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Title: Postcard from Lisel Alsberg, Cape Town to Edith Bruch, Green Point (Cape Town, South Africa), 1937
Subject: Bruch, Edith--Correspondence, Alsberg, Lisel--Correspondence
Description: Postcard from Lisel Alsberg, Cape Town to Edith Bruch, Green Point (Cape Town, South Africa), 1937. On the front of the postcard is a photograph of a farmer ploughing a field with a horse-drawn plough. There is a South African Springbok stamp on the reverse.
Identifier: islandora:29870

Title: Homeless women, Crossroads, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Squatter settlements, Apartheid, Women, Homeless persons
Description: Homeless Crossroads women wait at Parliament yesterday while four of them met Mr Chris Heunis to plead for rebuilding of their homes.
Identifier: islandora:17581

Title: Edith Bruch and family car, Cape Town, 1937
Subject: Bruch, Edith, Automobiles--South Africa--Cape Town, ,
Description: A photo of Edith Bruch sitting in front of the family car, Cape Town, 1937. Part of the car's number plate is visible in the photo.
Identifier: islandora:29846

Title: Officers of Prince Alfred's Own Cape Volunteer Artillery, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Anglo-Boer War, 1899-1902, Civil war, British Army, Armed forces,
Description: Three officers of Prince Alfred's Own Cape Volunteer Artillery.
Identifier: islandora:15938

Title: People listen to speech given by Ahmed Deedat, Cape Town
Subject: Religious fanaticism, Islam, Christianity, Rushdie, Salman, ,
Description: Mass Meeting - Part of the audience of more than 1 000 who packed the Athlone Civic Centre last night to hear Durban-based Islamic "scholar" Mr Ahmed Deedat, right, expound on why "The Satanic Verses" author Salman Rushdie should be "killed, slain, slaughtered and executed". Mr Deedat, head of the Islamic Propagation Centre International, also said that Christians who criticised calls for Rushdie's death were "hypocrites" with a faith that was "garbage". Mr Deedat, whose topic was "Should Rushdie Die? What is the Judeo-Christian Verdict?", said Islam demanded that blasphemers be "put on crosses to die a slow death" or that they "have their hands and feet chopped off".
Identifier: islandora:15447

Title: Bishop Lavis Drive, Cape Town
Subject: Bishop Lavis (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Townships, Apartheid, Youth, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Coloured people (South Africa)
Description: Bishop Lavis Drive in Bishop Lavis township, Cape Town
Identifier: islandora:16852

Title: New housing development, Blue Downs, Cape Town
Subject: Blue Downs (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Townships, Apartheid, Housing, Architecture
Description: A new housing development at Blue Downs, Cape Town
Identifier: islandora:16879

Title: Firemen, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Cape Town (South Africa), Emergency management, Water, Fire departments
Description: Anthony Rhode and Cedric Lakey, 21.
Identifier: islandora:14979

Title: Police break up a demonstration, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Demonstrations, Law enforcement
Description: Police break up a demonstration, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:16057

Title: Salt River Power Station, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Salt River (Cape Town, South Africa), Urban areas, Infrastructure, Electric industries
Description: Salt River Power Station.
Identifier: islandora:18118

Title: Protesters shout anti-Semitic slogans at Jewish old age home, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Demonstrations, Religion
Description: Angry words ... Barbed wire kept angry workers from entering a city Jewish old-age home yesterday, as protesters shouted anti-Semitic slogans and scuffled with police.
Identifier: islandora:17847

Title: Mosterts Mill, Cape Town
Subject: Windmills, Historical monuments, ,
Description: Holiday visitors to the Peninsula will see Mosterts's Mill, Mowbray, in operation this season. Sails have been rigged and the Public Works Department plans to operate the mill, wind permitting, on Tuesdays until the end of January.
Identifier: islandora:15269

Title: Castle of Good Hope, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Castle of Good Hope (Cape Town, South Africa), Colonialism, Architecture, Marching bands
Description: Entrance to a portion of the Governor's residence, Castle, Cape Town, before restoration.
Identifier: islandora:17103

Title: Inside a shrine where the gave of Sayed Abdurahman Motura is located, Cape Town
Subject: Religion, Islam, Worship, ,
Description: The shrine, known as Kramat, Mazaar or Durga, was built from 1967 to 1969 over the grave of Sayed Abdurahman Motura, a political prisoner brought to the Cape in the 18th century from Batavia.
Identifier: islandora:15486

Title: Dreyer Street, Claremont, Cape Town
Subject: Streets, Claremont (Cape Town, South Africa),
Description: Dreyer Street, Claremont, Cape Town. Landscape proposal., Original drawing in ink on tracing paper., Plan: scale 1:100; elevation/detail: 1:20
Identifier: islandora:22379

Title: Head of maximum security prison, Robben Island, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Robben Island (South Africa), Jails, Historic sites, Prison administration
Description: Lieutenant Piet Prins, head of the maximum security prison.
Identifier: islandora:16542

Title: Pupils carry the coffin od a friend, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Civil unrest, Violence, Demonstrations, Youth, Grief
Description: Members of the Langa Haarlem Boys' Boxing Club were pallbearers at the funeral of a schoolboy, Xolile Mosi, 18, who was killed in the recent rioting.
Identifier: islandora:16355

Title: Swimming pool at Miller's Point, Cape Town
Subject: Ocean, ,
Description: Swimming-pool takes shape at Miller's Point. Below: The building where caravan campers will be able to have showers and baths.
Identifier: islandora:15275

Title: Basil D'Oliveira and Pettie Dollie at Cape Herald offices, Cape Town
Subject: D'Oliveira, Basil, 1931-2011, Cricket players
Description: Dolly breezes in: Basil D'Oliveira (right), the former England Test cricketer, breezed into the Cape Herald offices this week. Here he listens intently as a former Western Province teammate , Pettie Dollie, makes a point. Basil flew into Cape Town Last week to visit his father, Mr. Louis "Lulu" D'Oliveira, who is ill in the Somerset Hospital in Cape Town
Identifier: islandora:14355

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