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Title: Father Michael Lapsley, Cape Town, 1997
Subject: Apartheid--South Africa, Political violence--South Africa, South Africa--Social conditions, War crimes investigation--South Africa, Lapsley, Michael, Truth and Lies,
Description: Father Michael Lapsley, Cape Town, 1997. A New Zealander, he arrived at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in 1973 and deported to Lesotho in 1976 where he joined the ANC and trained Anglican priests. In April 1990, after the release of Nelson Mandela, he received a letter bomb believed to have been sent by a government death squad. He lost an eye and both hands.
Identifier: islandora:785

Title: Gideon Johannes Nieuwoudt and Mike Bernardo, Cape Town, 1998
Subject: Apartheid--South Africa, Political violence--South Africa, South Africa--Social conditions, War crimes investigation--South Africa, Truth and Lies,
Description: Gideon Johannes Nieuwoudt and Mike Bernardo, a member of the witness protection team, Cape Town, 1998. Steve Biko, the leader of the Black Consciousness movement, died in Pretoria on 12 September 1977. He was beaten into a coma during interrogation by security officers. Nieuwoudt was one of five security policemen who came forward to confess to the assault in 1997. His application for amnesty was successfully opposed by the Biko family.
Identifier: islandora:786

Title: Desmond Tutu, Cape Town, 2000
Subject: Apartheid--South Africa, Political violence--South Africa, South Africa--Social conditions, War crimes investigation--South Africa, Tutu, Desmond, Truth and Lies,
Description: Desmond Tutu, formerly Archbishop, at the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) headquarters, Cape Town, South Africa, 2000.
Identifier: islandora:795

Title: District Six, Cape Town, 1974-1975
Subject: South Africa--Social conditions, District Six (Cape Town, South Africa), Apartheid--South Africa--Cape Town, Housing--South Africa--Cape Town, Rubble--South Africa--Cape Town, Winer Batch01
Description: Demolition in progress, District Six, Cape Town, circa 1974-1975. Taken during the final stage of removal of 6000 families from District Six, for relocation to the Cape Flats and Atlantis, in terms of the Group Areas Act.
Identifier: islandora:280

Title: Gideon Johannes Nieuwoudt, Cape Town, 1998
Subject: Apartheid--South Africa, Political violence--South Africa, South Africa--Social conditions, War crimes investigation--South Africa, Truth and Lies,
Description: Gideon Johannes Nieuwoudt, Cape Town, 1998. Steve Biko, the leader of the Black Consciousness movement, died in Pretoria on 12 September 1977. He was beaten into a coma during interrogation by security officers. Nieuwoudt was one of five security policemen who came forward to confess to the assault in 1997. His application for amnesty was successfully opposed by the Biko family.
Identifier: islandora:780

Title: Kirstenbosch Garden, Cape Town
Subject: National Botanic Gardens of South Africa, Botanical gardens--South Africa--Cape Town, Landscape architecture--South Africa--Cape Town--Designs and plans, Garden centers (Retail trade)--South Africa--Cape Town--Designs and plans,
Description: Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden, Cape Town. Landscape design proposals for a gardener's hub at Kirstenbosch Garden. Plan showing roof layout and terrace; section looking towards Castle Rock; section looking towards Devil's Peak; view of the mountain skyline; and constraints/assets/liabilities flow diagram. Competition entry., Paper copy of original, hand-drawn, ink on tracing paper.
Identifier: islandora:27984

Title: Table Bay and Cape Town, from the foot of Table Mountain
Subject: Table Bay (South Africa)--Pictorial works, Cape Town (South Africa)--Pictorial works, South Africa--In art
Description: Shows Cape Town and Table Bay beyond, from a vantage point on Table Mountain. There is shipping in Table Bay and Bloubergstrand can be seen in the distance. Title taken from original painting.
Identifier: islandora:26366

Title: Desmond Tutu, Cape Town, 1997
Subject: Apartheid--South Africa, Political violence--South Africa, South Africa--Social conditions, War crimes investigation--South Africa, Tutu, Desmond, Truth and Lies,
Description: Desmond Tutu, formerly Archbishop, Chairperson of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) hearings, Cape Town, 1997.
Identifier: islandora:790

Title: Malay and Malay Priests - Cape flats - Table Mountain in the distance
Subject: Malays (Asian people) in art, South Africa--Social life and customs--Pictorial works, South Africa--In art
Description: Malay woman and man centrally placed in the Cape Flats landscape with two Malay priests in right foreground, with Table Mountain in the distance. Title taken from original painting.
Identifier: islandora:26399

Title: Archbishop Desmond Tutu's inauguration, Cape Town
Subject: Apartheid--South Africa, South Africa--Politics and government--1978-1989, South Africa--History--1961-1994, Political activists--South Africa, Religious leaders--South Africa, Tutu, Desmond, Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.),
Description: Archbishop Desmond Tutu at his first service as Archbishop of Cape Town, St. George's Cathedral, circa 1980s., circa 1980s
Identifier: islandora:12620

Title: Kirstenbosch Garden, Cape Town
Subject: National Botanic Gardens of South Africa, Botanical gardens--South Africa--Cape Town, Landscape architecture--South Africa--Cape Town--Designs and plans, Garden centers (Retail trade)--South Africa--Cape Town--Designs and plans,
Description: Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden, Cape Town. Proposals for a gardener's hub at Kirstenbosch Garden. Axonometric sketch; section; and perspectives including spiral court water feature, garden centre shop interior, spiral court terrace, main entrance paypoint, and visitor information and orientation centre. Competition entry., Paper copy of original, hand-drawn, ink on tracing paper.
Identifier: islandora:27983

Title: Kirstenbosch Garden, Cape Town
Subject: National Botanic Gardens of South Africa, Botanical gardens--South Africa--Cape Town, Landscape architecture--South Africa--Cape Town--Designs and plans, Garden centers (Retail trade)--South Africa--Cape Town--Designs and plans,
Description: Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden, Cape Town. Landscape proposals for a gardener's hub at Kirstenbosch Garden. Ground level layout plan. With notes on the spiral theme, organic form, the setting, detailed design, planting, and phased development., Paper copy of original, hand-drawn, ink on tracing paper.
Identifier: islandora:27982

Title: Child being arrested by policeman, Cape Town, South Africa, 1982
Subject: South Africa--Social conditions--20th century, Apartheid--South Africa, Children--South Africa, Shoplifting--South Africa, Police--South Africa, Some evidence of things seen
Description: A youthful shoplifter is arrested by a policeman in Loop Street, Cape Town, 1982
Identifier: islandora:920

Title: Nelson Mandela, Cape Town, 1997
Subject: Apartheid--South Africa, Political violence--South Africa, South Africa--Social conditions, War crimes investigation--South Africa, Mandela, Nelson, 1918-2013, Truth and Lies,
Description: Portrait of Nelson Mandela, Tuynhuys, the Presidential House, Cape Town, 1997.
Identifier: islandora:757

Title: Nombuyiselo Mhlauli and Nyami Goniwe, Cradock Four widows, Cape Town, 1998
Subject: Apartheid--South Africa, Political violence--South Africa, South Africa--Social conditions, War crimes investigation--South Africa, Truth and Lies,
Description: Nombuyiselo Mhlauli and Nyami Goniwe, widows of two of the Cradock Four victims, Cape Town, 1998. The Cradock Four were a group of four political activists from Cradock who disappeared in 1985 during a trip to Port Elizabeth. Their mutilated bodies were found a week later. In January 1997, six members of the Port Elizabeth security police applied for amnesty for the killing of the Cradock Four. It was refused.
Identifier: islandora:768

Title: District Six, Cape Town, 1974-1975
Subject: South Africa--Social conditions, District Six (Cape Town, South Africa), Apartheid--South Africa--Cape Town, Housing--South Africa--Cape Town, Children--South Africa--Cape Town, Winer Batch01
Description: District Six partly demolished, Cape Town, circa 1974-1975. Taken during the final stage of removal of 6000 families from District Six, for relocation to the Cape Flats and Atlantis, in terms of the Group Areas Act.
Identifier: islandora:279

Title: Children selling newspapers, Cape Town, South Africa, 1981
Subject: South Africa--Social conditions--20th century, Apartheid--South Africa, Children--South Africa, Newspaper vendors--South Africa, Child labor--South Africa, Some evidence of things seen
Description: It is 6:30am on a cold, wet day in winter of 1981. A young boy sleeps on the pavement on top of a pile of newspapers that he is meant to be selling. When a customer asked for 'Die Burger', another boy, selling the 'Cape Times', dutifully slipped 'Die Burger' newspaper from under the sleeping boy's head and placed the money beside his comrade
Identifier: islandora:949

Title: Table Mountain and Devils Hill, from the Camp ground, or edge of the Cape flats
Subject: Table Mountain (Western Cape, South Africa)--Pictorial works, South Africa--In art
Description: Shows Table Mountain and Devil's Peak in the background, an ox-waggon crossing the Camp Ground and three small figures in the foreground. Title taken from original painting.
Identifier: islandora:26367

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