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Title: Protesting students, Cape Town
Subject: Rondebosch (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), South African Defence Force, Politics, Apartheid, Demonstrations, Youth
Description: Taking a stand - Rush-hour motorists making their way home along De Waal Drive past the University of Cape Town (UCT) campus yesterday were met with the sight of these students demonstrating with placards.
Identifier: islandora:18088

Title: Cape Town contingent to Lusaka talks with the ANC
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Politics, Democratic Party, Whites, African National Congress
Description: ANC Safari: Some of the Cape Town contingent, part of a group of 120 white South Africans who left to meet the African National Congress in Lusaka today, gather at D.F.Malan Airport before their departure. They are, from left, city councillor Ian Iversen, Democratic Party regional chairman Bill Sewell, University of Cape Town deputy vice-chancellor David Woods, Cape Democrats members llana Korber and John Greene and head of the DP's national youth organisation Michelle Guttler. They will attend a conference on the role of whites in a changing society, organised by the Five Freedoms Forum.
Identifier: islandora:15920

Title: Van Riebeeck tercentenary celebrations, 1952, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Traditional, Zulus (African People), Apartheid, Afrikaners Nationalism, Tribal
Description: A Zulu hut being constructed as part of the Native Affairs Department display at the Culemborg Pavilion as part of the 1952 celebrations to mark the 300th anniversary of arrival of Jan van Riebeeck at the Cape.
Identifier: islandora:15864

Title: ANC prisoners released from Robben Island, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Political prisoners, Apartheid, African National Congress
Description: Released: the first six ANC prisoners from Robben Island yesterday after spending three to 10 years are from left, Eddie Humalog, Nelson Topeka, Mohan Mmoledi, Vuyisile Mbundu, Bushy Maape and Norman Yengeni. Western Cape United Democratic Front (UDF) spokesman Trevor Manuel is in the white shirt. At the back is Mr Amos Lengisi, joint secretary of the UDF in the Western Cape.
Identifier: islandora:17907

Title: Hoisting the Malawi flag, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Sea Point (Cape Town, South Africa), Apartheid, Memorials, African countries, Patriotism
Description: Malawi flag: hoisting the first Black African flag to be flown in Cape Town are two staff members of the Elizabeth Hotel in Sea Point yesterday. Waiter Sidney Cooper hoists the Malawi flag while employee Tim Wilkinson (left) hoists the South African flag. The Malawi flag flies at the hotel because Malawi's first envoy to South Africa, Mr P. A. Richardson, stays at the hotel.
Identifier: islandora:14991

Title: ANC Youth League demonstrates against Ciskei repression, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), African National Congress. Youth League, Apartheid, Freedom of expression, Bantustans, Ciskei (South Africa)
Description: Making a point: African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL)member demanding free political activity in Ciskei brandishes a spear during the sit-in at the homeland's consulate on Monday.
Identifier: islandora:15918

Title: Overcrowded Khayelitsha classroom, 1990s
Subject: Khayelitsha (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Education--South Africa, Township, Children's rights, Post-Apartheid, Africans,
Description: Heavy task: Mrs Lotta Mahlatshana teaches nearly 200 Sub A pupils at the Nomsa Mapongwana Primary School in Makhaye, Khayelitsha. Each desk is shared by at least four pupils, while many sit on the cement floor.
Identifier: islandora:15844

Title: Yengeni trialist Chris Giffard acquitted, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Politics, African National Congress, Courts, Apartheid, Political activists
Description: Tears of joy: acquitted Yengeni trialist Mr Chris Giffard, with two Yengeni Defendants' Support Group members and Mrs Christina Kruser, mother of Mr Gary Kruser.
Identifier: islandora:15905

Title: ANC Rally at Grand Parade ,Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), African National Congress, South African Communist Party, Democracy, Politics, Apartheid
Description: An ANC/SACP rally on the Grand Parade, Cape Town, with political heavyweights (from left) Cyril Ramaphosa (NUM), Jay Naidoo (Cosatu); Allan Boesak (ANC), Chris Hani (ANC)
Identifier: islandora:15927

Title: Cabinet members, Mandela's Government of National Unity, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Post-Apartheid era, Politics, Cabinet ministers, African National Congress, South Africa. Government of National Unity 1994-1998
Description: President and Ministers: President Mandela and ministers have tea before the first cabinet meeting at Tuynhuys. They are, from left, Dawie de Villiers (Environmental affairs), Mac Maharaj (Transport) and Pik Botha (Mineral and energy).
Identifier: islandora:16922

Title: Arms cache, Cape Town
Subject: Wynberg (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Ammunition, African National Congress, Armed struggle, Apartheid, Political activists
Description: Part of an arms cache found in a raid on an ANC cell in Wynberg, Cape Town, where 14 people were arrested and charged with terrorism under the Internal Security Act. The Yengeni trial, as it became known, lasted from March 1989 to March 1991 when the accused were granted amnesty and released.
Identifier: islandora:15931

Title: Robert McBride supporters in front of Lovis Botha monument, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), African National Congress, Apartheid, Demonstrations
Description: Robert McBride supporters in front of Lovis Botha monument, Cape Town
Identifier: islandora:16069

Title: Rondebosch members of Conscientious Objectors, Cape Town
Subject: Rondebosch (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Conscientious objection, South African Defence Force, Apartheid
Description: Making a stand - Pioneering objector Dr Anton Eberhard, an energy researcher at the University of Cape Town (UCT), speaks at the Rondebosch meeting of 152 conscientious objectors yesterday. Similar meetings were held throughout South Africa in a national campaign against conscription.
Identifier: islandora:18098

Title: June 16 rally, Cape Town
Subject: Nyanga (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), African National Congress, Townships, Demonstrations, Apartheid, Memorials
Description: Remembering: The tone at the ANC's rally in Nyanga was militant, but speakers and pamphlets such as this one (left) held by this young woman emphasised that June 16 should be a peaceful day.
Identifier: islandora:16636

Title: 11 ANC members treason trial charges, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Politics, African National Congress, Treason
Description: Treason, Terrorism - 11 African National Congress (ANC) members to face treason charges.
Identifier: islandora:17624

Title: End Conscription Campaign, Cape Town
Subject: Rondebosch (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Conscientious objection, South African Defence Force, Apartheid, End Conscription Campaign (South Africa)
Description: Protest against the banning of the End Conscription Campaign, University of Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:18099

Title: ANC arms cache, Cape Town
Subject: Wynberg (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Politics, Apartheid, Ammunition, African National Congress, Armed struggle
Description: Part of an arms cache found in a raid on an African National Congress (ANC) cell in Wynberg, Cape Town, where 14 people were arrested and charged with terrorism under the Internal Security Act. The Yengeni trial, as it became known, lasted from March 1989 to March 1991 when the accused were granted amnesty and released.
Identifier: islandora:15904

Title: End Conscription and conscientious objectors, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Conscientious objection, South African Defence Force, Apartheid
Description: End Conscription and conscientious objectors.
Identifier: islandora:18094

Title: Row of shrouded 'bodies', Dimbaza, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Demonstrations, National Union of South African Students, Apartheid, Youth, University of Cape Town
Description: This row of shrouded 'bodies' formed a novel protest against conditions in the re-settlement camp Dimbaza. The protest was held at lunch-time yesterday on the steps of Jameson Hall and publicised a notice board set up at the university by the welfare division of the National Union of South African Students (NUSAS), which gives details of life at Dimbaza. The 'dead' students symbolise the children referred to in the poster in the background, which reads: 'Dimbaza 1971: 38 children died over a period of 55 days'.
Identifier: islandora:17648

Title: Worker at Table Bay Harbour, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Africans, Dock Workers, Apartheid, Food, Harbours
Description: It's all hard work down in Table Bay harbour these days, but a man does get the odd opportunity to make just that little bit extra - as this satisfied worker has done with his three harders (South African mullets).
Identifier: islandora:15854

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