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Title: Company's Gardens, Cape Town, 1966
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Children, Birds, Recreation
Description: For the birds: feeding the pigeons in the Company's Gardens, Cape Town, 1966.
Identifier: islandora:17262

Title: Segregation on buses, Cape Town
Subject: Milnerton (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, South Africa. Separate Amenities Act, 1953, Apartheid signage
Description: Sign on a 'Mixed' bus (lower deck: Whites only; upper deck: non-Whites only) on the Cape Town-Milnerton route in the apartheid era.
Identifier: islandora:16667

Title: Performing and visual arts courses for development workers, child educators and the unemployed : first semester January - June 1996 programme
Subject: Community Arts Project (Cape Town, South Africa), Community Arts Project (Cape Town, South Africa)--Curricula, Community arts projects--South Africa--Cape Town
Description: Brochure from the Community Arts Project giving details of the courses offered in 1996.
Identifier: islandora:19017

Title: Camps Bay Pavilion burned down, Cape Town, 1973
Subject: Camps Bay (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Fires, Entertainment, Disaster, Local government
Description: The charred ruins of the old Camps Bay pavilion stands today as a sad monument after a fire ripped through the 57-year-old building early today. It destroyed the equipment and the dreams of the Camps Bay Operatic and Dramatic Society and one of Cape Town's best-known landmarks. Damage is estimated at thousands of rands and the City Council's Amenities Committee is expected to look over the ruins during a scheduled tour of Camps Bay tomorrow.
Identifier: islandora:16990

Title: Salvaging remains
Subject: squatter camps, townships, destruction, salvaging materials, ruinsSquatter settlements--South Africa--Cape Town, Political violence--South Africa--Cape Town, Women, Children
Description: A resident salvages material from an informal settlement raided by 'witdoeke' (vigilantes).
Identifier: islandora:8437

Title: Koeberg intersection, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Cape Town (South Africa), c1973, Urban areas, Development, Transport, Motorcars, Railways
Description: Koeberg intersection, Cape Town
Identifier: islandora:16559

Title: Amanda Tiffin and Andrew Lilley present students from the SACM Jazz Piano Studio and the Jazz Vocal Studio, Chisholm Recital Room, South African College of Music, Cape Town, South Africa
Subject: Concert programs, Concerts--South Africa--Cape Town
Description: Concert programme
Identifier: islandora:30292

Title: Oral history interview with Abdul Aziz Slamdien [ Part 2 of 3]
Subject: Forced removals, Oral history, District Six (Cape Town, South Africa)--History, District Six (Cape Town, South Africa)--Social conditions, Colored people (South Africa)--Relocation--South Africa--Cape Town, Slamdien, Abdul Aziz
Description: District Six refers to a former inner-city residential area in Cape Town, South Africa. It is best known for the forced removal of over 60 000 of its residents by the apartheid government. This extensive sub-collection contains interviews from various projects conducted between 1985 and 2002. The majority of interviewees resided or worked in District Six prior to being forcibly removed. Themes include: children, the Coon Carnival, crime, resident’s experiences of relocation, gangs, household arrangements, jazz, marriage, mixed marriages across racial lines, music, nostalgia, recreation, religion, schooling, social and racial issues and work., Cwc2.164b.mp3: Part 2 of 3 ; 29:21 min. ; interview 164 of 208
Identifier: islandora:24480

Title: Old lady stands next to two students sporting the punk rock style, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Rock music, Cosmetics
Description: Mavis, I tell you, I nearly died. I nearly died! Just minding my own business like I always do in town, when I'm surrounded by ag. What are they called? Punks, hey? Hooh, I was scared, hey, I thought, this is the jungle or something, and all my pension still in my handbag. But they were so nice, really. Said they are students at the Cape Technikon. But I mean how can you concentrate with blue hair?
Identifier: islandora:16123

Title: Theatre students performing in the children's art classroom
Subject: Community Arts Project (Cape Town, South Africa)--History, Community arts projects--South Africa--Cape Town--History, Theater rehearsals--South Africa--Cape Town, Theater--Study and teaching--South Africa--Cape Town,
Description: Community Arts Project theatre students performing in the children's art classroom. Itumeleng wa Lehulere is on the left.
Identifier: islandora:28987

Title: Re-opening of Adderley Street branch of Standard Bank after renovations
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Banking, Commerce, Architecture, Building
Description: Last-minute preparations before today's opening.
Identifier: islandora:16750

Title: Sasko's new 250,000 pounds silo in Rondebosch, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Rondebosch (Cape Town, South Africa), Labour, Industry
Description: Sasko's new 250,000 pounds silo at Rondebosch has 74 bins, each 80ft. deep and holding from 1,400 to 3,000 bags of wheat. The manager of the mill (Mr TJ Robarts) is looking at the silo walls, which have been treated with waterproofing.
Identifier: islandora:14519

Title: Community Arts Project information 1987
Subject: Community Arts Project (Cape Town, South Africa), Community Arts Project (Cape Town, South Africa)--Curricula
Description: Brochure from the Community Arts Project giving details of the courses offered in 1987.
Identifier: islandora:19015

Title: Outside bathroom used by nine domestic servants, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Domestic workers, Apartheid
Description: The outside bathroom and toilet used by nine domestic servants. Some of the girls said that they preferred to take a basin of hot water to their bedrooms as the bathroom only had cold water and they found the conditions unhygienic.
Identifier: islandora:18049

Title: Rondebosch Congregational Church, Cape Town, 1961
Subject: Rondebosch (Cape Town, South Africa), Church buildings, Historic buildings, Architecture, Christianity
Description: Congregational Church (Rondebosch) - In the porch of a pretty stone-and-brick church at Rondebosch, where Devil's Peak dominates the skyline, is the stone which once lay on the grave of Dr. Johannes van der Kemp - one of the pioneer missionaries who brought Congregationalism to South Africa.
Identifier: islandora:17276

Title: Erepsia anceps (Haw.) Schwantes
Subject: South Africa--Western Cape, Province of the--Cape Town, Aizoaceae--South Africa--Western Cape, Botany--South Africa--Western Cape--Pictorial works, Vygie
Description: Botanical illustration - coloured - Erepsia anceps (Haw.) Schwantes. Dissected drawing of flower included. Drawn from a collection made between Smitswinkel and Olifants Bosch [Olifantsbos, Simon's Town District] by T.M. Salter (4264), 23 January 1934,
Identifier: islandora:23705

Title: Father and child on the beach, Cape Town, South Africa
Subject: South Africa--Social life and customs, Men--South Africa, Women--South Africa, Children--South Africa, Cities and towns--Cape Town,
Description: A father plays with his young child on a beach in Cape Town, South Africa.
Identifier: islandora:18660

Title: Camps Bay, Cape Town, 1946
Subject: Camps Bay (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Roads, Urban development, Commerce, Recreation,
Description: Beach Road in Camps Bay in the late 1940s
Identifier: islandora:16957

Title: Lampranthus elegans (Jacq.) Schwantes
Subject: South Africa--Western Cape, Province of the--Cape Town, Aizoaceae--South Africa--Western Cape, Botany--South Africa--Western Cape--Pictorial works, Vygie
Description: Botanical illustration - coloured - Lampranthus elegans (Jacq.) Schwantes. Dissected drawing of flower included. Drawn from a collection made on the south side of Signal Hill, south side [Cape District] by M.G. Lavis.
Identifier: islandora:23977

Title: Concertino for Tenor Saxophone (3. Allegro molto)
Subject: Mintzer, Bob. Concertino, saxophone, strings, winds, Concertos (Saxophone), Concerts--South Africa--Cape Town
Description: Symphonic groove, Baxter Concert Hall, Cape Town, South Africa
Identifier: islandora:28645

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