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Title: M.O.T.H commemoration, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Memorials, Veterans, World War, 1939-1945, Civil society
Description: A members of M.O.T.H (Memorable Order of Tin Hats) remembers fallen comrades at a commemorative ceremony in 1990
Identifier: islandora:16648

Title: M.O.T.H commemoration, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Memorials, Veterans, World War, 1939-1945, Civil society
Description: Members of M.O.T.H (Memorable Order of Tin Hats) observe a minute's silence in memory of fallen comrades on Moth Remembrance Day, 1988
Identifier: islandora:16646

Title: Bellville Fire Department,Cape Town
Subject: Bellville (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Fires departments, History, Civil services, Transport
Description: Bellville firemen lined up today to say farewell to the town council's 30-year-old fire-engine (left), which has been given to the Cape Town Crankhandle Club. On the right is the new R19,000 fire-engine.
Identifier: islandora:16792

Title: Civic Centre, Bellville, Cape Town
Subject: Bellville (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Buildings, Civil society, Local government, Architecture
Description: The Civic Centre at Bellville where the annual congress of the Cape Western Regional Publicity Association will be opened by the Mayor of Bellville, Mr. W. J. Bezuidenhout, to-day. The Civic Centre contains a civic theatre, council chamber and administrative offices. A city hall will be added in 1967. The "Cape Times" will publish next Wednesday, November 4, a special supplement on the great progress that has been made in recent years at Bellville.
Identifier: islandora:16785

Title: Allan Boesak speaks at the World Alliance of Reformed Churches, Cape Town
Subject: Boesak, Allan Aubrey, 1946-, Political activists, Civil disobedience, Apartheid era, World Alliance of Reformed Churches (Presbyterian and Congregational)
Description: South African church leader Dr. Allan Boesak (2nd from right) "vowed to continue resist the South African government even though he feared that he may be killed". With him were members of a delegation from the World Alliance of Reformed Churches. General Secretary Edmont Perret, right, Slyvia Michel and Joachim Guhrt.
Identifier: islandora:14834

Title: Officers of Prince Alfred's Own Cape Volunteer Artillery, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Anglo-Boer War, 1899-1902, Civil war, British Army, Armed forces,
Description: Three officers of Prince Alfred's Own Cape Volunteer Artillery.
Identifier: islandora:15938

Title: Clock tower, Bellville Civic Centre, Cape Town
Subject: Bellville (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Local government, Civil services, Architecture, Afrikaners
Description: The pulse of civic life in Bellville - the Civic Centre with its impressive clock tower.
Identifier: islandora:16791

Title: El Alamein commemorative service, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Memorials, World War, 1939-1945, South African Defence Force, Civil society
Description: El Alamein: Military and civilian guests at the annual El Alamein commemorative service in 1986. Wreaths were laid by the Defence Force, service organisations and civilian dignitaries, while Major Lionel Murray, MC and Bar, delivered the address. An old soldier pays tribute to comrades who fell during the battle of El Alamein 44 years ago.
Identifier: islandora:16642

Title: Lord Kitchener arrives at the Cape Town Docks, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Anglo-Boer War, 1899-1902, Civil war, British Army, Armed forces, Port
Description: Arrival of Lord Kitchener at the Cape Town Docks to take over command in South Africa on 29 November, 1900. - Senior citizens of Cape Town turned out in style to see Lord Kitchener arrive in Cape Town during the South African War. This picture, of the British Army stepping down a gangplank, is one of many historic pictures in the Cape Times photographic exhibition, "Cape Town Down the Years", which is now on view at the Shell Gallery in Greenmarket Square, Cape Town. The exhibition, which is part of the Cape Town Festival, closes next Friday (April 29). It is open on Mondays to Fridays from 10am to 4.30pm, but closed on Saturdays and Sundays.
Identifier: islandora:15939

Title: POPCRU members march, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Demonstrations, South African Police, Labor unions, Police and Prisons Civil Rights Union (South Africa)
Description: Police and Prison Civil Rights Union (POPCRU) members march, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:17746

Title: Church Square, Cape Town, circa 1870
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Architecture, Urban development, Civil services, Church buildings
Description: Church Square has been much in the news lately with the closing down of the Civil Service Club (second and third building from the left) and its amalgamation with the City Club in Queen Victoria Street in 1976. This picture was taken in 1870, and shows the Gothic facade of the Rev. Dr. John Phillip's church (which later became incorporated in the Civil Service Club) and the pedimented building which began to house members of the club in 1865. Great changes have been made to both buildings since that year and even bigger ones can be expected in the years to come. Cape Archives.
Identifier: islandora:17481

Title: Bellville Civic Centre, Cape Town
Subject: Bellville (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Afrikaners, Buildings, Architecture, Civil services
Description: 1970s architecture: Bellville Civic Centre and clock tower
Identifier: islandora:16776

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