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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: 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: 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

Title: A street has been barricaded with burning tyres and plants, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Vandalism, Civil unrest, Violence, Roads
Description: A street has been barricaded with burning tyres and plants, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:16230

Title: Property damaged by the recent riots, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Civil unrest, Violence, Demonstrations, Vandalism
Description: Gugulethu.
Identifier: islandora:16361

Title: Burnt remains of church pew, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Langa (Cape Town, South Africa), Civil unrest, Church buildings, Vandalism, Law enforcement
Description: The Rev. W.T. Majodina, Methodist minister at Langa, and a policeman survey the damage done after an attempt had been made to burn down the Methodist Church early today. The only damage caused was a pew burnt.
Identifier: islandora:16470

Title: Destruction of property done by rioters with police at the scene, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Civil unrest, Violence, Vandalism, Law enforcement
Description: Destruction of property done by rioters with police at the scene, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:16290

Title: Woman cries while men carry injured person, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Civil unrest, Violence, Vandalism, Demonstrations
Description: An injured Coloured youth is carried off to an ambulance at Bonteheuwel today.
Identifier: islandora:16251

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