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Title: Residences in Loader Street, Cape Town
Subject: Apartheid, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Residential buildings, ,
Description: The Loader Street area has been a renovator's paradise for the past few years. According to estate agent, Mr John Hocknell, property in the area is almost completely sold out and there is little still to be had. Some renovated properties are still changing hands for under R20 000 though.
Identifier: islandora:15206

Title: Piebald Court
Subject: South Africa--Politics and government--1978-1989--Caricatures and cartoons, Apartheid--South Africa--Caricatures and cartoons, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, South African wit and humor, Pictorial, South Africa
Description: Inevitable racial mixing in the urban areas forced the government to make some adaptions to their policy of rigid racial separation, which gave rise to anomalies and inconsistencies, which were explained as 'the natural evolution' of apartheid. Description provided by Tony Grogan.
Identifier: islandora:6146

Title: Maitland Garden Village residents celebrating, Cape Town
Subject: Apartheid, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, ,
Description: The 'best news in years' reached Maitland Garden Village this weekend. Residents learnt the Government had reversed its 1969 decision that the area must be turned over to whites.
Identifier: islandora:15194

Title: Street 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:15607

Title: Pregnant woman stand holding her two kids hands, Cape Town
Subject: Apartheid, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Discrimination, ,
Description: Heavily pregnant: Mrs Nomaliso Mthensi appeared in the Langa Commissioners Court yesterday with her two children clinging to her skirts. Here, she leaves the court after paying a fine of R70 for Pass Law offences.
Identifier: islandora:15796

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: Deserted football field in Maitland, Cape Town
Subject: Apartheid, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Soccer, Recreation areas, ,
Description: The limp goalposts on the football field, residents say, tell a story of despondency - 23 years in the shadow of the Group Areas Act has taken its toll of soccer, once the most popular sport in the area.
Identifier: islandora:15196

Title: Family sits outside their house 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:15609

Title: Macassar Coloured township near Somerset West, Cape Town
Subject: Apartheid, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Residential buildings, ,
Description: Many families rehoused at the Macassar Coloured township near Somerset West have returned to their squatter lives in the bush, officials say. The families say they cannot afford the rents at Macassar and that they prefer the bush to the township.
Identifier: islandora:15184

Title: Houses in Burton Street, Maitland, Cape Town
Subject: Apartheid, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Residential buildings, , ,
Description: Old houses in Burton Street Maitland provisionally occupied by N/White groups.
Identifier: islandora:15197

Title: Good Shepherd Church, Kirstenbosch, Cape Town, 1986
Subject: Kirstenbosch (South Africa), Architecture, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Forced removals (South Africa), Community development
Description: Memories: former Protea Village residents 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.
Identifier: islandora:17329

Title: Group of people sit on back of truck with their possessions, Cape Town
Subject: Apartheid, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Forced removals (South Africa), ,
Description: New Crossroads.
Identifier: islandora:15525

Title: Woman takes out money to pay fine, Cape Town
Subject: Apartheid, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Discrimination, ,
Description: Total fines of R1960 were imposed for pass law offences at Langa yesterday. Here, a woman draws R10 notes from her purse to pay a fine for being in the Cape illegally for more than 72 hours.
Identifier: islandora:15799

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: Husband and wife at court, Cape Town
Subject: Apartheid, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Discrimination, ,
Description: Mr Kruger Mpondo with his wife Mirriam outside the Langa Commissioner's Court today.
Identifier: islandora:15800

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