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Title: SWAPOL at SWAPO rally
Subject: protestElections--Namibia--1989, Demonstrations--Namibia, Namibia--Armed Forces, Crowd control
Description: An armed member of the South West African Police (SWAPOL) stands guard at a SWAPO rally held during the 1989 Namibian independence elections.
Identifier: islandora:8208

Title: The end of Sophiatown, 1959
Subject: Sophiatown (Johannesburg, South Africa)--Social conditions, Apartheid--South Africa--Sophiatown (Johannesburg), Blacks--Housing--South Africa--Sophiatown (Johannesburg), Forced migration--South Africa--Sophiatown (Johannesburg), Rubble--South Africa--Sophiatown (Johannesburg)
Description: By 1959 most of the houses in Sophiatown had disappeared. Big machines and men with picks beat down the last walls of Sophiatown.
Identifier: islandora:7458

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: Black influx
Subject: South Africa--Politics and government--1978-1989--Caricatures and cartoons, Apartheid--South Africa--Caricatures and cartoons, Blacks--Relocation--South Africa--Caricatures and cartoons, South African wit and humor, Pictorial, Influx control--Caricatures and cartoons, Forced removals (South Africa)--Caricatures and cartoons, South Africa
Description: Legislation to stem the tide of black influx to the urban areas became increasingly futile. The government�s forcible return of immigrants from Cape Town back to Transkei, from whence they would immediately board trains to return, was a dismal annual cycle. Description provided by Tony Grogan.
Identifier: islandora:6152

Title: Australian 17th Construction Squadron Royal Engineers meet local residents
Subject: Soldiers--Namibia, Australia--Armed Forces, United Nations--Armed Forces
Description: The Australian 17th Construction Squadron Royal Engineers, deployed with the United Nations Transition Assistance Group (UNTAG), meet local residents, Ombalantu, northern Namibia.
Identifier: islandora:6778

Title: Forced removals, Bakwena Ba Mogopa
Subject: Rural poor--South Africa, Forced migration--South Africa, Eviction--South Africa, South Africa--Social conditions--20th century, Apartheid, The Cordoned Heart
Description: A resident of Mogopa dismantles his home in preparation for forced removal, 1983.
Identifier: islandora:5759

Title: Nqutu District, 1973
Subject: Blacks--relocation--South Africa, Apartheid--South Africa, Forced migration--South Africa, South Africa--Social conditions, Winer Batch01,
Description: Nqutu District, Kwa-Zulu, 1973. "Homeland resettlement area", otherwise known as "the dumping grounds" for black people forcibly removed from metropolitan urban areas in terms of the apartheid Group Areas Act.
Identifier: islandora:12531

Title: British Signals Unit arrives for UNTAG deployment
Subject: Soldiers--Namibia--Windhoek, United Nations--Armed Forces
Description: British Signals Unit arrives at Windhoek Airport for United Nations Transition Assistance Group (UNTAG) deployment.
Identifier: islandora:6901

Title: Military parade of SWATF upon the formation of the interim government
Subject: Soldiers, Namibia--Armed Forces
Description: Military parade by D Squadron of the South West African Territorial Force (SWATF) upon the formation of the interim government, Kaiser Street, Windhoek.
Identifier: islandora:6860

Title: SADF troop patrol
Subject: military personnel, squatter camps, townships, gunsSouth Africa--Armed Forces, Squatter settlements--South Africa--KwaZulu-Natal, Weapons
Description: South African Defence Force (SADF) troops patrol the Imbali informal settlement outside.
Identifier: islandora:8360

Title: SWAPO rally
Subject: protestElections--Namibia--1989, Demonstrations--Namibia, Namibia--Armed Forces, Crowd control
Description: Armed members of the South West African Police (SWAPOL) at a SWAPO demonstration held during the 1989 Namibian independence elections.
Identifier: islandora:8244

Title: Australian 17th Construction Squadron Royal Engineers meet local residents
Subject: Soldiers--Namibia, Australia--Armed Forces, United Nations--Armed Forces
Description: The Australian 17th Construction Squadron Royal Engineers, deployed with the United Nations Transition Assistance Group (UNTAG), meet local residents, Ombalantu, northern Namibia.
Identifier: islandora:6777

Title: First returnees
Subject: independence, armed forcesExiles--Namibia, United Nations--Armed Forces
Description: An armed member of the United Nations Transition Assistance Group (UNTAG) stands guard in front of a queue of SWAPO supporters.
Identifier: islandora:8245

Title: Samora Machel's funeral
Subject: portrait, funeral, military personnel, flagsPresidents--Mozambique, Machel, Samora, 1933-1986--Death and burial, Mozambique--Armed Forces
Description: Funeral procession for late Mozambican president, Samora Machel.
Identifier: islandora:8265

Title: Samora Machel's funeral
Subject: funeral, parade, military personnelPresidents--Mozambique, Machel, Samora, 1933-1986--Death and burial, Mozambique--Armed Forces
Description: Mozambican armed forces parade past Maputo city hall where the body of late Mozambican president, Samora Machel, is lying in state.
Identifier: islandora:8166

Title: UNTAG monitors
Subject: armed forces, helicopters, marchUnited Nations--Armed Forces, Transportation
Description: United Nations Transition Assistance Group (UNTAG) troops.
Identifier: islandora:8222

Title: Roadblock by Cape Corps foot patrol
Subject: South Africa--Armed Forces
Description: Roadblock by the Cape Corps foot patrol. The Cape Corps and its predecessor units were the main military organizations in which the "Cape Coloured" members of South Africa's population served.
Identifier: islandora:6763

Title: Samora Machel's funeral
Subject: funeral, parades, military personnelPresidents--Mozambique, Machel, Samora, 1933-1986--Death and burial, Mozambique--Armed Forces, Politicians--Mozambique
Description: Funeral parade for late Mozambican president, Samora Machel. Mozambican Minister of Foreign Affairs, Joaquim Chissano, and FRELIMO founding member, Marcelino dos Santos, help to carry Machel's coffin.
Identifier: islandora:8174

Title: Orlando township, 1951
Subject: Orlando (South Africa)--Social conditions, Squatter settlements--South Africa--Orlando, Temporary housing--South Africa--Orlando, Forced migration--South Africa--Orlando, Blacks--Housing--South Africa--Orlando, Apartheid--South Africa
Description: Makeshift houses in Orlando squatter camp, outside Johannesburg, 1951.
Identifier: islandora:7454

Title: PLAN's Mechanised Unit crosses the border at Osikango
Subject: Vehicles, Military--Namibia, Namibia--Armed Forces
Description: The People's Liberation Army of Namibia (PLAN)'s Mechanised Unit crosses the border at Oshikango on their return to Namibia from Angola.
Identifier: islandora:6904

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