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Title: Funeral, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Cape Town (South Africa), Civil unrest, Demonstrations, Death, Grief
Description: Funeral procession, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:16469

Title: Police officials carry away a dead body, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Grief, Vandalism, Law enforcement, Squatter settlements
Description: Policemen carry away the body of an elderly man who was killed in the fire after arsonists torched shacks in Section Three, Crossroads.
Identifier: islandora:16203

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: 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: A bus so full, that people are sitting on the roof, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Civil unrest, Violence, Weapons, Law enforcement, Grief
Description: Part of the 20 000-strong crowd which went to the Gugulethu Stadium to pay their respects to the nine. Two people died in unrest after the funeral when police fired on mourners with birdshot, teargas and rubber bullets.
Identifier: islandora:16233

Title: Funeral procession of an ANC member, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Civil unrest, Law enforcement, Grief
Description: Police stopped the funeral procession of alleged African National Congress (ANC) member Mr Samuel Mjobo on the outskirts of Mbekweni to search the hearse for flags. Mr Mjobo, killed with six other men in a shootout with police in Gugulethu on March 3, was buried in Mbekweni, near Paarl, yesterday. Mr Tian van der Merwe, Progressive Federal Party MP for Green Point, who attended the funeral, criticised the police action which held up the procession of more than 100 cars and buses.
Identifier: islandora:16235

Title: Men walk to the funeral of fallen comrades, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Grief, March, Demonstrations
Description: Long procession of Natives shout slogans as they near Langa after a trek from all parts of the Peninsula. Thousands streamed into the township to take part in the funeral of three Natives shot in last week's disturbances. Another picture, Page 4.
Identifier: islandora:16060

Title: Men look at the sign "Elsies River Mourns", Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), circa 1980, Grief, Communities
Description: Riots, Cape Town
Identifier: islandora:16183

Title: Aerial view of people gathering for a funeral, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Civil unrest, Violence, Grief
Description: Crowd which gathered at the location for the funeral of the three killed in the Langa Riots. View of a small part of the huge crowd which gathered at Langa yesterdayfor the funeral of the Africans who were killed in the riot in the township. The photograph was taken before the funeral procession moved off to Langa cemetery, about a mile away.
Identifier: islandora:16296

Title: Mourners follow a horse-drawn hearse, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Demonstrations, Grief, Communities
Description: Horse-drawn hearse carrying the coffin of Themba Memani for his funeral in Guguletu today.
Identifier: islandora:16197

Title: Mother in mourning, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Civil unrest, Violence, Grief
Description: On the night of August 11, Mrs Lutya's oldest son, Wiseman, didn't come home. She heard nothing more of him. She spent the next two weeks going from police station to hospital to mortuary, searching for some news of her son - the household's major breadwinner. Finally, she was advised to take a photograph of him with her from mortuary to mortuary. She found him at Salt River. She still doesn't know what happened. Mrs Lutya has nine other children, eight of whom are still at school.
Identifier: islandora:16292

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