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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: Ugbhu
Subject: Musical instruments--South Africa, Zulu (African people)--Music
Description: Hornbostel-Sachs number: 311.121.221 Mono-heterochord musical bows with resonator without tuning noose, Height: 150mm (5.9in), Width: 233mm (9.1in), Length: 1124mm, Place of production: Nongoma (South Africa)
Identifier: islandora:20755

Title: /Ka/kanasi
Subject: Musical instruments--South Africa, San (African people)--Music
Description: Hornbostel-Sachs number: 3 Chordophone with resonator, A. Height: 16mm (0.4in), Width: 20mm (0.8in), Length: 97mm (3.5in), B. Height: 9mm (0.1in), Width: 9mm (0.1in), Length: 92mm (3.5in), Place of production: Twee Rivieren (Northern Cape, South Africa)
Identifier: islandora:20674

Title: Dithleka
Subject: Musical instruments--South Africa, Venda (African people)--Music
Description: Hornbostel-Sachs number: 421.111.11 Open single end-blown flutes without fingerholes, A. Length: 105mm (3.9in), Diameter: 47mm (1.6in), B. Length: 97mm (3.5in), Diameter: 43mm (1.6in), C. Length: 92mm (3.5in), Diameter: 40mm (1.6in), D. Height: 10mm (0.4in), Width: 13mm (0.4in), Length: 121mm (4.7in), String: Length: 565mm (22in), Diameter: 2mm (0.1in), E. Height: 19mm (0.4in), Width: 17mm (0.4in), Length: 95mm (3.5in), F. Height: 24mm (0.8in), Width: 14mm (0.4in), Length: 107mm (3.9in), Place of production: Limpopo (South Africa)
Identifier: islandora:20131

Title: Tsula ya noko
Subject: Musical instruments--South Africa, Pedi (African people)--Music
Description: Hornbostel-Sachs number: 421.112 Sets of end-blown flutes or panpipes, Place of production: Transvaal (South Africa)
Identifier: islandora:20862

Title: Dinaka (set of seven)
Subject: Musical instruments--South Africa, Pedi (African people)--Music
Description: Hornbostel-Sachs number: 421.111.11 Open single end-blown flutes without fingerholes, Height: 14mm (0.4in), Width: 94mm (3.5in), Length: 149mm (5.5in), Place of production: Polokwane (South Africa), Creator: 'The son of a Transvaal Sotho doctor' (Kirby 1968:162)
Identifier: islandora:20148

Title: Mbila mutondo
Subject: Musical instruments--South Africa, Venda (African people)--Music
Description: Hornbostel-Sachs number: 111.212 Sets of percussion sticks, Place of production: Limpopo (South Africa)
Identifier: islandora:20787

Title: Mbila mutondo
Subject: Musical instruments--South Africa, Venda (African people)--Music
Description: Hornbostel-Sachs number: 111.212 Sets of percussion sticks, Place of production: Limpopo (South Africa)
Identifier: islandora:20793

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: Interior of a hut
Subject: Pondo (African people), Ethnology--South Africa--Pondoland, Eastern Cape (South Africa)--Rural conditions, Implements, utensils, etc.--South Africa--Pondoland
Description: The interior of a hut showing the men's side.
Identifier: islandora:5487

Title: Thungwa
Subject: Musical instruments--South Africa, Venda (African people)--Music
Description: Hornbostel-Sachs number: 211.212.1 Individual double-skin cylindrical drums, Place of production: Fundudzi, Lake (South Africa)
Identifier: islandora:20820

Title: GPS Land Use and Occupancy Survey : Karel "Vet Piet" Kleinman and Jakob Malgas, Map item #16
Subject: Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park (Botswana and South Africa), Indigenous peoples--Land tenure--South Africa, Indigenous peoples--Legal status, laws, etc.--South Africa, San (African people)--Kalahari Desert, Africa, Southern--Maps, ,
Description: A map of the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park showing various numbered points of interest within and around the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park. There is no legend but these numbers are believed to correspond with GPS co-ordinates taken at sites of cultural significance gleaned from interviews with members of the San community.
Identifier: islandora:27340

Title: Umrhubhe
Subject: Musical instruments--South African, Xhosa (African people)--Music, Pondo (African people)--Music
Description: Hornbostel-Sachs number: 311.21 Musical bow cum stick, A. Height: 28mm (0.8in), Width: 110mm (4.3in), Length: 1039mm (40.6in), B. Length: 485mm (18.9in), Diameter: 7mm (0.1in), Place of production: Eastern Cape (South Africa)
Identifier: islandora:20731

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: Petrus Vaalbooi explains the history and significance of the N|uu language
Subject: Vaalbooi, Petrus ; N|uu language, San (African people)--Botswana and South Africa--Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, Khomani (African people)--Botswana and South Africa--Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, San (African people)--Social life and customs, Khomani (African people)--Social life and customs, Khomani language, San (African people)--Languages, Indigenous peoples--Land tenure--Africa, Southern, ,
Description: Petrus Vaalbooi, a former chairperson of the San Council and a member of the Community Property Association. He was one of the first community members to go overseas to promote the Land Claims process.Petrus worked alongside his mother, Elsie Vaalbooi, to locate other N|uu speakers in the townships in and around Upington, South Africa.
Identifier: islandora:27134

Title: Pondoland Reserve
Subject: Pondo (African people), Ethnology--South Africa--Pondoland, Eastern Cape (South Africa)--Rural conditions, Cattle--South Africa--Pondoland, Huts--South Africa--Pondoland
Description: Landscape scene in Pondoland Reserve. A distant umzi, a large herd of cattle and a river.
Identifier: islandora:5481

Title: Police try to arrest teacher, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Demonstrations, Education, Labor unions, South African Democratic Teachers' Union
Description: Teacher Tug-O'-War ... Police try to arrest one of the teachers who was part of the 30-car South African Democratic Teachers' Union motorcade through the city centre at lunchtime yesterday.
Identifier: islandora:17823

Title: Sana Gooi
Subject: Gooi, Sana, San (African people)--South Africa--Northern Cape, Khomani (African people)--South Africa--Northern Cape, San (African people)--Social life and customs, Khomani (African people)--Social life and customs, Women--South Africa--Northern Cape, Indigenous peoples--Land tenure--Africa, Southern, ,
Description: Sana Gooi is Lukas Bok's cousin. She remembers calling him Lukas viertien (fourteen) because he was so tall.
Identifier: islandora:27079

Title: Ritual dance of novice and amagqira
Subject: Pondo (African people), Ethnology--South Africa--Pondoland, Eastern Cape (South Africa)--Rural conditions, Pondo (African people)--Clothing, Pondo (African people)--Social life and customs
Description: Ritual dance of novice and amagqira.
Identifier: islandora:5414

Title: Igemfe
Subject: Musical instruments--South Africa, Zulu (African people)--Music
Description: Hornbostel-Sachs number: 421.111.2 Stopped single end-blown flutes, A. Length: 294mm (11.4in), Diameter: 25mm (0.8in), B. Length: 277mm (10.6in), Diameter: 25mm (0.8in), Place of production: Pietermaritzburg (South Africa)
Identifier: islandora:20094

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