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Title: ANC Women's League protest, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Politics, African National Congress, African National Congress. Women--s League, Demonstrations
Description: Boarding Party: Members of the ANC's Women's League on board a Robben Island ferry last night.
Identifier: islandora:15930

Title: Protest, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Demonstrations, Apartheid, South African Police, Youth
Description: Part of a group of about 250 protesters move along Sir Lowry Road before their protest march was stopped by police at the intersection at Darling Street today.
Identifier: islandora:17720

Title: Laingsburg
Subject: South African War, 1899-1902 -- Maps., Laingsburg Region (South Africa) -- Maps., Western Cape (South Africa) -- Maps.
Description: This map forms part of the Imperial map of the Cape Colony., The map shows grand trunk roads, trunk roads, branch roads, farm roads, rivers, hills, pans, railways, telegraph lines, homesteads, farm names, farm boundaries and divisional boundaries in the Laingsburg area., Relief shown by hachures., The Imperial map of the Cape Colony was "compiled by the Field Intelligence Division or Department of the British Army in Cape Town during the second Anglo-Boer War. ... [P.H. du P.] Casgrain ... superintended its production ..." (Board, C. "Certainly better than nothing at all" : a re-examination of the Imperial map of South Africa 1899-1902. Proceedings of the 21st International Cartographic Conference, Durban, 2003. Available online: http://icaci.org/files/documents/ICC_proceedings/ICC2003/Papers/109.pdf (accessed 5 Sept. 2012))., "This map is not to be considered as absolutely accurate"., Projection not given., Printed in black and red., Map folds into an outer cover., The map is mounted on linen.
Identifier: islandora:24838

Title: Archbishop Desmond Tutu faces police, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Demonstrations, Apartheid, South African Police, Tutu, Desmond, Gerwel, G. J. (G. Jakes)
Description: Archbishop Desmond Tutu to face with police at a protest march in the city yesterday. Next to him is the head of the University of the Western Cape, Professor Jakes Gerwel, who also took part in the march.
Identifier: islandora:17718

Title: Cape Youth Congress picket in support of hunger strike, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Demonstrations, Apartheid, South African Police, Youth, Groote Schuur Hospital (Cape Town, South Africa)
Description: Freedom plea: Rain and bitterly cold weather didn't deter these members of the Gardens branch of the Cape Youth Congress from their picket in support of hunger striker Mr Willie Hofmeyer outside Groote Schuur Hospital yesterday.
Identifier: islandora:17721

Title: Political prisoners released from Robben Island, Cape Town, 1990
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Politics, Political prisoners, Apartheid, African National Congress, Freedom
Description: Going home: elated to be free, Mr Wellington Gumenge of Port Elizabeth (front) and Mr Johannes Boesak of Oudtshoorn leave Table Bay harbour yesterday. They were two of 15 Robben Island African National Congress (ANC) prisoners granted early release.
Identifier: islandora:15903

Title: Young man injured in the crush to hear Mandela speak, Athlone Stadium, Cape Town
Subject: Athlone (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Politics, African National Congress, Election campaigns, democracy, security guards
Description: Trampled: a security official at the Athlone Stadium tends to one more than 20 people injured yesterday shortly after the arrival of African National Congress (ANC) leader Mr Nelson Mandela. Three people, including a small boy, were killed in the crush.
Identifier: islandora:15895

Title: Political demonstration, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Demonstrations, Apartheid, South African Police, South Africa. Separate Amenities Act, 1953
Description: Political demonstration, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:17724

Title: New printing press for the Cape Times, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Press, Southern African Newspapers, Printing presses
Description: The new R300,000 printing press which is to be installed in the Cape Times building in Burg Street. It is expected that it will be in operation before the end of the year. The new press is capable of producing a 32 page newspaper, four pages of which will take three superimposed colours, and four other pages which will take one superimposed colour. This picture was taken at Hoe & Crabtree's works in London where the press was assembled and test run prior to shipment.
Identifier: islandora:16047

Title: Police try to contain a protest, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Demonstrations, South African Police
Description: Police try to contain a protest, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:17880

Title: Man inspects his shattered windscreen, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), South African Labour Party, Politics, Motorcars, Vandalism
Description: Man inspects his shattered windscreen, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:15964

Title: Rev Beyers Naude, Cheryl Carolus and Thabo Mbeki share a joke, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), African National Congress, Politics, United Democratic Front, Liberation theology, South African Council of Churches
Description: The Rev Beyers Naude, left, United Democratic Front publicity officer Ms Cheryl Carolus and director of the African National Congress ' (ANC) international affairs Mr Thabo Mbeki share a joke.
Identifier: islandora:15919

Title: Beaufort West
Subject: South African War, 1899-1902 -- Maps., Beaufort West Region (South Africa) -- Maps., Fraserburg Region (South Africa) -- Maps., Western Cape (South Africa) -- Maps., Northern Cape (South Africa) -- Maps.
Description: 3rd ed., This map forms part of the Imperial map of the Cape Colony., The map shows main roads, farm roads, rivers, hills, pans, railways, telegraph lines, homesteads, occupiers' names, farm boundaries, divisional boundaries and water for animals in the Beaufort West and Fraserburg areas., Relief shown by hachures., "South Africa having never been properly surveyed, this map must necessarily contain many inaccuracies.", Projection not given., Printed in black, red, brown and blue., The maps are printed on linen.
Identifier: islandora:24798

Title: The Cape Times building, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Press, Southern African Newspapers, Architecture
Description: The Cape Times building, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:16045

Title: Ivan Toms, End Conscription Campaign, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Conscientious objection, South African Defence Force, Apartheid, End Conscription Campaign (South Africa)
Description: Dr Ivan Toms, a conscientious objector and founder of the End Conscription Campaign (ECC), Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:18089

Title: ANC supporter with "Free Mandela Now" badge, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), African National Congress, State of Emergency, Detention, Political activists, United Democratic Front (South Africa),
Description: "Free Mandela Now" reads the badge on his beret, but this man himself risks imprisonment for showing the colours of a banned organisation at the height of the State of Emergency
Identifier: islandora:15926

Title: Transkeian 'citizens' in a Whites-only restaurant, Cape Town
Subject: Camps Bay (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, South Africa. Separate Amenities Act, 1953, Bantustans, Xhosa (African people)
Description: Transkeian citizens Mr Mbongeni Mvana and Mr Mlami Gomo enjoy a soft drink on the veranda of a Camps Bay White restaurant this week after showing their passports to the manager. 'I don't mind who comes here as long as they behave,' said the manager. [Transkei was granted 'independence' by South Africa in 1976, meaning those born in the Transkei, such as these two men, automatically became 'foreigners' in South Africa.]
Identifier: islandora:16650

Title: Tourist with bow and arrow
Subject: Bushman, Southern Africa, bow, woman, man, San, indigenous, Heritage tourism--South Africa, Bow and arrow--South Africa, San (African people)--South Africa, Western Cape (South Africa)
Description: A tourist tests out a bow and arrow; another woman uses her camera; Michael Daiber, manager of the Kagga Kamma nature reserve carries a San child. Kagga Kamma, South Africa.
Identifier: islandora:11976

Title: Nelson Mandela supporter, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Politics, African National Congress, Political prisoners, Leadership
Description: There's a little doubt who this man came to see as he holds aloft a portrait of Nelson Mandela, shortly after his release from prison.
Identifier: islandora:15925

Title: Demonstations and protests, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Demonstrations, Politics, South African Police
Description: Police try to contain a protest, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:17878

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