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Title: Marching band, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Festivals, Apartheid, Culture, Music, Coloured people (South Africa)
Description: Girls marching band, Cape Town
Identifier: islandora:16738

Title: Mrs Botha and Mrs Tshabalala, Soweto, 1984
Subject: Local government, Politicians' spouses, Botha, Elize, Apartheid, Political history--South Africa, Beyond the Barricades
Description: Mrs Elize Botha, then wife of the state president, and Mrs Tshabalala, then wife of the mayor of Soweto, leave the town council building in August 1984 after then President and Mrs Botha were granted "the freedom of the township" in a ceremony derived from an old British tradition.
Identifier: islandora:884

Title: ANC rally for released political prisoners, Soweto, 1990
Subject: Apartheid--South Africa, South Africa--Politics and government--1978-1989, South Africa--History--1961-1994, Demonstrations--South Africa, Political activists--South Africa,
Description: Thousands of supporters attend an ANC (African National Congress) rally for released leaders, including Walter Sisulu, in Soweto, 29 October, 1989.
Identifier: islandora:12592

Title: A policeman talks to a protester while others look on, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, De Klerk, F. W. (Frederik Willem), Law enforcement, Demonstrations
Description: A policeman talks to a protester while others look on, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:16090

Title: Stop police violence, 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,
Description: Sign at anti-apartheid rally reads, STOP POLICE VIOLENCE. Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:12611

Title: Mass funeral, East London, South Africa
Subject: Political history--South Africa--East London, Political violence--South Africa--East London, Funeral rites and ceremonies--South Africa--East London, Apartheid--South Africa--East London
Description: A mass funeral is held for 18 people, including a baby, slain in police repression of an anti-apartheid protest. The coffins are draped in colours of the United Democratic Front (UDF), and carried by uniformed members of the movement, 31 August 1985, Duncan Village, South Africa.
Identifier: islandora:5338

Title: Athlone , Cape Town
Subject: Athlone (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Apartheid, Coloured people (South Africa), Housing, Poverty
Description: Children at a sub-economic housing development in Athlone, Cape Town
Identifier: islandora:16718

Title: Lindy Wilson, Cape Town
Subject: Crossroads (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Squatter settlements, Apartheid
Description: Mrs Lindy Wilson with the film on Crossroads, which was banned at the weekend. Mrs Wilson directed the documentary.
Identifier: islandora:17550

Title: Oral history interview with Van Rooi
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)., Pin9.15a.mp3: Part 1 of 1 ; 23:39 min. ; interview 15 of 15
Identifier: islandora:29671

Title: Pensioner, Durban
Subject: Urban poor--South Africa, Older men--South Africa, Fuelwood gatherers--South Africa, Squatter settlements--South Africa, South Africa--Social conditions--20th century, Apartheid, The Cordoned Heart
Description: A pensioner carries wood in a buffer zone between the 'African' township of KwaMashu and the 'coloured' township of Newlands East, Durban.
Identifier: islandora:5714

Title: The Maccassar estate where houses were built for Somchem's coloured employees
Subject: Apartheid, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Residential buildings, ,
Description: The Macassar estate where Murray & Roberts' Specialised Contracting Division recently completed 151 houses for Bonaero Park (Pty) Limited, the developer. The houses are all for Somchem's Coloured employees.
Identifier: islandora:15181

Title: Sindiswa Mkonto and Nomonde Calata, Cradock Four widows, Michausdal township, 1997
Subject: Apartheid--South Africa, Political violence--South Africa, South Africa--Social conditions, War crimes investigation--South Africa, Truth and Lies,
Description: Sindiswa Mkonto and Nomonde Calata, widows of two of the Cradock Four victims, Cradock, 1997. The Cradock Four were a group of four political activists from Cradock who disappeared in 1985 during a trip to Port Elizabeth. Their mutilated bodies were found a week later. In January 1997, six members of the Port Elizabeth security police applied for amnesty for the killing of the Cradock Four. It was refused.
Identifier: islandora:772

Title: Political protests, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Demonstrations, Apartheid, Politics, South African Police
Description: Political protests, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:17714

Title: Released political prisoner, Cape Town
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,
Description: Released political prisoner gives a resistance salute upon his arrival at the Cape Town airport., circa 1990
Identifier: islandora:12616

Title: Man walks down road with his supporters in the background, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Politics, Activists, Demonstrations
Description: The leader: wearing blue shorts, Mr Philip Kgosana, the Pan African Congress secretary, leaves his supporters on De Waal Drive above Roeland Street on his way to Caledon Square Police Station
Identifier: islandora:16005

Title: Cape Action League signage in bin, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Politics
Description: Cape Action League signage in bin.
Identifier: islandora:15996

Title: Adult night school student, Cape Town, 1950s
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Adult education, Apartheid, Blacks--Education--South Africa, Race discrimination, Training
Description: African night school student in the early 1950s, before the Department of Bantu Administration denied permission for the Cape Non-European Night Schools Association to continue running four of its ten adult night schools
Identifier: islandora:15850

Title: Young child, Johannesburg, 1975
Subject: Children--South Africa, Apartheid--South Africa, South Africa--Social conditions, Winer Batch01
Description: Child from Newclare "coloured" township, Johannesburg, 1975.
Identifier: islandora:278

Title: Oral history interview with Grace Mayo [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., Pin7.06b.mp3: Part 2 of 2 ; 16:35 min. ; interview 6 of 16
Identifier: islandora:22544

Title: New Democratic Party leaders, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Politics, Apartheid, Democratic Party (South Africa)
Description: The three political leaders who will jointly lead the new Democratic Party. They are, from left, Dr Denis Warrall (Independent Party), Mr Wynand Malan (National Democratic Movement) and Dr Zach de Beer (Progressive Federal Party).
Identifier: islandora:17628

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