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Title: Inaugural congress of the South African Domestic Workers' Union, Cape Town
Subject: Bellville (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Trade unions, Domestic workers, Apartheid
Description: Domestics unite: Delegates to the inaugural congress of the South African Domestic Workers' Union (SADWU) at the University of Western Cape (UWC) at the weekend which united 50 000 domestic workers from several organisations in one union.
Identifier: islandora:18037

Title: Wounded resident, Crossroads, Cape Town
Subject: Crossroads (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Squatter settlements, Armored vehicles, Military, Apartheid, South African Police
Description: Police lift a wounded Crossroads resident into a Casspir armoured vehicle behind the Mahobe Drive Rent Board offices yesterday evening.
Identifier: islandora:17592

Title: Fishing-industry employees at the Hout Bay African Compound, Cape Town
Subject: Hout Bay (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Housing, Labour, Workers, Apartheid, Fishing industry
Description: This was the smartest of several immaculate rooms at the Hout Bay African Compound, which provides for fishing-industry employees in the area. It is also acknowledged as the show-piece compound in the Western Province. Yesterday was the annual inspection, and here two of the occupants of the room - Pete Zinba and Kapa Goodman - display their prizes, a cake and a leg of mutton.
Identifier: islandora:15836

Title: Coloured housing development, Bellville, Cape Town
Subject: Bellville (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), City planning, Apartheid, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Housing, Coloured people (South Africa)
Description: Bellville - new township development for Coloured people in Belhar, mid-1960s
Identifier: islandora:16814

Title: Graham's Town and the outposts with their bearings and distances
Subject: Cape of Good Hope (South Africa) -- Maps., Eastern Cape (South Africa) -- Maps.
Description: South Eastern Cape districts showing Somerset [East], Uitenhage, Albany (Grahamstown, Salem, Bathurst, Post Retief), Victoria (Fort Beaufort, Fort Peddie), King William's Town, and the Great Fish River. Wyld's map features towns, forts and posts with distances between them as well as rivers and mountains.
Identifier: islandora:19526

Title: Robben Island prisoners' relatives, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Robben Island (South Africa), Government, Justice, Administration of, Families
Description: Nolinda Wontota (left) was due to see her father, a Robben Island prisoner, for the first time this Saturday. Then all visiting privileges to the prisoners were withdrawn. Now, with other relatives of prisoners from all over the country, she is waiting to hear the outcome of an urgent application before the Supreme Court to have the ban on visits lifted. With her is her sister Theresa, 17, and elderly heart patient Mrs L. Mafuna who travelled down to Cape Town from Port Elzabeth to see the nephew she regards as her own son.
Identifier: islandora:16538

Title: Bakoven, Cape Town
Subject: Bakoven (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Coasts, Weather, Storms, Environment
Description: Stormy waters off Bakoven, Cape Town
Identifier: islandora:16761

Title: The Saambou National Building Society's new building in Bellville, Cape Town
Subject: Bellville (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Business, Apartheid, Architecture, Building, Afrikaners
Description: An example of the office building accommodation available in Bellville's growing central business district district is this modern building society block. The Saambou National Building Society's new building in Bellville was officially opened this week by Dr C.F. Albertyn. In addition to the shopping space on the ground floor, there are seven floors of office space and the banking hall also provides for art exhibitions. Saambou now owns buildings in Bellville valued at more than R1 500 000. With office accommodation in big demand in the rapidly developing Tygeberg area, office blocks are going up all over. One of the latest and largest blocks is the Saambou National Building, opened towards the end of last year. This building offers shopping space on the ground floor and seven floors of office space.
Identifier: islandora:16830

Title: Student meeting, Cape Town
Subject: Bellville (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Politics, Coloured people (South Africa), Black consciousness, Demonstrations
Description: Non-European Students at UWC, 1970s
Identifier: islandora:16877

Title: Midwife Petersen on her rounds, Cape Flats, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Children, Primary health care, Medical personnel, Apartheid, Women
Description: Midwife Petersen of the Lotus River Day Hospital delivery plays Pied Piper to a flock of curious children who rush to greet the arrival of the midwife on her rounds.
Identifier: islandora:16731

Title: Boy fishes in vlei, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Princess Vlei (South Africa), Water, Trees, Lakes, Fishing, Animals conservation
Description: Princess Vlei.
Identifier: islandora:16567

Title: Stellenbosch students show solidarity with UCT students, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Civil unrest, Violence, Demonstrations, Stellenbosch University
Description: Support for Ikeys: Stellenbosch - eleven students of the University of Stellenbosch yesterday sat at the flagpole in front of the university's administration building - in cold and rain - to show solidarity with students of the University of Cape Town. Their lunch-hour sit-in lasted from 1 pm until 2 pm. The South African flag fluttered above. From the men's residence Wilgenhof, opposite, howls and jeers were hurled across the demonstrating students. Neither police nor university officials intervened. Several university officials stood on the steps of the administration building. Mr Louis van Schaik, one of the demonstrators, said last night that they staged the sit-in to express their solidarity with the Ikeys. The Maties taking part (seen in the photograph) were Mr Van Schaik, Miss Patricia Wrankmore, Mr F.S. Palm, Mr Brian Ginsberg, Mr Roy Williams, Miss Lezel Naude, Mr High Gordon, Mr Roy Gorden, Mr David Bensusan, Mr William Curry and Mr A. Kulenkampff.
Identifier: islandora:16418

Title: Homesteads on Fish Hoek beach, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Fish Hoek (South Africa), Beaches, Residential buildings
Description: A desolate windswept beach overlooked by two lonely homesteads: Fish Hoek beach 100 years ago.
Identifier: islandora:15006

Title: Photograph of General Jan Smuts, Cape Town
Subject: Muizenberg (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Politics, Apartheid
Description: Political fable: Muizenberg, 1980. This accidental arrangement of the flag and a picture of General Jan Smuts hang against a back wall of the Sawas Hall in Muizenberg, testimony to the sometimes strange fortunes of South African politics.
Identifier: islandora:18072

Title: False Bay, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), False Bay (Western Cape, South Africa), Beaches
Description: False Bay, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:14881

Title: Apartheid-era public swimming pool in Bellville, Cape Town
Subject: Bellville (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, South Africa. Separate Amenities Act, 1953, Recreation, Segregation, Sports
Description: Bellville's R 170,000 new Olympic-size swimming bath is set back from Voortrekker Road. The entrance is through an attractive, modern double-storeyed building finished in decorative tiles, coloured glass and polished wood. There are spacious changing rooms.
Identifier: islandora:16786

Title: Docks post 1950, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Ships, History, Aerial views,
Description: View of docks, Cape Town post-1950.
Identifier: islandora:17970

Title: This 91,44m of beach is reserved for bona fide non-White employees of the town, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Fish Hoek (South Africa), Beaches, South Africa. Separate Amenities Act, 1953, Apartheid signage
Description: Not only has Fish Hoek an unusual regulation concerning liquor licences, but also a segregated beach with a difference. This 91,44m of beach is reserved for bona fide non-White employees of the town.
Identifier: islandora:15011

Title: Liesbeek River, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Liesbeek River (South Africa), Environment, Pollution, Health, Nature, Rivers
Description: The Black River as it is now known, was once part of the Liesbeek and Salt River complex which formed the original Paarden Eiland. Today it is slow and polluted with effluent from nearby Athlone Power Station.
Identifier: islandora:16586

Title: Aerial view of the Delft show village, Cape Town
Subject: Delft (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Apartheid
Description: An aerial view of the Delft show village, the House of Representatives' housing project. Phase I, consisting of 2 000 units, should be sold out by the end of January. Houses are priced from R12 500 to R17 500.
Identifier: islandora:17626

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