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Title: Police wearing gas masks fire teargas, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Law enforcement, Weapons, Demonstrations
Description: Police wearing gas masks and armed with rifles used for firing teargas canisters stand in Bonteheuwel where stoning took place yesterday.
Identifier: islandora:16195

Title: Spring daisies, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Cape Town (South Africa), Urban areas, Infrastructure, Architecture, Land, Urban development, Flowers
Description: Magic carpet of spring for city. Daisies are blooming on the Foreshore on land that is valued up to £11 a square foot.
Identifier: islandora:15101

Title: Trunk found in terrorist apartment, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Politics, Trials, Weapons
Description: Weapons exhibit: Constable Karen Dalhouzie looks into the trunk containing AK-47 rifles and ammunition, limpet mines, hand grenades and other arms and ammunition, allegedly found in the Wynberg flat of terrorism accused Ms Jenny Schreiner. It is one of the more than 400 exhibits before court in the Yengeni trial which began earlier this year.
Identifier: islandora:17614

Title: Family and friends of the accused sing freedom songs outside the Supreme Court, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Politics, African National Congress, Political prisoners, Apartheid, Political activists
Description: African National Congress (ANC) trial. Family and friends of the 15 accused sing freedom songs as they walk to the station from the Supreme Court building yesterday afternoon.
Identifier: islandora:15936

Title: Petrol-bombed township advice during the second (1988-1990) State of Emergency
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), State of Emergency, Political persecution, Apartheid, Hostels, Migrant labour
Description: Bombed: A hostel dweller with what he believes is a piece of the petrol bomb that destroyed the advice office of the Western Cape Hostel Dwellers' Association. The room behind him is a crèche and play centre.
Identifier: islandora:15838

Title: University of the Western Cape students march, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Demonstrations, Education, Higher
Description: University of the Western Cape (UWC) students march, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:16084

Title: Protest, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Cape Town (South Africa), Civil unrest, Violence, Demonstrations, Law enforcement, Weapons
Description: Policeman gives orders to a subordinate, amongst the police battling the protesters, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:16409

Title: Dignitaries inspect armed forces, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Politics, Armed forces
Description: Dignitaries inspect armed forces, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:15997

Title: UDF supporter speaks to crowd, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), United Democratic Front (South Africa), Demonstrations, Civil unrest
Description: Mr Patrick Lekota, United Democratic Front (UDF) publicity secretary, addresses a lively anti-election rally in Athlone.
Identifier: islandora:16271

Title: Soup kitchen, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Soup kitchens, Homeless persons
Description: Right: Homeless squatters at a soup kitchen set up by the Islamic Medical Association and the Muslim Youth Movement. The soup kitchen and a first-aid post are in Lansdowne Road.
Identifier: islandora:17575

Title: SA Airways, station, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Cape Town (South Africa), Urban areas, Infrastructure, Architecture, Land, Buildings
Description: Argus Chief Photographer Jim McLagan goes a bit glassy-eyed when he used the sheet of window pane in the station to get this double image.
Identifier: islandora:15103

Title: Freed prisoner receiving hug, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Cape Town (South Africa), Political prisoners, Historic sites, Monuments
Description: Elated: An excited well-wisher hugs Mr Mpumelelo Gaba, who spent nine years on Robben Island.
Identifier: islandora:16495

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