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Title: Here's a useful tip for saving water' Put a brick in the toilet cistern
Subject: Water consumption--South Africa--Caricatures and cartoons, Water-supply--South Africa--Caricatures and cartoons, South Africa --Social life and customs--Caricatures and cartoons, South African wit and humor, Pictorial, South Africa
Description: In spite of climate change and warnings of future water shortages and the need to adopt conservative measures of water usage, South Africans continued to waste water as if there was no tomorrow. Description provided by Tony Grogan.
Identifier: islandora:6162

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: President select
Subject: Zuma, Jacob--Caricatures and cartoons, Obama, Barack--Caricatures and cartoons, South African wit and humor, Pictorial, South Africa
Description: The eloquence and gravitas of the newly elected president of the USA seemed more fitting to the office than our own president's frequent song and dance routines. Description provided by Tony Grogan.
Identifier: islandora:6117

Title: Lampranthus purpureus L.Bolus
Subject: South Africa--Western Cape, Province of the, Aizoaceae--South Africa--Western Cape, Botany--South Africa--Western Cape--Pictorial works, Vygie
Description: Botanical illustration - coloured - Lampranthus purpureus L.Bolus. Dissected drawing of flower included. Drawn from a collection made at Elandskloof near Citrusdal, Clanwilliam Division by C.F.L. Leipoldt.
Identifier: islandora:24071

Title: Nzimande on Women's Day, 1999
Subject: Public meetings--South Africa--Gauteng, Nzimande, Blade, Speeches, addresses, etc.
Description: Blade Nzimande addresses a National Women's Day celebration, Gauteng, 1999.
Identifier: islandora:1466

Title: Exhumation, Vlakplaas, 1998
Subject: Apartheid--South Africa, Political violence--South Africa, South Africa--Social conditions, War crimes investigation--South Africa, Truth and Lies,
Description: Tholakele Ngqulunga, during an exhumation at her husband's grave, Vlakplaas 1998.
Identifier: islandora:803

Title: Fenestraria rhopalophylla (Schltr. & Diels) N.E.Br. subsp. aurantiaca (N.E.Br.) H.E.K.Hartmann
Subject: South Africa--Northern Cape, Province of--Little Namaqualand, Aizoaceae--South Africa--Northern Cape, Botany--South Africa--Northern Cape--Pictorial works, Vygie
Description: Botanical illustration - coloured - Fenestraria rhopalophylla (Schltr. & Diels) N.E.Br. subsp. aurantiaca (N.E.Br.) H.E.K.Hartmann. Dissected drawing of flower included. Drawn from a collection made between Groot Doorn and Groot Derm [Namaqualand] by N.S. Pillans (5736). In sand at the base of hills. Also illustrated, Wilman's collection National Botanical Garden 1368/34 from Pomona, Namibia. [Refer to Bolus Herbarium 132409].
Identifier: islandora:23798

Title: The Tree of Healing
Subject: Tree of Healing, San (African people)--Botswana and South Africa--Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, Khomani (African people)--Botswana and South Africa--Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, San (African people)--Social life and customs, Khomani (African people)--Social life and customs, Trees--Botswana and South Africa--Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park--Religious aspects, Indigenous peoples--Land tenure--Africa, Southern, ,
Description: The Tree of Healing marks the gravesite of a powerful San healer and diviner, |Qano#î. He was famous for his ability to summon rain from the South West by dancing and singing ancient songs. Each family usually has at least one healer and they pass their knowledge on from one generation from the next. Data collected from elders during the cultural mapping process reveals that when the San community lost their land the younger generations could not learn to be healers and much of this knowledge was lost. Today, the use of healing plants and the healing dance is only practiced by a few members of the San community but this is a part of their surviving heritage. Images from this trip document the first excursions into the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park and were a central part of the work on oral history and mapping in the first years of research.
Identifier: islandora:27036

Title: Ratel Hoek journal, July - September 1876. Transcription
Subject: Schreiner, Olive, 1955-1920--Diaries, Ratel Hoek (Eastern Cape, South Africa : Farm)
Description: Transcription of Olive Schreiner's journal entries at Ratel Hoek, 24 July 1876 to 23 September 1876.
Identifier: islandora:29910

Title: Dephnie Mzakie Bottoman "My Best Friend", Eastern Cape, South Africa
Subject: Women--South Africa,
Description: Dephnie Mzakie Bottoman "My Best Friend", Eastern Cape, South Africa.
Identifier: islandora:18422

Title: Winnowing wheat
Subject: Wheat farmers--South Africa--Steinkopf, Subsistence farming--South Africa--Steinkopf,
Description: Subsistence farmers winnowing wheat.
Identifier: islandora:5104

Title: Church of the Good Shepherd, Kirstenbosch, Cape Town, 1993
Subject: Kirstenbosch (South Africa), Architecture, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Forced removals (South Africa), Community development
Description: Memories: former Protea Village residents Reggie Benjamin, left, and Kenneth Jacobs outside the Church of the Good Shepherd, which was their local church, before the whole community was evicted in terms of the Group Areas Act. Tomorrow a special service at the church will be dedicated to the residents.
Identifier: islandora:17324

Title: Oral history interview with Lionel Louw [Part 1 of 2]
Subject: Oral history, United Democratic Front (South Africa), Anti-apartheid activists--South Africa--Interviews, Anti-apartheid movements--South Africa, Government, Resistance to--South Africa, South Africa--Politics and government, ,
Description: The United Democratic Front (UDF) was established as a non-racial, anti-apartheid coalition in 1983. The interviews in this collection deal with the formation and impact of the UDF in the Western Cape in the 1980s. Key figures involved with the UDF are interviewed, including Cheryl Carolus, Lionel Louw, Sydney Luckett and Phyllis Orner. Themes include: community based organisations affiliated to the UDF; the effects of apartheid; religious affiliation; role of the UDF in the community; trade unions. These interviews originate from research conducted for the Albert Luthuli Young Historians Award 2008., Por6.03a.mp3: Part 1 of 2 ; 01:05:28 min. ; interview 3 of 6
Identifier: islandora:24451

Title: Female dance group preparing to perform at a coming of age ceremony
Subject: Initiation rites--South Africa--KwaZulu-Natal, Marinovich african spirituality
Description: Msinga Top, Msinga, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, December 1998. A dance group in Msinga, KwaZulu-Natal prepare to perform at a young girl's coming of age, or memulo, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
Identifier: islandora:7236

Title: NUMSA National Congress, Johannesburg, 1991
Subject: Apartheid--South Africa--Johannesburg, Labor unions--South Africa--Johannesburg, Public meetings--South Africa--Johannesburg, National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa
Description: Members of the National Union of Mineworkers (NUMSA) at their National Congress, Johannesburg, 1991.
Identifier: islandora:1444

Title: Drosanthemum sp.
Subject: South Africa--Western Cape, Province of the, Aizoaceae--South Africa--Western Cape, Botany--South Africa--Western Cape--Pictorial works, Vygie
Description: Botanical illustration - coloured - Drosanthemum sp. Dissected drawing of flower included. Drawn from a collection made at Kruidfontein [Kruitfontein], south of Fraserburg Road [Leeu Gamka, Prince Albert District] by Krunen (sub-National Botanical Garden 476/22).
Identifier: islandora:23669

Title: Lambonja Valley
Subject: Botany--South Africa--Kwazulu-Natal, Botany--Drakensberg Mountains, ,
Description: Near [Cathedral Peak] Hotel
Identifier: islandora:8823

Title: Carpobrotus muirii (L.Bolus) L.Bolus
Subject: South Africa--Western Cape, Province of the, Aizoaceae--South Africa--Western Cape--Pictorial works, Botany--South Africa--Western Cape--Pictorial works, Vygie
Description: Botanical illustration - coloured - Carpobrotus muirii. Dissected drawing of flower & leaves included. Mesembryanthemum muirii, Peninsula form. No collection details are given.
Identifier: islandora:22973

Title: |Abaka Koper resting among the dunes between two graveyards
Subject: Koper, |Abaka, San (African people)--Botswana and South Africa--Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, Khomani (African people)--Botswana and South Africa--Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, San (African people)--Social life and customs, Khomani (African people)--Social life and customs, Women--Botswana and South Africa--Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, Sand dunes--Botswana and South Africa--Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, Indigenous peoples--Land tenure--Africa, Southern, ,
Description: During one of the early research trips to the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, a trip was made to two adjacent grave sites near a former settlement near Twee Rivieren. Several historically significant Bushmen are buried in these graveyards. While walking between these graveyards, the elders rest to catch their breath and the children play on the dunes.Images from this trip document the first excursions into the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park and were a central part of the work on oral history and mapping in the first years of research.
Identifier: islandora:27161

Title: Officer sits apart from his peers during the ceremony, Cape Town
Subject: South Africa. Parliament, Governments, Transport, ,
Description: Today's ceremony took place in relatively cool, cloudy conditions, but the heat of the moment was a bit too much for this young guardsman.
Identifier: islandora:15751

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