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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: Student protestors, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Cape Town (South Africa), Civil unrest, Demonstrations
Description: Student protesters sat down in the City Hall passages while awaiting the outcome of discussions between student leaders and the Town Clerk of Cape Town, Mr H.G. Heugh, yesterday afternoon. More than 250 students packed the foyer and passages in the City Hall during the talks.
Identifier: islandora:16384

Title: Interior of prison cell, Robben Island, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Robben Island (South Africa), Historic sites, Jails, Interior architecture
Description: The inside of a typical communal cell. The wall cupboard is used as a locker for personal belongings as well as a writing table.
Identifier: islandora:16548

Title: Fire brigades, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Cape Town (South Africa), Fires, Disasters, Fire departments
Description: Fire station, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:14924

Title: The Cape Times building, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Press, Southern African Newspapers, Architecture
Description: The Cape Times building, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:16045

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: Demonstations and protests, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Demonstrations, Politics
Description: African National Congress (ANC) protest, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:17890

Title: Man stands gesturing angrily in disagreement, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), National Party (South Africa), Politics
Description: A Nationalist interjector reacts angrily to a point made by one of the Herstigte speakers at the public meeting in the Parow Civic Centre last night.
Identifier: islandora:15978

Title: Crying school pupil is escorted by two men, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Youth, Civil unrest, Demonstrations
Description: Crying school pupil is escorted by two men, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:16283

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: ANC supporter with "Free Mandela Now" badge, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), African National Congress, State of Emergency, Detention, Political activists, United Democratic Front (South Africa),
Description: "Free Mandela Now" reads the badge on his beret, but this man himself risks imprisonment for showing the colours of a banned organisation at the height of the State of Emergency
Identifier: islandora:15926

Title: Tangled water weed, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Cape Town (South Africa), Environment, Pollution, Health, Nature, Rivers, Water
Description: A substantial load of tangled water weed is deposited on the vlei bank by the new "thresher" demonstrated during the week.
Identifier: islandora:16587

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: Guard gives prisoner advice on his artwork, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Jails, Reformatories, Emblems, Tools
Description: A prisoner gets some advice while making two replicas in brass of the crest of the Department of Prisons, to be used on two of the boats making regular trips to Robben Island.
Identifier: islandora:16038

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: Flag protest, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Demonstrations, Politics
Description: Flag protest, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:17771

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: King's blockhouse, Devil's Peak, Cape Town, 1974
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Weapons, Devil's Peak (Western Cape, South Africa)
Description: Cannon and King's Blockhouse on the slopes of Devil's Peak.
Identifier: islandora:17122

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: Teachers strike, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Demonstrations, Education, Labor unions
Description: No cutbacks: Striking teachers, right, fear the rationalising education will lead to unacceptable pupil/teacher ratios.
Identifier: islandora:17783

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