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Title: Vredehoek residents, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Vredehoek (Cape Town, South Africa), Disasters, Fires
Description: Hose-down: Vredehoek residents, faces muffled against choking smoke, watch anxiously as the fire that destroyed about 300 hectares of fynbos sweeps towards their property.
Identifier: islandora:14585

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: View of Nyanga residences, Cape Town
Subject: Residential buildings, ,
Description: A far cry from the barren land at Nyanga - the Chulayo family have tea at the surburban home where they are being sheltered. From left are Jackson Chulayo, his wife Winfred and children Stella and Stanley.
Identifier: islandora:15595

Title: Crossroads residents trying to salvage their possessions, Cape Town
Subject: Crossroads (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Squatter settlements, Apartheid
Description: Crossroads residents try to salvage sodden possessions from the remains of their shelter in a badly-flooded section of the squatter camp.
Identifier: islandora:17523

Title: Crossroads resident, Cape Town
Subject: Crossroads (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Squatter settlements, Apartheid
Description: Daily life in Crossroads squatter camp.
Identifier: islandora:17567

Title: Athlone residents welcome ANC, Cape Town
Subject: Athlone (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Politics, African National Congress, Demonstrations
Description: ANC welcome, Athlone
Identifier: islandora:15929

Title: Wounded resident, Crossroads, Cape Town
Subject: Crossroads (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Squatter settlements, Armored vehicles, Military, Apartheid, South African Police
Description: Police lift a wounded Crossroads resident into a Casspir armoured vehicle behind the Mahobe Drive Rent Board offices yesterday evening.
Identifier: islandora:17592

Title: Residences in Loader Street, Cape Town
Subject: Apartheid, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Residential buildings, ,
Description: The Loader Street area has been a renovator's paradise for the past few years. According to estate agent, Mr John Hocknell, property in the area is almost completely sold out and there is little still to be had. Some renovated properties are still changing hands for under R20 000 though.
Identifier: islandora:15206

Title: Loader Street residences to be demolished for parking space, Cape Town
Subject: Apartheid, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Residential buildings, Infrastructure, Wrecking, Historic districts, ,
Description: Some of the Loader Street houses to be demolished by the Department of Community Development which plans to convert the area into parking space.
Identifier: islandora:15208

Title: Tension is high among Manenberg residents after the murder of a woman and arrest of a youth, Cape Town
Subject: Civil unrest, Justice, ,
Description: Angry men: Manenberg residents gather amid tension after arrest of a youth and the killing of a woman.
Identifier: islandora:15236

Title: Bishopscourt residence of Anglican archbishop, Cape Town
Subject: Bishopscourt (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Apartheid, Religion, Political activists, Housing
Description: Cape Town. South Africa. 13 May ---- Tutu's house --- The Anglican church has challenged the South African government on the removal of Archbishop Desmond Tutu from his home in the White area of Bishopscourt. The Group Areas Act is being enforced and many mixed married couples have been told they have to leave their homes in the European areas.
Identifier: islandora:16854

Title: Elsies River residents march to RSC rent offices, Cape Town
Subject: Elsies River (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Demonstrations, Apartheid, Housing
Description: Bitter residents - About 1 000 Elsies River residents marched to the RSC rent offices in Leonsdale yesterday in the name of their martyr David De Bruin to demand satisfaction from the RSC on the issue of rent arrears and evictions.
Identifier: islandora:18104

Title: Mrs Elizabeth Smith, Elsies River resident, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Elsies River (South Africa), Apartheid
Description: Mrs Elizabeth Smith, Elsies River resident, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:18111

Title: Residences in Mowbray, Cape Town
Subject: Historic buildings, Residential buildings, Table Mountain (Western Cape, South Africa), ,
Description: Residences in Mowbray, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:15442

Title: Residents at their homes, 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: Residents stand around their homes and washing hangs on the front veranda of adjoined houses in District Six, Cape Town in the 1970's prior to the state orchestrated forced removals to locations further from the city.
Identifier: islandora:18545

Title: Atlantis resident, Cape Town
Subject: Atlantis (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Apartheid, Housing, Coloured Labour Preference Area Policy (South Africa), Women
Description: Resident of apartheid-era Atlantis, the dormitory suburb built for Coloured people outside Cape Town
Identifier: islandora:16710

Title: Crossroads resident sleeps outside, Cape Town
Subject: Crossroads (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Squatter settlements, Apartheid
Description: Mrs Nombeko Gxokwe, eight months pregnant and ill, lies on her bed in the open.
Identifier: islandora:17540

Title: Policeman appeals to Mitchell's Plain residents , Cape Town
Subject: Mitchell--s Plain (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Housing, Demonstrations, South African Police
Description: A policeman appeals to demonstrators in Mitchell's Plain to lay down their placards and disperse.
Identifier: islandora:17755

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