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Title: Rev. Karl August inside his church in District Six, Cape Town
Subject: District Six (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Forced removals (South Africa), Religion, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950
Description: The Rev. Karl August inside his church. The Moravian Chapel in Ashley Street was built in 1884. Its pastor, the Rev. Karl August hopes to build another chapel in Hanover Park. 'We can never replace the history of this chapel,' he says.
Identifier: islandora:17988

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: Armed forces stand for the opening ceremony, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Politics, Armed forces
Description: Coloured Coloured Representative Council (CRC) opening.
Identifier: islandora:15986

Title: St Mark's Church, and its rector, District Six, Cape Town
Subject: District Six (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Forced removals (South Africa), Religion, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950
Description: Above: The rector of St Mark's, The Rev. Stanley Gray, stands before his church in this, the brick-strewn landscape of District Six.
Identifier: islandora:18000

Title: St Mark's Church, and its rector, District Six, Cape Town
Subject: District Six (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Forced removals (South Africa), Religion, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950
Description: St Mark's Church and its rector, the Rev. Stanley Gray ... a stand against the Group Areas Act in the dissolution of District Six.
Identifier: islandora:17999

Title: Crowds of people watch the Military procession pass, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Entertainment events, Entertainers, Festivals, Armed forces
Description: South Africa celebrated her 10th year as a republic in May. There were many spectacular sights during the festival - such as a military procession at Goodwood.
Identifier: islandora:16176

Title: District Six resident, Cape Town
Subject: District Six (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Forced removals, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950
Description: Doris Kavanagh ... "I don't know why they should pull the building down. It's so solid you can't knock a nail in the walls."
Identifier: islandora:17992

Title: Apartheid-era Cape Corps soldier, Cape Show, Cape Town
Subject: Goodwood (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Militarisation, Apartheid, Coloured people (South Africa), Armed forces
Description: Show goes on. This Cape Corps soldier stoically continued his precision march despite his helmet having come undone during last night's Cape Tattoo at the Cape Showgrounds. The tattoo started last night and the final performance is on March 5.
Identifier: islandora:15870

Title: Land claim for District Six, Cape Town
Subject: District Six (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Forced removals, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Post-apartheid era
Description: Derelict land: Abdul Ebrahim hopes to reclaim five large undeveloped plots in District Six where his family once lived.
Identifier: islandora:18004

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: Soldiers on a break watch a helicopter take off, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Civil unrest, Violence, Law enforcement, South Africa. South African Air Force
Description: Disturbances at Langa. Soldiers watch a SAAF helicopter taking off from a field near Langa late yesterday afternoon. Between spells of sentry duty, men relaxed on the grass.
Identifier: islandora:16301

Title: Members of the Ministers Fraternal in District Six, Cape Town
Subject: District Six (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Forced removals (South Africa), Religion, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950
Description: Members of the Ministers Fraternal, standing in a part of District Six that has been cleared by bulldozers, from left: the Rev. Karel August of the Moravian Church, the Rev. John Paulse (Anglican), and the Rev. Basil Van Rensburg of the Holy Cross Roman Catholic Church.
Identifier: islandora:17991

Title: Black Sash members protest, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Anti-apartheid activists, Forced removals (South Africa), Black Sash (Society)
Description: Black Sash members protest, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:16058

Title: Military parade, Bellville, Cape Town
Subject: Bellville (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Soldiers, Apartheid, South African Defence Force, Militarisation, Security forces
Description: Military parade in Bellville, Cape Town, in the late 1970s
Identifier: islandora:16833

Title: Capetonian soldier captured by MPLA in Angola
Subject: Lagos (Nigeria), Western Cape (South Africa), Prisoners of War, South African Border War, Apartheid, South African Defence Force, Soldiers
Description: The tragedy of the bitter internecine war in Angola hits South Africa. In Lagos last week two South African soldiers, Corporal Hannes Terblance (left) and Capetonian Private Robert Henry Wieman (right), who were captured by forces of the MPLA in Angolan fighting were paraded before journalists at a news conference addressed by the MPLA Prime Minister, Lopo de Nascimento, who was visiting Nigeria.
Identifier: islandora:15940

Title: Sea Point MP in church at District Six, Cape Town
Subject: District Six (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Forced removals, Religion, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950
Description: MP for Sea Point, and his wife, Joyce, were among the hundreds at a religious service and public meeting at the Holy Cross Church in - Street last night to commemorate the 'death' of District Six.
Identifier: islandora:17995

Title: SADF exhibition, Cape Show, Goodwood, Cape Town
Subject: Goodwood (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Agricultural show, Militarisation, Children, South African Defence Force
Description: Kinders bewonder die R 1-geweer, 'n deel van die uitstalling van die Weermag op die Kaapse Skou. Veral die miniplaas en die stalle het gister groot aftrek gekry. [Children admire the R1 rifle, part of the Army's exhibition at the Cape Show. The mini farm and the stalls, especially, received attention yesterday.]
Identifier: islandora:16988

Title: End Conscription Campaign members, Cape Town
Subject: Muizenberg (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Conscientious objection, South African Defence Force, Apartheid, End Conscription Campaign (South Africa)
Description: A group of End Conscription Campaign members gathered on Muizenberg Beach yesterday and built a massive peace sign in a call for peace in South Africa.
Identifier: islandora:18092

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: 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

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