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Title: Loader Street, Cape Town
Subject: Apartheid, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Residential buildings, Infrastructure, Rubble, Historic districts, ,
Description: Property in Loader Street in a state of disrepair, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:15209

Title: Zonnekus, Cape Town
Subject: Residential buildings, Historic buildings, Landscapes, ,
Description: This residence was built in 1982 and used by Sir David Graaff and his family as a seaside residence.
Identifier: islandora:15296

Title: Block of flats in Ocean View, Cape Town
Subject: Residential buildings, Communities, Apartheid, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Forced removals (South Africa), , ,
Description: Ocean View.
Identifier: islandora:15608

Title: Woman inside her Westridge home, Cape Town
Subject: Residential buildings, Public housing, ,
Description: Mrs Magdeline Daniels in her Westridge home. She has lived there for nearly two years and likes "the Plain", but is concerned that sub-economic housing could bring social problems.
Identifier: islandora:15345

Title: Former Dutch Reformed Church, Kalk Bay, Cape Town, 1984
Subject: Kalk Bay (South Africa), Historic buildings, Urban development, Commerce, Architecture
Description: The former Dutch Reformed Church in Kalk Bay.
Identifier: islandora:17312

Title: Rhodes Cottage, Cape Town
Subject: Historic buildings, Residential buildings, ,
Description: Rhodes Cottage, Muizenberg, which will be opened as a museum by the Mayor, Mr F. Sonnenberg, today.
Identifier: islandora:15376

Title: Two residential homes in Parow, Cape Town
Subject: Architecture, Residential buildings, Landscapes, Gardens, ,
Description: One of Parow's more graceful homes built on the slopes of a hill in Plattekloof.
Identifier: islandora:15788

Title: Maitland Garden pensioner washing clothes, Cape Town
Subject: Apartheid, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Residential buildings, Pensioners and Senior Citizens Organisation (South Africa), Forced removals (South Africa), ,
Description: Maitland Garden pensioner washing clothes, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:15191

Title: Aerial view of Mitchell's Plain, Cape Town
Subject: Infrastructure, Residential buildings, ,
Description: Despite all the problems related to the development of new townships - such as a lack of adequate facilities, long distances to travel to work and an increasing crime rate - experiment in low cost housing, Mitchell's Plain, continues to mushroom over the Cape Flats, reaching from the sea at Strandfontein towards The Strand and inland to the out [...] Designed to house more people than Kimberly, Bloemfontein, East London or Maritzburg, the Plain [...] This dramatic aerial photograph shows about one quarter of Mitchell's Plain, stretching out towards the Hottentots Holland mountains in the distance. Another 12 600 homes, which will cost more than R600 million, are planned to complete [...]
Identifier: islandora:15342

Title: Holy Trinity Church, Kalk Bay, Cape Town, 1961
Subject: Kalk Bay (South Africa), Church buildings, Historical, Architecture, Christianity
Description: Holy Trinity (Kalk Bay) - Framed against the Kalk Bay mountains in a terraced garden dotted with pine and cypress trees stands a pretty stone and thatch church. It was built by two Englishwomen as a replica of the church they attended in England before coming to South Africa in the middle of the nineteenth century. Perched on the mountainside at Kalk Bay and looking down to the sea is Holy Trinity Church. The terraced garden in front of the church, and the Garden of Remembrance it includes, are kept in order by two of the women parishioners. Below the garden is an old graveyard which has not been used since the turn of the century. A new hall is being built at the back of the church to take place of the old one that has been demolished.
Identifier: islandora:17280

Title: Woman scoops up sand from window-sill, Cape Town
Subject: Weather, Residential buildings, Winds, ,
Description: Mrs Mariam Stoutz scoops sand blown on to her bedroom window-sill.
Identifier: islandora:15339

Title: Ngive (a border town in Southern Angola) in ruins after the withdrawal of troops from the South African Defence Force in 1990.
Subject: Angola--History--Civil War, 1975-2002, Buildings--War damage--Angola--Cunene (Province),
Description: Ngive, a town in the Cunene Province of Angola is deserted and ruined after the withdrawal of troops from the South African Defence Force in 1990.
Identifier: islandora:7077

Title: Albertyn's Cottage, Simon's Town
Subject: Cottages, Albertyn's Cottage (Simon's Town, South Africa), Historic buildings--Landscape architecture--South Africa--Simon's Town--Designs and plans,
Description: Albertyn's Cottage, Simon's Town. Landscape sketch-plan of Albertyn's Cottage and Albertyn's Stables., Tracing paper copy of original drawing., Plan: scale 1:100
Identifier: islandora:22240

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