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Title: Two women dance in the road amidst the traffic, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Civil unrest, Apartheid, Demonstrations, Segregation
Description: Six African girls disrupted pedestrian traffic in front of the Trust Bank building in the City yesterday, shouting Black Power slogans, jostling passers-by, and attempting to force their way into Whites-only taxis. Shouting: "We will die with our Black brothers," the six jumped into a non-White taxi when police arrived and sped off.
Identifier: islandora:16305

Title: Table Mountain and Devil's Peak, Cape Town
Subject: Table Mountain (Western Cape, South Africa), Table Mountain (Western Cape, South Africa ), Weather, Environment
Description: Table Mountain and Devils Peak from the Cape Flats reflected in recent flood waters.
Identifier: islandora:17176

Title: Supporters of Anti-Crime Forum, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Demonstrations, Crime
Description: Chain gang: Supporters of the Maneberg Anti-Crime Forum chained themselves to the gates of Parliament demanding an audience with Safety and Security Minister, Sidney Mufamadi.
Identifier: islandora:17828

Title: Image from rock painting site. Site of Nooitgedacht 3, Oudtshoorn, Western Cape, South Africa.
Subject: Rock paintings--South Africa--Western Cape., , ,
Description: Rock painting of human figures with the body of a bird, possibly a therianthrope, in red.
Identifier: islandora:21724

Title: Grieving mother is comforted by family, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Grief, Youth
Description: 12 000 mourn Halt Road deaths: Mrs Elizabeth Fortuin, the mother of Bernard Fortuin, is comforted by family members at the graveside yesterday
Identifier: islandora:16186

Title: Ex-islander Mikki Xhayiya, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Political prisoners, Apartheid
Description: Ex-islander, Mikki Xhayiya.
Identifier: islandora:17917

Title: Home-made toys in the Malay Quarter, Cape Town, 1960s
Subject: Bo-Kaap (Cape Town, South Africa), South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Children, Recreation, Historic districts
Description: Child pulling a home-made trolley in the Malay Quarter, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:17233

Title: Gabebah Abrahams explores an early waterway, Cape Town
Subject: Archaeology, Excavation sites (Archaeology), Water-pipes--South Africa--Cape Town
Description: Miss Gabebah Abrahams delving into one of Cape Town's earliest man-made waterways.
Identifier: islandora:14695

Title: Black Sash demonstrates at St. Mary's Cathedral, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Demonstrations, Women political activists, Politics, Crime
Description: Nope to the rope: Campaigner Mr Reggie September and Black Sash members demonstrate at St Mary's Cathedral.
Identifier: islandora:17851

Title: Policemen clear rocks and other debris off a road, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Civil unrest, Violence, Barricades (Military science), Demonstrations, Law enforcement
Description: Riot police clear a crude road block in Duinefontein Road, near Manenberg, yesterday, after a group African youths had thrown concrete blocks and rocks into the road.
Identifier: islandora:16262

Title: Aerial view, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Cape Town (South Africa), Urban areas, Infrastructure, Land, Urban development, Buildings
Description: The view of Cape Town, looking in a south-easterly direction, is another of the series taken by The Argus photographer from the top of recently completed 300ft. chimney at the Dock-Road power station. In the centre of the picture are the railway motor transport sheds and marshalling yards, and to the right of them monument station, the goods yards and part of the main station. The Grand Boulevard, which is planned as the main road link with the southern suburbs, will join Adderley Street at the extreme left of the picture, and where the fun fair appears in the photograph, the 1,000,000 Van Riebeeck Hotel will be built.
Identifier: islandora:15110

Title: Protesters against the development of District Six, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Demonstrations, Housing, Apartheid, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950
Description: Picket line ... Protestors line the owner of Lower Burg and Riebeeck streets yesterday during a legal lunch-time protest against the development of District Six. The protesters later confronted Iico management, one of the companies proposing to build houses in the district.
Identifier: islandora:17762

Title: Prosecution, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Youth, South African Police, Prosecution
Description: Members of the families bringing the prosecution, from left, Mrs Georgina Williams, Mr Theo Williams, Mr Martin Magmoed and Mrs Williams's sister Mrs A. Du Toit.
Identifier: islandora:17599

Title: Cape Town City
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Cape Town (South Africa), circa 1939, Urban areas, Infrastructure, Architecture, Land, Development
Description: Foreshore
Identifier: islandora:15078

Title: March in support of detainees, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Political prisoners, Apartheid, Demonstrations
Description: March in support of detainees, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:17941

Title: Statue of Jan van Riebeeck, Cape Town pier
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Cape Town Harbour, Transport, Urban development
Description: Statue of Jan van Riebeeck in its original location at the entrance to Cape Town Pier, circa 1920s.
Identifier: islandora:17074

Title: Malan's Cabinet, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Politics, Cabinet ministers, National Party (South Africa), Governments
Description: Malan's Cabinet
Identifier: islandora:16899

Title: Police wearing gas masks fire teargas, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Law enforcement, Weapons, Demonstrations
Description: Police wearing gas masks and armed with rifles used for firing teargas canisters stand in Bonteheuwel where stoning took place yesterday.
Identifier: islandora:16195

Title: Equestrian feats at Cape Show, Cape Town
Subject: Goodwood (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Agricultural show, Agriculture, Gymkhanas (Horsemanship), Coloured people (South Africa)
Description: Equestrian Feats such as this - one rider balanced on three galloping horses - have long been the arena attractions of the Cape Show at Goodwood and its predecessor, the Rosebank Show.
Identifier: islandora:16986

Title: Spring daisies, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Cape Town (South Africa), Urban areas, Infrastructure, Architecture, Land, Urban development, Flowers
Description: Magic carpet of spring for city. Daisies are blooming on the Foreshore on land that is valued up to £11 a square foot.
Identifier: islandora:15101

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