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Title: Panic-stricken passenger jumps from moving train, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Railroad trains, Railroad accidents
Description: Escaping the danger ... A panic-stricken passenger, fearing for his safety, jumps from a moving train as it approaches Nonkqubela railway station, shortly after it sliced through a pile of burning tyres placed on the railway line. Witnesses said the screams of terrified passengers could be heard some distance from the train as it entered the pall of black smoke.
Identifier: islandora:17695

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: Thousands gather to see Nelson Mandela after being released from jail, Cape Town
Subject: Crowds--South Africa, Post-apartheid era
Description: Day of release: Crowd of 80 000 awaits Mandela at Cape Town City Hall yesterday
Identifier: islandora:14760

Title: Man holds onto the wire mesh that separates him from a waterslide, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Segregation, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950
Description: Apartheid / Mr Abubakar Abdol, of Parkwood Estate, looks through the wire mesh at the water slide at Muizenberg which he may not use. The slide is the only facility in the pavilion area not open to all races. The owner says he is not willing to risk prosecution and will only open the slide to all when the law is changed.
Identifier: islandora:16130

Title: Participants in Buffalo Rally from Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Motorcycles, Apartheid, Recreation, Transport
Description: Grease for peace, says "Mad" Morgan Moodley, as his loaded "Black Wing" rumbles through Cape Town en route for the Buffalo Rally in Maseru. With him is Yolanda Julius and they are flying the flag of the Freedom Riders Motorcycle Club - as slightly modified Stars and Stripes.
Identifier: islandora:16897

Title: Pensioner from Atlantis, Cape Town
Subject: Atlantis (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Pensions, Poverty, Older people
Description: Against all odds - Mrs Audrey Aries, 65, with her "useless" pension book, electricity and other accounts. Her husband earns R245 a month and after her rent and other accounts have been paid she has very little money left.
Identifier: islandora:16702

Title: Confined to bed since move from District Six, Cape Town
Subject: Bontheuwel (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Relocation
Description: Mr Christian Smith, 87, who has been confined to his bed since his move from District Six to Bonteheuwel four months ago.
Identifier: islandora:17978

Title: View of Bellville from the N2, Cape Town
Subject: Bellville (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Housing, City planning, Urban development, Transport
Description: Housing development at Bellville, as seen from the N2 in the mid 1960s.
Identifier: islandora:16802

Title: Barbed wire separating Nyanga from Crossroads, Cape Town
Subject: Nyanga (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Squatter settlements, Apartheid
Description: The barbed wire entanglement cutting off Crossroads from Nyanga.
Identifier: islandora:17528

Title: Nearing Cape Town after walking from Grahamstown
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Africans, Poverty, Families, Rural areas
Description: Still erect and proud, 80-year-old Mr July Nanise plods along Settlers Way after his 700km walk from Grahamstown in search of his long-lost brother.
Identifier: islandora:15851

Title: Passengers board a flight to Windhoek from Cape Town in 1970
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Cape Town International Airport, Apartheid, Travel, Weather
Description: Passengers show their seating cards at the gate before boarding the plane bound for Windhoek at 10.10 this morning. This was the first plane to leave D.F.Malan Airport since late yesterday afternoon. The Airways terminal was crowded with more than 300 would-be travellers this morning, waiting for the fog to lift.
Identifier: islandora:15879

Title: Farewell to pilgrims departing for Mecca from Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Pilgrims and pilgrimages, Mecca (Saudi Arabia), Muslims, Apartheid, Travel
Description: Farewell from behind wire fencing for relatives and friends of a batch of 60 Moslem pilgrims who left for Mecca today.
Identifier: islandora:15885

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