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Title: Near Birdhouse Meteorological Station
Subject: Prescribed burning--Western Cape (South Africa), Vegetation management--Western Cape (South Africa), Plants--Western Cape (South Africa), Mountain plants--Western Cape (South Africa), ,
Description: District: Caledon, Location: Jakkalsrivier experimental area., Ecology: Prescribed burning.
Identifier: islandora:4636

Title: Power station chimneys spewing noxious smoke, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Cape Town (South Africa), Urban areas, Infrastructure, Electric industries, Pollution
Description: If you work in the city, this is what you are breathing: the large power station chimneys on the Foreshore daily spew out noxious smoke which soon finds its way into your lungs. The Argus Clear Campaign is out to tackle such problems.
Identifier: islandora:18123

Title: Goods yard, Cape Town Station
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Historic buildings, Architecture, Transport, Economy
Description: Cape Town goods yard: Cape Town Railway Station.
Identifier: islandora:17435

Title: H.F. Verwoerd and C.R. Swart, Cape Town Station, Cape Town, 1962
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Railways, Apartheid, Politicians, Transport
Description: State President (Mr C. R. Swart) chatted with the Prime Minister (Dr. H. F. Verwoerd) a few minutes before the President left Cape Town in the White Train for Pretoria yesterday afternoon.
Identifier: islandora:17412

Title: Castle Street entrance to old Cape Town Station, 1968
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Transport, Historic buildings, Demolition
Description: The side entrance to Castle Street, now under water where the rain has leaked in, and littered with rubble and fallen beams.
Identifier: islandora:17413

Title: Cape Town Station development, Cape Town, 1967
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Urban development, City planning, Architecture, Demolition
Description: Rooftop view from a city building shows the progress made in clearing the area in front of Cape Town's new station. The old station complex is being demolished stage by stage.
Identifier: islandora:17395

Title: Former police station, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Rondebosch (Cape Town, South Africa), Historic buildings, Real estate development, Urban development
Description: The former Rondebosch Police Station, our auction choice for the week. This building housed Rondebosch's police for 77 years, and is one of the oldest buildings in Rondebosch.
Identifier: islandora:16629

Title: Family of detainees being led to police station, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Political prisoners, Apartheid, Demonstrations
Description: Detainees: Mrs Marjorie Pather is led to the Caledon Square Police Station soon after police sjambokked families of detainees.
Identifier: islandora:17940

Title: Near Birdhouse Meteorological Station
Subject: Prescribed burning--Western Cape (South Africa), Vegetation management--Western Cape (South Africa), Plants--Western Cape (South Africa), Mountain plants--Western Cape (South Africa), ,
Description: District: Caledon, Location: Jakkalsrivier experimental area., Ecology: Prescribed burning.
Identifier: islandora:4640

Title: Bellville station, Cape Town
Subject: Bellville (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Railways, Transport, City planning, Urban development
Description: Aerial view of the layout of Bellville Station in the early 1960s.
Identifier: islandora:16807

Title: Cape Town Station, Cape Town, 1875
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Historic buildings, Architecture, Demolition, Transport
Description: Cape Town Station, 1875.
Identifier: islandora:17439

Title: Porter, Cape Town Station, 1962
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Transport, City planning, Urban development, Roads
Description: All day long: The porters at Cape Town Station are at it all day long. Scores of passengers are either leaving or arriving or just waiting, and Mr D. J. du Toit, the foreman porter, seen at his barrow, must see that they are not kept waiting over-long.
Identifier: islandora:17399

Title: Demolition of old Cape Town Station, 1967
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Trains, Historic buildings, Architecture, Demolition
Description: The old Cape Town Station in the process of being demolished, while the new station is being built behind it.
Identifier: islandora:17432

Title: Apartheid signage, Cape Town Station, 1966
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Apartheid, Race discrimination, Transport, Railways
Description: Apartheid signage at Cape Town Station, 1966.
Identifier: islandora:17427

Title: Deserted railway station, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Railroads, Transport, Infrastructure
Description: Railway Station, Cape Town / While Capetonians shivered at home on Wednesday night, the lights reflected in the forecourt paving of the new railway station shone for a solitary window shopper.
Identifier: islandora:16152

Title: Electric station at Mouille Point, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Mouille Point (Cape Town, South Africa), Urban areas, Infrastructure, Electric industries
Description: Where the Atlantic cable ends. How many people know that this little electric station on the beach at Mouille Point houses the end of the Atlantic cable?
Identifier: islandora:18119

Title: The inside of Cape Town train station.
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Railroads, Transport, Infrastructure, Architecture, Interior decoration
Description: The inside of Cape Town train station.
Identifier: islandora:16154

Title: Police search at train station, South Africa, 1992
Subject: Apartheid--South Africa--Soweto, Political violence--South Africa--Soweto, Soweto (South Africa)--Social conditions, Railroad stations--South Africa--Soweto, History--Political aspects--South Africa--Soweto, Best of Marinovich
Description: Police search African National Congress (ANC) supporters at a train station in Soweto, 1992. Hundreds were killed on trains, often by masked men. Some were later identified as police agents, while others claimed the minibus taxi bosses organised the deaths to force customers to use their mode of transport.
Identifier: islandora:1205

Title: Apartheid signage, Cape Town Station, 1966
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Apartheid, Race discrimination, Transport, Railways
Description: Non-white concourse on Cape Town Station.
Identifier: islandora:17426

Title: Rapid reconnaissance, Bethulie Bridge to Myburg station via Odendaal Stroom
Subject: Eastern Cape (South Africa) -- Maps.
Description: Reconnaissance map assessing the suitability of the route from Bethulie Bridge to Myburg station via Odendaal Stroom for the transportation of Maltese carts, machine guns and other armaments. The map shows farms (including names of some farm owners), dams, marshy grounds and pools, and tracks leading off the road., Relief shown by contours., Projection not given. Coordinates not given.
Identifier: islandora:19619

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