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Title: Dirt road, Crossroads, Cape Town
Subject: Crossroads (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Squatter settlements, Apartheid, Roads
Description: Dirt road at Crossroads, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:17546

Title: Political demonstration, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Demonstrations, Apartheid, South African Police, South Africa. Separate Amenities Act, 1953
Description: Political demonstration, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:17724

Title: Frances Baard at UDF launch, Cape Town, 1983
Subject: Women political activists, Public meetings, Anti-apartheid movements, Apartheid, Political history--South Africa, Beyond the Barricades
Description: Frances Baard, a former president of the African National Congress's Women's League (ANCWL), salutes the crowd gathered to launch the United Democratic Front (UDF) in Mitchell's Plain, Cape Town. The UDF drew together over 600 democratically-based community, student, trade union, women's, and church organisations and was the major legal oppositional force until the government severely curtailed its activities in 1988.
Identifier: islandora:889

Title: Released from Pollsmoor after 5 months, Cape Town
Subject: Guguletu (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Political prisoners, Apartheid
Description: Back home ... Mr Ngconde Balfour was yesterday released after spending nearly five months in detention at Pollsmoor. Here he is seen at his Gugulethu home with his wife Khanyisa and daughter Nellie.
Identifier: islandora:17935

Title: Sea Point swimming pool, Cape Town
Subject: Sea Point (Cape Town, South Africa), Apartheid, South Africa. Separate Amenities Act, 1953, Water
Description: The public swimming pool at Sea Point, Cape Town, 1985.
Identifier: islandora:17197

Title: Deserted football field in Maitland, Cape Town
Subject: Apartheid, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Soccer, Recreation areas, ,
Description: The limp goalposts on the football field, residents say, tell a story of despondency - 23 years in the shadow of the Group Areas Act has taken its toll of soccer, once the most popular sport in the area.
Identifier: islandora:15196

Title: Breyten Breytenbach and his family, Cape Town
Subject: Breytenbach, Breyten, Anti-apartheid activists, Political activists, Apartheid era, Families--South Africa
Description: Breyten Breytenbach with family at Cape Town docks
Identifier: islandora:14847

Title: A domestic worker speaks out, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Labour, Domestic workers, Apartheid
Description: Mrs Hester George: "I think it is really disgusting because we, as domestic workers, are denied our private lives."
Identifier: islandora:18034

Title: Segregation on buses, Cape Town
Subject: Milnerton (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, South Africa. Separate Amenities Act, 1953, Apartheid signage
Description: Sign on a 'Mixed' bus (lower deck: Whites only; upper deck: non-Whites only) on the Cape Town-Milnerton route in the apartheid era.
Identifier: islandora:16667

Title: Young newspaper vendor, Cape Town
Subject: Child labor--South Africa, Poor children--South Africa, Children--South Africa, Newspaper vendors--South Africa, South Africa--Social conditions--20th century, Apartheid, The Cordoned Heart
Description: A child newspaper vendor stands barefoot, ready to begin the day's work before sunrise.
Identifier: islandora:5726

Title: Camps Bay Pavilion burned down, Cape Town, 1973
Subject: Camps Bay (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Fires, Entertainment, Disaster, Local government
Description: The charred ruins of the old Camps Bay pavilion stands today as a sad monument after a fire ripped through the 57-year-old building early today. It destroyed the equipment and the dreams of the Camps Bay Operatic and Dramatic Society and one of Cape Town's best-known landmarks. Damage is estimated at thousands of rands and the City Council's Amenities Committee is expected to look over the ruins during a scheduled tour of Camps Bay tomorrow.
Identifier: islandora:16990

Title: Winnie Mandela speaks to Omar Dullah, Cape Town
Subject: Mandela, Winnie, Omar, Dullah, Politicians--South Africa, Post-apartheid era
Description: Controversial: Mrs Winnie Mandela, in the centre of controversy over her West African trip and the police investigations against her. Dullah Omar and Winnie Mandela.
Identifier: islandora:14750

Title: Outside bathroom used by nine domestic servants, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Domestic workers, Apartheid
Description: The outside bathroom and toilet used by nine domestic servants. Some of the girls said that they preferred to take a basin of hot water to their bedrooms as the bathroom only had cold water and they found the conditions unhygienic.
Identifier: islandora:18049

Title: Camps Bay, Cape Town, 1946
Subject: Camps Bay (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Roads, Urban development, Commerce, Recreation,
Description: Beach Road in Camps Bay in the late 1940s
Identifier: islandora:16957

Title: Modern home in Elsies River built by the family, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Elsies River (South Africa), Apartheid, Housing, Residential buildings
Description: A modern home in Elsies River built by the family.
Identifier: islandora:18117

Title: Political protests, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Demonstrations, Apartheid, Politics
Description: Political protests, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:17713

Title: Pollsmoor Prison March, Cape Town, 1985
Subject: Student protesters, Demonstrations, Police brutality, Apartheid, Political history--South Africa, Beyond the Barricades
Description: Police attack youths early in the morning on the day of the Pollsmoor Prison March. United Democratic Front (UDF) leaders had called upon people to march to Pollsmoor Prison in August 1985 to demand the release of Nelson Mandela and other political prisoners. The students were also protesting against the state's education system, which offered blacks inferior education.
Identifier: islandora:890

Title: Walking the Black Sash gauntlett, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Demonstrations, Women, Political activists, Black Sash (Society)
Description: Former Prime Minister D F Malan passes through a gauntlet of silent Black Sash protestors on the way to the Nationalist Party Congress in Cape Town, 1955.
Identifier: islandora:16870

Title: Participants in Buffalo Rally from Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Motorcycles, Apartheid, Recreation, Transport
Description: Grease for peace, says "Mad" Morgan Moodley, as his loaded "Black Wing" rumbles through Cape Town en route for the Buffalo Rally in Maseru. With him is Yolanda Julius and they are flying the flag of the Freedom Riders Motorcycle Club - as slightly modified Stars and Stripes.
Identifier: islandora:16897

Title: Dr. Jan Dommisse waves to his supporters, Cape Town
Subject: Dommisse, Jan, Politicians--South Africa, Apartheid era, Elections
Description: Victorious Dr. Jan Dommisse (left) who held Sea Point for the United Party in spite of determined efforts from the Progressive Party, waves to supporters after his win by 974 votes had been announced.
Identifier: islandora:14683

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