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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: Diviners
Subject: Pondo (African people), Ethnology--South Africa--Pondoland, Eastern Cape (South Africa)--Rural conditions, Pondo (African people)--Clothing, Umbrellas--South Africa--Pondoland
Description: Portrait of diviners. Notice the sun-umbrella.
Identifier: islandora:5468

Title: Ceremony in the caves
Subject: Bushman, San, South Africa, indigenous, identity, ritual, land rights, man, rock paintings, branches, ceremony, cave, San (African people)--South Africa--KwaZulu-Natal--Rites and ceremonies, San (African people)--Drakensberg Mountains--Rites and ceremonies, Pilgrims and pilgrimages--Drakensberg Mountains, Rock paintings--Drakensberg Mountains, Cave paintings--Drakensberg Mountains, Art, San--Drakensberg Mountains, KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa)
Identifier: islandora:12423

Title: Girls singing to celebrate an initiation
Subject: Lobedu (African people)--South Africa--Limpopo--Rites and ceremonies, Marinovich african spirituality
Description: HaModjadji, Lebowa, Northern Transvaal (Limpopo Province) South Africa. Girl initiates sing as a male mag�g�bya dancer in the kh�r� or royal courtyard of the Balobedu people at their capital haModjadji in northern South Africa, then part of the Lebowa homeland. The dancers are there to celebrate the initiation of the so called Vyali from the male initiation school - the Vuhwera. This image was taken during the reign of Mokope Modjadji V, who was the fifth Rain Queen. She played a very traditional role, followed all the customs she was expected to and lived in seclusion at the royal compound. In time past, tribes from all over Southern Africa paid homage to the reigning Modjadji as it was believed she could control the rain. Sir Ryder Haggard used her as a model for his character Ayesha in 'She'. 1990.
Identifier: islandora:7205

Title: Oral history interview with Mr H.J. Bates [Part 2 of 5]
Subject: Oral history, World War, 1939-1945--Veterans--South Africa--Interviews, World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, South African
Description: This sub-collection centres on the diverse war experiences of the interviewees, mainly in in North Africa, Italy and South Africa. It contains information about prisoner of war experiences in Italy and Germany and repatriation through the Port of Odessa in 1945. Themes include: 1948 elections in South Africa, desert warfare at El Alamain, entry into the armed forces, family background, war experiences in Mogadishu and Normandy, post-war politics in South Africa, the psychological effects of war, schooling; war and women's employment in the armed forces., Pin5.02b.mp3: Part 2 of 5 ; 32:09 min. ; interview 2 of 19
Identifier: islandora:24996

Title: Ikuhane
Subject: African languages, Bantu languages, Subiya language, Linguistics
Description: A manuscript dealing with the Ikuhane language
Identifier: islandora:7761

Title: Soldiers on parade
Subject: Bushman, Namibia, army, soldiers, standing, uniform, San (African people)--Namibia--Mangetti, Soldiers--Namibia--Mangetti, Mangetti (Namibia)
Identifier: islandora:12351

Title: Young man waits to be married
Subject: Shembe Church ; Zulu (African people)--Religion, Marinovich african spirituality
Description: Ekupakameni, KwaZulu-Natal. A young man waits to be married at a mass marriage ceremony at the headquarters of the Nazareth Baptist Church, or Shembe. Shembe is a staunchly traditionalist Zulu cult that was founded in 1913 by Isaiah Shembe after a vision. Their beliefs are a mix of Old and New Testament and the ancestral veneration of traditional Zulu culture. 2 August 1998.
Identifier: islandora:7307

Title: Pala
Subject: Musical instruments--South Africa, Venda (African people)--Music
Description: Hornbostel-Sachs number: 421.111.31 Partly-stopped single end-blown flutes without fingerholes, Length: 53mm (2in), Width: 82mm (3.1in), Length: 279mm (10.6in), Place of production: Limpopo (South Africa)
Identifier: islandora:20073

Title: Philipstown
Subject: South African War, 1899-1902 -- Maps., Philipstown Region (South Africa) -- Maps.
Description: 1st ed., This map forms part of the Imperial map of South Africa., The map shows farm boundaries and fences, farm names, divisional boundaries, roads, rivers and railways in the Philipstown area. The map also indicates hills, pans (often dry), homesteads, cultivated land and trees., Relief shown by hachures., "This map is not to be considered as absolutely accurate.", Projection not given., Map folds into an outer cover., Copies 1064 and 1094 are mounted on linen. Map 1093 is not folded.
Identifier: islandora:24858

Title: Stubborn bride at a Shembe or Nazareth Baptist Church wedding
Subject: Shembe Church ; Zulu (African people)--Religion, Marinovich african spirituality
Description: Northern KwaZulu-Natal. Nompumelelo Mkhwanazi refuses to get out of her white wedding gown and into a beaded skirt and leopard skin collar before a traditional Zulu wedding in the Shembe or Nazareth Baptist Church wedding at the homestead of the groom. 1999.
Identifier: islandora:7292

Title: Christian convert meets with two men
Subject: Nyakyusa (African people), Ethnology--Tanzania--Rungwe District, Rungwe District (Tanzania)--Rural conditions, Men--Tanzania--Rungwe District, Christian converts--Tanzania--Rungwe District
Description: A Christian convert, probably a research assistant, meeting with two men in traditional attire, outside their home. Photograph taken by Monica Wilson during joint fieldwork at different periods from April 1935-December 1937.
Identifier: islandora:5577

Title: Language transcriptions and translations of ǂKhomani San Brody Archive, Oupa Andries and the two sisters
Subject: Rooi, Katriena |Una Kassie, Koper, |Abaka Vytjie, Bot, Griet, Nama language, Khomani (African people)--History, British Empire Exhibition (1936 : Johannesburg, South Africa), ,
Description: Katriena |Una Kassie Rooi, |Abaka Vytjie Koper and Griet Bot in conversation with Nigel Crawhall discussing their history, including the 1936 trip to Johannesburg for the Empire Exhibition.
Identifier: islandora:31462

Title: Dr Kildare falls foul of the Immorality Act
Subject: South Africa--Politics and government--1978-1989--Caricatures and cartoons, South Africa. Immorality Act, 1950, South Africa--Social conditions--1961-1994--Caricatures and cartoons, South African wit and humor, Pictorial, South Africa
Description: A reader drew attention to a scandalous matter featuring �in one of the Cape Times comic strips. Popular hero, Dr Kildare was defying the Immorality Act by falling in love with an Indian woman. Description provided by Tony Grogan.
Identifier: islandora:6144

Title: Joint Monitoring Commission (JMC) members and South African Defence Force (SADF) Parabat commander, Colonel Archie Moore with Cuban and Angolan army counterparts at the withdrawal of SADF forces from southern Angola
Subject: Angola--History--South African Incursions, 1978-1990, Soldiers, South Africa--Armed Forces
Description: Joint Monitoring Commission (JMC) members and South African Defence Force (SADF) Parabat commander, Colonel Archie Moore with Cuban and Angolan army counterparts at the withdrawal of SADF forces from southern Angola. Parabat is the 1st Parachute Battalion of the SADF. The JMC was created to oversee the withdrawal of the SADF from a portion of Angola's southern Cunene province and its re-occupation by the People's Armed Forces for the Liberation of Angola (FAPLA). It was to ensure that neither SWAPO nor Cuban forces moved into this area as the SADF withdrew.
Identifier: islandora:6932

Title: Umzi
Subject: Pondo (African people), Ethnology--South Africa--Pondoland, Eastern Cape (South Africa)--Rural conditions, Huts--South Africa--Pondoland
Description: An umzi of "school people".
Identifier: islandora:5395

Title: Mbila mutondo
Subject: Musical instruments--South Africa, Venda (African people)--Music
Description: Hornbostel-Sachs number: 111.212 Sets of percussion sticks, Place of production: Limpopo (South Africa)
Identifier: islandora:20784

Title: Initiates preparing to rejoin the community
Subject: Sotho (African people)--Lesotho--Rites and ceremonies, Marinovich african spirituality
Description: BaSotho initiates at HaMohlokaqala village in western Lesotho prepare to return to society as men after undergoing a grueling traditional four month initiation process. Dec 10, 1999.
Identifier: islandora:7213

Title: Family trees
Subject: Kruiper, Dawid ; Kruiper family, Kruiper, Dawid ; Kruiper family, San (African people)--Genealogy, San (African people)--Genealogy, San (African people) -- Claims, San (African people) -- Claims, San (African people) --History, San (African people) --History,
Description: This short clip is an extract from Tracks Across Sand: the ǂKhomani San of the southern Kalahari : the story of a land claim, and provides a brief introduction to the critical genealogical research conducted to support the ǂKhomani San Land Claim application.
Identifier: islandora:26351

Title: Funeral ceremony
Subject: Shembe Church ; Zulu (African people)--Religion, Marinovich african spirituality
Description: Inanda, KwaZulu-Natal. Church members hold a funeral ceremony at a cemetery near the headquarters of the Nazareth Baptist Church, or Shembe. Shembe is a staunchly traditionalist Zulu cult that was founded in 1913 by Isaiah Shembe after a vision. Their beliefs are a mix of Old and New Testament and the ancestral veneration of traditional Zulu culture. 26 July 1998.
Identifier: islandora:7288

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