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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: Woman hanging washing, 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: A woman hangs up her washing in the backyard of her home in District Six, Cape Town in the 1970's prior to the state orchestrated forced removals to locations further from the city.
Identifier: islandora:18503

Title: District Six, Cape Town, 1974-1975
Subject: South Africa--Social conditions, District Six (Cape Town, South Africa), Apartheid--South Africa--Cape Town, Housing--South Africa--Cape Town, Winer Batch01, ,
Description: District Six partly demolished, Cape Town, circa 1974-1975. Taken during the final stage of removal of 6000 families from District Six, for relocation to the Cape Flats and Atlantis, in terms of the Group Areas Act.
Identifier: islandora:12524

Title: [Demonstration demanding clemency for the Sharpeville Six]
Description: Rear view of a group of people including two policemen. The Cultural History Museum (now Slave Lodge) is in the background
Identifier: islandora:6507

Title: Woman holding tea in a kitchen, 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: A woman holds a cup of tea and poses for a picture in the kitchen of a home in District Six, Cape Town in the 1970's prior to the state orchestrated forced removals to locations further from the city.
Identifier: islandora:18518

Title: Group of young children eating ice-cream on the stairs, 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: A group of young boys and girls sit and eat ice-cream on the steps leading up to adjacent homes in District Six, Cape Town in the 1970's prior to the state orchestrated forced removals to locations further from the city. Their mothers appear in the background holding babies.
Identifier: islandora:18514

Title: Protesters against the development of District Six, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Demonstrations, Housing, Apartheid, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950
Description: Picket line ... Protestors line the owner of Lower Burg and Riebeeck streets yesterday during a legal lunch-time protest against the development of District Six. The protesters later confronted Iico management, one of the companies proposing to build houses in the district.
Identifier: islandora:17762

Title: District Six, Cape Town, 1974-1975
Subject: South Africa--Social conditions, District Six (Cape Town, South Africa), Apartheid--South Africa--Cape Town, Housing--South Africa--Cape Town, Children--South Africa--Cape Town, Winer Batch01, ,
Description: District Six partly demolished, Cape Town, circa 1974-1975. Taken during the final stage of removal of 6000 families from District Six, for relocation to the Cape Flats and Atlantis, in terms of the Group Areas Act.
Identifier: islandora:12523

Title: Six miners sitting in rest area, Bultfontein Mine, Kimberley, South Africa
Subject: Miners--South Africa, Mines and mining--South Africa, Men--South Africa,
Description: From left are, David Makwati (first aider), Matthews Moeng (loco driver), James Modles (jack hammer operator), Rex Tshipa (block cave charging assistant), Louis Modise (block cave operator), and Thomas Lekopa (learner miner), sitting in the rest area at 845-level on Bultfontein Mine in Kimberley. De Beers
Identifier: islandora:1322

Title: Boys watching destruction of District Six, South Africa, 1974
Subject: South Africa--Social conditions--20th century, Apartheid--South Africa, Children--South Africa, Forced migration--South Africa, Some evidence of things seen
Description: The destruction of District Six was one of the worst insults inflicted upon the coloured people of the Cape by the National Party (NP). On a Sunday morning in 1974, three boys from a nearby shack strolled passed the demolition, sat on what used to be the pavement, and watched the destruction. Others also gathered, but no on said anything for a long time. When people have experienced too much pain, their senses become numb. The boys then got up and ran over the spaces of what used to be District Six
Identifier: islandora:924

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: The remains of demolished buildings, 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: Lion's head overlooks the demolition of buildings in District Six, Cape Town in the 1970's during the state orchestrated forced removals to locations further from the city.
Identifier: islandora:18547

Title: Boys playing with cards on the pavement, 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: Three boys sit on the pavement and play a game of cards outside a home in District Six, Cape Town in the 1970's prior to the state orchestrated forced removals to locations further from the city.
Identifier: islandora:18520

Title: Woman standing in a doorway, 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: A woman stands in the doorway of her home in District Six, Cape Town in the 1970's prior to the state orchestrated forced removals to locations further from the city.
Identifier: islandora:18527

Title: ≠A: (set of six)
Subject: Musical instruments--Namibia, San (African people)--Music
Description: Hornbostel-Sachs number: 421.111.11 Open single end-blown flutes without fingerholes, Height: 13mm (0.4in), Width: 78mm (2.8in), Length: 160mm (6.3in), Place of production: Haruchas (Namibia)
Identifier: islandora:20137

Title: Plaque about District Six, Cape Town
Subject: District Six (Cape Town, South Africa), Historic buildings, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Race discrimination, Christianity
Description: Plaque at Cape Town Church
Identifier: islandora:17338

Title: Young girl playing with stones, 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: A young girl plays with stones on the ground outside her home in District Six, Cape Town in the 1970's prior to the state orchestrated forced removals to locations further from the city.
Identifier: islandora:18519

Title: Concert flute with six keys
Subject: Musical instruments--England--London
Description: Hornbostel-Sachs numbers: 2460, 2461, 2464, 3607, Length: 653mm (25.6 in.), Diameter: 37mm (1.2 in.), Place of production: London (England), Creator: D'Almaine and Co.
Identifier: islandora:20432

Title: [Demonstration demanding clemency for the Sharpeville Six]
Description: Black Sash members in stand outside Parliament, demanding ""Clemency for the Sharpeville Six."" Mary Burton, Jenny de Tolly, Margaret Nash and Judith Barron can be identified
Identifier: islandora:6514

Title: Woman in the window of her home, 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: A woman looks through a window in her home in District Six, Cape Town in the 1970's prior to the state orchestrated forced removals to locations further from the city.
Identifier: islandora:18509

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