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Title: Man performs a solo piece while choir sing in background, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Malay, Musicians, Performing arts, ,
Description: Man performs a solo piece while choir sing in background, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:15175

Title: Man sits in chair next to dead body covered with a blanket, Cape Town
Subject: Pan Africanist Congress, Politics, Grief, ,
Description: Pan African Congress (PAC).
Identifier: islandora:15694

Title: Man stands at control desk of a train station, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Railroads, Transport, Communication and technology, Architecture, Interior decoration
Description: Control desks and signal diagram in the new Cape Town Cabin seen during a test of the installation.
Identifier: islandora:16161

Title: Man calling Cape Town Muslims to prayers, Cape Town
Subject: Religion, Islam, Youth, ,
Description: Calling Cape Town Muslims to prayers on the tower of the Hoop Street Mosque.
Identifier: islandora:15505

Title: Man picks up a teargas canister that has been set off, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Law enforcement, Civil unrest, Violence, Weapons, Demonstrations
Description: A youth picks up a streaming teargas canister to throw it back at police in Athlone yesterday.
Identifier: islandora:16219

Title: Man defies apartheid laws by walking up stairs reserved for non-whites, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Segregation, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950
Description: A white youth comes out of the all-race subway and goes up the steps reserved for non-Whites.
Identifier: islandora:16129

Title: Man demonstrates the art of "Chalifa" to audience, Cape Town
Subject: Religion, Islam, Worship, ,
Description: Mr Mohamed Ismail demonstrates the Islamic art of "Chalifa" - piercing one's own body with blades - while members of the Bridgetown Chalifa group drum a rhythm to hold him in a trance. The group will appear at the Schotsche Kloof Civic Centre tonight at 7. Tickets cost R2,50.
Identifier: islandora:15460

Title: Man wearing balaclava holds a radio between bars, Cape Town
Subject: People Against Gangsterism and Drugs (PAGAD), Vigilantes, Portable radios, ,
Description: Man wearing balaclava holds a radio between bars, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:15673

Title: Man and woman hold up anti-apartheid stickers, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Segregation, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Progressive Federal Party (South Africa)
Description: Man and woman hold up anti-apartheid stickers, Cape Town
Identifier: islandora:16125

Title: Man speaks to crowd facing eviction, Cape Town
Subject: Agricultural laborers, Forced removals (South Africa), ,
Description: Mr E.M. ('Babs') Essop, acting chairman of the Athlone and District Management Committee (centre), addressed families facing eviction at a farm in Phillipi today.
Identifier: islandora:15816

Title: Man compares a photograph of a street in the Malayan Quarter to what it looks like now, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Malay, Residential buildings, Historic districs, ,
Description: Mr Austen compares the old with the new. Bo-Kaap Malay Quarter.
Identifier: islandora:15170

Title: Man demonstrates how a fez is made, Cape Town
Subject: Religion, Islam, Worship, Artisans, ,
Description: Below: Mr Abduragiem Jassiem puts an unshaped fez in a mould to be heated and stiffened. He produces about 700 fezzes a month in his one-room factory in the Malay Quarter in Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:15507

Title: Man shows two coins, Cape Town
Subject: Religion, Islam, Worship, ,
Description: Flip sides - Dr Abdul Wahab Barday shows two coins struck to commemorate three centuries of Islam in South Africa. The coins depict the shrine of the forefather of Islam in SA, Sheikh Yusuf of Macassar, on one side and a chapter from the Koran on the other.
Identifier: islandora:15469

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: Man walks past discarded teargas canister, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Civil unrest, Violence, Demonstrations, Weapons
Description: A burnt-out teargas canister in an almost deserted Darling Street this afternoon.
Identifier: islandora:16253

Title: Man talks to congregation, Cape Town
Subject: Religion, Islam, Political unrest, ,
Description: A member of the congregation calls for peace during the disturbance at yesterday's anti-constitution meeting in the Primrose Park Mosque.
Identifier: islandora:15496

Title: Man playing a flute, Cape Town
Subject: Music, Poverty, Performing arts, ,
Description: Right: Christopher Jacobs sits under a tree at the Nyanga Art Centre practising for Saturday's performance.
Identifier: islandora:15606

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