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Title: Ebracteola wilmaniae (L.Bolus) Glen
Subject: South Africa, Aizoaceae--South Africa, Botany--South Africa--Pictorial works, Vygie
Description: Botanical illustration - pencil sketch - Ebracteola wilmaniae (L.Bolus ) Glen. Drawn from a collection made at Maquassi [Makwassi, North West/Free State Province] by R. Broom (sub-National Botanical Garden 868/33). [Refer to Bolus Herbarium 132135 for coloured drawing of plant and dissected flower].
Identifier: islandora:23693

Title: Quack Quack ... President Mbeki's chief adviser on medical matters
Subject: South Africa--Politics and government--1994- --Caricatures and cartoons, AIDS (Disease)--Government policy--South Africa--Caricatures and cartoons, South African wit and humor, Pictorial, South Africa
Description: President Mbeki's denialist position on HIV/AIDS and his dependence on the quack opinions of his panel of his AIDS advisers baffled medical experts and confused the public. The duck quacking away inanely became a useful adjunct in many of my cartoons on this subject. Description provided by Tony Grogan.
Identifier: islandora:6125

Title: Chasmatophyllum sp.
Subject: South Africa, Aizoaceae--South Africa--Pictorial works, Botany--South Africa--Pictorial works, Vygie
Description: Botanical illustration - coloured - Chasmatophyllum sp. Dissected drawing of flower included. Drawn from a collection made by S.Tapscott (23) from a rock garden at Riverston, Kimberley District.
Identifier: islandora:23174

Title: Look to the rock from which you have been hewn!
Subject: African National Congress--Caricatures and cartoons, Tutu, Desmond--Caricatures and cartoons, South Africa--Politics and government--1994- Caricatures and cartoons, South African wit and humor, Pictorial, South Africa
Description: The ANC losing its moral direction, was sharply reminded of its erstwhile principles by Archbishop Tutu
Identifier: islandora:6116

Title: Conophytum minusculum (N.E.Br.) N.E.Br. subsp. minisculum
Subject: South Africa, Aizoaceae--South Africa--Pictorial works, Botany--South Africa--Pictorial works, Vygie
Description: Botanical illustration - coloured - Conophytum minusculum (N.E.Br.) N.E.Br. subsp. Minisculum. Drawn from a collection made Doorn River [Doringrivier] by N.S. Compton (sub-National Botanical Garden 306/23). Diameter of flower 2.2cm, day flower. Stigma 1mm.
Identifier: islandora:23356

Title: |Xam woman dipping up water
Subject: San (African people)--Africa, Southern, San (African people)--Africa, Southern--Pictorial works, San (African people)--Social life and customs, Women--Africa, Southern, Hunting and gathering societies--Africa, Southern, ,
Description: This image was included in Alfred Martin Duggan Cronin's The Bantu tribes of South Africa : reproductions of photographic studies, the outcome of his major ethnographic research study of the San of Southern African.
Identifier: islandora:26886

Title: Mr President, Schalk McVenter, Frikkie McBotha and Jock van der Merwe of the Gauteng Bolanders want a Scottish homeland of their own
Subject: Mandela, Nelson, 1918- --Caricatures and cartoons, Whites--South Africa--Social conditions--21st century--Caricatures and cartoons, South African wit and humor, Pictorial, South Africa
Description: Certain whites, feeling their cultural heritage and independence threatened, continued to yearn for an exclusive homeland. Description provided by Tony Grogan.
Identifier: islandora:6170

Title: Faucaria sp.
Subject: South Africa, Aizoaceae--South Africa, Botany--South Africa--Pictorial works, Vygie
Description: Botanical illustration - coloured - Faucaria sp. Plate 16. Refer to Mesemb. Notes, Part 3, H.M.L. Bolus 1936-58 , pg. 110.
Identifier: islandora:23749

Title: Carpobrotus quadrifidus L.Bolus
Subject: South Africa, Aizoaceae--South Africa--Pictorial works, Botany--South Africa--Pictorial works, Vygie
Description: Botanical illustration - coloured - Carpobrotus quadrifidus. Dissected drawing of flower & leaves included. Bolus Herbarium 18729c. Hort Miss. Arbuthnot. [No plant collection details are given]. Flowered 1927. Diameter of flower 9 cm; disc 1.6 cm; Stigma 9 mm; Stamens up to 1.2 cm; Length of petal 4 cm; Width of pet 4.5 mm.
Identifier: islandora:22987

Title: |Xam man dressing a skin
Subject: San (African people)--Africa, Southern, San (African people)--Africa, Southern--Pictorial works, San (African people)--Social life and customs, Men--Africa, Southern, Hunting and gathering societies--Africa, Southern, ,
Description: This image was included in Alfred Martin Duggan Cronin's The Bantu tribes of South Africa : reproductions of photographic studies, the outcome of his major ethnographic research study of the San of Southern African.
Identifier: islandora:26892

Title: There you are ' I don't use discounts, charge a dispensing fee of only R26 and still manage to stay in business.
Subject: South Africa--Politics and government--1994- --Caricatures and cartoons, Tshabalala-Msimang, Manto, 1940-2009--Caricatures and cartoons, Pharmaceutical industry--South Africa--Caricatures and cartoons, South African wit and humor, Pictorial, South Africa
Description: Minister of Health Manto Tshabala-Msimang, famous for her beetroot and lemon juice recommendations as a cure for HIV/AIDS also managed to close down most of the neighbourhood pharmacies in a bid to lower the cost of medicines. Description provided by Tony Grogan.
Identifier: islandora:6123

Title: Juttadinteria attenuata Walgate
Subject: Namibia, Aizoaceae--Namibia, Botany--Namibia--Pictorial works, Vygie
Description: Botanical illustration - coloured - Juttadinteria attenuata Walgate. Drawn from a collection made from the Government Gardens in Windhoek by H.M. Holloway, 28 September 1938. Plant sent to Kirstenbosch.
Identifier: islandora:24405

Title: Lithops schwantesii Dinter subsp. schwantesii
Subject: Namibia, Aizoaceae--Namibia, Botany--Namibia--Pictorial works, Vygie
Description: Botanical illustration - coloured - Lithops schwantesii Dinter subsp. schwantesii. Drawn from a collection made by Erni (sub-National Botanical Garden 798/30). [Plant species endemic to Namibia].
Identifier: islandora:24195

Title: Argyroderma congregatum L.Bolus
Subject: South Africa, Aizoaceae--South Africa--Pictorial works, Botany--South Africa--Pictorial works, Vygie
Description: Botanical illustration - coloured - Argyroderma congregatum. Dissected drawing of flower & leaves included. Drawn from a plant collection of V.S. Peers (No.6), no locality details given.
Identifier: islandora:22861

Title: Lithops schwantesii Dinter subsp. schwantesii
Subject: Namibia--!Karas, Aizoaceae--Namibia--Karas, Botany--Namibia--Karas--Pictorial works, Vygie
Description: Botanical illustration - coloured - Lithops schwantesii Dinter subsp. schwantesii. Drawn from a collection made on the farm Kalkfontein, Kuibis, South West Africa.
Identifier: islandora:24185

Title: Khadia beswickii (L.Bolus) N.E.Br.
Subject: South Africa--Gauteng, Aizoaceae--South Africa--Gauteng, Botany--South Africa--Gauteng--Pictorial works, Vygie
Description: Botanical illustration - pen sketch - Khadia beswickii (L.Bolus ) N.E.Br. Dissected drawing of flower included. Drawn from a collection made by P.R. Frames (Bolus Herbarium 17256), Johannesburg. [Refer to Bolus Herbarium 132841]. Mesemb. III: 9 (1936).
Identifier: islandora:24424

Title: Piebald Court
Subject: South Africa--Politics and government--1978-1989--Caricatures and cartoons, Apartheid--South Africa--Caricatures and cartoons, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, South African wit and humor, Pictorial, South Africa
Description: Inevitable racial mixing in the urban areas forced the government to make some adaptions to their policy of rigid racial separation, which gave rise to anomalies and inconsistencies, which were explained as 'the natural evolution' of apartheid. Description provided by Tony Grogan.
Identifier: islandora:6146

Title: Woman at Mount Temple
Subject: San (African people)--Africa, Southern, San (African people)--Africa, Southern--Pictorial works, San (African people)--Social life and customs, Women--Africa, Southern, Hunting and gathering societies--Africa, Southern, ,
Description: This image was included in Alfred Martin Duggan Cronin's The Bantu tribes of South Africa : reproductions of photographic studies, the outcome of his major ethnographic research study of the San of Southern African.
Identifier: islandora:26417

Title: Laagers
Subject: South Africa--Politics and government--1978-1989--Caricatures and cartoons, South Africa--Social conditions--1961-1994--Caricatures and cartoons, Political violence--South Africa--Caricatures and cartoons, South African wit and humor, Pictorial, South Africa
Description: History seemed to repeat itself when upheaval in the townships caused a nervous government to seek security by surrounding itself within a laager of steel. Description provided by Tony Grogan.
Identifier: islandora:6195

Title: Faucaria sp.
Subject: South Africa, Aizoaceae--South Africa, Botany--South Africa--Pictorial works, Vygie
Description: Botanical illustration - coloured - Faucaria sp. Dissected drawing of flower included. Drawn from a collection made by H.H. Bolus (sub-National Botanical Garden 1178/32). Hort Bolus.
Identifier: islandora:23773

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