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Title: Guard peers through peephole, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Jails, Reformatories, Prisoners
Description: Below: A warder peers through the peephole in the front door. This is the sight which has greeted visitors and new prisoners for nearly 90 years.
Identifier: islandora:16041

Title: The Pollsmoor Prison band, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Jails, Reformatories, Prisoners, Music
Description: The Pollsmoor Prison Band and SHAWCO drum majorettes will provide a floodlit performance.
Identifier: islandora:16024

Title: Commanding officer, Robben Island, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Robben Island (South Africa), Jails, Historic sites, Prison administration
Description: The Commanding Officer, Robben Island Prison Command, Colonel John Richards, 47.
Identifier: islandora:16540

Title: Capetonian soldier captured by MPLA in Angola
Subject: Lagos (Nigeria), Western Cape (South Africa), Prisoners of War, South African Border War, Apartheid, South African Defence Force, Soldiers
Description: The tragedy of the bitter internecine war in Angola hits South Africa. In Lagos last week two South African soldiers, Corporal Hannes Terblance (left) and Capetonian Private Robert Henry Wieman (right), who were captured by forces of the MPLA in Angolan fighting were paraded before journalists at a news conference addressed by the MPLA Prime Minister, Lopo de Nascimento, who was visiting Nigeria.
Identifier: islandora:15940

Title: Head of maximum security prison, Robben Island, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Robben Island (South Africa), Jails, Historic sites, Prison administration
Description: Lieutenant Piet Prins, head of the maximum security prison.
Identifier: islandora:16542

Title: Prison warden shows the inside of a prison cell, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Jails, Reformatories, Prisoners
Description: Suspect conditions: this stark, poorly ventilated cell, is one of the reasons why Langa station commander Johan Conradie wants a new station.
Identifier: islandora:16030

Title: Man shows his prison tattoos, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Jails, Reformatories, Prisoners
Description: Mr James D. Petersen, a former long-term convict, shows the rank he received to mark his status as a "General of [the] 26s prison gang in the Cape.
Identifier: islandora:16014

Title: Father and mother reunited with their son, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Youth, Law enforcement, Jails, Prisons
Description: Home again - Mr Showqie Enous reunited with his parents, Mr Ebrahim and Mrs Majeda Enous after he and five other Wynberg pupils were released from Pollsmoor Prison after serving eleven months of their twelve month prison sentence.
Identifier: islandora:16214

Title: Prison Service Coloured Band, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Jails, Reformatories, Prisoners, Music
Description: The Prison Service Coloured Band was founded in 1969 and has 31 members. The band (under leadership of Warrant Officer E.J. Africa) is well known in the Cape Peninsula where it regularly performs at large gatherings.
Identifier: islandora:16034

Title: Passer-by clasps the hand of a detainee through the bars, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), circa 1985, Prisons, Segregation, Race discrimination, Education, Youth
Description: Clasped hands, a show of solidarity between a detained student and a passer-by during today's symbolic attempt to reopen coloured schools in Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:16220

Title: Room where prisoners eat, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Jails, Prisons, Reformatories
Description: Part of the prisoner's mess hall. In this hall films are shown from time to time. Robben Island Prison.
Identifier: islandora:16044

Title: POPCRU members march, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Demonstrations, South African Police, Labor unions, Police and Prisons Civil Rights Union (South Africa)
Description: Police and Prison Civil Rights Union (POPCRU) members march, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:17746

Title: Ex-prisoners walk to court to attend the trial of a friend, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Jails, Reformatories, Prisoners, Freedom
Description: Court visit - Mr Jordan (in raincoat), Mr Tshwete (with pipe) and Mr Stuart (far right) with most of the 28 released Robben Island prisoners on their way to the Supreme Court to visit the trial of Mr Tony Yengeni and five others.
Identifier: islandora:16019

Title: Treason Trial, Johannesburg, 1956
Subject: Treason Trial, Pretoria, South Africa, 1956-1961, Prisoners--Transportation--South Africa--Johannesburg, Government vehicles--South Africa--Johannesburg
Description: A prison van brings prisoners to Drill Hall for the Treason Trial, Johannesburg, 1956.
Identifier: islandora:7466

Title: Man puts his fist in the air through the bars of his prison cell, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Prisoners, Jails, Prisons
Description: Man puts his fist in the air through the bars of his prison cell, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:16103

Title: Teenagers put their fists in the air as they are led to prison, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Youth, Law enforcement, Jails, Prisons
Description: Wynberg Seven: Six of the seven Wynberg teenagers who will go to prison today (from left) Venetia de Klerk, De Dicks, Igshaan Amlay, Naasir Masoet, Shoukie Enous and Julian Stubbs. Wayne Jordaan did not attend. On the far right is Venetia De Klerk's father, Mr William De Klerk.
Identifier: islandora:16208

Title: Prisoners carry food produce, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Jails, Reformatories, Prisons
Description: Prisoners carry food produce, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:16036

Title: Officers next to the lighthouse, Robben Island, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Robben Island (South Africa), Jails, Historic sites, Monuments, Prison administration
Description: The four officers of the Robben Island Prison Command. From left are Lieutenant Danny Claassen, Colonel John Richards, Major Piet Zandberg and Lieutenant Piet Prins.
Identifier: islandora:16541

Title: Roeland Street Prison, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Jails, Reformatories, Prisons, Architecture
Description: Prisons, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:16011

Title: Woman stands with suitcase, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Jails, Reformatories, Families, Prisons
Description: Prisons SA / Porti Sekete, 21, on an official visit to her brother on Robben Island.
Identifier: islandora:16012

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