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Title: Alliance for Radical Change meeting, Cape Town
Subject: Mowbray (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Politics, Apartheid, Elections, Youth
Description: Mr Jack Curtis (left), who was the main speaker at the Alliance for Radical Change meeting in Mowbray on Thursday night. The meeting was attended by about 250 people. Mr Curtis, father of the banned student leader Mr Neville Curtis, addressed students at the University of Cape Town (UCT) yesterday.
Identifier: islandora:18065

Title: Oral history interview with Tamsanqa Percival Ngoma [Part 2 of 2]
Subject: Oral history, Drinking of alcoholic beverages--Social aspects--South Africa, Apartheid--South Africa, Alcohol--Government policy--South Africa
Description: This project spans three sub-collections. This case study in Langa in the Western Cape examines the socio-political environment and racial/gender discrimination with regards to alcohol under apartheid policies. Themes include: African traditional beer (umqombothi), anti-government protests, discriminatory laws, the Eastern Cape, government beer halls, government policy with respect to alcohol, hostels, housing, migrant labour, racialised spaces, the 1976 riots, shebeens (a bar, predominately in the townships where alcohol is sold) and the smuggling of alcohol by residents., Pin7.09b.mp3: Part 2 of 2 ; 30:39 min.. ; interview 9 of 16
Identifier: islandora:22554

Title: Demonstrations, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Demonstrations, Politics, Apartheid
Description: Demonstrations, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:17667

Title: Agricultural land scheduled for housing development, Bergvliet, Cape Town
Subject: Bergvliet (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Townships, Urban development, Apartheid, Whites, Environment
Description: Tasting the grapes. The Old Mutual is undertaking another residential township project at Bergvliet, Cape. Some 100 building plots are planned. Ninety will be laid out on what is now farmland. Here Maureen Hodgson, Carol Waylett and Joan Opperman are tasting the grapes.
Identifier: islandora:16848

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: Crossroads march, Cape Town
Subject: Nyanga (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Squatter settlements, Apartheid, Demonstrations
Description: Crossroads march. Supporters of Old Crossroads headman Mr Geoffrey Nongwe march to Nyanga police station yesterday.
Identifier: islandora:17584

Title: District Six resident, Cape Town
Subject: District Six (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Forced removals, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950
Description: Doris Kavanagh ... "I don't know why they should pull the building down. It's so solid you can't knock a nail in the walls."
Identifier: islandora:17992

Title: Protest, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Demonstrations, Apartheid, South African Police, Youth
Description: Part of a group of about 250 protesters move along Sir Lowry Road before their protest march was stopped by police at the intersection at Darling Street today.
Identifier: islandora:17720

Title: Street clashes, South Africa, 1991
Subject: Apartheid--South Africa--Sebokeng, Political violence--South Africa--Sebokeng, Weapons--South Africa--Sebokeng, Demonstrations--South Africa--Sebokeng, Children--South Africa--Sebokeng, Best of Marinovich
Description: A young boy brandishes a toy gun at police armoured vehicles as his friend spots another police vehicle coming up a side street, Sebokeng, 1991.
Identifier: islandora:1210

Title: Homeless women, Crossroads, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Squatter settlements, Apartheid, Women, Homeless persons
Description: Homeless Crossroads women wait at Parliament yesterday while four of them met Mr Chris Heunis to plead for rebuilding of their homes.
Identifier: islandora:17581

Title: Conscientious objectors protest, UCT
Subject: Apartheid--South Africa, South Africa--Politics and government--1978-1989, South Africa--History--1961-1994, Demonstrations--South Africa, Youths--South Africa, Political activists--South Africa, Conscientious objectors--South Africa,
Description: A sign reads, "Support objectors! STOP the call-up", at a demonstration to end military conscription in South Africa, central Cape Town., circa 1980s
Identifier: islandora:12635

Title: Cabinet members, Cape Town, 1975
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Politics, Cabinet ministers, National Party (South Africa), Governments
Description: Prime Minister B.J. Vorster and State President Nico Diedrichs (centre front) with members of the Cabinet, 1975
Identifier: islandora:16941

Title: Delmas trial, Delmas, 1985
Subject: Trials (Treason), Valli, Mohammed, Apartheid, Apartheid, Political history--South Africa, Beyond the Barricades
Description: Mohammed Valli, Transvaal secretary of the United Democratic Front (UDF), and other spectators peer into the courtroom at the start of the Delmas treason trial. Twenty-two UDF and other activists were charged with furthering the aims of the African National Congress (ANC) and with conspiring to overthrow the government.
Identifier: islandora:912

Title: Bishop Lavis Drive, Cape Town
Subject: Bishop Lavis (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Townships, Apartheid, Youth, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Coloured people (South Africa)
Description: Bishop Lavis Drive in Bishop Lavis township, Cape Town
Identifier: islandora:16852

Title: New housing development, Blue Downs, Cape Town
Subject: Blue Downs (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Townships, Apartheid, Housing, Architecture
Description: A new housing development at Blue Downs, Cape Town
Identifier: islandora:16879

Title: Woman protests army occupation, Soweto, 1985
Subject: Military occupation, Women--Political activity, Apartheid, Political history--South Africa, Beyond the Barricades
Description: A lone woman protests against the presence of troops in Soweto. Women played a significant role against the army's occupation of the townships. In Chesterville, a township near Durban, women patrolled the streets nightly to protect families from security force and vigilante harassment.
Identifier: islandora:909

Title: Right wing conservatives at election rally, Pretoria, South Africa
Subject: Political history--South Africa--Pretoria, Elections--South Africa--Pretoria, Apartheid--South Africa--Pretoria, Segregation--South Africa--Pretoria, Race discrimination--South Africa--Pretoria
Description: Right-wing conservatives rally for another all-white by-election, which increased pro-apartheid representation in the all-white Parliament, Pretoria, South Africa, February 1982.
Identifier: islandora:5331

Title: Waiting for the 'whites only' bus, Pretoria, South Africa
Subject: Buses--South Africa--Pretoria, Apartheid--South Africa--Pretoria, Social conditions--South Africa--Pretoria, Segregation----South Africa--Pretoria, Race discrimination--South Africa--Pretoria
Description: Waiting for a 'whites only' bus under apartheid's policies of racial segregation, Pretoria, South Africa, November 1988.
Identifier: islandora:5352

Title: Exhumation, Vlakplaas, 1998
Subject: Apartheid--South Africa, Political violence--South Africa, South Africa--Social conditions, War crimes investigation--South Africa, Truth and Lies,
Description: Tholakele Ngqulunga, during an exhumation at her husband's grave, Vlakplaas 1998.
Identifier: islandora:803

Title: Archbishop Desmond Tutu faces police, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Demonstrations, Apartheid, South African Police, Tutu, Desmond, Gerwel, G. J. (G. Jakes)
Description: Archbishop Desmond Tutu to face with police at a protest march in the city yesterday. Next to him is the head of the University of the Western Cape, Professor Jakes Gerwel, who also took part in the march.
Identifier: islandora:17718

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