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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: 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: 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: 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

Title: Walmer Road resident declared coloured and will have to move, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Relocation
Description: Mrs Mercia Marquardt, who has lived for 13 years on the side of Walmer Road, was recently proclaimed coloured. She will probably have to move.
Identifier: islandora:17976

Title: Manenberg residents protest against arrest of tenants in arrears with payments, Cape Town
Subject: Manenberg (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Housing, Demonstrations, Townships
Description: Rent protest: Part of a group of Manenberg residents who protested at the township's housing office against the arrest of tenants in arrears with rent payments.
Identifier: islandora:17753

Title: Mountain View residents march, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Demonstrations
Description: Living conditions protest ... Mountain View residents march to rent office yesterday.
Identifier: islandora:17768

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:14964

Title: Crossroads resident, Cape Town
Subject: Crossroads (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Squatter settlements, Apartheid, South African Police, Demonstrations
Description: Disarmed: A policeman confiscates a stick from a Crossroads resident during yesterday's operation to "stabilise" the troubled camp.
Identifier: islandora:17529

Title: Chairman of Namaqualand Residents' Association, speaking to police, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Demonstrations, Politics
Description: Deputation: Mr Paul Cloete, chairman of the Namaqualand Residents' Association, speaks to police at the entrance to Parliament today before he and a delegation were allowed to present a memorandum to the House of Representatives.
Identifier: islandora:17760

Title: Grassy Park resident with electricity bills, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Grassy Park (Cape Town, South Africa), Urban areas, Municipal services, Electric industries
Description: An unemployed Grassy Park mother will have to pay the municipality R409 because of a computer error in calculating her electricity bill over the past two-and-a-half years. Mrs Sadia Ferrier of Parklands Estate was told in April her meter was faulty and asked to pay R409 in arrears. "I did not know what was happening. I gave my daughter the money for the account every month and she paid it," said Mrs Ferrier. Receipts since October 1979 show that Mrs Ferrier's accounts ranged between R4,06 in 1979 and R12,53 in November 1980 and between R1,14 in March last year and R19,56 in March this year. Her monthly electricity consumption was between three units and 300 units.
Identifier: islandora:18120

Title: Bloemhof resident, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Forced removals (South Africa), South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950
Description: Mrs Esther Feder and her family have lived at Bloemhof for generations. With her is her great granddaughter, Rene, 5.
Identifier: islandora:17985

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