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Title: Demonstrators run from the riot police, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Civil unrest, Violence, Demonstrations, Law enforcement
Description: A demonstrator above the Stand Street concourse facing a confrontation with a member of the riot squad.
Identifier: islandora:16304

Title: Protesters flee from the teargas, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Civil unrest, Violence, Demonstrations, Weapons
Description: A teargas bomb explodes and disperses a crowd in a Guguletu field.
Identifier: islandora:16328

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: A policewoman protects her eyes from the sun at a march, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Law enforcement, Protection, Civil unrest, Gender, Weapons
Description: Outnumbered: A woman member of the Police's Internal Stability Unit, left, keeps a watchful eye on events near the intersection of Plein and Roeland Streets during yesterday's mass march.
Identifier: islandora:15948

Title: Panic-stricken passenger jumps from moving train, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Railroad trains, Railroad accidents
Description: Escaping the danger ... A panic-stricken passenger, fearing for his safety, jumps from a moving train as it approaches Nonkqubela railway station, shortly after it sliced through a pile of burning tyres placed on the railway line. Witnesses said the screams of terrified passengers could be heard some distance from the train as it entered the pall of black smoke.
Identifier: islandora:17695

Title: Protesters flee from a smoke canister, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Civil unrest, Violence, Demonstrations, Demonstrations, Weapons
Description: Protesters flee from a smoke canister, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:16363

Title: "Whites only" sign prohibits others from using the water slide, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Apartheid signage, Segregation, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950
Description: "Whites only" sign prohibits others from using the water slide, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:16131

Title: Fireman lifts colleague from scene of fire, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Cape Town (South Africa), Emergency management, Water, Fire departments
Description: The famous fireman's lift: a fireman lifts a colleague from the scene of a fire.
Identifier: islandora:14973

Title: Aerial view from Signal Hill over the City Bowl and Cape Flats, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Urban development, City planning, Environment
Description: This unusual aerial view of Cape Town has all the boldness, optimism and excitement of the New Year. The great vista stretching over the Cape Flats towards Hottentots Holland to symbolize the future. Indeed it is in this direction that much of the Peninsula's expansion is taking place. But Table Mountain is still dominant and timeless, defying any further encroachment up its slopes. The picture was taken at a height of 4,500 ft. The four famous beaches of Clifton are easily recognized at the bottom on the left. Bottom right is Camps Bay, some of whose residents might even be able to point out their own houses. Voortrekker Road (top left) through Kensington, Goodwood, Parow and Bellville, is clearly visible, so are the two cooling towers of the Athlone power station, with Langa just beyond them.
Identifier: islandora:17087

Title: View over the City Bowl from Signal Hill, Cape Town, 1888
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Urban development, City planning, Architecture
Description: 1888: Cape Town had not yet encroached on Devil's Peak and Table Mountain. Note Roeland Street, which ended up as a track leading to a quarry.
Identifier: islandora:17191

Title: Swimming race from the Cape Town pier, 1922
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Historical, Sport, Recreation, Swimming
Description: Competitors in the Gordons Gala in Cape Town in 1922 had a tough venue for their races: the old Cape Town pier, where this picture was taken of the mens' two-mile event. [The photograph is one of several appearing on special sepia pages of the prestige 56-page Cape Times Centenary Supplement, which appears as an extra section with all copies of the Cape Times on Saturday, March 27.]
Identifier: islandora:17185

Title: Policeman restrains his dog from chasing protesters, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Civil unrest, Violence, German shepherd dog, Demonstrations, Law enforcement
Description: Policeman restrains his dog from chasing protesters, Cape Town, 1976.
Identifier: islandora:16260

Title: Discovery II research ship departs from Cape Town Docks, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Exploration & discovery, South African National Antarctic Expedition, RRS Discovery 2, Research, Polar regions
Description: Spick and span in new paint, the little research steamer, Discovery II, steamed out of Cape Town Docks yesterday afternoon for another long spell in the Antarctic.
Identifier: islandora:16675

Title: Students from University of Western Cape join protests, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Demonstrations, Education, Youth, Student protestors, University of Western Cape
Description: Money row: Students from University of the Western Cape (UWC) join others in a protest outside IDT offices in Keerom Street over the "unfair" allocation of funds.
Identifier: islandora:17786

Title: The clearing away of debris left from a train accident, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Railroads, Transport, Infrastructure
Description: Woodstock crash.
Identifier: islandora:16139

Title: Soldiers take a break from their duties, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Civil unrest, Violence, Law enforcement, Weapons
Description: Members of the riot squad take a rest at Gugletu yesterday.
Identifier: islandora:16321

Title: Silhouette of a woman fleeing from teargas, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Civil unrest, Violence, Demonstrations, Weapons, Law enforcement
Description: Flashback: A woman flees a cloud of teargas as a canister explodes near Electricity House on the corner of Strand Street and St George's Street, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:16289

Title: Cape Town and Table Bay from upper Cableway station, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), City planning, Urban development, Environment, Architecture
Description: Cape Town from upper Cableway station
Identifier: islandora:17052

Title: Table Mountain, Cape Town, from the City Bowl
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Historical monuments, Environment, Conservation of natural resources
Description: Before Table Mountain can be declared a national monument as urged by public bodies, the area, about 180 morgen, between the dotted line and the white line (municipal boundary) [not visible on image] will first have to be expropriated. There is a similar large tract of land on the Camps Bay side of the mountain.
Identifier: islandora:17042

Title: Man holds onto the wire mesh that separates him from a waterslide, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Segregation, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950
Description: Apartheid / Mr Abubakar Abdol, of Parkwood Estate, looks through the wire mesh at the water slide at Muizenberg which he may not use. The slide is the only facility in the pavilion area not open to all races. The owner says he is not willing to risk prosecution and will only open the slide to all when the law is changed.
Identifier: islandora:16130

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