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Title: Rev. Karl August inside his church in District Six, Cape Town
Subject: District Six (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Forced removals (South Africa), Religion, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950
Description: The Rev. Karl August inside his church. The Moravian Chapel in Ashley Street was built in 1884. Its pastor, the Rev. Karl August hopes to build another chapel in Hanover Park. 'We can never replace the history of this chapel,' he says.
Identifier: islandora:17988

Title: Liederabend - Schumann and his circle - Presented by Kamal Khan, Baxter Concert Hall, Cape Town, South Africa
Subject: Concert programs, Concerts--South Africa--Cape Town
Description: Concert programme
Identifier: islandora:28238

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: Father holds portrait of his daughter, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Grief, Youth
Description: The youngest known victim of the unrest on the Cape Flats last week, nineteen-month-old Belinda Moore, was buried yesterday. Here, her father, Mr Peter Moore, holds a portrait of Belinda over her coffin. His wife, Mrs Anne Moore, is on his left and they are surrounded by friends and relatives.
Identifier: islandora:16191

Title: Man stands over his son sleeping in hospital, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Civil unrest, Violence
Description: Mr Lawrence Meyer visits his son, Paul, in an intensive care unit at Groote Schuur Hospital. Paul could not speak to his father yesterday as he was asleep after an operation.
Identifier: islandora:16322

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: Man walks in the rain with his make-shift weapon at the ready, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Weather, Protection
Description: The cruel tools of two worlds come together at Crossroads as a combatant armed with sticks in the rain passes a few metres of new barbed wire that fences now-vanquished squatter communities.
Identifier: islandora:16117

Title: Policeman restrains his dog from chasing protesters, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Civil unrest, Violence, German shepherd dog, Demonstrations, Law enforcement
Description: Policeman restrains his dog from chasing protesters, Cape Town, 1976.
Identifier: islandora:16260

Title: Man walks down road with his supporters in the background, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Politics, Activists, Demonstrations
Description: The leader: wearing blue shorts, Mr Philip Kgosana, the Pan African Congress secretary, leaves his supporters on De Waal Drive above Roeland Street on his way to Caledon Square Police Station
Identifier: islandora:16005

Title: Man shows his prison tattoos, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Jails, Reformatories, Prisoners
Description: Mr James D. Petersen, a former long-term convict, shows the rank he received to mark his status as a "General of [the] 26s prison gang in the Cape.
Identifier: islandora:16014

Title: Bearded man reading at a table inside his home in District Six, Cape Town, South Africa
Subject: District Six (Cape Town, South Africa)--Social conditions, District Six (Cape Town, South Africa)--History, Cape Town (South Africa)--History, ,
Description: A bearded man sits at a table and reads in District Six, Cape Town in the 1970's prior to the state orchestrated forced removals to locations further from the city. It is not known whether this man is Jewish or Muslim.
Identifier: islandora:18524

Title: Protester plays his flute next to placard, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Cape Town (South Africa), Civil unrest, Demonstrations, Posters
Description: Protestor plays the penny whistle in a crowd protesting against detention without trial, circa 1970.
Identifier: islandora:16378

Title: Man sits resting his head in his hand, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Segregation, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950
Description: Man seeks race change for love: A young white Cape Town man is to appeal to the Government to re-classify him as a Coloured person so he can marry his Coloured girlfriend. "If they won't reclassify me Coloured, I will leave the country of my birth so that I can live legally with the woman I love and have children by her," Mr Dirk Brits, a 32-year-old fitter, said yesterday.
Identifier: islandora:16132

Title: Man feeding his chickens, District Six, Cape Town, South Africa
Subject: District Six (Cape Town, South Africa)--Social conditions, District Six (Cape Town, South Africa)--History, Cape Town (South Africa)--History, ,
Description: A man feeds his chickens with a sheep by his side on a cobbled paving behind his home in District Six, Cape Town in the 1970's prior to the state orchestrated forced removals to locations further from the city.
Identifier: islandora:18534

Title: Mr Faghrie Patel of the Stellenbosch Civic Alliance is held high by jubilant supporters after his crucial victory, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Politics, Post-apartheid era
Description: Victorious: Mr Faghrie Patel of the Stellenbosch Civic Alliance is held high by jubilant supporters after his crucial victory in a nine-way fight in Cloetesville. Mr Patel was initially an African National Congress (ANC) nominee, but after a dispute - against him. He is still an African National Congress (ANC) member.
Identifier: islandora:18056

Title: Man inspects damage done to his house by a petrol bomb, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Civil unrest, Violence, Vandalism, Weapons
Description: Mr Cyril Mandindi looks through the broken windows of his house, which had been attacked with petrol bombs on Monday night.
Identifier: islandora:16294

Title: Not eligible to vote because of his race, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Politics, Apartheid, Elections
Description: Say yes for me: Though not eligible to vote in yesterday's referendum because of his skin colour, this man made it quite clear where his sympathies lay.
Identifier: islandora:18063

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: Guard gives prisoner advice on his artwork, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Jails, Reformatories, Emblems, Tools
Description: A prisoner gets some advice while making two replicas in brass of the crest of the Department of Prisons, to be used on two of the boats making regular trips to Robben Island.
Identifier: islandora:16038

Title: Police lashes out of a protester with his weapon, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Civil unrest, Violence, Demonstrations, Weapons, Law enforcement
Description: Onlookers and passers-by duck for cover as a riot policeman lashes out with his truncheon near Greenmarket Square today when unrest flared up in Cape Town again today.
Identifier: islandora:16281

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