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Title: Oral history interview with Elizabeth Theunissen, a survivor of the St. James Church massacre [Part 2 of 2]
Subject: Oral history, St. James Church (Kenilworth, South Africa), Forgiveness--South Africa, Reconciliation, ,
Description: On the 25th July 1993, four operatives of the Azanian People's Liberation Army (APLA), the armed wing of the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) attacked St James Church in Kenilworth, Cape Town, during a Sunday evening service. Approximately one hundred congregants were inside the Church. During the attack, the congregants were fired on with automatic weapons and two hand grenades were thrown into the Church. Eleven members of the congregation died and fifty-eight were injured. This research explores the intra- and inter-personal tensions within the testimonies of survivors on the process of forgiveness and reconciliation. Themes include: the amnesty application by the APLA cadets to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC); personal responses to trauma; memories of the event; Christian beliefs in context of personal trauma; congregational mapping; political violence and the public and personal processes of forgiveness., Pol2.06.mp3: Part 2 of 2 ; 01:03:47 min. ; interview 6 of 6
Identifier: islandora:24444

Title: St. Francis Church, Simonstown, Cape Town, 1961
Subject: Simon's Town (Cape Town , South Africa), Church buildings, Historic buildings, Architecture, Christianity
Description: This is how the motorist entering Simonstown from the North sees St. Francis Church. The belfry was an addition in 1880 when the church was altered and turned about.
Identifier: islandora:17318

Title: St. Saviour's Anglican Church, Claremont, Cape Town, 1961
Subject: Claremont (Cape Town, South Africa), Church buildings, Historic buildings, Architecture, Christianity
Description: St. Saviour's Church, Claremont, stands on five acres of lawns and trees. The original church, which was consecrated in 1850, was made of rough mountain stone and had a thatched roof. Since then six bays, a new chancel, a lady chapel and vestry accommodation have been added.
Identifier: islandora:17298

Title: St Paul's Anglican Church, Signal Hill, Cape Town, 1961
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Church buildings, Historic buildings, Architecture, Christianity
Description: St. Paul's was consecrated in 1880 and serves a large Anglican community living in the city and on the slopes of Signal Hill. Built in traditional English style, it has seating for 900 people and on high festivals there is standing room only.
Identifier: islandora:17282

Title: General plan of the European Reserve in the District of Port St. Johns, Pondoland. Sheet no. 2
Subject: Pondoland (South Africa)--History--Maps, Land use--South Africa--Pondoland, Pondoland (South Africa)--Description and travel--Maps,
Description: Plan of the European Reserve in the District of Port St. Johns, Pondoland, showing farmlands, names of places, forests, rivers, mountains, and main roads. Relief shown by shading. Some colours. Scale 100 Cape Roods to the inch.
Identifier: islandora:30101

Title: A forest starting to disappear near Lusikisiki and Port St John's
Subject: Botany--South Africa, Plants--South Africa, ,
Description: A forest starting to disappear near Lusikisiki and Port St John's
Identifier: islandora:10099

Title: Near Port St. Johns
Subject: Indian Ocean Coastal Belt, , ,
Description: Location: Near Port St. Johns., Ecology: Coastline, coastal forest and grassland.
Identifier: islandora:10467

Title: St. George's Street, Cape Town, circa 1930s
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Architecture, Motorcars, Roads
Description: Night time scene on St George's Street, Cape Town, circa 1930s.
Identifier: islandora:17379

Title: Union celebrations in St George's Street, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Cape Town (South Africa), date unknown, Festivals, History, Colonialism
Description: Union celebrations in St George's Street, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:14896

Title: St. Thomas Church, Rondebosch, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Rondebosch (Cape Town, South Africa), circa 1920, Church buildings, Architecture
Description: St Thomas Church, Rondebosch. The church as it is today, seen from almost the same angle. Though the photograph was taken in 1920, there have been no structural changes since then.
Identifier: islandora:16623

Title: Bell for St. Martin's Lutheran Church, Cape Town, circa 1961
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Church bells, Historic buildings, Architecture, Christianity
Description: Weighing more than one ton, this church bell, cast in Germany, will be hung in the German Lutheran Church (St. Martin's), Long Street. Discussing ways of getting the bell into the tower are (from left) Mr P. E. Ulm, Mr W. Nossek, Mr K. H. Naumann, pastor at the church, and Mr C. A. Angermann, representative in Cape Town of the bell manufacturers.
Identifier: islandora:17277

Title: Acacia trees near St. Johns Dam waterhole within the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park.
Subject: San (African people)--Botswana and South Africa--Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, Khomani (African people)--Botswana and South Africa--Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, San (African people)--Social life and customs, Khomani (African people)--Social life and customs, Acacia erioloba---Botswana and South Africa--Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, Trees--Botswana and South Africa--Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, Indigenous peoples--Land tenure--Africa, Southern, ,
Description: Acacia trees growing along the Nossob River bed near St. Johns Dam waterhole. The ǂKhomani San would pick the acacia's berries to make a coffee-like beverage.Images from this trip document the first excursions into the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park and were a central part of the work on oral history and mapping in the first years of research.
Identifier: islandora:26913

Title: St. Lucia
Subject: Forest, Indian Ocean Coastal Belt, Zonal & Intrazonal Forest, , , ,
Description: Location: Greater St. Lucia Wetland Park., Ecology: Grassland and dune forest.
Identifier: islandora:10451

Title: Bellringers at St Mary's Woodstock, Cape Town
Subject: Woodstock (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Church of England, Religion, Christianity, Recreation, Music
Description: Bellringers in the belfry at the church of St Mary, the Virgin, Woodstock.
Identifier: islandora:16768

Title: Protest, St. Georges Cathedral, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Cape Town (South Africa), Civil unrest, Demonstrations, Church buildings, Roads, Motorcars
Description: Protesters line the streets outside St George's Cathedral, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:16448

Title: St. Georges Street, Cape Town, circa1894
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Cape Town (South Africa), Urban areas, Land, Urban development, Historic buildings
Description: Eighty years ago, about 1894, this is what the top of St. George's Street looked like, with the post office then occupying the site at the corner of Church Street later making way for the Cape Times Building, until in recent years it has been renamed Fairbairn Building. The double-storeyed building on the immediate right was re-built into the Argus Building. The handsome old St. George's Cathedral has long since been demolished.
Identifier: islandora:15109

Title: St. George's Cathedral, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Hunger strikes, St. George's Cathedral (Cape Town, South Africa)
Description: International attention has focused on St George's Cathedral as fasting squatters there "near the edge of really damaging themselves" according to a local doctor who warned that soon they would become confused and unable to negotiate with Dr Piet Koornhof, who so far refused to talk to them unless they leave the cathedral.
Identifier: islandora:17548

Title: St. Lucia, Helichrysum
Subject: Forest, Indian Ocean Coastal Belt, Zonal & Intrazonal Forest, , , ,
Description: Location: St. Lucia Wetland Park., Ecology: Grassland and dune forest.
Identifier: islandora:10507

Title: Cape Government Railways. Plan showing approximate route of light railway from Touws River St. to Sutherland via Pienaar's Kloof, Koedoos Berg & Verlaten Kloof, to accompany report by E. George A. Schèle A.M.I.C.E Engineer in Charge of Survey dated 31 August 2899
Subject: Railroads--South Africa--Western Cape--Maps, Railroads--South Africa--Northern Cape--Maps, ,
Description: Map showing railway line from Village of Ceres and Touws River to Village of Sutherland, with rivers, roads and small place names. Some colour. Scale 1 cm to 10 miles
Identifier: islandora:29798

Title: St Stephen's Anglican Church, Pinelands, Cape Town, 1954
Subject: Pinelands (Cape Town, South Africa), Church buildings, Historic buildings, Architecture, Christianity
Description: St Stephen's Anglican Church, Pinelands, 1954. Cape Archives.
Identifier: islandora:17336

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