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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: Effects of the Group Areas Act, Cape Town
Subject: Stellenbosch (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Africans, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Politics, Families
Description: Mr and Mrs Ernest Rasmeni have been refused permission to live together although they were born and grew up only a few kilometres apart in Stellenbosch.
Identifier: islandora:15852

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: ANC flag in Hout Bay, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Hout Bay (South Africa), Apartheid, African National Congress, Politics
Description: ANC [African National Congress] flag in Hout Bay, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:14993

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: 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: 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: 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: ANC flag in Hout Bay, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Hout Bay (South Africa), Apartheid, African National Congress, Politics
Description: ANC [African National Congress] flag in Hout Bay, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:14606

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: 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: 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: 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

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