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Title: Oral history interview with W. (Minie) Johnson
Subject: Oral history, Drinking of alcoholic beverages--Social aspects--South Africa, Apartheid--South Africa, Alcohol--Government policy--South Africa
Description: This project spans three sub-collections. This case study in Windermere/Kensington in the Western Cape focuses on the coloured residents of the area and examines the socio-political environment and racial/gender discrimination with regards to alcohol under apartheid policies. Themes include: discriminatory laws, government policy, housing, racialised spaces and the smuggling of alcohol by residents and shebeens (a bar, predominately in the townships where alcohol is sold).
Identifier: islandora:29638

Title: ANC church service, Cape Town
Subject: Apartheid--South Africa, South Africa--Politics and government--1978-1989, South Africa--History--1961-1994, Rites and ceremonies--South Africa, Political activists--South Africa, Saxophonists--South Africa,
Description: Saxophonist playing at a church service attended by political activists, Cape Town., circa 1990
Identifier: islandora:12619

Title: Vigilante action, Crossroads, 1986
Subject: Vigilantes, Political violence, Armored vehicles, Military, Apartheid, Political history--South Africa, Beyond the Barricades
Description: Wit-doeke (Afrikaans for "white headbands") vigilantes, unopposed by the police, set fire to homes in Crossroads, a squatter township near Cape Town. An estimated 80,000 people were left homeless and 60 dead as a result of Wit-doeke action in 1986.
Identifier: islandora:869

Title: Funeral, KwaMashu, Durban
Subject: Funerals--South Africa, Pallbearers--South Africa, Political history--South Africa, South Africa--Social conditions--20th century, Apartheid, The Cordoned Heart
Description: Pallbearers carrying the coffins at the funeral of two African National Congress (ANC) soldiers killed in clashes with the police outside Stanger.
Identifier: islandora:5734

Title: Oral history interview with Mr. and Mrs Cupido [Part 2 of 4]
Subject: Oral history, Drinking of alcoholic beverages--Social aspects--South Africa, Apartheid--South Africa, Alcohol--Government policy--South Africa
Description: This project spans three sub-collections. This case study in Windermere/Kensington in the Western Cape focuses on the coloured residents of the area and examines the socio-political environment and racial/gender discrimination with regards to alcohol under apartheid policies. Themes include: discriminatory laws, government policy, housing, racialised spaces and the smuggling of alcohol by residents and shebeens (a bar, predominately in the townships where alcohol is sold)., Pin9.03b.mp3: Part 2 of 4 ; 17:15 min. ; interview 3 of 15
Identifier: islandora:29628

Title: ANC church service, Cape Town
Subject: Apartheid--South Africa, South Africa--Politics and government--1978-1989, South Africa--History--1961-1994, Rites and ceremonies--South Africa, Political activists--South Africa,
Description: Political activists attending a church service in Cape Town., circa 1990
Identifier: islandora:12618

Title: Oral history interview with Nicholas Henwood [Part 2 of 2]
Subject: Oral history, United Democratic Front (South Africa), Anti-apartheid activists--South Africa--Interviews, Anti-apartheid movements--South Africa, Government, Resistance to--South Africa, South Africa--Politics and government, ,
Description: The United Democratic Front (UDF) was established as a non-racial, anti-apartheid coalition in 1983. The interviews in this collection deal with the formation and impact of the UDF in the Western Cape in the 1980s. Key figures involved with the UDF are interviewed, including Cheryl Carolus, Lionel Louw, Sydney Luckett and Phyllis Orner. Themes include: community based organisations affiliated to the UDF; the effects of apartheid; religious affiliation; role of the UDF in the community; trade unions. These interviews originate from research conducted for the Albert Luthuli Young Historians Award 2008., Por6.02b.mp3: Part 2 of 2 ; 45:58 min. ; interview 2 of 6
Identifier: islandora:24450

Title: Armed vigilantes, Leandra township, circa 1985
Subject: Youth--Political activity, Vigilantes, Political violence, Apartheid, Political history--South Africa, Beyond the Barricades
Description: A member of the Leandra Youth Congress, with arms extended and a stone in his hand, tries to ward off a heavily armed band of vigilantes. When younger urban residents came into conflict with older, traditional peoples, the government were able to exploit their differences for its own aims.
Identifier: islandora:882

Title: Anti-conscription protest, Cape Town
Subject: Apartheid--South Africa, South Africa--Politics and government--1978-1989, South Africa--History--1961-1994, Demonstrations--South Africa, Youths--South Africa, Conscientious objectors--South Africa, Political activists--South Africa,
Description: Conscientious objectors, Ivan Toms and Cameron Dugmore, protesting for the release of imprisoned objectors. T-shirt reads, "I refuse to serve in the SADF (South African Defense Force)". Cape Town., circa 1980s
Identifier: islandora:12660

Title: Cape Dutch homestead, Bergvliet Farm, Cape Town
Subject: Bergvliet (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Architecture, History, Housing, Cape Dutch architecture,
Description: Cape Dutch homestead in Bergvliet at Retreat
Identifier: islandora:16840

Title: Oral history interview with Joseph Stoto Zibi [Part 2 of 2]
Subject: Oral history, Drinking of alcoholic beverages--Social aspects--South Africa, Apartheid--South Africa, Alcohol--Government policy--South Africa
Description: This project spans three sub-collections. This case study in Langa in the Western Cape examines the socio-political environment and racial/gender discrimination with regards to alcohol under apartheid policies. Themes include: African traditional beer (umqombothi), anti-government protests, discriminatory laws, the Eastern Cape, government beer halls, government policy with respect to alcohol, hostels, housing, migrant labour, racialised spaces, the 1976 riots, shebeens (a bar, predominately in the townships where alcohol is sold) and the smuggling of alcohol by residents., Pin7.16b.mp3: Part 2 of 2 ; 30:55 min.. ; interview 16 of 16
Identifier: islandora:22560

Title: Mother mourning her son's death, Soweto, 1987
Subject: Funeral service, Assassination, Political activists, Apartheid, Political history--South Africa, Beyond the Barricades
Description: On 16 July 1987, Peter Sello Motau, thirty-two years old, was gunned down in Swaziland by South African agents. Motau was a dedicated young activist who had joined the African National Congress (ANC) in 1976, living in exile since his departure on Christmas Eve 1975. His mother is shown in this picture mourning his death at a severely restricted funeral in her home in Soweto.
Identifier: islandora:905

Title: Ahmed Kathrada, release of ANC prisoners, Soweto, 1989
Subject: Apartheid--South Africa, South Africa--Politics and government--1978-1989, South Africa--History--1961-1994, Political activists--South Africa, Political leadership--South Africa, Political prisoners--South Africa, Kathrada, A. M. (Ahmad M.),
Description: Ahmed Kathrada arrives at an ANC (African National Congress) rally for released leaders, including Walter Sisulu, Soweto, 29 October, 1989.
Identifier: islandora:12612

Title: UWCO event, Cape Town
Subject: Apartheid--South Africa, South Africa--Politics and government--1978-1989, South Africa--History--1961-1994, Demonstrations--South Africa, Political activists--South Africa, Women--South Africa, Children--South Africa,
Description: Thandi Klaasen speaks at a United Women's Congress (UWCO) event, Heroes' Day, Langa., circa 1980s
Identifier: islandora:12621

Title: Funeral of massacre victims, Queenstown, 1985
Subject: Funeral service, Police shootings, Youth--Political activity, Apartheid, Political history--South Africa, Beyond the Barricades
Description: Young mourners carrying symbolic AK-47 rifles stand over the coffins of Queenstown residents killed by police who opened fire on them as they were leaving the church in which they had met to discuss a consumer boycott. Fourteen people were murdered, including three fifteen-year-olds.
Identifier: islandora:907

Title: Thabo Mbeki, Cape Town
Subject: Apartheid--South Africa, South Africa--Politics and government--1978-1989, South Africa--History--1961-1994, Ex-presidents--South Africa, Political activists--South Africa, Mbeki, Thabo,
Description: Thabo Mbeki, amongst others, at an event in Cape Town., circa 1990
Identifier: islandora:12608

Title: Oral history interview with Aggrey Mazwi Mbicini [Part 2 of 2]
Subject: Oral history, Drinking of alcoholic beverages--Social aspects--South Africa, Apartheid--South Africa, Alcohol--Government policy--South Africa
Description: This project spans three sub-collections. This case study in Langa in the Western Cape examines the socio-political environment and racial/gender discrimination with regards to alcohol under apartheid policies. Themes include: African traditional beer (umqombothi), anti-government protests, discriminatory laws, the Eastern Cape, government beer halls, government policy with respect to alcohol, hostels, housing, migrant labour, racialised spaces, the 1976 riots, shebeens (a bar, predominately in the townships where alcohol is sold) and the smuggling of alcohol by residents., Pin8.07b.mp3: Part 2 of 2 ; 19:25 min. ; interview 7 of 17
Identifier: islandora:29652

Title: Police caspir patrol in Guguletu, Cape Town, South Africa
Subject: Squatter settlements--South Africa--Cape Town, Armored vehicles, Military--South Africa--Cape Town, Apartheid--South Africa--Cape Town, Police patrol--South Africa--Cape Town, Political history--South Africa--Cape Town, Demonstrations--South Africa--Cape Town
Description: A police caspir patrols Guguletu township outside Cape Town as South Africans rioted against apartheid and the imprisonment of their political leaders, August 1985.
Identifier: islandora:5336

Title: Election protest, Cape Town
Subject: Apartheid--South Africa, South Africa--Politics and government--1978-1989, South Africa--History--1961-1994, Demonstrations--South Africa, Political activists--South Africa, Signs and signboards--South Africa, Men--South Africa,
Description: Election protest in Cape Town. Signs read, "Don't vote for WAGGIE" and "One vote, one government", Mitchell's Plein, Cape Town., circa 1980s
Identifier: islandora:12659

Title: Political leaders, release of prisoners, Soweto, 1989
Subject: Apartheid--South Africa, South Africa--Politics and government--1978-1989, South Africa--History--1961-1994, Demonstrations--South Africa, Political activists--South Africa, Political leadership--South Africa, Sisulu, Walter Max, Mbeki, Govan, 1910-2001,
Description: From left, Murphy Morobe, Walter Sisulu, Govan Mbeki, Oscar Mpheta, Ahmed Kathrada and Helen Joseph, at an ANC (African National Congress) rally for released leaders, including Walter Sisulu, Soweto, 29 October, 1989.
Identifier: islandora:12601

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