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Title: War-time housing development in Kew Town, Athlone, Cape Town
Subject: Athlone (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Townships, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Apartheid, Housing, Coloured people (South Africa),
Description: Q-town (later Kew Town) in Athlone, Cape Town, a war-time sub-economic housing development for the coloured (slum) population of the inner city areas.
Identifier: islandora:16721

Title: Street in Extension 9, Belhar, Cape Town
Subject: Belhar (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Housing, Coloured people (South Africa), City planning
Description: The bleak moonscape of a street in Belhar's new Extension 9 which residents don't see as 'a great leap forward for mankind.'
Identifier: islandora:16774

Title: Newspaper vendor's customers, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Newspapers, Labour, Apartheid, Coloured Labour Preference Area Policy (South Africa), Children's rights
Description: A young newspaper vendor doing a brisk trade
Identifier: islandora:16696

Title: Prime Minister Vorster inspects houses at Atlantis, Cape Town
Subject: Atlantis (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Apartheid, Coloured Labour Preference Area Policy (South Africa), City planning, Governments
Description: The Prime Minister , Mr Vorster, after inspecting one of the R11 400 houses built at Atlantis. On his left are Dr Schalk van der Merwe, Minister of Coloured Relations, Mr J H Heyns, chairman of the Divisional Council of the Cape, and Mr W O Kuhne, a Cape Town journalist.
Identifier: islandora:16703

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: Marching band, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Festivals, Apartheid, Culture, Music, Coloured people (South Africa)
Description: Young Zinnias Platoon marching band, Cape Town
Identifier: islandora:16737

Title: Sand dunes near Atlantis, Cape Town
Subject: Atlantis (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Apartheid, Coloured Labour Preference Area Policy (South Africa), City planning, Environment
Description: The huge, moving sand dunes near the proposed development of Atlantis, rimmed by sparsely vegetated barrier dunes. If the delicate environmental balance of these barrier dunes is disturbed will it be possible to contain the moving dune?
Identifier: islandora:16699

Title: Newspaper vendor, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Newspapers, Labour, Apartheid, Coloured Labour Preference Area Policy (South Africa), Commerce
Description: [Newspaper vendor] who has been delivering The Argus in the Wittebome area since 1961 [who is] eligible for the R500 (or an overseas trip) News Carrier of the Year prize, the winner of which will be chosen in December from the monthly winners.
Identifier: islandora:16689

Title: Eviction in Athlone,Cape Town
Subject: Athlone (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Apartheid, Coloured people (South Africa), Poverty, Youth
Description: Family evicted from their home in Athlone, Cape Town
Identifier: islandora:16717

Title: Newspaper vendor, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Newspapers, Labour, Apartheid, Coloured Labour Preference Area Policy (South Africa), Commerce
Description: Selling newspapers from a tub on flooded Adderley Street
Identifier: islandora:16695

Title: Gang hideouts, Belhar
Subject: Belhar (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Crime, Gangs, Coloured people (South Africa)
Description: A girl is dwarfed by the dunes in which gangsters hide out. People are attacked and robbed almost daily on their way to the bus and railway stations.
Identifier: islandora:16772

Title: Housing, Athlone, Cape Town
Subject: Athlone (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Housing, Development, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Apartheid, Coloured people (South Africa)
Description: Mrs. W. Brooks with her children outside her "home" in Third Ave, Athlone, which flanks one of the modern house in this "elite" Coloured suburb. Mrs Brooks has had her name down for a council house for two years but sees no prospect of being given one soon.
Identifier: islandora:16729

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: 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: Cluster housing in Belhar, Cape Town
Subject: Belhar (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Housing, Coloured people (South Africa), City planning
Description: Cluster housing in Belhar. The second house from the right has been plastered and painted. It shows what a difference improvements (at owner expense) make.
Identifier: islandora:16773

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: Apartheid-era Cape Corps soldier, Cape Show, Cape Town
Subject: Goodwood (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Militarisation, Apartheid, Coloured people (South Africa), Armed forces
Description: Show goes on. This Cape Corps soldier stoically continued his precision march despite his helmet having come undone during last night's Cape Tattoo at the Cape Showgrounds. The tattoo started last night and the final performance is on March 5.
Identifier: islandora:15870

Title: Students demonstrate outside CRC grounds, Cape Town
Subject: Bellville (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Youth, Demonstrations, Apartheid, Politics, Coloured Persons Representative Council of South Africa
Description: Some of the placard-bearing students who demonstrated outside the grounds of the Coloured Persons Representative Council (CRC) at Bellville yesterday afternoon shortly before the opening of the 3rd session of the Council.
Identifier: islandora:17653

Title: War-time housing development in Kew Town, Athlone, Cape Town
Subject: Athlone (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Townships, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Apartheid, Housing, Coloured people (South Africa)
Description: Q-town (later Kew Town) in Athlone, Cape Town, a war-time sub-economic housing development for the coloured (slum) population of the inner city areas.
Identifier: islandora:16719

Title: War-time housing development in Kew Town, Athlone, Cape Town
Subject: Athlone (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Townships, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Apartheid, Housing, Coloured people (South Africa),
Description: Q-town (later Kew Town) in Athlone, Cape Town, a war-time sub-economic housing development for the coloured (slum) population of the inner city areas.
Identifier: islandora:16720

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