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Title: Busy main road of Elsies River, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Elsies River (South Africa), Apartheid, Infrastructure, Street vendors
Description: This is the busy main road of Elsies River, where hawkers and vendors sell alongside flourishing modern shops of every variety. People flock to the area for the bargains and the colourful market atmosphere.
Identifier: islandora:18113

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: 1961 Apartheid elections, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Elections, Newspapers, Technology, Broadcasting
Description: The Argus scoreboard to-day showed the state of the parties before the first vote is counted in the 1961 general election (the first general election after South Africa became a republic). The Nationalists have 50 unopposed seats and the United Party 20.
Identifier: islandora:16685

Title: Dr. Allan Boesak preaching, Cape Town
Subject: Boesak, Allan Aubrey, 1946-, Political activists, Religious leaders, Apartheid era
Description: Allan Boesak speaking from a pulpit
Identifier: islandora:14833

Title: Father with children, Rhodes, South Africa, 1980
Subject: South Africa--Social conditions--20th century, Apartheid--South Africa, Children--South Africa, Poor whites--South Africa, Fathers--South Africa, Some evidence of things seen
Description: A father and his two children, Rhodes, 1980
Identifier: islandora:934

Title: The end of Sophiatown, 1959
Subject: Sophiatown (Johannesburg, South Africa)--Social conditions, Apartheid--South Africa--Sophiatown (Johannesburg), Blacks--Housing--South Africa--Sophiatown (Johannesburg), Forced migration--South Africa--Sophiatown (Johannesburg), Rubble--South Africa--Sophiatown (Johannesburg)
Description: By 1959 most of the houses in Sophiatown had disappeared. Big machines and men with picks beat down the last walls of Sophiatown.
Identifier: islandora:7458

Title: BJ Vorster, 1961 election results, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Elections, Newspapers, Politics, Broadcasting,
Description: Prime Minister B.J. Vorster commenting on the 1961 election results.
Identifier: islandora:16687

Title: SARWHU funeral, Venda, 1990
Subject: Apartheid--South Africa-- Venda, Funeral service--South Africa-- Venda, Labor unions--South Africa-- Venda, Pallbearers--South Africa-- Venda
Description: Funeral for a member of the South African Railway and Harbour Workers Union (SARWHU), Venda, (now part of Limpopo Province), 1990.
Identifier: islandora:1449

Title: Aerial view of the Delft show village, Cape Town
Subject: Delft (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Apartheid
Description: An aerial view of the Delft show village, the House of Representatives' housing project. Phase I, consisting of 2 000 units, should be sold out by the end of January. Houses are priced from R12 500 to R17 500.
Identifier: islandora:17626

Title: World War I veteran, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Cape Town (South Africa), Memorials, Veterans, Apartheid
Description: Mr "Wally" Culley, 79, a veteran of World War I, was among the group of old soldiers of the Railways and Harbours Brigade who gathered at the Cape Town station yesterday, the 59th anniversary of the end of the war. A memorial service was held.
Identifier: islandora:14858

Title: This 91,44m of beach is reserved for bona fide non-White employees of the town, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Fish Hoek (South Africa), Beaches, South Africa. Separate Amenities Act, 1953, Apartheid signage
Description: Not only has Fish Hoek an unusual regulation concerning liquor licences, but also a segregated beach with a difference. This 91,44m of beach is reserved for bona fide non-White employees of the town.
Identifier: islandora:15011

Title: Residences in Loader Street, Cape Town
Subject: Apartheid, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Residential buildings, ,
Description: The Loader Street area has been a renovator's paradise for the past few years. According to estate agent, Mr John Hocknell, property in the area is almost completely sold out and there is little still to be had. Some renovated properties are still changing hands for under R20 000 though.
Identifier: islandora:15206

Title: Nelson Mandela talks to teachers and pupils at a school named in his honour, Cape Town
Subject: Mandela, Nelson, 1918-2013, School children--South Africa, Post-apartheid era
Description: Teacher talk: Mr Mandela talks to teachers and pupils at the school in Crossroads named after him. He urged boycotting pupils to return to class
Identifier: islandora:14763

Title: Winnie Mandela surrounded by the media, Cape Town
Subject: Mandela, Winnie, Anti-apartheid activists, Press conferences
Description: Winnie Mandela and the media
Identifier: islandora:14727

Title: Eugene Terre'Blanche, Mafikeng, 1998
Subject: Apartheid--South Africa, Political violence--South Africa, South Africa--Social conditions, War crimes investigation--South Africa, Terre Blanche, Euge?ne N., Truth and Lies,
Description: Eugene Terre'Blanche, Mafikeng, 1998. Terre'Blanche, the leader of the Afrikaner-Weerstandsbeweging (AWB), attended the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) hearings in order to oppose the amnesty application of a South African Police (SAP) officer, Ontlametse Bernstein Menyatswe, who had killed three members of the AWB in 1994. Menyatswe argued that the killing had been politically motivated and he was acting in defense of his people and their right to vote in a national democratic election.
Identifier: islandora:775

Title: Armed forces stand for the opening ceremony, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Politics, Armed forces
Description: Coloured Coloured Representative Council (CRC) opening.
Identifier: islandora:15986

Title: Baxter Theatre, Cape Town
Subject: Rondebosch (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Theater, Apartheid, University of Cape Town, Education, Architecture,
Description: Aerial view of UCT's Lower Campus in the early 1980s, including the Baxter Theatre
Identifier: islandora:16732

Title: Accused terrorists on bail, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Politics, Bail
Description: On bail: Jozua "Ismael" Joubert, second from left, with co-accused, from left, Nazeem Adams, Anwaar Mentoor, Fadiel Adams and Yurus Adams. All are on bail pending appeals against sentences for terrorism and possessing illegal explosives.
Identifier: islandora:17616

Title: The Saambou National Building Society's new building in Bellville, Cape Town
Subject: Bellville (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Business, Apartheid, Architecture, Building, Afrikaners
Description: An example of the office building accommodation available in Bellville's growing central business district district is this modern building society block. The Saambou National Building Society's new building in Bellville was officially opened this week by Dr C.F. Albertyn. In addition to the shopping space on the ground floor, there are seven floors of office space and the banking hall also provides for art exhibitions. Saambou now owns buildings in Bellville valued at more than R1 500 000. With office accommodation in big demand in the rapidly developing Tygeberg area, office blocks are going up all over. One of the latest and largest blocks is the Saambou National Building, opened towards the end of last year. This building offers shopping space on the ground floor and seven floors of office space.
Identifier: islandora:16830

Title: Nelson Mandela, Treason Trial, Pretoria, 1958
Subject: Mandela, Nelson, 1918-2013, Political activists--South Africa--Pretoria, Apartheid--South Africa--Pretoria, Treason Trial, Pretoria, South Africa, 1956-1961
Description: On 13 October 1958, Moses Kotane and Nelson Mandela leave the Pretoria Court beaming with joy as the Crown had withdrawn their treason charges. However, on 19 January 1959, Nelson Mandela and 29 others were put on trial again, only to be found not-guilty two years later.
Identifier: islandora:7467

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