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Title: Dirt road, Crossroads, Cape Town
Subject: Crossroads (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Squatter settlements, Apartheid, Roads
Description: Dirt road at Crossroads, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:17546

Title: Albian Road, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Rondebosch (Cape Town, South Africa), Suburbs, Buildings, Roads, Infrastructure, Residential buildings
Description: House on Albian Road, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:16598

Title: House on Meadway Road, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Gardens, Architecture, Residential buildings
Description: No. 4 Meadway belongs to Mr D.B. Sides.
Identifier: islandora:15828

Title: Man walks down road with his supporters in the background, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Politics, Activists, Demonstrations
Description: The leader: wearing blue shorts, Mr Philip Kgosana, the Pan African Congress secretary, leaves his supporters on De Waal Drive above Roeland Street on his way to Caledon Square Police Station
Identifier: islandora:16005

Title: Policemen march up a road, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Civil unrest, Violence, Weapons, Demonstrations, Law enforcement
Description: Determined policemen with gas masks slung across their chests advance up Burg Street in an attempt to clear rioters from the city centre.
Identifier: islandora:16255

Title: Platbos road from the slopes of Platberg
Subject: Plants--Western Cape (South Africa), Mountain plants--Western Cape (South Africa), Mountains--Western Cape (South Africa), ,
Description: District: Caledon, Location: Kogelberg Nature Reserve, Platberg, Platbos., Ecology: Unknown.
Identifier: islandora:3655

Title: Protesters stand at the side of the road with placards, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), South African Communist Party, African National Congress, Hani, Chris, 1942-1993, Demonstrations
Description: Protesters stand at the side of the road with placards, Cape Town
Identifier: islandora:16095

Title: 1950s traffic in Voortrekker Road, Bellville, Cape Town
Subject: Bellville (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Urban development, Roads, Apartheid, Commerce, City planning
Description: Saturday morning traffic. A view of the island where Voortrekker Road and Durbanville Road meet at Bellville.
Identifier: islandora:16789

Title: Apartheid-era military parade down Voortrekker Road, Bellville, Cape Town
Subject: Bellville (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Soldiers, Militarisation, Coloured people (South Africa), Armed forces
Description: The Regiment Westelike Provinsie exercises its right of freedom of entrance to the city of Bellville by marching down Voortrekker Road. The regiment was honoured by the mayor, Mr Danie Uys, during a ceremony at the weekend.
Identifier: islandora:16820

Title: Damaged Spoornet road tanker, Cape Town
Subject: Bellville (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Railways, Apartheid, Transport, Disaster, Accident
Description: Spoornet officials inspect the damaged chemical road tanker after the "accident."
Identifier: islandora:16823

Title: The remains of a road block erected by protesters, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Civil unrest, Violence, Demonstrations, Vandalism, Law enforcement
Description: Police clear a street in Tiervlei where eight people were reported injured after demonstrators erected a road-block and set it alight and police used shotguns and revolvers to break up a band of stone-throwing youths.
Identifier: islandora:16330

Title: Modderdam Road forced removal, Cape Town
Subject: Bellville (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Townships, Apartheid, Housing, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Forced removals (South Africa)
Description: Modderdam Road squatter camp in Bellville South, home to Africans regarded as being in Cape Town illegally by apartheid authorities, was destroyed by two bulldozers during one week in August 1977
Identifier: islandora:16835

Title: Police fire teargas across road at students, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Civil unrest, Violence, Weapons, Law enforcement, University of Cape Town
Description: Police fire teargas across Rhodes Drive at students on the University of Cape Town (UCT) campus yesterday.
Identifier: islandora:16228

Title: Rondebosch Main Road, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Rondebosch (Cape Town, South Africa), Traders, Informal sector (Economics), Markets, History, Buildings, Suburbs
Description: Flower sellers bargain in Belmont Road. In the background is the old fountain, once the drinking place for horses.
Identifier: islandora:16611

Title: Furnace room in Dock Road power station, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), History, Demolition, Electricity
Description: The furnace room in the Dock Road power station. The long pipes on each side carry the coal to the furnaces which will not go out when the power is shut off, but will be kept going at a fraction of their usual heat to make it possible to start up again on Monday morning.
Identifier: islandora:18103

Title: Walmer Road resident declared coloured and will have to move, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Relocation
Description: Mrs Mercia Marquardt, who has lived for 13 years on the side of Walmer Road, was recently proclaimed coloured. She will probably have to move.
Identifier: islandora:17976

Title: People watch as branches and tyres burn in the road, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Demonstrations, Vandalism
Description: Burning branches and tyres block the entrance to Bonteheuwel yesterday afternoon at the corner of Jakkalsvlei Road and Vanguard Drive during unrest there.
Identifier: islandora:16180

Title: Road repair crews on the Bakoven-Llandudno road, Cape Town
Subject: Bakoven (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Coasts, Weather, Transport, Floods, Environment
Description: Operation 'Mop Up' continued through the Cape Town area today and among the busiest workers were the road repair crews clearing the Bakoven-Llandudno road. Thousands of tons of rock and earth were forced down on to the road by flood water rushing down the mountainside. Heavy earthmoving equipment is clearing the road and Divisional Council officials say it will be about 14 days before the road is opened to traffic.
Identifier: islandora:16759

Title: Security forces, Modderdam Road forced removal, Cape Town
Subject: Bellville (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Townships, Apartheid, Housing, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Forced removals (South Africa)
Description: Police and dogs out in force during the bulldozing of Modderdam Road squatter camp
Identifier: islandora:16837

Title: An unfinished road in the Southern Suburbs, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Rondebosch (Cape Town, South Africa), Urban areas, Development, Transport
Description: Road to nowhere: the uncompleted Kromboom Parkway scars the landscape in the vicinity of Claremont and Rondebosch.
Identifier: islandora:16564

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