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Title: Woman with liquor bottles
Subject: Bushman, Southern Africa, woman, bottle, child, alcohol, San, indigenous, sand, building, bicycle, San (African people)--Alcohol use--Namibia, Tsumkwe District (Namibia)
Description: Returning from the bottlestore. A woman carries a child in a sling, and holds a bottle of liquor in each hand. Tjum!kui, Namibia.
Identifier: islandora:11907

Title: Woman carrying chickens
Subject: ruins, birds, animalsRuined buildings--Angola, Chickens, Women
Description: A woman carries chickens to sell at the small market in Kuito, Angola.
Identifier: islandora:8281

Title: Thatching a hut
Subject: Bushman, Southern Africa, hut, man, labour, San, indigenous, thatch, build, construction, work, labour, ladder, Grass huts--Botswana--Design and construction, Central Kalahari Game Reserve (Botswana)
Description: A man thatching a hut. A handmade ladder rests against the hut. Molapo, Botswana.
Identifier: islandora:12007

Title: Sunflowers and factories, Vanderbijlpark, South Africa
Subject: Sunflowers--Breeding--South Africa, Factory buildings--South Africa, Environmental pollution--South Africa,
Description: A field of sunflowers create a beautiful foreground before the Vanderbijlpark skyline made up of factories and smoke from this industrial city on the Vaal River in Gauteng, South Africa, 2001.
Identifier: islandora:18395

Title: Foreshore freeway construction, Cape Town City
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Urban areas, Land, Urban development, Infrastructure, Transport, Building
Description: View of the Foreshore, Cape Town, shows progress on the freeways. At the start of the major contract, which will provide about 1 km of elevated dual carriageways parallel to the harbour fence, Murray & Stewart (Cape Town) offered to cut six months from the contract time. Three years later, with allowable extensions, they are still ahead of that speeded-up schedule. This means that the project should be completed in September 1976. Allowing for escalation, the total value of the work now being handled on the freeways will be in the region of R21-million.
Identifier: islandora:15125

Title: Dredging soil from Rietvlei, Cape Town
Subject: Table Mountain (Western Cape, South Africa), Industries, Building, ,
Description: Dredging of five million cubic metres of soil from Rietvlei, near Milnerton, started at the weekend. Picture shows the end of an 8.5km pipeline through which the soil, mixed with sea water, is pumped to Table Bay (opposite Paarden Eiland) to fill a huge area being reclaimed from the sea to extend Cape Town Docks. Reclamation will continue till November.
Identifier: islandora:15307

Title: Ruined school building
Subject: ruins, education, schoolingRuined buildings--Angola, Children, Schools--Angola
Description: A roofless primary school which has been destroyed by gunfire.
Identifier: islandora:8282

Title: Former Ministry of Education building
Subject: ruins, gamesRuined buildings--Angola, Children, Play
Description: Boys play in the former Ministry of Education building.
Identifier: islandora:8285

Title: Wife of the king of Ondonga shows theremains of her house after a firefight between SADF and PLAN
Subject: Women, Buildings--War damage
Description: The wife of the king of Ondonga, Immanuel Kauluma Elifas of Ondonga, shows the remains of her pantry after a firefight between South African Defence Force (SADF) soldiers and People's Liberation Army of Namibia (PLAN) combatants. Onamungundo.
Identifier: islandora:6807

Title: Opening of the Muizenberg Pavilion, Cape Town
Subject: Infrastructure, Relaxation, Historic buildings, ,
Description: Muizenberg pavilion opened: This was the opening day of the Muizenberg Pavilion on December 14, 1929. Built at a cost of some £200 000 it was destined to last only only about 40 years, for the demolition started on this building towards the end of 1970. This brick and stone building replaced the old wooden pavilion with its wooden-slatted promenade deck that served bathers and visitors alike to this most popular of South African beaches. This pavilion which was opened by the Cape Administrator of the time, Mr J.H. Conradie, consisted of three sections - the bathing cubicles, the tearoom-restauraunt and a theatre seating about 900.
Identifier: islandora:15381

Title: Building a hut
Subject: Bushman, San, indigenous, Southern Africa, woman, carrying, grass, building, hut, San (African people)--Botswana--Central Kalahari Game Reserve, San (African people)--Dwellings--Botswana--Central Kalahari Game Reserve, Central Kalahari Game Reserve (Botswana)
Identifier: islandora:12313

Title: Man holding a child
Subject: Bushman, Southern Africa, man, child, house, San, indigenous, house, building, settlement, uniform, army, Veterans--Namibia, San (African people)--Dwellings--Namibia, Building, Iron and steel--Namibia, Toys--Namibia, Namibia
Description: An ex-soldier wearing army overalls and cap, holding a child, standing in a settlement of corrugated iron structures. In the background is a boy with a wire toy. Tsintsabis, Namibia.
Identifier: islandora:11696

Title: The closing down of hotels, Cape Town
Subject: Infrastructure, Hotels, Historic buildings, ,
Description: The Rio Grande Hotel, the 11th to close down there in about 10 years and the fourth to be used for the aged. / Witnesses of past grandeur.
Identifier: islandora:15383

Title: An abandoned building used as a lookout post within the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park.
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, Stone buildings--Botswana and South Africa--Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, Ruined buildings--Botswana and South Africa--Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, Indigenous peoples--Land tenure--Africa, Southern, ,
Description: The view through a crooked window in an abandoned building within the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park. Structures like these, are now used as lookout posts for tourists and travellers. 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:27018

Title: Former Ministry of Education building
Subject: ruinsRuined buildings--Angola, Refugees--Angola
Description: Refugees who have fled the fighting in the Angolan countryside inhabit the former Ministry of Education building.
Identifier: islandora:8288

Title: The Saambou National Building Society's new building in Bellville, Cape Town
Subject: Bellville (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Business, Apartheid, Architecture, Building, Afrikaners
Description: An example of the office building accommodation available in Bellville's growing central business district district is this modern building society block. The Saambou National Building Society's new building in Bellville was officially opened this week by Dr C.F. Albertyn. In addition to the shopping space on the ground floor, there are seven floors of office space and the banking hall also provides for art exhibitions. Saambou now owns buildings in Bellville valued at more than R1 500 000. With office accommodation in big demand in the rapidly developing Tygeberg area, office blocks are going up all over. One of the latest and largest blocks is the Saambou National Building, opened towards the end of last year. This building offers shopping space on the ground floor and seven floors of office space.
Identifier: islandora:16830

Title: Valkenburg Manor, Cape Town
Subject: Historic buildings, Architecture, Restaurants, ,
Description: As it is today - After reconstruction the Valkenburg manor, occupied by the Rosenfontein restaurant, became one of the Cape's most admired and best-frequented eating venues.
Identifier: islandora:15570

Title: Henkie Barnard at a DTA meeting
Subject: Bushman, Southern Africa, man, child, group, San, indigenous, DTA, politics, building, hat, talk, meeting, Democratic Turnhalle Alliance (Namibia), Gobabis District (Namibia)
Description: Henkie Barnard with a group of people at a DTA (Democratic Turnhalle Alliance) meeting on his farm. Gobabis District, Namibia.
Identifier: islandora:11842

Title: Day after the bombing of the Continetal Hotel
Subject: Bombings, Atrocities--Namibia, Buildings--War damage
Description: The day after the bombing of the Continental Hotel, Windhoek.
Identifier: islandora:6854

Title: Jonas Savimbi's former residence
Subject: ruinsRuined buildings--Angola, Children
Description: The former residence of Jonas Savimbi, former leader of the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA).
Identifier: islandora:8300

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