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Title: Political detainee support, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Political prisoners, Apartheid, Religion
Description: Young and old queued outside St George's Cathedral yesterday to sign Christmas cards to be sent to detainees part of a United Democratic Front Christmas campaign. A prayer service will be held for detainees at the Cathedral at 4pm on Sunday. Archbishop Desmond Tutu and his Roman Catholic counterpart, Archbishop Stephen Naidoo, will attend.
Identifier: islandora:17925

Title: Baptisms at Princess Vlei, Grassy Park, Cape Town
Subject: Grassy Park (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Rites and ceremonies, Religion, Apartheid, Christianity
Description: Hundreds of people gather at Princess Vlei for baptisms
Identifier: islandora:16765

Title: Baptisms at Princess Vlei, Grassy Park, Cape Town
Subject: Grassy Park (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Rites and ceremonies, Religion, Apartheid, Christianity,
Description: "This is what John the Baptist used to do", the short, intense man standing in the waist-deep water of Princess Vlei cried in an impassioned voice. He added: "There is no more John the Baptist, but Archbishop slingers is here." Handing his long white cross to a white-coated assistant, he turned toward a group of faithful follows shivering in the water around him. The World Wide Soul Clinic Crusade was about to baptise a new batch of converts. A long warm-up on shore, including fervent confessions by mean and women who said they had led lives of sin and then found Jesus, rocking to the tune of a five-piece jazz band, and a sermon by the ebullient Mr Slingers had preceded the dunkings. The confessors and band were aided by two large loud-speakers. When the weather is inclement, or transport to the vlei cant be arranged, ceremonies are performed in a bathtub in the movement's church. Weekend Argus was welcomed to the ceremony because "more people read the newspaper than the Bible, so they will help us spread the word," according to Mr Slingers. He blessed the cameras, film and photographer. As the jazz band blares its rollicking rhythms the members of the congregation clap, shout, dance, clasp hands, and raise faces and voices headwards in joyful thanksgiving. Tears run down the face of an old woman. Another smiles and nods to those about her. Occasionally, moved by her spirit of the music and joy around him, a man leaps in front of the crowd. When it is over, and all is quiet, there is an air like a simmering cauldron as happiness and peace of mind mingle and bubble in the atmosphere.
Identifier: islandora:16767

Title: Gereformeerde Kerk, Bellville, Cape Town
Subject: Bellville (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Dutch Reformed Church of South Africa, Apartheid, Afrikaners, Religion, Architecture
Description: Slender simplicity: the spire of the Gereformeerde Kerk in Broadway Street, Bellville, one of several ultra-modern churches in the town.
Identifier: islandora:16790

Title: Baptisms at Princess Vlei, Grassy Park, Cape Town
Subject: Grassy Park (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Rites and ceremonies, Religion, Apartheid, Christianity
Description: Hundreds of people gather at Princess Vlei for baptisms
Identifier: islandora:16764

Title: Apartheid-era Founders' Day ceremony, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Afrikaner Nationalism, Apartheid, Memorials, Culture, Religion
Description: Puff stuff: Hitting the low notes at the Founders' Day (Van Riebeek Day) ceremony in the Heerengracht is Warrant Officer 1 Derek Hutton, his brightly-polished tuba reflecting Jan van Riebeeck's statue.
Identifier: islandora:16633

Title: Gravesite, Bo-Kaap, Cape Town
Subject: Bo-Kaap (Cape Town, South Africa), Apartheid, Graves, Religion
Description: Gravesite on the slopes of Signal Hill in the Bo-Kaap, overlooking the Lutheran Church and high-rise buildings of Cape Town city centre.
Identifier: islandora:17234

Title: Qibla march on Parliament, Cape Town
Subject: Religion, Islam, Demonstrations, Apartheid, ,
Description: We want justice! Qibla supporters barrack 120 Plein Street demanding that a commission of inquiry be established into the death of Imam Haron 25 years ago. / Qibla March on Parliament.
Identifier: islandora:15476

Title: Bellville East Dutch Reformed Church, Cape Town
Subject: Bellville (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Churches, Architecture, Religion, Christianity
Description: Bellville East Dutch Reformed Church.
Identifier: islandora:16778

Title: Day of the Covenant ceremony at Groote Schuur Estate, Cape Town
Subject: Rondebosch (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Afrikaner Nationalism, Apartheid, Memorials, Culture, Religion
Description: A crowd of about 400 people attended the Day of the Covenant ceremony at the Groote Schuur Estate in 1976, including numerous women in Voortrekker costume. The service was led by Dr A. J. G. Dreyer. Professor D. J. Kotze, of the faculty of history at the University of Stellenbosch, was the main speaker.
Identifier: islandora:16649

Title: Day of the Covenant ceremony, Cape Town
Subject: Rondebosch (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Afrikaner Nationalism, Apartheid, Memorials, Culture, Religion
Description: A crowd of about 400 people attended the Day of the Covenant ceremony at the Groote Schuur Estate in 1976. The service was led by Dr A. J. G. Dreyer. Professor D. J. Kotze, of the faculty of history at the University of Stellenbosch, was the main speaker. These four women attended the ceremony in traditional Voortrekker costume. They are (from left): Miss Annie Sadie of Bellville, Miss Gwen Swanepoel and Mrs Joey Swanepoel, both of Goodwood and Mrs Anna Sadie.
Identifier: islandora:16641

Title: Day of the Vow gathering, Cape Town
Subject: Rondebosch (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Afrikaner Nationalism, Apartheid, Memorials, Culture, Religion
Description: Niggie Sante Burger, foreground, of the Aandster Volkspele circle, Bellville, was among the 500 people who attended a Day of the Vow gathering on the Groote Schuur estate today. The Minister of Co-operation and Development, Dr Piet Koornhof, delivered an address and members of the Voortrekker youth movement out a tableau. A number of people were dressed in traditional Voortrekker outfits.
Identifier: islandora:16634

Title: Religious leaders at detainees service, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Political prisoners, Apartheid, Religion,
Description: Clergy consults ... Religious leaders (from left) Moulana Faried Esack, Dr Allan Boesak, Archbishop Desmond Tutu and the Rev. Colin Jones put their heads together at the detainees' service to discuss how to get the school children out of the cathedral safely.
Identifier: islandora:17924

Title: Bishopscourt residence of Anglican archbishop, Cape Town
Subject: Bishopscourt (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Apartheid, Religion, Political activists, Housing
Description: Cape Town. South Africa. 13 May ---- Tutu's house --- The Anglican church has challenged the South African government on the removal of Archbishop Desmond Tutu from his home in the White area of Bishopscourt. The Group Areas Act is being enforced and many mixed married couples have been told they have to leave their homes in the European areas.
Identifier: islandora:16854

Title: Dutch Reformed Church, Bellville, Cape Town
Subject: Bellville (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Dutch Reformed Church of South Africa, Apartheid, Architecture, Afrikaners, Religion
Description: Congregation leaving the Bellville Dutch Reformed Church
Identifier: islandora:16812

Title: Muslim community march against Apartheid, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Religion, Demonstrations, Civil unrest, Anti-apartheid activists
Description: Muslim community march against Apartheid, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:16218

Title: Baptisms at Princess Vlei, Grassy Park, Cape Town
Subject: Grassy Park (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Rites and ceremonies, Religion, Apartheid, Christianity
Description: Joy! This woman lifts her hands in praise as her baptism is completed. Holding her is Elder David Voorman and Deacon Isaac Rautenbach of the Living Water Ministries.
Identifier: islandora:16766

Title: Baptisms at Princess Vlei, Grassy Park, Cape Town
Subject: Grassy Park (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Rites and ceremonies, Religion, Apartheid, Christianity
Description: Getting your clothes wet is a small price to pay for cleansing your soul in the waters of the vlei. These members of the Assembly of God, Parkwood Estate, were among the hundreds of people who gathered at the vlei for religious services and baptism rites.
Identifier: islandora:16763

Title: Founder of a school which is closing down to the Group Areas Act, Cape Town
Subject: Religion, Islam , Apartheid, Education, ,
Description: The Algairiyan Moslem school, in Pontac Street, District Six, is closing down because of the Group Areas Act. The school, which numbers many religious and community leaders among its 3 000 or so past students, was founded in Cape Town in 1928 and moved to Wellington between 1930 and 1936. Its retiring founder and teacher, Ghalifa Ebrahiem, 70, said yesterday: "The school is closing because the Moslem community has been dispersed and students can no longer afford to pay fares from the suburbs where they have been moved to the school. If it were not for the Group Areas Act, the school would have continued."
Identifier: islandora:15464

Title: Searle street resident receives blessing, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Religion, Forced removals, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950
Description: Mrs Mabel Dias, 91, of Searle Street hopes that she will die before the bulldozers reach there. Here she receives a blessing from Father Basil Van Rensburg of Holy Cross parish.
Identifier: islandora:17984

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