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Title: Cathedral of District Six, Cape Town
Subject: District Six (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Forced removals (South Africa), Religion, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950
Description: Top: St Mark's Anglican Church stands steadfast on the hill in District Six. A symbol of tradition for some, the church was once called the "Cathedral of District Six" and the "small Vatican", and still holds High Mass three times a month. Here, the congregation streams down the hill after a Sunday morning service. Many once lived in the now bare land of District Six.
Identifier: islandora:17989

Title: Garcia State Forest
Subject: Leucadendron--Western Cape (South Africa), Proteaceae--Western Cape (South Africa), Plants--Western Cape (South Africa), Mountain plants--Western Cape (South Africa), ,
Description: District: Riversdale, Location: Garcia State Forest., Ecology: Dense Leucadendron communities.
Identifier: islandora:4158

Title: Political prisoners released from Robben Island, Cape Town, 1990
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Politics, Political prisoners, Apartheid, African National Congress, Freedom
Description: Going home: elated to be free, Mr Wellington Gumenge of Port Elizabeth (front) and Mr Johannes Boesak of Oudtshoorn leave Table Bay harbour yesterday. They were two of 15 Robben Island African National Congress (ANC) prisoners granted early release.
Identifier: islandora:15903

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:16906

Title: Gate to servants quarters, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Domestic workers, Apartheid, South Africa. Separate Amenities Act, 1953
Description: Maggie Dewies, domestic worker, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:18045

Title: Grabouw Forest Reserve
Subject: Vegetation monitoring--Western Cape (South Africa), Plants--Western Cape (South Africa), Mountain plants--Western Cape (South Africa), Botanists--Western Cape (South Africa), ,
Description: District: Caledon, Location: Grabouw Forest Reserve., Ecology: Unknown.
Identifier: islandora:3285

Title: Kogelberg Nature Reserve
Subject: Vegetation monitoring--Western Cape (South Africa), Plants--Western Cape (South Africa), Mountain plants--Western Cape (South Africa), Botanists--Western Cape (South Africa), ,
Description: District: Caledon, Location: Kogelberg Nature Reserve., Ecology: Unknown.
Identifier: islandora:2837

Title: Protest outside Church Square House, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Demonstrations, Religion, Politics
Description: Protest outside Church Square House, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:17835

Title: View of Horingberg and Helderwater from Simonshoek
Subject: Plants--Western Cape (South Africa), Mountain plants--Western Cape (South Africa), Mountains--Western Cape (South Africa), ,
Description: District: Unknown, Location: Grootvadersbosch Nature Reserve., Ecology: Unknown.
Identifier: islandora:4446

Title: Image from rock painting site. Site of Kanetvlei 2, Hex River Valley, Western Cape, South Africa.
Subject: Rock paintings--South Africa--Western Cape., , ,
Description: Photograph of the entrance to the rock painting site, Kanetvlei 2, Hex River Valley.
Identifier: islandora:21430

Title: Lecture theatre complex
Subject: South Africa ; Western Cape, Province of the ; Cape Town, University of the Western Cape, Universities and colleges--Landscape architecture--South Africa--Cape Town, Landscape architecture--South Africa--Cape Town--Designs and plans
Description: University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, Western Cape. Landscape sketch proposal for lecture theatre complex, University of the Western Cape. Plan, and paving detail., Plan: scale 1:200; paving detail: scale 1:50
Identifier: islandora:22518

Title: Cape Times Big Walk, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Sports, Charity, Newspapers, Women
Description: First woman across the finishing line, Cape Times 50 mile Big Walk, 1967
Identifier: islandora:16976

Title: Released from prison, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Political prisoners, Apartheid
Description: Mr Saleem Badat (left), Mr Jack Jaggers (obscured), Mr Marcus Solomon and Mr Logan Wort were among 37 people released from Victor Verster Prison yesterday.
Identifier: islandora:17931

Title: Foreshore freeway construction, Cape Town City
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Urban areas, Land, Urban development, Infrastructure, Transport, Building
Description: View of the Foreshore, Cape Town, shows progress on the freeways. At the start of the major contract, which will provide about 1 km of elevated dual carriageways parallel to the harbour fence, Murray & Stewart (Cape Town) offered to cut six months from the contract time. Three years later, with allowable extensions, they are still ahead of that speeded-up schedule. This means that the project should be completed in September 1976. Allowing for escalation, the total value of the work now being handled on the freeways will be in the region of R21-million.
Identifier: islandora:15125

Title: Bobbejanskrans
Subject: Hakea sericea--Western Cape (South Africa), Proteaceae--Western Cape (South Africa), Invasive plants--Western Cape (South Africa), Plants--Effect of fires on--Western Cape (South Africa), ,
Description: District: Paarl, Location: La Motte State Forest, Bobbejaanskrans., Ecology: Hakea sericea re-establishment patterns.
Identifier: islandora:3202

Title: UCT student demonstrations
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Rondebosch (Cape Town, South Africa), Civil unrest, Demonstrations, Government, Resistance to, Justice, Administration of
Description: Students hold placards claiming the rape of the law, [University of Cape Town], Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:16397

Title: Opening of a new factory, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Cape Town (South Africa), Industry, Business
Description: Opening of a new factory.
Identifier: islandora:14876

Title: Looters run away with store goods, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Demonstrations, Vandalism
Description: Haui March - looting.
Identifier: islandora:16206

Title: Image from rock painting site. Site of Huisrivierpass, near Calitzdorp, South Africa.
Subject: Rock paintings--South Africa--Western Cape., , ,
Description: Rock painting figures in red.
Identifier: islandora:21620

Title: Cederberg Wilderness Area
Subject: Protea nitida--Western Cape (South Africa), Proteaceae--Western Cape (South Africa), Plants--Western Cape (South Africa), Mountain plants--Western Cape (South Africa), Botanists--Western Cape (South Africa), ,
Description: District: Clanwilliam, Location: Cederberg Wilderness Area., Ecology: Protea nitida.
Identifier: islandora:4366

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