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Title: Memorial service held in front of the War Memorial, Cape Town
Subject: Soldiers, War memorials, Statues, ,
Description: Memorial service arranged for Coloured ex-serviceman. Klischograph
Identifier: islandora:15260

Title: Kuito, Angola, 1994
Subject: Angola--History--Civil War, 1975-2002, Kuito (Angola), Buildings--War damage--Angola--Kuito, Women--Angola--Kuito,
Description: Two Angolans walk past a ruined building in the city of Kuito, Angola. The city was destroyed during heavy fighting in 1993 and 1994. A United Nations (UN) brokered a ceasefire in 1994.
Identifier: islandora:7021

Title: Body of a refugee in a corridor of the Josina Machel Hospital, Luanda, Angola
Subject: Angola--History--Civil War, 1975-2002--Social aspects, War victims--Angola, Dead--Angola,
Description: The body of a refugee lies covered in a corridor of the Josina Machel Hospital.
Identifier: islandora:7007

Title: 50th anniversary of World War I, Cape Town, 1964
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), World War, 1914-1918, Memorials, Sculpture
Description: War Memorial to the First World War, 50 years ago today. Tribute is being paid by Mr W. B. Swanson.
Identifier: islandora:17120

Title: Nylstroom
Subject: South African War, 1899-1902 -- Maps., Nylstroom Region (South Africa) -- Maps.
Description: 1st ed., Map showing farm boundaries and fences, farm names, divisional boundaries, roads, rivers, telegraph lines and railways in the Nylstroom area. The map also indicates hills, pans (often dry), 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., Map folds into an outer cover., Map 487 is mounted on linen. The other copies are not folded.
Identifier: islandora:24856

Title: Magnus Malan, Pretoria, 1998
Subject: Apartheid--South Africa, Political violence--South Africa, South Africa--Social conditions, War crimes investigation--South Africa, Malan, Magnus, 1930-2011, Truth and Lies,
Description: Magnus Malan, Pretoria, 1998.
Identifier: islandora:761

Title: Food aid, Mozambique, 1968
Subject: Refugees--Mozambique, War--Mozambique, Decolonization--Mozambique, Food relief--Mozambique, Winer Batch01,
Description: Relief workers carrying food aid to Mozambican refugees displaced by the independence war, Lower Shire River, Chikwawa Valley, Malawi-Mozambique border, 1968.
Identifier: islandora:12530

Title: Ladysmith
Subject: South African War, 1899-1902 -- Maps., Ladysmith Region (South Africa) -- Maps.
Description: 1st ed., Map showing farm names, farm boundaries, roads, rivers, railways, dams, hills, pans (often dry), telegraph lines, homesteads, divisional boundaries, railways, cultivated lands and trees in the Ladysmith, Dundee, Newcastle, Utrecht, Pomeroy and Helpmekaar areas., 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., The maps are mounted on linen.
Identifier: islandora:24850

Title: Standing guard
Subject: Angola--History--Civil War, 1975-2002, Soldiers--Angola, Men with disabilities--Angola,
Description: A Forças Armadas Populares de Libertação de Angola (FAPLA) soldier stands guard in a war-damaged building in Santa Clara, the Angolan border post with Namibia. A man with one leg stands in the foreground.
Identifier: islandora:7032

Title: Replenishing water supplies
Subject: Angola--History--Civil War, 1975-2002, Soldiers--Angola, Children--Angola,
Description: União Nacional para a Independência Total de Angola, Forças Armadas de Libertação de Angola (UNITA, FALA) troops stop for fresh water in the Huambo Province of Angola.
Identifier: islandora:7004

Title: Mount Huxley
Subject: South African War, 1899-1902 -- Maps., Mount Huxley Region (South Africa) -- Maps., Northern Cape (South Africa) -- Maps.
Description: This map forms part of the Imperial map of the Cape Colony., The map shows grand trunk roads, trunk roads, branch roads, farm roads, rivers, hills, pans, railways, telegraph lines, homesteads, farm names, farm boundaries and divisional boundaries in the Mount Huxley area., Relief shown by hachures., "This map is not to be considered as absolutely accurate"., Projection not given., Printed in black and red., This map differs from another Mount Huxley map, also "Copyright, F.I.D. Cape Town, Sept. 1901." This map has less printing in red., Map folds into an outer cover., The maps are mounted on linen.
Identifier: islandora:24846

Title: Draghoender
Subject: South African War, 1899-1902 -- Maps., Draghoender Region (South Africa) -- Maps., Northern Cape (South Africa) -- Maps.
Description: This map forms part of the Imperial map of the Cape Colony., The map shows grand trunk roads, trunk roads, branch roads, farm roads, rivers, hills, pans, railways, telegraph lines, homesteads, farm names, farm boundaries and divisional boundaries in the Draghoender 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., Printed in black and red., Map folds into an outer cover., The map is mounted on linen.
Identifier: islandora:24826

Title: The USA war campaign explained
Subject: United States--Foreign relations--Iraq--Caricatures and cartoons, War--Caricatures and cartoons, Iraq War, 2003-2011--Caricatures and cartoons, South African wit and humor, Pictorial, United States
Description: The USA attack of Iran was based on overwhelming speed and force labelled a �Shock and Awe� strategy by President George Bush. Description provided by Tony Grogan.
Identifier: islandora:6133

Title: Gideon Johannes Nieuwoudt and Mike Bernardo, Cape Town, 1998
Subject: Apartheid--South Africa, Political violence--South Africa, South Africa--Social conditions, War crimes investigation--South Africa, Truth and Lies,
Description: Gideon Johannes Nieuwoudt and Mike Bernardo, a member of the witness protection team, Cape Town, 1998. Steve Biko, the leader of the Black Consciousness movement, died in Pretoria on 12 September 1977. He was beaten into a coma during interrogation by security officers. Nieuwoudt was one of five security policemen who came forward to confess to the assault in 1997. His application for amnesty was successfully opposed by the Biko family.
Identifier: islandora:786

Title: Barkly East
Subject: South African War, 1899-1902 -- Maps., Barkly East Region (South Africa) -- Maps.
Description: 1st ed., The map shows towns including Barkly East, Aliwal North, Wodehouse, Elliot, Rhodes, Lady Grey, Jamestown, Dordrecht, Cala, Engcobo and Xalanga, farm names, farm boundaries and fences, divisional boundaries, roads, rivers, hills, pans (often dry), railways, telegraph lines, 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., Map folds into an outer cover., Maps 255a and 255c are mounted on linen. Map 255b is not folded and is torn in several places.
Identifier: islandora:24796

Title: Pik Botha, Pretoria, 1998
Subject: Apartheid--South Africa, Political violence--South Africa, South Africa--Social conditions, War crimes investigation--South Africa, Botha, R. F. (Roelof Frederik), 1932-, Truth and Lies,
Description: Pik Botha, Pretoria, 1998.
Identifier: islandora:782

Title: El Alamein commemorative service, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Memorials, World War, 1939-1945, South African Defence Force, Civil society
Description: El Alamein: Military and civilian guests at the annual El Alamein commemorative service in 1986. Wreaths were laid by the Defence Force, service organisations and civilian dignitaries, while Major Lionel Murray, MC and Bar, delivered the address. An old soldier pays tribute to comrades who fell during the battle of El Alamein 44 years ago.
Identifier: islandora:16642

Title: Biko brothers, King Williams township, 1997
Subject: Apartheid--South Africa, Political violence--South Africa, South Africa--Social conditions, War crimes investigation--South Africa, Truth and Lies,
Description: Biko brothers at their family home, King Williams township, 1997. Steve Biko, the leader of the Black Consciousness movement, died in Pretoria on 12 September 1977. He was beaten into a coma during interrogation by security officers. The inquest found that Biko had died of head injuries inflicted over a period of several days during his detention. Five security policemen came forward to confess to the assault in 1997. The application for amnesty was successfully opposed by the Biko family.
Identifier: islandora:800

Title: Williston
Subject: South African War, 1899-1902 -- Maps., Williston Region (South Africa) -- Maps., Northern Cape (South Africa) -- Maps.
Description: 3rd ed., This map forms part of the Imperial map of the Cape Colony., The map shows main roads, branch roads, farm roads, rivers, hills, pans, railways, telegraph lines, homesteads, farm names, farm boundaries and divisional boundaries in the Williston area., Relief shown by hachures., "South Africa having never been properly surveyed, this map must necessarily contain many inaccuracies.", Projection not given., Co-ordinates not given., Printed in black, red, brown and blue., Map folds into an outer cover., The maps are mounted on linen.
Identifier: islandora:24806

Title: Kuruman
Subject: South African War, 1899-1902 -- Maps., Kuruman Region (South Africa) -- Maps., Northern Cape (South Africa) -- Maps.
Description: This map forms part of the Imperial map of the Cape Colony., The map shows main roads, branch roads, farm roads, rivers, hills, dams, pans, springs, huts, homesteads, farm names, farm boundaries, divisional boundaries and trigonometrical stations in the Kuruman 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., Printed in black and red., Map folds into an outer cover., The maps are mounted on linen.
Identifier: islandora:24837

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