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Title: Property damaged by fire and rioting, Cape Town
Subject: Langa (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Civil unrest, Violence, Demonstrations, Vandalism
Description: The burnt out shells of shops and houses in Langa after a night of rioting and arson.
Identifier: islandora:16352

Title: Destruction done to property due to riots, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Civil unrest, Violence, Vandalism, Property development
Description: Destruction done to property due to riots, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:16287

Title: Man walks past a "troops out!" sign spray-painted onto the Castle, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Castle of Good Hope (Cape Town, South Africa), Vandalism, Armed forces
Description: A pedestrian walks past the Castle, seemingly oblivious of the controversial slogan painted on its wall facing Strand Street during the night.
Identifier: islandora:16225

Title: Burning tyres and other materials at a Stop Street, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Vandalism, Law enforcement, Civil unrest, Violence, Roads
Description: Burning tyres and other materials at a Stop Street, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:16217

Title: Policeman watches a building being destroyed by fire, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Civil unrest, Violence, Vandalism, Law enforcement
Description: A riot-squad policeman watches as a fire rages inside part of the Nyanga East Community Centre today.
Identifier: islandora:16277

Title: Policeman stands guard over a burning vehicle, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Law enforcement, Vandalism, Motorcars, Weapons
Description: Bakkie Fire: A policeman guards a burning bakkie on the N2 near Crossroads after it left the road when it was stoned today. The vehicle was set alight after the driver fled.
Identifier: islandora:16096

Title: A man inspects the damage done by a fire, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Civil unrest, Violence, Vandalism
Description: An employee points out some of the damage caused early yesterday morning when a fire broke out at Sacca Ltd in Brickfield Road, Salt River. Arson is suspected.
Identifier: islandora:16312

Title: Fireman inspects damage done by petrol bomb, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Civil unrest, Violence, Vandalism, Weapons, Education
Description: Fire Officer D. Arnold points out the circle of destroyed plaster typical of petrol bomb damage after a blaze which swept through classrooms, a library, a storeroom and parts of a laboratory at Langa High School last night.
Identifier: islandora:16293

Title: People armed with sticks walk past a destroyed house, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Civil unrest, Violence, Vandalism, Demonstrations, Weapons
Description: Armed with sticks, Nyanga migrant workers - "White caps" - move through the veld with a burnt-out house in the background.
Identifier: islandora:16267

Title: Smashed window of a truck which was stoned, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Civil unrest, Violence, Vandalism, Motorcars
Description: This bakery van was stoned in Gugletu yesterday. An employee of the company was pulled from the back of the van and beaten.
Identifier: islandora:16326

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: Driver inspects his smashed windscreen, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Civil unrest, Violence, Vandalism, Motorcars
Description: Mr Arthur Samuel Vlotman, driver of a hydraulic refuse truck, peers through his smashed windscreen. He had dropped workers at their homes in Guguletu yesterday when he was stoned by a large crowd of youths along NY1. Nobody was hurt.
Identifier: islandora:16291

Title: Man inspecting damaged window, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Cape Town (South Africa), Civil unrest, Demonstrations, Vandalism
Description: One of the 15 windows shattered by the crowd during the rioting in the city last night. This window was in Spin Street.
Identifier: islandora:16472

Title: Driver inspects the damage done to his bus, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Demonstrations, Vandalism
Description: The windows of at least two buses were shattered by stones during peak hour in Nyanga and Guguletu last night. Driver Mr Samuel Wiliams, peers through the broken windscreens of his bus.
Identifier: islandora:16193

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: Kids smile for the camera in front of a store that was set alight, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Civil unrest, Violence, Vandalism
Description: Yesterday morning Awai's general stores, 39th Avenue Elsie's River, was bustling with business. In the afternoon, all that remained was a roofless, gutted skeleton. The store was set alight by rioters who doused the interior with paraffin and put a match to it.
Identifier: islandora:16325

Title: The remains of two cars that were set alight, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), circa 1976, Civil unrest, Violence, Demonstrations, Motorcars, Vandalism
Description: The remains of two cars that were set alight, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:16358

Title: Police presence at a riot, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Demonstrations, Vandalism
Description: Police presence at a riot, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:16188

Title: Policeman looks at the damage done to a building by rioters, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Civil unrest, Violence, Vandalism, Demonstrations, Law enforcement
Description: The Nyanga Post Office destroyed by rioters.
Identifier: islandora:16248

Title: Hertzog cleans himself after eggs are thrown at him, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), National Party (South Africa), Politics, Vandalism, Opposition (Political science)
Description: Left: Dr Albert Hertzog, the leader of the HNP (Herstigte Nasionale Party) wiping stains off his suit after he had been hit by several eggs thrown from the audience. With him is a young HNP supporter.
Identifier: islandora:15980

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