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Title: Hindu funeral pyre, Maitland
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Maitland (Cape Town, South Africa), Cemeteries, Religion
Description: The Hindu funeral pyre at Maitland Cemetery No 2.
Identifier: islandora:15127

Title: Political detainee support, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Political prisoners, Apartheid, Religion
Description: Young and old queued outside St George's Cathedral yesterday to sign Christmas cards to be sent to detainees part of a United Democratic Front Christmas campaign. A prayer service will be held for detainees at the Cathedral at 4pm on Sunday. Archbishop Desmond Tutu and his Roman Catholic counterpart, Archbishop Stephen Naidoo, will attend.
Identifier: islandora:17925

Title: Baptisms at Princess Vlei, Grassy Park, Cape Town
Subject: Grassy Park (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Rites and ceremonies, Religion, Apartheid, Christianity
Description: Hundreds of people gather at Princess Vlei for baptisms
Identifier: islandora:16765

Title: Baptisms at Princess Vlei, Grassy Park, Cape Town
Subject: Grassy Park (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Rites and ceremonies, Religion, Apartheid, Christianity,
Description: "This is what John the Baptist used to do", the short, intense man standing in the waist-deep water of Princess Vlei cried in an impassioned voice. He added: "There is no more John the Baptist, but Archbishop slingers is here." Handing his long white cross to a white-coated assistant, he turned toward a group of faithful follows shivering in the water around him. The World Wide Soul Clinic Crusade was about to baptise a new batch of converts. A long warm-up on shore, including fervent confessions by mean and women who said they had led lives of sin and then found Jesus, rocking to the tune of a five-piece jazz band, and a sermon by the ebullient Mr Slingers had preceded the dunkings. The confessors and band were aided by two large loud-speakers. When the weather is inclement, or transport to the vlei cant be arranged, ceremonies are performed in a bathtub in the movement's church. Weekend Argus was welcomed to the ceremony because "more people read the newspaper than the Bible, so they will help us spread the word," according to Mr Slingers. He blessed the cameras, film and photographer. As the jazz band blares its rollicking rhythms the members of the congregation clap, shout, dance, clasp hands, and raise faces and voices headwards in joyful thanksgiving. Tears run down the face of an old woman. Another smiles and nods to those about her. Occasionally, moved by her spirit of the music and joy around him, a man leaps in front of the crowd. When it is over, and all is quiet, there is an air like a simmering cauldron as happiness and peace of mind mingle and bubble in the atmosphere.
Identifier: islandora:16767

Title: District Six residents receive communion, Cape Town
Subject: District Six (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Religion
Description: Father Basil Van Rensburg gives Mr Paddy Kavanagh and his wife, Doris, communion at their home in District Six.
Identifier: islandora:17983

Title: Gereformeerde Kerk, Bellville, Cape Town
Subject: Bellville (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Dutch Reformed Church of South Africa, Apartheid, Afrikaners, Religion, Architecture
Description: Slender simplicity: the spire of the Gereformeerde Kerk in Broadway Street, Bellville, one of several ultra-modern churches in the town.
Identifier: islandora:16790

Title: Pastoral scene at Faure, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Religion, Memorials
Description: Winter scene: Leaf-bare trees in this charming pastoral scene at Faure have their own beauty, soon to be transformed into the green budding of Spring.
Identifier: islandora:14885

Title: Presbyterian Church in Pinelands, Cape Town
Subject: Pinelands (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Religion, Faith, Worship, Architecture, Presbyterianism
Description: On the left is the new Presbyterian Church.
Identifier: islandora:15825

Title: Baptisms at Princess Vlei, Grassy Park, Cape Town
Subject: Grassy Park (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Rites and ceremonies, Religion, Apartheid, Christianity
Description: Hundreds of people gather at Princess Vlei for baptisms
Identifier: islandora:16764

Title: Defaced sign outside the Cathedral, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Cape Town (South Africa), Civil unrest, Violence, Religion, Vandalism
Description: Poster defaced: paint trickles down the large board outside St. George's Cathedral after an attempt early yesterday morning to deface the board bearing a poster stating, "This Cathedral Stands for Peace and Justice Both Within its Walls and Without". Red paint, poured in the shape of a sickle and hammer with the word "Lenin" written below was also found on the steps of the Cathedral by the verger, Mr J. Riadore, yesterday at 6:30 am. Mr Riadore saw a man of about 30 sitting in a yellow car in a dark blue raincoat shortly before discovering the wet paint.
Identifier: islandora:16420

Title: Apartheid-era Founders' Day ceremony, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Afrikaner Nationalism, Apartheid, Memorials, Culture, Religion
Description: Puff stuff: Hitting the low notes at the Founders' Day (Van Riebeek Day) ceremony in the Heerengracht is Warrant Officer 1 Derek Hutton, his brightly-polished tuba reflecting Jan van Riebeeck's statue.
Identifier: islandora:16633

Title: Catholic church of St. Joseph, Cape Town.
Subject: Kommetjie (Western Cape, South Africa), Religion, Architecture, Historic buildings
Description: On the hillside at Kommetjie a small church with a bell tower. This is the Catholic church of St Joseph, built by a devoted wife in honour of her husband. Guiseppe Rubbi came to South Africa from Italy at the turn of the century as a humble carpenter but struggled on to become one of the foremost builders in Cape Town. The Old Mutual building in Darling Street, which in its day was considered outstanding, was built by him. He owned one of the first four holiday homes in Kommetjie and loved to walk in the mountains behind. He expressed the wish that he could be buried there as the view was reminiscent of his birthplace, Marostica. When he died in 1946, Mrs Rubbi bought the piece of land where he used to sit and admire the view and had a tomb and ventilated vault erected there. She persuaded Bishop O'Reilly to allow her to build a chapel in memory of her husband. In 1948 Mr Garnelli, the nephew who had inherited the family business, built this chapel. No expense was spared. On the ceiling are three paintings in the style of an Italian church, with different marbles imported from the Alps and Vicenza for the altar and the floor. Around the walls are tablets depicting the 14 Stations of the Cross, and a mosaic of the Holy Mother and Child. When the church was completed, Mrs Rubbi arranged for a Salesian father to conduct a service there once a month, except at holiday times, when a priest came each Sunday. With foresight the Catholic Church had brought two adjoining plots and in 1968 when Ocean View township was established, a monastery was built behind the church. From then on, regular services were held in the church. Father Smeets looks after the new church at Ocean View and the local congregation from the kommetjie and Sun Valley areas.
Identifier: islandora:17274

Title: Church entrance, Robben Island, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Robben Island (South Africa), Christianity, Religion, Church buildings, Historic sites
Description: Outside Robben Island's more-than-a-century-old church, Mrs C.S. Haugerud, an islander since 1946, said: "I will be sorry to go. It's clean and open - no traffic noises and petrol fumes. I started the Sunday school on the island. I don't know who will take over from me." Mrs Haugerud is in charge of catering in the wardroom of S.A.S Robben Eiland, the training establishment.
Identifier: islandora:16523

Title: Malay kramat, Faure, the burial place of Sheikh Joseph and his followers, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Faure (South Africa), Religion, Festivals
Description: Malay kramat at Faure, the burial place of Sheikh Joseph and his followers who were exiled to the Cape as political prisoners from the Dutch East Indies in the 17th Century.
Identifier: islandora:14886

Title: Holocaust memorial service, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Memorials, Veterans, Jews, Holocaust, Jewish, (1939-1945), Religion
Description: Remembering those who died in the Holocaust, 1994
Identifier: islandora:16647

Title: Dutch Reformed Church that became a factory, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), circa 1913, Religion, Industry
Description: Roggebaai D.R. Church The Dutch reformed church in which / The original House of Samual Griffiths and co. / Griffiths had its first factory.
Identifier: islandora:16022

Title: Man writes the name of a fallen comrade on a tombstone, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Religion, Islam, Funerals, Grief
Description: Man writes the name of a fallen comrade on a tombstone, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:16221

Title: Portuguese folk dancers, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Cape Town (South Africa), Festivals, Religion
Description: Folk dancers: Portuguese folk dancers celebrate the blessing of the fishing fleet at their community's festival in Cape Town docks yesterday.
Identifier: islandora:14889

Title: Funeral procession, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Grief, Communities, Religion
Description: Funeral procession, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:16199

Title: Mothers praying for sons facing trial, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Cape Town (South Africa), Political prisoners, Historic sites, Monuments, Religion
Description: Waiting and praying: Mrs Else Schreiner and Mrs Nomonde Nkwandla, mothers of hunger-striking trialists Jenny and Wellington, at the service in St George's Cathedral yesterday.
Identifier: islandora:16505

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