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Title: Nyae Nyae Farmers' Co-operative
Subject: Bushman, Southern Africa, meeting, portrait, San, elder, San (African people)--Namibia, San (African people)--Namibia--Politics and government, Indigenous peoples--Namibia, Cooperative societies meetings--Namibia, Namibia
Identifier: islandora:12393

Title: Language transcriptions and translations of ǂKhomani San Brody Archive, The three sisters revisited, Upington
Subject: Rooi, Katriena |Una Kassie, Khomani language, Khomani (African people)--History, ,
Description: Katriena |Una Kassie Rooi, in a short conversation with Nigel Crawhall.
Identifier: islandora:31468

Title: Oral history interview with Wallace Rossouw [Part 5 of 6]
Subject: Oral history, Harfield Village (Cape Town, South Africa)--History, Claremont (Cape Town, South Africa)--History, Colored people (South Africa)--Relocation--South Africa--Cape Town, Rossouw, Wallace, ,
Description: Karen Daniels interviews Wallace Rossouw, an ex-resident of Harfield Village, Cape Town. These interviews provide a very rich source or oral history regarding social life in Harfield Village and Claremont, as well as forced removals and their after-effects. Harfield Village, before the Group Areas Act, was a small mixed area of African, coloured and white inhabitants and was also known as "die vlak" by the locals. The themes included in the interviews are: inter-racial mixing and romanticisation of racial harmony, community and family relationships, religion - both Christian (Anglican, Methodist, Dutch Reformed) and Muslim (Harvey Road, Stegman Road and Main Road Mosques) - and schooling, leisure activities such as the Coon Carnival, music and jazz, shebeens and drinking. Class issues are discussed with reference to crime, gangs, "skollies", home ownership, rentals, incomes and employment. The physical, emotional and economic hardships endured by Harfield residents during and after the forced removals and the Group Areas Act are also discussed. Each interview in this collection contains a useful summary of the interview dynamics and the date of the interview., Forced removals, Cwc6.33a.mp3: Part 5 of 6 ; 30:20 min; interview 33 of 39
Identifier: islandora:24753

Title: Oral history interview with Ismail Abrahams [ Part 3 of 4]
Subject: Forced removals, Oral history, District Six (Cape Town, South Africa)--History, District Six (Cape Town, South Africa)--Social conditions, Colored people (South Africa)--Relocation--South Africa--Cape Town, Abrahams, Ismail
Description: District Six refers to a former inner-city residential area in Cape Town, South Africa. It is best known for the forced removal of over 60 000 of its residents by the apartheid government. This extensive sub-collection contains interviews from various projects conducted between 1985 and 2002. The majority of interviewees resided or worked in District Six prior to being forcibly removed. Themes include: children, the Coon Carnival, crime, resident’s experiences of relocation, gangs, household arrangements, jazz, marriage, mixed marriages across racial lines, music, nostalgia, recreation, religion, schooling, social and racial issues and work., Cwc2.05a.mp3: Part 3 of 4 ; 29:31 min. ; interview 5 of 208
Identifier: islandora:12728

Title: Discussion amongst Portuguese-speaking members of Koevoet
Subject: Amputees, People with disabilities, Wounds and injuries
Description: Off-duty Portuguese-speaking members of Koevoet discuss wounds, war and an uncertain future. Koevoet is the common name of the South West African Police Counter-Insurgency Unit (SWAPOL-COIN).
Identifier: islandora:6821

Title: Udongwe
Subject: Musical instruments--South Africa, Pondo (African people)--Music, Xhosa (African people)--Music
Description: Hornbostel-Sachs number: 421.221.11 (Single) flutes with internal duct without fingerholes, Length: 113mm (4.3in), Diameter: 11mm (0.4in), Place of production: Lusikisiki (South Africa)
Identifier: islandora:20110

Title: Language transcriptions and translations of ǂKhomani San Brody Archive, Elsie and Petrus Vaalbooi at Rietfontein
Subject: Rooi, Willem Kassie, Khomani (African people)--Social life and customs, ,
Description: Singing in Afrikaans and English at the funeral of Willem Kassie Rooi
Identifier: islandora:31488

Title: Language transcriptions and translations of ǂKhomani San Brody Archive, At park
Subject: Kruiper, Dawid, Khomani (African people)--History, ,
Description: Dawid Kruiper talks about his family history
Identifier: islandora:31503

Title: Roy Sesana and family
Subject: Bushman, Southern Africa, family, hut, portrait, San, indigenous, thatch, man, woman, children, San (African people)--Botswana, Sesana, Roy, Sesana, Roy--Family, Polygamy--Botswana, Central Kalahari Game Reserve (Botswana)
Description: Roy Sesana and his two wives and children, before their removal in April 2002 from the Central Kalahari Game Reserve.
Identifier: islandora:11762

Title: Election violence, South Africa, 1995
Subject: Apartheid--South Africa--Umlazi, Political violence--South Africa--Umlazi, History--Political aspects--South Africa--Umlazi, Zulu (African people)--Clothing, Best of Marinovich
Description: An Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) supporting chief fires into houses during an IFP rally in Umlazi, KwaZulu-Natal, 1995.
Identifier: islandora:1200

Title: |Una Rooi
Subject: Rooi, |Una, San (African people)--South Africa--Northern Cape, Khomani (African people)--South Africa--Northern Cape, San (African people)--Social life and customs, Khomani (African people)--Social life and customs, San (African people)--Languages, Khomani language--Study and teaching, Indigenous peoples--Land tenure--Africa, Southern, ,
Description: |Una Rooi, holding a Bible, teaching children N|uu in the Andriesvale Hall. |Una Rooi was instrumental in the data collection process for the Land Claim application. She was a fluent N|uu speaker and taught N|uu and San cultural history to children in Andriesvale, Northern Cape, South Africa, and was a member of Council of Elders. She was born in the Kalahari Gemsbok Park in 1931 and passed away in 2012.
Identifier: islandora:27106

Title: Ceremony in the caves
Subject: Bushman, San, South Africa, indigenous, identity, ritual, land rights, man, ceremony, rock paintings, bowl, 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:12426

Title: Survey of new Bushman settlements, Map item #7
Subject: Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park (Botswana and South Africa), San (African people)--Legal status, laws, etc.--South Africa, Khomani (African people)--Legal status, laws, etc.--South Africa, Indigenous peoples--Land tenure--South Africa, Indigenous peoples--Legal status, laws, etc.--South Africa, San (African people)--Kalahari Desert, Northern Cape (South Africa)--Maps,
Description: A map showing new San settlements including the Kruiper settlement and the new Swartkop settlement in the Northern Cape, South Africa, just outside of the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park. Approximate scale 1:175 000
Identifier: islandora:27329

Title: Bringing home the water
Subject: San (African people)--Africa, Southern, San (African people)--Africa, Southern--Pictorial works, San (African people)--Social life and customs, Women--Africa, Southern, Hunting and gathering societies--Africa, Southern, ,
Description: This image was included in Alfred Martin Duggan Cronin's The Bantu tribes of South Africa : reproductions of photographic studies, the outcome of his major ethnographic research study of the San of Southern African.
Identifier: islandora:26887

Title: Household utensils
Subject: Pondo (African people), Ethnology--South Africa--Pondoland, Eastern Cape (South Africa)--Rural conditions, Implements, utensils, etc.--South Africa--Pondoland
Description: Household utensils. Shown at the back: sleeping mat. Shown on the table: meat tray, ladles, milk bucket, grain basket, spoons, beer basket, grass plate. Hanging: beer strainer, spoons, broom, tobacco bag, beer strainer., Missing negative (a).
Identifier: islandora:5701

Title: Drinking
Subject: Bushman, Southern Africa, woman, bottle, man, alcohol, San, indigenous, bushveld, San (African people)--Alcohol use--Namibia, Tsumkwe District (Namibia)
Description: A woman drinks from a vodka bottle. Nearby stands a man. Tjum!kui, Namibia.
Identifier: islandora:11906

Title: Exterior limestone formations of the Witdraai grottoes.
Subject: 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, Caves--Botswana and South Africa--Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, Indigenous peoples--Land tenure--Africa, Southern, ,
Description: Limestone grottoes at Witdraai in the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park. These grottoes played an important part in the ǂKhomani San's cultural heritage. At one time, they were used as a prison for the San and inmates were chained to the interior walls. In later times, upon returning from the Empire Exhibition, the participants discovered their homes had been burnt down by Basters (the descendants of Cape Colony Dutch and indigenous African women). Several San community members including Ouma |Una Rooi came to live here.
Identifier: islandora:27219

Title: Members of the research team drive along Xausendi pan
Subject: 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, Landscapes--Botswana and South Africa--Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, Indigenous peoples--Land tenure--Africa, Southern, ,
Description: An area known as Xausendi meaning "diarrhoea". The pans in this region have water that causes bad stomach cramps and diarrhoea. The bad water discourages animals from congregating here which reduces the number of predators. 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:26972

Title: Displaced farm worker
Subject: Bushman, San, indigenous, Southern Africa, farm worker, displaced, land rights, talking, portrait, San (African people)--Botswana--Ghanzi District, Agricultural laborers--Botswana--Ghanzi District, Ghanzi District (Botswana)
Identifier: islandora:12362

Title: Displaced farm worker
Subject: Bushman, San, indigenous, Southern Africa, farm worker, displaced, land rights, talking, portrait, San (African people)--Botswana--Ghanzi District, Agricultural laborers--Botswana--Ghanzi District, Ghanzi District (Botswana)
Identifier: islandora:12361

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