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Title: Feeding pigeons in the Company's Gardens, Cape Town, 1960
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Recreation, Older people, Birds
Description: Feeding the pigeons in the Company's Gardens, Cape Town, 1960.
Identifier: islandora:17259

Title: House of Representatives, Tricameral Parliament, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Politics, Coloured people (South Africa), South Africa. Tricameral Parliament, Segregation
Description: New House: The new National Party Ministers' Council in the House of Representatives got down to business with its first official meeting today. Council chairman, centre, Mr Jac Rabie and Reverend Andrew Julies, left, Minister of Health and Welfare, are in front with Mr Patrick McEnery, Director General of the House. In the back row are Mr Pieter Saaiman, Minister of Local Government, Housing and Agriculture, Education and culture Minister Mr Abe Williams, Budget Minister Mr Gerald Morkel, and Mr Cecil Heradien, Deputy Minister of Local Government, Housing and Agriculture.
Identifier: islandora:16923

Title: Black Consciousness demonstration, Athlone, Cape Town
Subject: Athlone (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Politics, Coloured people (South Africa), Black consciousness, Demonstrations
Description: In the crowd there were something like 12 000 people. On the platform there were speakers from far and wide representing all the races in South Africa - except the Whites. This was at Athlone, Cape Town, last Sunday. According to organisers of the meeting and to many political observers, it was a significant day indeed for Black Consciousness and the growth of Black Power in South Africa.
Identifier: islandora:16876

Title: Fingo dancers at Langa, Cape Town
Subject: Langa (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Township, Traditions, Women, Xhosa (African people), Dance
Description: Fingo women dance at their community's annual celebrations in Cape Town's African township, Langa
Identifier: islandora:15862

Title: Marching band, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Festivals, Apartheid, Culture, Music, Coloured people (South Africa)
Description: Moslem bagpipe band, Cape Town
Identifier: islandora:16741

Title: Van Riebeeck tercentenary celebrations, 1952, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Traditional, Zulus (African People), Apartheid, Afrikaners Nationalism, Tribal
Description: A Zulu hut being constructed as part of the Native Affairs Department display at the Culemborg Pavilion as part of the 1952 celebrations to mark the 300th anniversary of arrival of Jan van Riebeeck at the Cape.
Identifier: islandora:15864

Title: ""Free the beaches""
Subject: coloured children, 'whites only' sign, discriminationDemonstrations--South Africa--Cape Town, Discrimination--South Africa, Children, Colored people (South Africa)
Description: ""Open the beaches"" protest. This protest was a reaction to the Separate Amenities Act of 1953, which declared that people of colour were not to use the same public facilities (such as toilets, park benches, buses and beaches) as white people.
Identifier: islandora:8389

Title: Marching band, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Festivals, Apartheid, Culture, Music, Coloured people (South Africa)
Description: Moslem bagpipe band, Cape Town
Identifier: islandora:16739

Title: Marching band, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Festivals, Apartheid, Culture, Music, Coloured people (South Africa)
Description: Slaurca Fete- Good Shepherd Band
Identifier: islandora:16742

Title: Marching band, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Festivals, Apartheid, Culture, Music, Coloured people (South Africa)
Description: Moslem bagpipe band, Cape Town
Identifier: islandora:16744

Title: Bishop Lavis residents protest, Cape Town
Subject: Bishop Lavis (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Townships, Apartheid, South African Police, Housing, Coloured people (South Africa)
Description: Bishop Lavis residents outside the office of the Citizens' Housing League in Dorp Street, confronted by police today. They dispersed soon afterwards. Report on facing page.
Identifier: islandora:16853

Title: Marching band, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Festivals, Apartheid, Culture, Music, Coloured people (South Africa)
Description: Boys in the band: Moslem bagpipe band, Cape Town
Identifier: islandora:16745

Title: Fingo leader, Joseph Papu, Cape Town
Subject: Langa (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Traditional leaders, Traditions, Tribes, Xhosa (African people), Christianity
Description: Pride in himself and confidence in his people are reflected in this fine study of 82-year-old Fingo leader, Joseph Papu, who will lead several thousand Fingoes in their annual celebrations in Cape Town today and tomorrow.
Identifier: islandora:15860

Title: Athlone, Cape Town
Subject: Athlone (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Labour, Local government, Coloured people (South Africa)
Description: Nightwatchman waits while White officials hold a meeting in Athlone, Cape Town
Identifier: islandora:16724

Title: Feeding pigeons on the Grand Parade, Cape Town, 1952
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Business, Flea markets, Birds, Coloured people (South Africa)
Description: Mr Salie Isaacs, a stall-holder on the Grand Parade, has fed hundreds of pigeons at 2 o'clock each day for the last 20 years. He is seen in this photograph, paper bag in hand, feeding his feathered friends yesterday.
Identifier: islandora:17159

Title: Traditional Xhosa wedding ceremony, Cape Town
Subject: Langa (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Weddings, Township, Traditions, Xhosa (African people), Urbanisation
Description: Some of the horseman who took part in the colourful umkhwelo amahashe ("We go with the horses") ceremony at Langa yesterday. It was part of the three-day wedding celebrations of Miss Beauty Makwela and Mr. Bulumko Msengane.
Identifier: islandora:15859

Title: Disabled workers march, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Demonstrations, People with disabilities
Description: Rights demanded ... Mr Frank Sam, his guide-dog, Ninja, and Mr Morris Kema were among about 100 disabled workers and supporters who marched on Saturday for disabled workers' rights.
Identifier: islandora:17818

Title: Happy people
Subject: Garret, Kenny. Happy people, Jazz, Concerts--South Africa--Cape Town
Description: The Fourth Jessica and Bernard Lyon Jazz Prize for SACM Student Ensembles, Chisholm Recital Room, South African College of Music, Cape Town, South Africa
Identifier: islandora:28896

Title: Strolling through the Company's Gardens, Cape Town, 1976
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Botanical, Recreation, Older people
Description: A pleasant pastime for many is a lunch-hour stroll through the shady lane in the Gardens, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:17249

Title: Transkeian 'citizens' in a Whites-only restaurant, Cape Town
Subject: Camps Bay (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, South Africa. Separate Amenities Act, 1953, Bantustans, Xhosa (African people)
Description: Transkeian citizens Mr Mbongeni Mvana and Mr Mlami Gomo enjoy a soft drink on the veranda of a Camps Bay White restaurant this week after showing their passports to the manager. 'I don't mind who comes here as long as they behave,' said the manager. [Transkei was granted 'independence' by South Africa in 1976, meaning those born in the Transkei, such as these two men, automatically became 'foreigners' in South Africa.]
Identifier: islandora:16650

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