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Title: Bellville railway station, Cape Town
Subject: Bellville (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Railways, Architecture, South Africa. Separate Amenities Act, 1953, Transport
Description: Entrance to the Bellville Station, Cape Town
Identifier: islandora:16811

Title: Apartheid signage, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, South Africa. Separate Amenities Act, 1953, Race discrimination, Segregation, Apartheid signage
Description: "This scenic reserve is reserved for the Coloured group only". Apartheid signage, Cape Town
Identifier: islandora:16656

Title: Apartheid on public transport,Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, South Africa. Separate Amenities Act, 1953, Race discrimination, Transport, Buses
Description: Bus Apartheid: No room (even at the top) for non-whites on this apartheid-era bus.
Identifier: islandora:16662

Title: Segregation on buses, Cape Town
Subject: Milnerton (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, South Africa. Separate Amenities Act, 1953, Apartheid signage
Description: Sign on a 'Mixed' bus (lower deck: Whites only; upper deck: non-Whites only) on the Cape Town-Milnerton route in the apartheid era.
Identifier: islandora:16667

Title: Apartheid-era public swimming pool in Bellville, Cape Town
Subject: Bellville (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, South Africa. Separate Amenities Act, 1953, Recreation, Segregation, Sports
Description: Bellville's R 170,000 new Olympic-size swimming bath is set back from Voortrekker Road. The entrance is through an attractive, modern double-storeyed building finished in decorative tiles, coloured glass and polished wood. There are spacious changing rooms.
Identifier: islandora:16786

Title: Separate Amenities in practice, Cape Town
Subject: Simon's Town (Cape of Good Hope, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, South Africa. Separate Amenities Act, 1953, Race discrimination, Segregation, Apartheid signage
Description: Mr Larrington Dyasi is mystified. The Simon's Town handyman has been bringing his family to the beach at Simon's Town for more than a year. Now suddenly signs have been put up banning him from the beach.
Identifier: islandora:16664

Title: Political demonstration, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Demonstrations, Apartheid, South African Police, South Africa. Separate Amenities Act, 1953
Description: Political demonstration, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:17724

Title: Rocks and fishing amenities at False Bay reserved for Whites, Cape Town
Subject: False Bay (Western Cape, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, South Africa. Separate Amenities Act, 1953, Apartheid signage
Description: Not only beaches, but also rocks and fishing amenities along the False Bay coast have been segregated, as this Whites Only notice shows.
Identifier: islandora:16666

Title: Apartheid signage, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, South Africa. Separate Amenities Act, 1953, Race discrimination, Segregation, Apartheid signage
Description: Public restrooms reserved for 'non-white men' only
Identifier: islandora:16652

Title: Political demonstration, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Demonstrations, Apartheid, South African Police, South Africa. Separate Amenities Act, 1953
Description: Political demonstration, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:17727

Title: Cloakroom in City Hall reserved for whites only, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, South Africa. Separate Amenities Act, 1953, Race discrimination, Segregation, Apartheid signage
Description: White cloakroom notices in the City Hall enforcing the apartheid-era Separate Amenities Act, 1953
Identifier: islandora:16660

Title: domestic worker, Cape Town
Subject: Sea Point (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Domestic workers, Apartheid, South Africa. Separate Amenities Act, 1953
Description: Ms Ingrid Pienaar at the gate to the servants' quarters of a block of luxury flats in Sea Point. The gate is locked each night, Sea Point, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:18044

Title: Domestic worker, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Domestic workers, Apartheid, South Africa. Separate Amenities Act, 1953
Description: Domestic worker, Susan Saal.
Identifier: islandora:18046

Title: Milnerton 'Whites Only' bus, Cape Town
Subject: Milnerton (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, South Africa. Separate Amenities Act, 1953, Race discrimination, Transport, Buses
Description: Whites Only' sign on a bus on the Milnerton route during the apartheid era.
Identifier: islandora:16663

Title: Integrated buses, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, South Africa. Separate Amenities Act, 1953, Apartheid signage
Description: All aboard on the buses: black and white riding together after 10 years of total segregation.
Identifier: islandora:16669

Title: Apartheid signage at Simonstown,Cape Town
Subject: Simon's Town (Cape of Good Hope, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, South Africa. Separate Amenities Act, 1953, Race discrimination, Segregation, Apartheid signage
Description: Apartheid signage reserving Boulders Beach at Simonstown for whites only.
Identifier: islandora:16657

Title: Entrance to servants' quarters, Sea Point, Cape Town
Subject: Sea Point (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Domestic workers, Apartheid, South Africa. Separate Amenities Act, 1953
Description: Ms Susan Saal at the entrance to servants' quarters in Milner Road, Sea Point.
Identifier: islandora:18042

Title: Library in Atlantis, Cape Town
Subject: Atlantis (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Apartheid, Education, Coloured Labour Preference Area Policy (South Africa), South Africa. Separate Amenities Act, 1953
Description: Library in apartheid-era Atlantis, the dormitory suburb built for Coloured people outside Cape Town
Identifier: islandora:16711

Title: Modderdam Road, Cape Town
Subject: Bellville (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Townships, Apartheid, Transport, South Africa. Separate Amenities Act, 1953
Description: Passengers wait to board buses at Modderdam Road, Bellville
Identifier: islandora:16839

Title: Beachfront, Milnerton to Blaauberg, Cape Town
Subject: Milnerton (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Beaches, South Africa. Separate Amenities Act, 1953, Recreation, Environment
Description: The beachfront stretching from Milnerton to Blaauberg
Identifier: islandora:16893

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