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Title: Man shows the deeds of sale of a piece of land, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Forced removals (South Africa)
Description: The leader of the Fingo delegation, Mr Isaac Tembani, displays the deeds of sale of the land from which the government removed the 3000-strong Fingo community in 1977. In the background are other members of the eight-person delegation. The deeds indicate that the land, in the Humansdorp-Tsitsikamma area, was given to the Fingos in 1834 by the British Govenor of the Cape Colony, Sir George Grey.
Identifier: islandora:16072

Title: Aerial view of Modderdam Road squatter camp, Cape Town
Subject: Bellville (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Townships, Apartheid, Housing, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Forced removals (South Africa)
Description: Modderdam Road squatter camp in Bellville South, home to Africans regarded as being in Cape Town illegally by apartheid authorities, after its destruction by two bulldozers during one week in August 1977
Identifier: islandora:16836

Title: District Six resident faces eviction, Cape Town
Subject: District Six (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Forced removals (South Africa), Housing, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950
Description: The threat of eviction from District Six clouds the Christmas season for Mrs Margaret Gesant, 74, seen here with her granddaughter, Mrs Eileen Europa, who also faces eviction with her five children.
Identifier: islandora:17986

Title: Apartheid-era Cape Corps soldier, Cape Show, Cape Town
Subject: Goodwood (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Militarisation, Apartheid, Coloured people (South Africa), Armed forces
Description: Show goes on. This Cape Corps soldier stoically continued his precision march despite his helmet having come undone during last night's Cape Tattoo at the Cape Showgrounds. The tattoo started last night and the final performance is on March 5.
Identifier: islandora:15870

Title: End Conscription and conscientious objectors, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Conscientious objection, South African Defence Force, Apartheid
Description: End Conscription and conscientious objectors.
Identifier: islandora:18094

Title: Final service in District Six, Cape Town
Subject: District Six (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Forced removals (South Africa), Religion, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950
Description: District Six - Hundreds of people attend the final service.
Identifier: islandora:17994

Title: Land claim for District Six, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Forced removals, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Post-apartheid era
Description: My land: Abdul Parker - with a letter from the former Commission on Land Allocation, responding to his claim on land in District Six - will fight for land if the Cape Town Community Land Trust tries to claim it.
Identifier: islandora:18002

Title: , Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Canned foods industry, Nutrition, World War, 1939-1945, Armed forces,
Description: Stacks of tinned foods prepared in a Cape Town Factory for the Army in the North.
Identifier: islandora:16967

Title: Bloemhof resident before eviction, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Forced removals (South Africa), Housing, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950
Description: A tearful Mrs Johanna Faroa and her granddaughter stand in the doorway of their Bloemhof flat from which they were evicted on Saturday. No alternative accommodation has been provided for them.
Identifier: islandora:17987

Title: Mother with five children, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Robben Island (South Africa), Historic sites, Monuments, Armed forces
Description: Babeta, wife of Lieutenant Commander John Henry Wicht, who is in charge of the Robben Island naval base, poses with their five children (left to right) Jolene, Louise, David, Peter and Johan. Mrs Wicht was once a social worker in Harlem, New York.
Identifier: islandora:16517

Title: St Mark's Church, and its rector, District Six, Cape Town
Subject: District Six (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Forced removals (South Africa), Religion, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950
Description: St Mark's Church and its rector, the Rev. Stanley Gray ... a stand against the Group Areas Act in the dissolution of District Six.
Identifier: islandora:17999

Title: Lord Kitchener arrives at the Cape Town Docks, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Anglo-Boer War, 1899-1902, Civil war, British Army, Armed forces, Port
Description: Arrival of Lord Kitchener at the Cape Town Docks to take over command in South Africa on 29 November, 1900. - Senior citizens of Cape Town turned out in style to see Lord Kitchener arrive in Cape Town during the South African War. This picture, of the British Army stepping down a gangplank, is one of many historic pictures in the Cape Times photographic exhibition, "Cape Town Down the Years", which is now on view at the Shell Gallery in Greenmarket Square, Cape Town. The exhibition, which is part of the Cape Town Festival, closes next Friday (April 29). It is open on Mondays to Fridays from 10am to 4.30pm, but closed on Saturdays and Sundays.
Identifier: islandora:15939

Title: End Conscription Campaign members, Cape Town
Subject: Muizenberg (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Conscientious objection, South African Defence Force, Apartheid, End Conscription Campaign (South Africa)
Description: A group of End Conscription Campaign members gathered on Muizenberg Beach yesterday and built a massive peace sign in a call for peace in South Africa.
Identifier: islandora:18092

Title: Bulldozers and lorries in District Six
Subject: District Six (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Forced removals, Demolition
Description: Bulldozers and lorries continue clearing operations in District Six as St Mark's Church stands forlornly in the background. The government plans to build a multi-million rand technikon for whites on the site, but the Anglican church, which owns the building, refuses to budge.
Identifier: islandora:18007

Title: Searle street resident receives blessing, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Religion, Forced removals, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950
Description: Mrs Mabel Dias, 91, of Searle Street hopes that she will die before the bulldozers reach there. Here she receives a blessing from Father Basil Van Rensburg of Holy Cross parish.
Identifier: islandora:17984

Title: Bulldozer destroys shacks at Modderdam Road, Cape Town
Subject: Bellville (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Townships, Apartheid, Housing, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Forced removals (South Africa)
Description: Shacks at Modderdam Road squatter camp in Bellville South, home to Africans regarded as being in Cape Town illegally by apartheid authorities, was destroyed by two bulldozers during one week in August 1977
Identifier: islandora:16838

Title: District Six residents, Cape Town
Subject: District Six (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Forced removals (South Africa)
Description: District Six residents, Mrs Mary Gedult - and son Josland on
Identifier: islandora:18008

Title: Mothers calling for alternative military service, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Conscientious objection, South African Defence Force, Apartheid
Description: Give our sons a choice - Mrs Avril Hoepner of Wynberg clutched her two-year-old son, Mathew, while speaking yesterday at a St. George's Cathedral press conference held by mothers calling for alternative military service for their sons.
Identifier: islandora:18095

Title: Dignitaries inspect armed forces, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Politics, Armed forces
Description: Dignitaries inspect armed forces, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:15997

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