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Title: Body of an unidentified man, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Civil unrest, Violence, Death
Description: Victim - The body of an unidentified man was found with a bullet wound in the head next to a burnt-out vehicle in NY5 in Gugulethu on Saturday.
Identifier: islandora:16237

Title: Man walks past a "troops out!" sign spray-painted onto the Castle, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Castle of Good Hope (Cape Town, South Africa), Vandalism, Armed forces
Description: A pedestrian walks past the Castle, seemingly oblivious of the controversial slogan painted on its wall facing Strand Street during the night.
Identifier: islandora:16225

Title: Policeman drags man caught looting, Cape Town
Subject: Nyanga (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Civil unrest, Violence, Law enforcement, Robbery
Description: A constable drags a prisoner to the patrol van after police surprised looters at a burnt Nyanga bottle store yesterday.
Identifier: islandora:16348

Title: Man demonstrates the art of "Chalifa" to audience, Cape Town
Subject: Religion, Islam, Worship, ,
Description: Mr Mohamed Ismail demonstrates the Islamic art of "Chalifa" - piercing one's own body with blades - while members of the Bridgetown Chalifa group drum a rhythm to hold him in a trance. The group will appear at the Schotsche Kloof Civic Centre tonight at 7. Tickets cost R2,50.
Identifier: islandora:15460

Title: Man speaks to crowd, Cape Town
Subject: Parow (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), National Party (South Africa), Politics, Communities
Description: Herstigte Nasionale Party (HNP) meeting at Parow.
Identifier: islandora:15972

Title: Man defies apartheid laws by walking up stairs reserved for non-whites, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Segregation, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950
Description: A white youth comes out of the all-race subway and goes up the steps reserved for non-Whites.
Identifier: islandora:16129

Title: Man talks to congregation, Cape Town
Subject: Religion, Islam, Political unrest, ,
Description: A member of the congregation calls for peace during the disturbance at yesterday's anti-constitution meeting in the Primrose Park Mosque.
Identifier: islandora:15496

Title: Man gestures the peace sign in a crowded hall, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Politics, University of Cape Town, Political activists, Student protestors
Description: University of Cape Town (UCT) medical student Mr Alexander Heywood received a standing ovation as he re-entered Maitland Town Hall last night after being asked to leave. The Minister of Justice, Mr J.T. Kruger, addressed a National Party meeting, frequently disturbed by interjections.
Identifier: islandora:15968

Title: Injured man sits on ground, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Civil unrest, Violence, Motorcars
Description: Building contractor Mr Frederic Jansen, 46, his burnt-out bakkie in the background, waits for an ambulance to arrive after the vehicle had been overturned and set alight in Klipfontein Road adjoining Crossroads yesterday.
Identifier: islandora:16239

Title: People crouch to help a man injured, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Weapons, Law enforcement, Wounds and injuries
Description: A man grimaces in pain as he is given first aid after being wounded by riot police when they opened fire on a crowd stoning a truck in Halt Road. Elsie's River, yesterday afternoon. The man was discovered a few blocks from the scene in Faure Street, where he collapsed. He gave his name as Mr Louis Fisher, of Alard Street, Clarke's Estate, Elsies River.
Identifier: islandora:16182

Title: Man stands in front of his crops, Cape Town
Subject: Agriculture, ,
Description: Amos Offir stands in front of the tomato plants he has grown in the sand of Phillipi aided by Israel irrigation methods and technical expertise.
Identifier: islandora:15815

Title: Man kneeling in the mihrab in mosque , Cape Town
Subject: Religion, Islam, Worship, ,
Description: Imam Gasan Achmat Gamja studied for the priesthood with his father and with Sheikh Abdarabjien, a noted Arabic scholar of his day. He is seen kneeling in the mihrab or imam's niche in the mosque.
Identifier: islandora:15514

Title: Police watch a paramedics carry an inured man, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Civil unrest, Violence, Law enforcement, Wounds and Injuries
Description: A woman injured in the head by police gunfire is taken by ambulance from the Guguletu police station.
Identifier: islandora:16337

Title: Louis Washkansky, first man to undergo a heart-transplant operation , Cape Town
Subject: Heart--Transplantation--Patients, Heart--Surgery
Description: First picture of the first man to undergo a heart-transplant operation, Mr. Louis Washkansky, taken by Dr. J. F. Hitchock of Groote Schuur Hospital.
Identifier: islandora:14792

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