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Title: Rev. Karl August inside his church in District Six, Cape Town
Subject: District Six (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Forced removals (South Africa), Religion, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950
Description: The Rev. Karl August inside his church. The Moravian Chapel in Ashley Street was built in 1884. Its pastor, the Rev. Karl August hopes to build another chapel in Hanover Park. 'We can never replace the history of this chapel,' he says.
Identifier: islandora:17988

Title: Malay Quarter, Cape Town, 1968
Subject: Bo-Kaap (Cape Town, South Africa), Apartheid, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Housing, Architecture
Description: Boarded up and derelict house in the Malay Quarter, Cape Town, in the late 1960s
Identifier: islandora:17239

Title: Protesters against the development of District Six, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Demonstrations, Housing, Apartheid, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950
Description: Picket line ... Protestors line the owner of Lower Burg and Riebeeck streets yesterday during a legal lunch-time protest against the development of District Six. The protesters later confronted Iico management, one of the companies proposing to build houses in the district.
Identifier: islandora:17762

Title: St Mark's Church, and its rector, District Six, Cape Town
Subject: District Six (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Forced removals (South Africa), Religion, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950
Description: Above: The rector of St Mark's, The Rev. Stanley Gray, stands before his church in this, the brick-strewn landscape of District Six.
Identifier: islandora:18000

Title: Township, Cape Town
Subject: Athlone (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Coloured people (South Africa), Apartheid, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Housing, City planning
Description: Township housing development at 'Q' Town the Cape Flats in the 1940s.
Identifier: islandora:16974

Title: St Mark's Church, and its rector, District Six, Cape Town
Subject: District Six (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Forced removals (South Africa), Religion, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950
Description: St Mark's Church and its rector, the Rev. Stanley Gray ... a stand against the Group Areas Act in the dissolution of District Six.
Identifier: islandora:17999

Title: Children picking spring daisies, Malay Quarter, Cape Town, 1960
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Apartheid, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Environment, Urban development
Description: A hillside of old Cape Town: Malay children pick spring daisies on the Schotsche Kloof hillside in the Malay Quarter, which has one of the most spectacular views in the Peninsula. The area has been referred to as a 'festering sore'.
Identifier: islandora:17130

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: Blue Downs, Cape Town
Subject: Blue Downs (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Townships, Apartheid, Housing, City planning
Description: A bulldozer prepares the ground for new housing developments at Blue Downs, Cape Town
Identifier: islandora:16881

Title: House in Sweet Valley, Cape Town
Subject: Bergvliet (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Housing, Apartheid, Whites, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, City planning
Description: Apartheid-era housing development in Sweet Valley near Bergvliet, Cape Town
Identifier: islandora:16849

Title: District Six resident, Cape Town
Subject: District Six (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Forced removals, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950
Description: Doris Kavanagh ... "I don't know why they should pull the building down. It's so solid you can't knock a nail in the walls."
Identifier: islandora:17992

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: Land claim for District Six, Cape Town
Subject: District Six (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Forced removals, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Post-apartheid era
Description: Derelict land: Abdul Ebrahim hopes to reclaim five large undeveloped plots in District Six where his family once lived.
Identifier: islandora:18004

Title: Squatter shacks close to Eastern Boulevard, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Squatter settlements
Description: Right: In one of three squatter shacks which have been built close to Eastern Boulevard are, from left, Mr Sidney Baadjies, Ms Wendy Botha, Mr Jeremy van Wyk and Mr Clive Williams.
Identifier: islandora:18001

Title: Meadowridge housing, Cape Town
Subject: Meadowridge (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Housing, Apartheid, Whites, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, City planning
Description: New housing development at Meadowridge, Cape Town, adjacent to agricultural land
Identifier: islandora:16847

Title: Malay Quarter restoration, Cape Town, 1978
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Apartheid, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Architecture, Demolition
Description: These houses at the junction of Hout Street and Chiappini Street are beyond restoration. Under the second stage of the restoration scheme this site would be cleared and zoned for commercial purposes.
Identifier: islandora:17227

Title: Gang hideouts, Belhar
Subject: Belhar (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Crime, Gangs, Coloured people (South Africa)
Description: A girl is dwarfed by the dunes in which gangsters hide out. People are attacked and robbed almost daily on their way to the bus and railway stations.
Identifier: islandora:16772

Title: Members of the Ministers Fraternal in District Six, Cape Town
Subject: District Six (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Forced removals (South Africa), Religion, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950
Description: Members of the Ministers Fraternal, standing in a part of District Six that has been cleared by bulldozers, from left: the Rev. Karel August of the Moravian Church, the Rev. John Paulse (Anglican), and the Rev. Basil Van Rensburg of the Holy Cross Roman Catholic Church.
Identifier: islandora:17991

Title: Suburban family, Meadowridge, Cape Town
Subject: Meadowridge (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Housing, Apartheid, Whites, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, City planning
Description: Mr R D Godfrey at Meadowridge, Cape Town
Identifier: islandora:16844

Title: Malay Quarter restoration, Cape Town, 1965
Subject: Bo-Kaap (Cape Town, South Africa), Apartheid, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Architecture, Local government
Description: Malay Quarter visit: members of the City Council's Finance and General Purpose Committee and other councillors yesterday inspected the two sections of the Malay Quarter where the Minister of Community Development, Mr P. W. Botha, is insisting that houses be reconstructed and restored on traditional lines. The committee will discuss the matter on Tuesday. Facing the camera in this picture taken in Wale Street with some of the affected properties in the back ground, are (left to right) Mrs J. Newton Thompson, Mr W. J. Peters, the Mayor, Mr H. M. Bowman, Mr F. Sonnenberg, Mr W. H. Andrag, Mrs E. D. Stott and, in the background, Mrs J. J. J. Bakker, chairman of the Housing Committee.
Identifier: islandora:17226

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