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Title: Dr Alec Boraine, Progressive Federal Party candidate for Pinelands, Cape Town
Subject: Pinelands (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Politics, Apartheid, Elections
Description: Above: Dr Alec Boraine, Progressive Federal Party candidate for Pinelands, looks at the slogans "Boraine will sink SA," "Tutu" and "Swapo" sprayed over the Pinelands Central Square Primary School wall. All his posters were sprayed and similar slogans sprayed over the Methodist, Anglican and Dutch Reformed churches' walls, the Pinelands Tennis club, a public service station and a Christian coffee bar over the Easter weekend.
Identifier: islandora:18068

Title: Black Consciousness demonstration, Athlone, Cape Town
Subject: Athlone (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Politics, Coloured people (South Africa), Black consciousness, Demonstrations
Description: In the crowd there were something like 12 000 people. On the platform there were speakers from far and wide representing all the races in South Africa - except the Whites. This was at Athlone, Cape Town, last Sunday. According to organisers of the meeting and to many political observers, it was a significant day indeed for Black Consciousness and the growth of Black Power in South Africa.
Identifier: islandora:16876

Title: Prisoners arrive in the harbour, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Political prisoners, Apartheid
Description: Detainees and house arrest.
Identifier: islandora:17916

Title: Party members arrive for the council's opening session, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Politics
Description: Party members arrive for the council's opening session, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:15985

Title: Setting fire to barricades, Cape Town, South Africa
Subject: Political violence--South Africa--Cape Town, Demonstrations--South Africa--Cape Town, Apartheid--South Africa--Cape Town, Segregation----South Africa--Cape Town, Political history--South Africa--Cape Town
Description: Protestors set fire to ambushed trucks and other material used to barricade streets against the police during nationwide anti-apartheid riots, October 1985, Athlone, South Africa.
Identifier: islandora:5341

Title: Residents search for belongings
Subject: squatter camps, townships, destruction, salvaging materialsSquatter settlements--South Africa--Cape Town, Political violence--South Africa--Cape Town, Women, Children
Description: A mother and child search for their belongings after their house was burnt down by 'witdoeke' (vigilantes)
Identifier: islandora:8434

Title: Mothers of the accused in the Terrorism Trial, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Politics, Trials, Courts, Women
Description: Barred: Mothers of two of the accused in the Terrorism Trial, Mrs Margaret Malgas and Mrs Andrina Forbes, outside the Supreme Court today after they were barred from the trial.
Identifier: islandora:17607

Title: Fencing at Camps Bay beach, Cape Town
Subject: Camps Bay (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, South Africa. Separate Amenities Act, 1953, Beaches, Political activists
Description: Sections of the controversial Camps Bay beach fence, which were last night taken down by a group opposed to the fencing, wait for workers to erect them again.
Identifier: islandora:16992

Title: Nelson Mandela and ANC leaders, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Politics, African National Congress, South African Communist Party, Democracy, Liberation movements
Description: Nelson Mandela, flanked by African National Congress/South Africa Communist Party (ANC/SACP) leaders Alfred Nzo, Walter Sisulu and Joe Slovo, addresses a Cape Town crowd shortly after his release from prison
Identifier: islandora:15910

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:16907

Title: Party members arrive for the council's opening session, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Politics
Description: Federal Party members arrive at the Committee of the Coloured Representative Council (CRC) today for the official opening of the council's third session at Bellville. From left (front): Mr Peter Swartz, administrative secretary of the party, Mr Tom Swartz, leader of the party and chairman of the CRC executive, and Dr C.C. Pilcher, chief whip.
Identifier: islandora:15983

Title: Released prisoners, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Salt River (Cape Town, South Africa), Date unknown, Political prisoners, Historic sites, Monuments
Description: Free men: Mr Rogerio Chamusso, Mr Mzwandile Dikana, Mr Martin Sehlapelo, Mr Mpumelelo Gaba and Mr Andries Maponya outside Cowley House in Salt River yesterday, after their release from Robben Island.
Identifier: islandora:16491

Title: ANC election campaign rally, Athlone
Subject: Political campaigns--South Africa--Cape Town,
Description: Members of the crowd gesture and cheer during an African National Congress (ANC) election campaign rally in Athlone Stadium.
Identifier: islandora:5325

Title: Members of the African National Congress of the Western Cape , Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Politics, African National Congress, Leadership
Description: ANC leadership in the Western Cape, 1991. Back row, left to right: Trevor Manuel; Lizo Nqungwana; Noel Williams; Basil Davidson; Mai Mildred Letsia; Chris Nissan; Johnny Issel; James (surname unknown)Front row, left to right: Dullah Omar; Bulelani Ngcuka; Reg September; Christmas Tinto; Hilda Ndude; Amos Lingisi; Neville van de Rheede
Identifier: islandora:15928

Title: Police patrol
Subject: squatter camps, townships, gunsSquatter settlements--South Africa--Cape Town, Political violence--South Africa--Cape Town, South Africa--Armed Forces, Weapons
Description: Police patrol the Crossroads informal settlement.
Identifier: islandora:8390

Title: Prime Minister Vorster and Cabinet, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Politics, Cabinet ministers, National Party (South Africa), Governments
Description: The Prime Minister, Mr. Vorster, seated at the head of the table between his Cabinet colleagues at the start of today's crucial Cabinet meeting.
Identifier: islandora:16909

Title: Political protests, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Demonstrations, Apartheid, Politics, South African Police
Description: Political protests, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:17717

Title: Inkatha funeral
Subject: effects of political violence, shields, clubsBurial--South Africa--Cape Town, Political violence--South Africa--Cape Town, Weapons
Description: Funeral of an Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) activist who was killed during clashes with the United Democratic Front (UDF).
Identifier: islandora:8378

Title: Citizens in the gardens of Tuynhuys, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Politics, Apartheid
Description: It's "yes": Magdel Wagener of Oranjezicht, left, André Hofmeister of Elsies River and Leigh Robertson of Gardens celebrate the referendum result in the garden of Tuynhuys, open to citizens of Cape Town for the first time yesterday.
Identifier: islandora:18077

Title: Ministers share a joke, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Politics, Cabinet ministers, National Party (South Africa), Governments
Description: Minister of Internal Affairs , Mr J C Heunis (left), shares a joke with [?] (centre) and Prime Minister P W Botha (right)
Identifier: islandora:16918

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