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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: 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: Young child, District Six, 1973
Subject: Children--South Africa, Apartheid--South Africa, South Africa--Social conditions, Winer Batch01,
Description: Child from District Six, Cape Town, 1973.
Identifier: islandora:12520

Title: Siblings, District Six, South Africa, 1974
Subject: South Africa--Social conditions--20th century, Apartheid--South Africa, Children--South Africa, Some evidence of things seen
Description: Two sisters with their brother in front of a neighbour's house in District Six, Cape Town, 1974
Identifier: islandora:953

Title: Demolition in Chiappini Street, District Six, Cape Town, 1971
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Architecture, Demolition, Race discrimination, City planning
Description: Block busting off Chiappini Street. Note the car lying on its side on the roof of a building and Small and Morgan's old timber yard chimney.
Identifier: islandora:17472

Title: Former District Six landowners demonstrate for return of their land, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Housing, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Demonstrations
Description: Dispossessed: Former District Six landowners who intend doing a lot more than demonstrating with placards to get their land back. They are to use the Abolition of Racially Based Land Measures Act to petition for its return.
Identifier: islandora:17756

Title: Aerial view, District Six, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Urban development, Apartheid
Description: Aerial view of central Cape Town during the demolition of District Six (foreground).
Identifier: islandora:17026

Title: District Six mural designed by Sharief White
Subject: Community Arts Project (Cape Town, South Africa)--History, Community arts projects--South Africa--Cape Town--History, Mural painting and decoration--Study and teaching--South Africa--Cape Town, Art--Study and teaching--South Africa--Cape Town
Description: Ronald (surname not known), Desiree Kok and Velile Soha at work on District Six mural designed by Sharief White, at Community Arts Project.
Identifier: islandora:29078

Title: Aerial view, District Six, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Urban development, Apartheid
Description: Aerial view of central Cape Town after the demolition of District Six (foreground), showing the Castle, railways and freeways into Cape Town, and Woodstock.
Identifier: islandora:17024

Title: Confined to bed since move from District Six, Cape Town
Subject: Bontheuwel (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Relocation
Description: Mr Christian Smith, 87, who has been confined to his bed since his move from District Six to Bonteheuwel four months ago.
Identifier: islandora:17978

Title: Six of eight orphans whose parents died of AIDS, Hlabisa, South Africa
Subject: AIDS (disease)--South Africa, Orphans--South Africa, Children--South Africa,
Description: AIDS orphans (from left to right), Mandla Nyawo (14), Samkelisiwe Nyawo (8), Mbongeni Nyawo (11), Nhlakanipho Nywao (5), Nkosiyabona Nyawo (4), and Sphamandla Nyawo (12). They are six of eight siblings whose parents died of AIDS and left them with their aunt. The aunt is single and has two children of her own. She does washing for the local hospital three times a week, earning R60 ($8) per week). Hlabisa, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
Identifier: islandora:1374

Title: Former District Six residents, Cape Town
Subject: Mitchell's Plain (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Demonstrations, Apartheid, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950
Description: Concerned: Former District Six residents meet in the Lentegeur Civic Centre to discuss plans for the area.
Identifier: islandora:17843

Title: Children in District Six, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Children
Description: District Six.
Identifier: islandora:17981

Title: Performance in front of District Six mural
Subject: Community Arts Project (Cape Town, South Africa)--History, Community arts projects--South Africa--Cape Town--History, Community theater--Study and teaching--South Africa--Cape Town
Description: Community theatre for development student performing in front of District Six mural, Community Arts Project, Chapel Street.
Identifier: islandora:29004

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