Search results

Title: Body of an unidentified man, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Civil unrest, Violence, Death
Description: Victim - The body of an unidentified man was found with a bullet wound in the head next to a burnt-out vehicle in NY5 in Gugulethu on Saturday.
Identifier: islandora:16237

Title: Man walks past a "troops out!" sign spray-painted onto the Castle, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Castle of Good Hope (Cape Town, South Africa), Vandalism, Armed forces
Description: A pedestrian walks past the Castle, seemingly oblivious of the controversial slogan painted on its wall facing Strand Street during the night.
Identifier: islandora:16225

Title: Policeman drags man caught looting, Cape Town
Subject: Nyanga (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Civil unrest, Violence, Law enforcement, Robbery
Description: A constable drags a prisoner to the patrol van after police surprised looters at a burnt Nyanga bottle store yesterday.
Identifier: islandora:16348

Title: A man inspects the damage done by a fire, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Civil unrest, Violence, Vandalism
Description: An employee points out some of the damage caused early yesterday morning when a fire broke out at Sacca Ltd in Brickfield Road, Salt River. Arson is suspected.
Identifier: islandora:16312

Title: Man speaks to crowd, Cape Town
Subject: Parow (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), National Party (South Africa), Politics, Communities
Description: Herstigte Nasionale Party (HNP) meeting at Parow.
Identifier: islandora:15972

Title: Man defies apartheid laws by walking up stairs reserved for non-whites, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Segregation, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950
Description: A white youth comes out of the all-race subway and goes up the steps reserved for non-Whites.
Identifier: islandora:16129

Title: Man gestures the peace sign in a crowded hall, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Politics, University of Cape Town, Political activists, Student protestors
Description: University of Cape Town (UCT) medical student Mr Alexander Heywood received a standing ovation as he re-entered Maitland Town Hall last night after being asked to leave. The Minister of Justice, Mr J.T. Kruger, addressed a National Party meeting, frequently disturbed by interjections.
Identifier: islandora:15968

Title: Injured man sits on ground, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Civil unrest, Violence, Motorcars
Description: Building contractor Mr Frederic Jansen, 46, his burnt-out bakkie in the background, waits for an ambulance to arrive after the vehicle had been overturned and set alight in Klipfontein Road adjoining Crossroads yesterday.
Identifier: islandora:16239

Title: People crouch to help a man injured, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Weapons, Law enforcement, Wounds and injuries
Description: A man grimaces in pain as he is given first aid after being wounded by riot police when they opened fire on a crowd stoning a truck in Halt Road. Elsie's River, yesterday afternoon. The man was discovered a few blocks from the scene in Faure Street, where he collapsed. He gave his name as Mr Louis Fisher, of Alard Street, Clarke's Estate, Elsies River.
Identifier: islandora:16182

Title: Police watch a paramedics carry an inured man, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Civil unrest, Violence, Law enforcement, Wounds and Injuries
Description: A woman injured in the head by police gunfire is taken by ambulance from the Guguletu police station.
Identifier: islandora:16337

Title: Armed man removed from ANC meeting in Parow, Cape Town
Subject: Parow (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Politics, African National Congress, Election campaigns, Right wing
Description: An armed man, a suspected member of the Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (AWB), is ejected from an African National Congress's (ANC) meeting in Parow before the 1994 democratic elections.
Identifier: islandora:15900

Title: Man releases pigeon while others reach in basket for more, Cape Town
Subject: National Party (South Africa), Politics, ,
Description: Man releases pigeon while others reach in basket for more, Cape Town. NP Election camp.
Identifier: islandora:15516

Title: Man inspecting damaged window, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Cape Town (South Africa), Civil unrest, Demonstrations, Vandalism
Description: One of the 15 windows shattered by the crowd during the rioting in the city last night. This window was in Spin Street.
Identifier: islandora:16472

Title: Man stands over his son sleeping in hospital, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Civil unrest, Violence
Description: Mr Lawrence Meyer visits his son, Paul, in an intensive care unit at Groote Schuur Hospital. Paul could not speak to his father yesterday as he was asleep after an operation.
Identifier: islandora:16322

Title: Man walks in the rain with his make-shift weapon at the ready, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Weather, Protection
Description: The cruel tools of two worlds come together at Crossroads as a combatant armed with sticks in the rain passes a few metres of new barbed wire that fences now-vanquished squatter communities.
Identifier: islandora:16117

Title: Man walks past discarded teargas canister, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Civil unrest, Violence, Demonstrations, Weapons
Description: A burnt-out teargas canister in an almost deserted Darling Street this afternoon.
Identifier: islandora:16253

Title: Woman checks for man's name at the voting booth, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Politics, University of the Western Cape
Description: Mr Adam Small, the Coloured poet and lecturer of philosophy at the University College of the Western Cape, was at the polling booths early today to cast his vote in the Coloured Persons' Representative Council elections. Miss M Benjamin, a canvasser at the polling station of the Lansdowne Civic Centre, in the constituency of Liesbeeck, checks his name on the voters' roll before he casts his vote.
Identifier: islandora:15981

Title: Man celebrates after being elected to represent the Labour Party, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Politics
Description: Mr Babs Essop is shouldered after winning the Strandfontein seat for the Labour Party. Mr Essop was opposed by former Labour Party candidate Mr Esau Jones (Ind).
Identifier: islandora:15995

Title: Man and woman in front of PFP campaign signage, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Political campaigns, Progressive Federal Party (South Africa)
Description: L. van Zyl Slabbert and Mrs Barbara Sandler in front of Progressive Federal Party (PFP) signage.
Identifier: islandora:16009

Title: Man sitting on the ground, District Six, Cape Town, South Africa
Subject: District Six (Cape Town, South Africa)--Social conditions, District Six (Cape Town, South Africa)--History, Cape Town (South Africa)--History, ,
Description: A man sits on the floor against a wall in District Six, Cape Town in the 1970's prior to the state orchestrated forced removals to locations further from the city.
Identifier: islandora:18532

Share