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Title: Not eligible to vote because of his race, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Politics, Apartheid, Elections
Description: Say yes for me: Though not eligible to vote in yesterday's referendum because of his skin colour, this man made it quite clear where his sympathies lay.
Identifier: islandora:18063

Title: Day of the Covenant ceremony at Groote Schuur Estate, Cape Town
Subject: Rondebosch (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Afrikaner Nationalism, Apartheid, Memorials, Culture, Religion
Description: A crowd of about 400 people attended the Day of the Covenant ceremony at the Groote Schuur Estate in 1976, including numerous women in Voortrekker costume. The service was led by Dr A. J. G. Dreyer. Professor D. J. Kotze, of the faculty of history at the University of Stellenbosch, was the main speaker.
Identifier: islandora:16649

Title: People give the thumbs up sign, Cape Town
Subject: Apartheid, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Discrimination, ,
Description: Passive resisters - Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:15801

Title: Cabinet meeting, Cape Town, 1970s
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Politics, Cabinet ministers, National Party (South Africa), Governments
Description: The Cabinet met in Cape Town today to finalise arrangements for the coming session of Parliament. In conversation before the start of the meeting are (from left) Dr. N. Diederichs (Minister of finance), Dr. H. Muller (Minister of Foreign Affairs), Mr. P. W. Botha (Minister of Defence), Mr. S. L. Muller (Minister of Police and Economic Affairs) and Mr. F. Waring (Minister of Sport, Recreation and Tourism).
Identifier: islandora:16921

Title: Camps Bay and the Twelve Apostles, Cape Town, 1957
Subject: Camps Bay (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Urban development, Building, Architecture, Environment
Description: Visitors and tourists who delight in capturing with their cameras the many beauty spots of the "Incomplete Cape" will recognize this familiar scene view of Camps Bay and the Twelve Apostles, taken from the Glen. Two aspects, however, combining ancient and modern features, are depicted here. In the foreground is the old and famous Round House tearoom, built originally as a shooting box for Lord Charles Somerset. On the left is the ancient Round House Annexe - the feature of which as a Youth Hostel has been the subject of recent municipal discussion. The modern aspect lies in the middle distance where part of the amazing development of Camps Bay can be seen.
Identifier: islandora:16948

Title: Young pallbearers, Cape Town, 1985
Subject: Funeral service, Pallbearers, Police shootings, Apartheid, Political history--South Africa, Beyond the Barricades
Description: Young pallbearers, in school uniforms, stand at solemn attention at the funeral of three boys killed in the "Trojan Horse incident", when police, armed with pump-action shotguns and hiding in the back of a van, opened fire on a crowd in a residential street in Athlone, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:902

Title: Mule teams at Cape Show, Goodwood, Cape Town
Subject: Goodwood (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Agricultural shows, Agriculture, Apartheid
Description: Mule teams in the arena at the Cape Show. It was claimed by the announcer that the Western Province is the only place in the world where such a show of spans of mules can be seen.
Identifier: islandora:15865

Title: F. Johnson, blinded while serving, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Cape Town (South Africa), Memorials, Veterans, Apartheid
Description: F. Johnson, blinded while serving, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:14860

Title: Ivan Toms, End Conscription Campaign, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Conscientious objection, South African Defence Force, Apartheid, End Conscription Campaign (South Africa)
Description: Dr Ivan Toms, a conscientious objector and founder of the End Conscription Campaign (ECC), Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:18089

Title: Land Bank, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Banking, Apartheid, Buildings, Architecture
Description: The Land Bank in Queen Victoria Street, Gardens, Cape Town. Built in 1938 and designed by architect Brian Mansergh
Identifier: islandora:16746

Title: Aerial view, District Six, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Urban development, Apartheid
Description: Aerial view of central Cape Town after the demolition of District Six (foreground), showing the Castle, railways and freeways into Cape Town, and Woodstock.
Identifier: islandora:17024

Title: Transkeian 'citizens' in a Whites-only restaurant, Cape Town
Subject: Camps Bay (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, South Africa. Separate Amenities Act, 1953, Bantustans, Xhosa (African people)
Description: Transkeian citizens Mr Mbongeni Mvana and Mr Mlami Gomo enjoy a soft drink on the veranda of a Camps Bay White restaurant this week after showing their passports to the manager. 'I don't mind who comes here as long as they behave,' said the manager. [Transkei was granted 'independence' by South Africa in 1976, meaning those born in the Transkei, such as these two men, automatically became 'foreigners' in South Africa.]
Identifier: islandora:16650

Title: Crossroads residents trying to salvage their possessions, Cape Town
Subject: Crossroads (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Squatter settlements, Apartheid
Description: Crossroads residents try to salvage sodden possessions from the remains of their shelter in a badly-flooded section of the squatter camp.
Identifier: islandora:17523

Title: Winnie Mandela and family, Cape Town
Subject: Apartheid--South Africa, South Africa--Politics and government--1978-1989, South Africa--History--1961-1994, Political activists--South Africa, Political prisoners--South Africa,
Description: Winnie Mandela and family with Dullah Omar (lawyer) during a Christmas visit to see Nelson Mandela at Victor Verster prison in Paarl, Cape Town., circa 1980s
Identifier: islandora:12638

Title: PFP members, Cape Town, early 1980s
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Politics, Progressive Federal Party (South Africa), Governments
Description: The Leader of the Opposition, Dr F van Zyl Slabbert, shares a joke with some of his colleagues at today's meeting of the joint parliamentary electoral college. Next to him are Dr. Marius Barnard (PFP, Parktown) and Mr Ken Andrew (PFP, Gardens). On the left behind Dr Slabbert is Mr Harry Schwarz (PFP, Yeoville).
Identifier: islandora:16920

Title: Husband reunited with wife after being detained, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Political prisoners, Apartheid
Description: Mrs Ruth Aboobaker hugs her husband, Goolam, a medical physicist, who was in detention for 49 days.
Identifier: islandora:17912

Title: Railway accident, Bellville, Cape Town
Subject: Bellville (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Railways, Apartheid, Labour, Industrial accident, Transport
Description: Workers repair damage after a railway accident at Bellville, Cape Town, in 1979
Identifier: islandora:16834

Title: Bellstar Junction, Cape Town
Subject: Bellville (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Business, Apartheid, Commerce, Transport
Description: Bellstar Junction shopping mall adjacent to Bellville Station
Identifier: islandora:16831

Title: Treason trial, Wynberg Magistrate's court, Cape Town
Subject: Wynberg (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Politics, Courts, Treason Trial, Pretoria, South Africa, 1956-1961
Description: Crowd gathers at Treason Trial, Wynberg Magistrate's Court, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:17604

Title: Plastic shelter, Crossroads, Cape Town
Subject: Temporary housing--South Africa, Squatter settlements--South Africa, Forced migration--South Africa, Eviction--South Africa, South Africa--Social conditions--20th century, Apartheid, The Cordoned Heart
Description: A bed stands outside a plastic shelter erected after a mass demolition of homes, circa 1980.
Identifier: islandora:5715

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