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Title: Oral history interview with Garatjie Williams [ Part 4 of 4]
Subject: Forced removals, Oral history, District Six (Cape Town, South Africa)--History, District Six (Cape Town, South Africa)--Social conditions, Colored people (South Africa)--Relocation--South Africa--Cape Town, Williams, Garatjie
Description: District Six refers to a former inner-city residential area in Cape Town, South Africa. It is best known for the forced removal of over 60 000 of its residents by the apartheid government. This extensive sub-collection contains interviews from various projects conducted between 1985 and 2002. The majority of interviewees resided or worked in District Six prior to being forcibly removed. Themes include: children, the Coon Carnival, crime, resident’s experiences of relocation, gangs, household arrangements, jazz, marriage, mixed marriages across racial lines, music, nostalgia, recreation, religion, schooling, social and racial issues and work., Cwc2.192b.mp3: Part 4 of 4 ; 06:17 min. ; interview 192 of 208
Identifier: islandora:24570

Title: Oral history interview with Mr and Mrs Hiyat
Subject: Oral history, Harfield Village (Cape Town, South Africa)--History, Claremont (Cape Town, South Africa)--History, Colored people (South Africa)--Relocation--South Africa--Cape Town, ,
Description: Karen Daniels interviews Mr and Mrs Hiyat, ex-residents of Harfield Village, Cape Town. These interviews provide a very rich source or oral history regarding social life in Harfield Village and Claremont, as well as forced removals and their after-effects. Harfield Village, before the Group Areas Act, was a small mixed area of African, coloured and white inhabitants and was also known as "die vlak" by the locals. The themes included in the interviews are: inter-racial mixing and romanticisation of racial harmony, community and family relationships, religion - both Christian (Anglican, Methodist, Dutch Reformed) and Muslim (Harvey Road, Stegman Road and Main Road Mosques) - and schooling, leisure activities such as the Coon Carnival, music and jazz, shebeens and drinking. Class issues are discussed with reference to crime, gangs, "skollies", home ownership, rentals, incomes and employment. The physical, emotional and economic hardships endured by Harfield residents during and after the forced removals and the Group Areas Act are also discussed. Each interview in this collection contains a useful summary of the interview dynamics and the date of the interview., Forced removals, Cwc6.17a.mp3: Part 1 of 1 ; 27:06 min; interview 17 of 39
Identifier: islandora:24718

Title: Oral history interview with Cassiem Jacobs [ Part 9 of 10]
Subject: Forced removals, Oral history, District Six (Cape Town, South Africa)--History, District Six (Cape Town, South Africa)--Social conditions, Colored people (South Africa)--Relocation--South Africa--Cape Town, Jacobs, Cassiem
Description: District Six refers to a former inner-city residential area in Cape Town, South Africa. It is best known for the forced removal of over 60 000 of its residents by the apartheid government. This extensive sub-collection contains interviews from various projects conducted between 1985 and 2002. The majority of interviewees resided or worked in District Six prior to being forcibly removed. Themes include: children, the Coon Carnival, crime, resident’s experiences of relocation, gangs, household arrangements, jazz, marriage, mixed marriages across racial lines, music, nostalgia, recreation, religion, schooling, social and racial issues and work., Cwc2.88a.mp3: Part 9 of 10 ; 29:28 min. ; interview 88 of 208
Identifier: islandora:18935

Title: Members of the San community pose in front of a Kalahari Gemsbok Park sign
Subject: Swarts, Anna ; Brou, Kheis ; Koper, |Abaka ; Rooi, |Una ; Rooi, Piet, 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, Indigenous peoples--Land tenure--Africa, Southern, ,
Description: Members of the community stand before a park sign before the name of the park was changed to Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park. Those present include Anna Swarts, Kheis Brou, |Abaka Koper, |Una Rooi, and Piet Rooi.
Identifier: islandora:27139

Title: Gora
Subject: Musical instruments--South Africa, Korana (African people)--Music
Description: Hornbostel-Sachs number: 311.22-3 (True) stick zithers (-3 sounded by blowing), Height: 25mm, Width: 22mm, Length: 984mm, Place of production: Christiana (South Africa), Creator: Kolop
Identifier: islandora:20152

Title: Ceramic artists, Platfontein
Subject: Bushman, San, South Africa, indigenous, identity, ritual, land rights, art, crafts, army, dispossession, woman, ceramics workshop, San (African people)--Art, Art, San--South Africa--Northern Cape, Artists--South Africa--Northern Cape, Potters--South Africa--Northern Cape, San (African people)--South Africa--Northern Cape, Northern Cape (South Africa)
Identifier: islandora:12488

Title: Bill Kemp preparing for an oral history interview with Jakob Malgas and his son, Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park.
Subject: Malgas, Jakob, 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, Anthropology--Research, Indigenous peoples--Research--Botswana and South Africa--Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, Indigenous peoples--Land tenure--Africa, Southern, ,
Description: Bill Kemp, doing basic research for the Strata maps with Jakob Malgas, holds a recorder into which he spoke his notes and information as it was gathered. Kemp made several trips to the park during the 1997-1999 investigation period. 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:26955

Title: Members of the |Khasi-Kassie Family rest between graveyards near the Old Bushman Camp.
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, Indigenous peoples--Land tenure--Africa, Southern, ,
Description: During one of the early research trips to the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, a trip was made to two adjacent grave sites near a former Bushmen settlement near Twee Rivieren. Several historically significant Bushmen are buried in these graveyards. While walking between these graveyards, the elders rest to catch their breath and the children play on the dunes.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:27165

Title: Traditional-style long hut (ikibaga)
Subject: Nyakyusa (African people), Ethnology--Tanzania--Rungwe District, Rungwe District (Tanzania)--Rural conditions, Huts--Tanzania--Rungwe District
Description: A traditional-style long hut (ikibaga). Photograph taken at Rungwe Mission Station.
Identifier: islandora:5567

Title: Grinding mealies
Subject: Pondo (African people), Ethnology--South Africa--Pondoland, Eastern Cape (South Africa)--Rural conditions, Mother and child--South Africa--Pondoland, Pondo (African people)--Agriculture
Description: Grinding mealies. 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 XIIa.
Identifier: islandora:5406

Title: Standing at attention
Subject: Bushman, Southern Africa, San, indigenous, removal, army, soldier, huts, tent, !Xun, Khwe, Kxoe (African people)--South Africa--Schmidtsdrift, San (African people)--South Africa--Schmidtsdrift, Soldiers--South Africa--Schmidtsdrift, Schmidtsdrift (South Africa)
Identifier: islandora:12230

Title: Queuing
Subject: Bushman, Southern Africa, indigenous, San, queue, line, man, woman, child, baby, hat, women, men, San (African people)--Namibia--Politics and government, Voting--Namibia, Namibia
Description: San men and women standing in a queue, waiting for the United Nations mobile election unit. One woman has a small child on her back. Auru, Namibia.
Identifier: islandora:12103

Title: San elder
Subject: Bushman, Southern Africa, San, indigenous, elder, talking, land rights, San (African people)--Botswana--Ghanzi District, Rural elderly--Botswana--Ghanzi District, Ghanzi District (Botswana)
Identifier: islandora:12293

Title: Protest by Blue Downs residents, Cape Town
Subject: Blue Downs (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Apartheid, Banking, Coloured people (South Africa), Demonstrations
Description: The Downs Blues: Hundreds of placard-wielding Blue Downs residents march through the streets to protest against soaring repayments on their homes
Identifier: islandora:16880

Title: Demba
Subject: Musical instruments--South Africa, Lemba (African people)--Music
Description: Height: 237mm (9.1in), Diameter: 371mm (14.6in), Place of production: Limpopo (South Africa)
Identifier: islandora:20693

Title: Walking through the veld
Subject: Bushman, Southern Africa, hunter, guitar, bow, San, indigenous, queue, tool, work, tradition, man, San (African people)--Namibia, Otjozondjupa (Namibia)
Description: A group of people walk behind each other along a path through the veld. The man in front carries a stick and a bow. Bushmanland, Namibia
Identifier: islandora:11703

Title: Members of the San community share their knowledge and memories with researchers, Print # 91
Subject: Rooi, |Una ; Brou, Kheis ; Koper, |Abaka ;, 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, Women--Botswana and South Africa--Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, Indigenous peoples--Land tenure--Africa, Southern, ,
Description: Three elders, |Una Rooi, Kheis Brou and |Abaka Koper, point in different directions to show points of interest or importance in the past.
Identifier: islandora:27196

Title: Elderly man in a muti store, Mai Mai market, Johannesburg, South Africa
Subject: Men--South Africa--Johannesburg, Older people--South Africa--Johannesburg, Markets--South Africa--Johannesburg, Traditional healers--South Africa--Johannesburg
Description: An elderly man stands amongst goods for traditional healing in a muti store at the Mai Mai market in Johannesburg, South Africa.
Identifier: islandora:18587

Title: Dzhio
Subject: Musical instruments--South Africa, Venda (African people)--Music
Description: Hornbostel-Sachs number: 421.111.11 Open single end-blown flutes without fingerholes, Height: 22mm, Width: 20mm, Length: 124mm, Place of production: Fundudzi, Lake (South Africa)
Identifier: islandora:20060

Title: Married women praying
Subject: Shembe Church ; Zulu (African people)--Religion, Marinovich african spirituality
Description: Ekupakameni, KwaZulu-Natal. Married women pray 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.
Identifier: islandora:7275

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