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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that the war with South Africa had come to an end and that Cuban forces based in Cahama for many years have finally withdrawn.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

Title: Craig Williamson, Pretoria, 1998
Subject: Apartheid--South Africa, Political violence--South Africa, South Africa--Social conditions, War crimes investigation--South Africa, Truth and Lies,
Description: Craig Williamson, 'apartheid superspy', was a former police officer who joined military intelligence and headed the security branch's foreign section. He was also involved in anti-apartheid politics as vice-president of NUSAS (National Union of South African Students) in 1976 and knew Jeanette and Marius Schoon personally. Williamson applied to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) for amnesty for the murders of Ruth First and Jeanette and Katryn Schoon, who were all killed by letter bombs commissioned by him.
Identifier: islandora:802

Title: Ngive (a border town in Southern Angola) in ruins after the withdrawal of troops from the South African Defence Force in 1990.
Subject: Angola--History--Civil War, 1975-2002, Buildings--War damage--Angola--Cunene (Province),
Description: Ngive, a town in the Cunene Province of Angola is deserted and ruined after the withdrawal of troops from the South African Defence Force in 1990.
Identifier: islandora:7077

Title: Remains of soldier after battle
Subject: Dead, War casualties
Description: Remains of soldier after battle, Ombalantu.
Identifier: islandora:6800

Title: Military monument, Luanda, Angola
Subject: Angola--History--Civil War, 1975-2002, Armored vehicles, Military--Angola,
Description: A Soviet personnel carrier crushes a South African Defence Force Eland armoured car captured during the 1980's in Angola. União Nacional para a Independência Total de Angola (UNITA) election posters were pasted onto this Forças Armadas Populares de Libertação de Angola (FAPLA) monument.
Identifier: islandora:7040

Title: Gunners' Memorial, Cape Town, 1966
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), World War, 1914-1918, Recreation, Table Mountain (Western Cape, South Africa)
Description: Gunners' memorial, part of the Delville Wood memorial complex in the Company's Gardens, Cape Town, 1966.
Identifier: islandora:17256

Title: De Kaap
Subject: South African War, 1899-1902 -- Maps., De Kaap Valley Region (Mpumalanga, South Africa) -- Maps.
Description: 1st ed., Map showing De Kaap, the Lydenburg district, Jamestown and Pilgrims Rest, rivers (including the Crocodile River), railways and the De Kaap goldfields. The map also indicates main roads, farm roads, hills, pans, telegraph lines, homesteads, farm names, farm boundaries and divisional boundaries., Relief shown by hachures., "G.F.N. Henderson [,] Colonel. Director of Military Intelligence"., Projection not given., Map folds into an outer cover., The maps are mounted on linen. Advertisements have been pasted onto both copies obscuring the key and other information.
Identifier: islandora:24823

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