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Title: Police remove members of ANC Women's League from parliament, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Demonstrations, Politics
Description: Removed: Police remove two members of the African National Congress Women's League from Parliament today. On the pillar is red paint thrown by the demonstrators.
Identifier: islandora:17861

Title: Marchers run from teargas, Cape Town
Subject: Kraaifontein (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Politics, Demonstrations
Description: Gassed: Marchers run from teargas fired by police when more than 300 Kraaifontein squatters, led by church ministers and Dr Allan Boesak, president of the World Alliance of Reformed Churches, tried to converge on the police station yesterday to ask the police not to help to evict them from the Uitkyk area today.
Identifier: islandora:17875

Title: Woman wipes tears from her face with tissue, Cape Town
Subject: Religion, Islam, ,
Description: The pain of being left behind shows as a woman says goodbye to friends.
Identifier: islandora:15503

Title: Couple reunited after being released from prison, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Jails, Reformatories, Prisons, Political prisoners
Description: Released from Robben Island after conviction under the Terrorism Act, sentenced with five years banning order.
Identifier: islandora:16040

Title: Minstrel from the Jolly Johnson troupe, Cape Town
Subject: Entertainers, Performing arts, Amusements, ,
Description: Coon Carnival troupes gyrate through the city: Heppy Nuwe Djaar, says Achmat Adams, of the Jolly Johnson Troupe, at the Coon Carnival at Hartleyvale today. This picture was taken by staff photographer Dana Le Roux after the gaily dressed troupes had marched exuberantly through the streets of the city on their way to the carnivals at Hartleyvale and Athlone.
Identifier: islandora:15323

Title: Pupils from Hanover Park listen to promises of improvement, Cape Town
Subject: Hanover Park (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Demonstrations, Education, Youth
Description: Solemn attention: Pupils from Hanover Park listen attentively to promises of improvement at the strife-torn Crystal Senior Secondary School during their protest march today.
Identifier: islandora:18053

Title: Unconditionally released from Robben Island, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Political prisoners, Apartheid
Description: Freed: Unconditionally released from Robben Island today are, from left, Mr Monde Tshete, Mr Gallo Veto, Mr Keno Hlatshwayo, Mr Richard Chauke, 38, and Mr Ben Mashinini.
Identifier: islandora:17908

Title: Woman scoops up sand from window-sill, Cape Town
Subject: Weather, Residential buildings, Winds, ,
Description: Mrs Mariam Stoutz scoops sand blown on to her bedroom window-sill.
Identifier: islandora:15339

Title: Ngive (a border town in Southern Angola) in ruins after the withdrawal of troops from the South African Defence Force in 1990.
Subject: Angola--History--Civil War, 1975-2002, Buildings--War damage--Angola--Cunene (Province),
Description: Ngive, a town in the Cunene Province of Angola is deserted and ruined after the withdrawal of troops from the South African Defence Force in 1990.
Identifier: islandora:7077

Title: Police stop Graeme Bloch from protesting, Cape Town
Subject: Bloch, Graeme, Political activists, South African Police, Demonstrations, Apartheid era
Description: Graeme Bloch protesting agains Section 29
Identifier: islandora:14814

Title: Collecting debris from dock basin, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Stevedores, Labor
Description: Messy job: Full-time job for these men is the retrieving of debris from the oil-covered dock basin. The corner of the Elbow accumulates all the flotsam and has oil sometimes half an inch deep.
Identifier: islandora:18027

Title: Looking across from the fishing jetty in the docks, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Cape Town Harbour (South Africa), Ships, Fishing industry, History
Description: Left: fishing jetty: Looking across from the fishing jetty in the Cape Town Docks.
Identifier: islandora:17956

Title: Soldiers take a break from their duties, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Civil unrest, Violence, Law enforcement, Weapons
Description: Members of the riot squad take a rest at Gugletu yesterday.
Identifier: islandora:16321

Title: Security official stops man from fleeing, Cape Town
Subject: Entertainers, Performing arts, Amusements, ,
Description: Coons.
Identifier: islandora:15335

Title: Professor Israel Abrahams, with the Speaker of the House of Assembly, Mr. Klopper, reads passages from a copy of Professor U. Cassuto's book "From Noah to Abraham", Cape Town
Subject: Rabbis--South Africa, Religious leaders, Jewish scholars, Politics
Description: The Chief Rabbi of Cape Town, Prof. Israel Abrahams (left) , with the Speaker of the House of Assembly, Mr. Klopper, reads passages from a copy of Prof. U. Cassuto's book "From Noah to Abraham", which the Chief Rabbi has translated for the Hebrew University from Hebrew into English. Professor Abrahams presented the copy to Mr. Klopper yesterday.
Identifier: islandora:14692

Title: Nurses from the Nico Malan Nursing College, Cape Town
Subject: Medical care, Nurses, Education, ,
Description: Holding the proof of their hard work during the past year are six of the award-winners of Cape Town's Nico Malan Nursing College. From the left they are Ms Wilma Februarie, Ms Sarie Jonkers, Ms Denise Lopser, Ms Jean Fredericks (tutor), Ms Joan Peterson and Ms Jennifer Jones.
Identifier: islandora:15612

Title: ANC prisoners released from Robben Island, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Political prisoners, Apartheid, African National Congress
Description: Released: the first six ANC prisoners from Robben Island yesterday after spending three to 10 years are from left, Eddie Humalog, Nelson Topeka, Mohan Mmoledi, Vuyisile Mbundu, Bushy Maape and Norman Yengeni. Western Cape United Democratic Front (UDF) spokesman Trevor Manuel is in the white shirt. At the back is Mr Amos Lengisi, joint secretary of the UDF in the Western Cape.
Identifier: islandora:17907

Title: Armed man removed from ANC meeting in Parow, Cape Town
Subject: Parow (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Politics, African National Congress, Election campaigns, Right wing
Description: An armed man, a suspected member of the Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (AWB), is ejected from an African National Congress's (ANC) meeting in Parow before the 1994 democratic elections.
Identifier: islandora:15900

Title: Letter from Ruth Lindner, London, to Mrs Roy Sorell, Long Street, Cape Town, South Africa, 1940
Subject: Bruch, Edith--Correspondence, Lindner, Ruth--Correspondence, World War, 1939-1945
Description: A letter from Ruth Lindner, London, to Mrs Roy Sorell, Long Street, Cape Town, South Africa, 1940. The following is conveyed in the letter: congratulations from Ruth on the birth of a son to Edith and Roy; Ruth discusses her minor operation then talks of the German invasion of Holland (May 1940) and the stress she went through to determine whether her relations were alright. She tells how she eventually found out that they were, but states that she cannot bear for them to live ''under the government of these barbarians'' (ie. under the government of Nazi Germany).
Identifier: islandora:29874

Title: Passengers board a flight to Windhoek from Cape Town in 1970
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Cape Town International Airport, Apartheid, Travel, Weather
Description: Passengers show their seating cards at the gate before boarding the plane bound for Windhoek at 10.10 this morning. This was the first plane to leave D.F.Malan Airport since late yesterday afternoon. The Airways terminal was crowded with more than 300 would-be travellers this morning, waiting for the fog to lift.
Identifier: islandora:15879

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