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Title: Here's a useful tip for saving water' Put a brick in the toilet cistern
Subject: Water consumption--South Africa--Caricatures and cartoons, Water-supply--South Africa--Caricatures and cartoons, South Africa --Social life and customs--Caricatures and cartoons, South African wit and humor, Pictorial, South Africa
Description: In spite of climate change and warnings of future water shortages and the need to adopt conservative measures of water usage, South Africans continued to waste water as if there was no tomorrow. Description provided by Tony Grogan.
Identifier: islandora:6162

Title: President select
Subject: Zuma, Jacob--Caricatures and cartoons, Obama, Barack--Caricatures and cartoons, South African wit and humor, Pictorial, South Africa
Description: The eloquence and gravitas of the newly elected president of the USA seemed more fitting to the office than our own president's frequent song and dance routines. Description provided by Tony Grogan.
Identifier: islandora:6117

Title: Cikuvu
Subject: Musical instruments--Zambia, Chokwe (African people)--Music
Description: Hornbostel-Sachs number: 111.243 Slit Drums, Place of production: Zambia
Identifier: islandora:20827

Title: Mass marriage ceremony
Subject: Shembe Church ; Zulu (African people)--Religion, Marinovich african spirituality
Description: Ekupakameni, KwaZulu-Natal. A mass marriage ceremony at the headquarters of the Nazareth Baptist Church, or Shembe. Shembe is a staunchly traditionalist Zulu cult that was founded in 1913 by Isaiah Shembe after a vision. Their beliefs are a mix of Old and New Testament and the ancestral veneration of traditional Zulu culture. 2 August 1998.
Identifier: islandora:7345

Title: Archbishop Desmond Tutu faces police, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Demonstrations, Apartheid, South African Police, Tutu, Desmond, Gerwel, G. J. (G. Jakes)
Description: Archbishop Desmond Tutu to face with police at a protest march in the city yesterday. Next to him is the head of the University of the Western Cape, Professor Jakes Gerwel, who also took part in the march.
Identifier: islandora:17718

Title: Cape Youth Congress picket in support of hunger strike, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Demonstrations, Apartheid, South African Police, Youth, Groote Schuur Hospital (Cape Town, South Africa)
Description: Freedom plea: Rain and bitterly cold weather didn't deter these members of the Gardens branch of the Cape Youth Congress from their picket in support of hunger striker Mr Willie Hofmeyer outside Groote Schuur Hospital yesterday.
Identifier: islandora:17721

Title: Female dance group preparing to perform at a coming of age ceremony
Subject: Initiation rites--South Africa--KwaZulu-Natal, Marinovich african spirituality
Description: Msinga Top, Msinga, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, December 1998. A dance group in Msinga, KwaZulu-Natal prepare to perform at a young girl's coming of age, or memulo, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
Identifier: islandora:7236

Title: Report on the !x'-okxoi Conference of the Bible Society of SA of 25/26 September 1980 at Bible House, Windhoek
Subject: African languages, San languages, Ju/'hoan language, Linguistics
Description: A confidential report on the 1980 San orthography conference
Identifier: islandora:7703

Title: Language transcriptions and translations of ǂKhomani San Brody Archive, At park
Subject: Kruiper, Dawid, Khomani (African people)--Social life and customs, Khomani (African people)--Food, Poisonous plants--South Africa--Northern Cape, ,
Description: Dawid Kruiper and Levi Namaseb discuss traditional food and poisonous plants
Identifier: islandora:31506

Title: Political prisoners released from Robben Island, Cape Town, 1990
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Politics, Political prisoners, Apartheid, African National Congress, Freedom
Description: Going home: elated to be free, Mr Wellington Gumenge of Port Elizabeth (front) and Mr Johannes Boesak of Oudtshoorn leave Table Bay harbour yesterday. They were two of 15 Robben Island African National Congress (ANC) prisoners granted early release.
Identifier: islandora:15903

Title: Christian wedding
Subject: Pondo (African people), Ethnology--South Africa--Eastern Cape, Eastern Cape (South Africa)--Rural conditions, Weddings--South Africa--Eastern Cape, Pondo (African people)--Social life and customs
Description: A Christian wedding at a farm. This photograph depicts the same event as seen in: Reaction to conquest: effects of contact with Europeans on the Pondo of South Africa. London : H. Milford, Pub. for the International Institute of African Languages and Cultures by the Oxford University Press, 1936. Plate XXVIIIb.
Identifier: islandora:5465

Title: Icilongo
Subject: Musical instruments--South Africa, Zulu (African people)--Music
Description: Hornbostel-Sachs number: 423.121.11 End-blown straight labrosone without mouthpiece, Place of production: Vryheid (KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa)
Identifier: islandora:20262

Title: Fiddle
Subject: Musical instruments--South Africa, San (African people)--Music
Description: Hornbostel-Sachs number: 321.31 Spike lutes, Place of production: Mowbray (Cape Town, South Africa), Creator: //abbo
Identifier: islandora:20682

Title: Young man at an initiation ceremony
Subject: Initiation rites--South Africa--Free State, Marinovich african spirituality
Description: Free State, South Africa. A traditional initiation ceremony is held on a farm in the eastern Free State, South Africa. 2001/2002.
Identifier: islandora:7252

Title: Language transcriptions and translations of ǂKhomani San Brody Archive, Elsie and Petrus Vaalbooi, Rietfontein
Subject: Vaalbooi, Elsie, Khomani (African people)--History, Khomani (African people)--Social life and customs, Nama language, ,
Description: Elsie Vaalbooi and Nigel Crawhall in a conversation discussing family history with particular reference to Nama speakers
Identifier: islandora:31475

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