temporary base on Huambo frontline.
Subject: Angola--History--Civil War, 1975-2002, Soldiers--Angola,
Description: Temporary base on Huambo frontline. The crew spin a generator to produce power for their crackling radio. The men were desperate for news from Luanda.
Identifier: islandora:7081

Title: Hoopstad
Subject: South African War, 1899-1902 -- Maps., Hoopstad Region (South Africa) -- Maps.
Description: 1st ed., Map showing farm boundaries and fences, farm names, cultivated land, divisional boundaries, roads, rivers, railways and telegraph lines in the Hoopstad, Boshof, Bloemhof, Bultfontein, Brandfort and Vet River areas. The map also indicates hills, pans (often dry) and trees., Relief shown by hachures., "G.F.N. Henderson [,] Colonel. Director of Military Intelligence.", "This map is not to be considered as absolutely accurate.", Projection not given., Map folds into an outer cover., This map forms part of the Imperial map of South Africa., Map 381b is printed on linen; map 381a is mounted on linen. Advertisements have been pasted map 381a obscuring the key and other information.
Identifier: islandora:24843

Title: Cahama, Angola
Subject: Angola--History--Civil War, 1975-2002, Soldiers--Angola, Babies--Angola,
Description: Two recently demobilzed Forças Armadas Populares de Libertação de Angola (FAPLA) soldiers stand outside a building in the town of Cahama, Angola, holding a baby. A portrait has been painted on the wall of the building. They are relieved that the war with South Africa had come to an end and that Cuban forces based in Cahama for many years have finally withdrawn.
Identifier: islandora:7033

Title: Vlakplaas perpetrators, Pretoria, 1997
Subject: Apartheid--South Africa, Political violence--South Africa, South Africa--Social conditions, War crimes investigation--South Africa, Truth and Lies,
Description: Five perpetrators, from left: Warrant Officer Paul van Vuuren, Brigadier Jack Cronje (commander at Vlakplaas 1983-1985), Colonel Roelf Venter, Captain Wouter Mentz and Captain Jacques Hechter, at the amnesty hearings in Pretoria, 1997.
Identifier: islandora:769

Title: Armistice Day commemoration, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), South African Police, Memorials, World War, 1914-1918, Veterans, Railways
Description: Constable J B Uys of the Railway Police makes a salute at the South African Railways and Harbour War Services Union annual Remembrance Day ceremony at Cape Town Station in 1982 to commemorate Armistice Day - the end of World War 1. Wreaths were laid after the playing of the Last Post and a two minute silence.
Identifier: islandora:16643

Title: Vryburg
Subject: South African War, 1899-1902 -- Maps., Vryburg Region (South Africa) -- Maps.
Description: 1st ed., Map showing farm names, farm boundaries and fences, divisional boundaries, roads, rivers, hills, pans (often dry), railways, telegraph lines, cultivated lands and trees, and homesteads in the Vryburg area., Relief shown by hachures., "G.F.N. Henderson [,] Colonel. Director of Military Intelligence.", "This map is not to be considered as absolutely accurate.", Projection not given., Map folds into an outer cover., Maps 838, 857 and 1062 are printed on linen. The other copies are mounted on linen.
Identifier: islandora:24803

Title: Charity Kondile, Butterworth township, 1997
Subject: Apartheid--South Africa, Political violence--South Africa, South Africa--Social conditions, War crimes investigation--South Africa, Truth and Lies,
Description: Charity Kondile with a portrait of her son at graduation, Transkei, 1997. Charity's son, Sizwe Kondile, was murdered in 1981 on the orders of Dirk Coetzee. She spent 9 years trying to find out what had happened to her son. In 1996 she attended the amnesty hearings in Durban where in Coetzee's presence she heard how her son was illegaly detained by police, beaten during interrogation, poisoned, shot and burned on a braai. According to Coetzee, the police had been scared they might have a 'second Biko' case on their hands.
Identifier: islandora:773

Title: Griquatown
Subject: South African War, 1899-1902 -- Maps., Griekwastad Region (South Africa) -- Maps.
Description: "Imperial Map of South Africa"--Cover., Map showing farm boundaries and fences, farm names, divisional boundaries, roads, telegraph lines, rivers (including the Orange and Vaal Rivers) and railways in the Griquatown, Hopetown, Herbert, Prieska, Campbell and Douglas areas. The map also indicates the Asbestos Mountains, homesteads, hills, pans (often dry), cultivated land and trees., "Rivers to N. E. mostly Dry[.] Main Roads from Griquatown through heavy bush.", Relief shown by hachures., No edition statement., "This map is not to be considered as absolutely accurate.", Projection not given., Map folds into an outer cover., Map 356a is printed on linen; the other copies are mounted on linen. Map 355 has been coloured and shaded by hand.
Identifier: islandora:24824

Title: Carnarvon
Subject: South African War, 1899-1902 -- Maps., Carnarvon Region (South Africa) -- Maps., Northern Cape (South Africa) -- Maps.
Description: This map forms part of the Imperial map of the Cape Colony., Map shows farm names, farm boundaries and fences, divisional boundaries, roads, rivers, hills, pans (often dry), railways and homesteads in the Carnarvon area., Relief shown by hachures., The Imperial map of the Cape Colony was "compiled by the Field Intelligence Division or Department of the British Army in Cape Town during the second Anglo-Boer War. ... [P.H. du P.] Casgrain ... superintended its production ..." (Board, C. "Certainly better than nothing at all" : a re-examination of the Imperial map of South Africa 1899-1902. Proceedings of the 21st International Cartographic Conference, Durban, 2003. Available online: http://icaci.org/files/documents/ICC_proceedings/ICC2003/Papers/109.pdf (accessed 5 Sept. 2012))., "This map is not to be considered as absolutely accurate.", Projection not given., Co-ordinates not given., Printed in black only., Map folds into an outer cover., The map is mounted on linen.
Identifier: islandora:24813

Title: Happy to be alive
Subject: Pinto, Candida, War correspondents--Angola,
Description: Candida Pinto, a television reporter for SIC TV in Portugal is happy to be alive having survived attempt to land a Kingair plane on an emergency runway in Huambo in the Huambo Province of Angola.
Identifier: islandora:6988

Title: , Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Canned foods industry, Nutrition, World War, 1939-1945, Armed forces,
Description: Stacks of tinned foods prepared in a Cape Town Factory for the Army in the North.
Identifier: islandora:16967

Title: General Louis Botha and General Koos de la Rey, Cape Town
Subject: South Africa. Parliament, Governments, Politics, South African War, 1899-1902, , ,
Description: General Botha and General de la Rey.
Identifier: islandora:15756

Title: Caritas Feeding Centre, Malanje, Angola
Subject: Angola--History--Civil War, 1975-2002--Social aspects,
Description: Angolans wait patiently for food at the Caritas Feeding Centre in Malange in the Malanje Province of Angola. The city was under siege by União Nacional para a Independência Total de Angola (UNITA) artillary.
Identifier: islandora:6987

Title: Britstown
Subject: South African War, 1899-1902 -- Maps., Britstown Region (South Africa) -- Maps.
Description: "Imperial Map of South Africa."--Cover., Map showing the divisional boundaries, roads, railways, telegraph lines, farm boundaries and fences, homesteads, hills, pans (often dry), cultivated land, and trees in the Britstown area., Relief shown by hachures., No edition given., "This map is not to be considered as absolutely accurate.", Projection not given., Map folds into an outer cover., All copies are mounted on linen. Advertisements have been pasted onto maps 292, 293a and 293b obscuring the key and other information.
Identifier: islandora:24812

Title: Erich Brand to Postscheckamt (Post office account), 8 November 1944
Subject: World War, 1939-1945, Brand, Erich--Correspondence, Soldiers--Correspondence
Description: Letter from Mr. Erich Brand to the Post office nominating his wife as the sole heir of his account. An English translation of this letter is available. To see this translation please contact the University of Cape Town Libraries' Special Collections.
Identifier: islandora:27367

Title: Orders to move on
Subject: Angola--History--Civil War, 1975-2002, Soldiers--Angola, Military helicopters--Angola,
Description: Soldiers from a Forças Armadas Angolanan (FAA) patrol are briefed and ordered by the senior officer before embarking on a mission into enemy territory.
Identifier: islandora:7064

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