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Title: Union celebrations in Adderley Street, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Cape Town (South Africa), Festivals, Colonialism
Description: Union celebrations, Adderley St. from Darling St. junction.
Identifier: islandora:14534

Title: Chasing a restless muse - a lecture recital by Dr John Purser, Chisholm Recital Room, South African College of Music, Cape Town, South Africa
Subject: Concert programs, Concerts--South Africa--Cape Town
Description: Concert programme
Identifier: islandora:30225

Title: Grandmother comforts her grandson, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Grief, Youth, Weapons, Law enforcement
Description: "They knew those bullets will kill," said Mrs F. September. Confined to a wheelchair for 30 years, she now has to care for her grandchild, Randall, 5, whose father died on the night of June 17.
Identifier: islandora:16181

Title: Parow East Dutch Reformed Church, Cape Town, 1962
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Church buildings, Historic buildings, Architecture, Christianity
Description: Almost futuristic in design, the Parow East Dutch Reformed Church in Tygerberg Road was built three years ago. The unusual tower rests on a triangular base and dwindles to a pinpoint at the top. The front wall is symbolically curved to welcome the congregation on Sundays. Steel, stone and metal have been combined into a harmonious, spacious place of worship.
Identifier: islandora:17297

Title: Students march in protest over the education system, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), COSAS (South Africa), Demonstrations
Description: Education march: students linked arm-in-arm do a toyi-toyi dance during a march to the Houses of Parliament yesterday. Student leaders handed over a memorandum to an official of the State President's office calling for the creation of one education department and for the president's intervention in the improvement of facilities.
Identifier: islandora:16079

Title: Protests against Police action, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Demonstrations, South African Police
Description: March momentum ... The city-centre march protesting against police action gradually takes after the leaders grouped outside a church on Greenmarket Square.
Identifier: islandora:17764

Title: Circus and pier, Adderley Street, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Cape Town Harbour, Recreation
Description: Cape Town Pier at the bottom of Adderley Street all lit up in 1929
Identifier: islandora:17071

Title: Greek Orthodox Church, Woodstock, Cape Town, 1961
Subject: Woodstock (Cape Town, South Africa), Church buildings, Historic buildings, Architecture, Christianity
Description: The Greek Orthodox Church in Mountain Road Woodstock, was built in 1901 by a congregation of less than 80 people. To-day there are about 1, 100 people in the congregation.
Identifier: islandora:17307

Title: Police at riots, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Demonstrations, Education, Youth, South African Police
Description: School boycotts and riots.
Identifier: islandora:18054

Title: Films and Filmmaking, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Cape Town (South Africa), Motion pictures, Apartheid
Description: Films and filmmaking, Cape Town
Identifier: islandora:14927

Title: City of Cape Town and environs
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa) -- Maps., Cape Town Metropolitan Area (South Africa) -- Maps.
Description: Text in English and Afrikaans., This coloured version of the 1937 map shows the central business district and the peri-urban and suburban areas of Cape Town including Gardens, Oranjezicht, Vredehoek, Tamboers Kloof, Woodstock, Salt River, Brooklyn, Good Hope model village, Milnerton, Paarden Eiland, Maitland, certificate of registered title for Montagu Gardens, Sanddrift, Tiger Oats Township, Kensington, Windermere, Factreton, Epping plantation, Uitvlugt, Gatesville, Belgravia, Sanatorium Township, Pinelands and the Garden Cities site, Ndabeni, Hazendal, the proposed Bokmakirie Township, Goodwood, Langa, Welcome, Observatory, Mowbray, Rosebank, Rondebosch, Groote Schuur Estate, Kirstenbosch, Newlands, Claremont, Kenilworth, Constantia, Wynberg, Plumstead, Diep River, Heathfield, Retreat, Lotus River, Schaap Kraal, Tokai, Silvermine, Ronde Vlei, Zeekoe Vlei, Grassy Park, Strandfontein Coast Forest Reserve, Montagu's Gift, Ilfracombe Estate, Dreyersdal, Lakeside, Muizenberg, St James, Kalk Bay, Clovelly, Fish Hoek, Glencairn, Red Hill, Simonstown, Simon's Bay, Kommetjie, Sweet Water, Witsands, Noordhoek, Scarborough, Hout Bay, Chapman's Peak, Kronendal, Oude Kraal, Bakoven, Camps Bay, Clifton, Sea Point, Fresnaye, Green Point, Mouille Point and Table Bay harbour., The map also shows municipalities, streets, buildings, erven with property numbers, "native locations", Table Mountain, the Twelve Apostles and other mountains, rivers and dams, salt pans, forested areas, sports and recreation grounds, Kenilworth Race Course, golf courses, aerodromes (including the air mail aerodrome site), hospitals and sanatoria including Groote Schuur, Valkenberg, Rentzkie's Farm Isolation hospital, Oude Molen Mental Hospital, the Alexandra Institution and the Chronic Sick home, churches, railway lines, railway stations, power stations, the zoo, the University of Cape Town, lighthouses, cemeteries and burial grounds., Relief shown pictorially., Dimensions of the printed sheets: 89 x 113 cm. or smaller., The library does not hold a full printed set of the 1937 edition of this map and this coloured digital set is incomplete. These digital copies of sheets 2, 3 and 4 of the series have been made available through the generosity of the Environmental Resource Management Department of the Cape Town City Council.
Identifier: islandora:19890

Title: Aerial view of Kenilworth Race Course and Youngsfield Army Base, Cape Town
Subject: Kenilworth (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Military, Apartheid, Segregation
Description: Aerial image showing segregated parking at Youngsfield Army Base near Kenilworth Race Course, Cape Town
Identifier: islandora:15887

Title: Two women dance in the road amidst the traffic, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Civil unrest, Apartheid, Demonstrations, Segregation
Description: Six African girls disrupted pedestrian traffic in front of the Trust Bank building in the City yesterday, shouting Black Power slogans, jostling passers-by, and attempting to force their way into Whites-only taxis. Shouting: "We will die with our Black brothers," the six jumped into a non-White taxi when police arrived and sped off.
Identifier: islandora:16305

Title: Supporters of Anti-Crime Forum, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Demonstrations, Crime
Description: Chain gang: Supporters of the Maneberg Anti-Crime Forum chained themselves to the gates of Parliament demanding an audience with Safety and Security Minister, Sidney Mufamadi.
Identifier: islandora:17828

Title: Grieving mother is comforted by family, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Grief, Youth
Description: 12 000 mourn Halt Road deaths: Mrs Elizabeth Fortuin, the mother of Bernard Fortuin, is comforted by family members at the graveside yesterday
Identifier: islandora:16186

Title: Ex-islander Mikki Xhayiya, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Political prisoners, Apartheid
Description: Ex-islander, Mikki Xhayiya.
Identifier: islandora:17917

Title: Home-made toys in the Malay Quarter, Cape Town, 1960s
Subject: Bo-Kaap (Cape Town, South Africa), South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Children, Recreation, Historic districts
Description: Child pulling a home-made trolley in the Malay Quarter, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:17233

Title: Gabebah Abrahams explores an early waterway, Cape Town
Subject: Archaeology, Excavation sites (Archaeology), Water-pipes--South Africa--Cape Town
Description: Miss Gabebah Abrahams delving into one of Cape Town's earliest man-made waterways.
Identifier: islandora:14695

Title: Black Sash demonstrates at St. Mary's Cathedral, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Demonstrations, Women political activists, Politics, Crime
Description: Nope to the rope: Campaigner Mr Reggie September and Black Sash members demonstrate at St Mary's Cathedral.
Identifier: islandora:17851

Title: Policemen clear rocks and other debris off a road, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Civil unrest, Violence, Barricades (Military science), Demonstrations, Law enforcement
Description: Riot police clear a crude road block in Duinefontein Road, near Manenberg, yesterday, after a group African youths had thrown concrete blocks and rocks into the road.
Identifier: islandora:16262

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