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Title: Civic Centre, Bellville, Cape Town
Subject: Bellville (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Buildings, Civil society, Local government, Architecture
Description: The Civic Centre at Bellville where the annual congress of the Cape Western Regional Publicity Association will be opened by the Mayor of Bellville, Mr. W. J. Bezuidenhout, to-day. The Civic Centre contains a civic theatre, council chamber and administrative offices. A city hall will be added in 1967. The "Cape Times" will publish next Wednesday, November 4, a special supplement on the great progress that has been made in recent years at Bellville.
Identifier: islandora:16785

Title: Gala Week procession, Bellville,Cape Town
Subject: Bellville (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Festivals, Culture, Women, Afrikaners
Description: A car full of beautiful girls is signalling the beginning of the gala week held in Bellville recently.
Identifier: islandora:16798

Title: Rondebosch, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Rondebosch (Cape Town, South Africa), City planning, Urban parks, Real estate development, Urban development, Building
Description: This is the Rondebosch Camp Ground position as the Wanderer saw it from the air. The new parkway excavations down the east side will reduce the commonage by 1-11th. True villagers are fighting for the inviolability of the ground as laid down in the Church Land Act of 1909.
Identifier: islandora:16615

Title: Transport and General Workers' Union march to Parliament, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Demonstrations, South African Police, Labor unions
Description: Demonstrations - Trade unions. Disgruntled workers: Members of the Transport and General Workers' Union marched to parliament today to hand over memoranda to several ministers about the state of the passenger transport sector and the contract cleaning sector.
Identifier: islandora:17745

Title: Parents of prisoner, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Political prisoners, Apartheid
Description: Feeling shattered - Katie and William De Klerk with a picture of daughter Venetia, 19, whose "home" for the next 12 months is Pollsmoor Prison.
Identifier: islandora:17910

Title: "Free hunger strikers now" placard, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Demonstrations, Politics
Description: "Free hunger strikers now" placard, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:17869

Title: Little girl asks for the release of her father, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Demonstrations, Labor unions
Description: Leila Issel, 8, with a placard calling for the release of her father, detained trade unionist Johnny Issel.
Identifier: islandora:17806

Title: Demonstrations, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Youth, Demonstrations, Apartheid, Politics, Student protestors,
Description: Students protesting, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:17660

Title: Apartheid-era whites-only restaurant at D.F. Malan Airport, Cape Town, in the 1970s
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Cape Town International Airport, Apartheid, Airlines--Food service, Segregation, Architecture
Description: Restaurant at D.F.Malan Airport during the apartheid era. This restaurant was reserved for whites only.
Identifier: islandora:15878

Title: Foreshore, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Cape Town (South Africa), circa 1957, Urban areas, Infrastructure, Architecture, Land, Urban development, Buildings
Description: Foreshore
Identifier: islandora:15104

Title: Students protesting, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Youth, Demonstrations, Apartheid, Politics, Student protestors,
Description: Students protesting, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:17659

Title: Adderley Street fountain, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Cape Town (South Africa), Urban areas, Infrastructure, Architecture, Land, Urban development, Buildings
Description: The fountain pictured in Adderley Street today looks a thirsty sight. It may soon blossom into life again.
Identifier: islandora:15102

Title: Protest, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Demonstrations
Description: Protest, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:17836

Title: Fireman inspects damage done by petrol bomb, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Civil unrest, Violence, Vandalism, Weapons, Education
Description: Fire Officer D. Arnold points out the circle of destroyed plaster typical of petrol bomb damage after a blaze which swept through classrooms, a library, a storeroom and parts of a laboratory at Langa High School last night.
Identifier: islandora:16293

Title: Albert Hertzog sits looking defeated, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), National Party (South Africa), Politics
Description: Dr Albert Hertzog, former Cabinet Minister and rejected right-winger. In September 1969 his membership of the National Party was cancelled after the statements by him and some of his followers that only Calvinist Afrikaners could be trusted to rule South Africa. Soon after, he announced the formation of the Herstigte Nasionale Party.
Identifier: islandora:15977

Title: The old Railway building, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Railroads, Transport, Infrastructure, Architecture, Interior decoration
Description: The old Railway Institute building in Adderley Street as it was and as it is today. Soon it will be no more.
Identifier: islandora:16160

Title: Argie boy, 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: 1950s depiction of an Argie Boy (newspaper vendor selling the Argus newspaper)
Identifier: islandora:16697

Title: Convoy of army trucks with smoke in the background, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Law enforcement, Weapons
Description: Convoy of army trucks with smoke in the background, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:16213

Title: Protesters gather on Jammie steps, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Rondebosch (Cape Town, South Africa), Civil unrest, Demonstrations, University of Cape Town
Description: University of Cape Town students gather on the steps of Jameson Hall before moving off to a silent demonstration on university property overlooking De Waal Drive yesterday afternoon.
Identifier: islandora:16386

Title: Principal helping pupils fish, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Cape Town (South Africa), Historic sites, Monuments, Fishing, Education
Description: Keen fisherman: The waters around the island are rich in fish and Mr Jors de Ridder seldom misses an opportunity to catch something for the pot; even if he has to pass on some of the finer points of fishing to his pupils.
Identifier: islandora:16509

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