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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: 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: 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

Title: Two female singers from the band Mango Groove, show programme that is for sale , Cape Town
Subject: Mango Groove (Musical group), Johnston, Claire, Hashe, Beulah, Musicians--South Africa
Description: Mango Groovers: Singers Claire Johnston and Beulah Hashe with a souvenir programme fans will be able to buy at the Good Hope Centre concerts tonight, tomorrow afternoon and tomorrow night
Identifier: islandora:14708

Title: Men with carpet that reads "From the birth of a Nation to the independence of a Republic", Cape Town
Subject: Governments, Referendum, Autonomy, ,
Description: Hand-made carpet presented to Mr H.B. Kloppers (left) and Sen. Jon Naude by Sen. Jan D. Van Zyl (right).
Identifier: islandora:15705

Title: Letter from Ernst (last name unknown), Durham, North Carolina, to Edith Bruch, Cape Town, South Africa, 1937
Subject: Bruch, Edith--Correspondence
Description: A letter from Ernst (last name unknown), Durham, North Carolina, to Edith Bruch, Cape Town, South Africa, 1937.
Identifier: islandora:29871

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