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Title: Divisional Council offices, Atlantis, Cape Town
Subject: Atlantis (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Apartheid, Coloured Labour Preference Area Policy (South Africa), Local government, Demonstrations
Description: Angry crowds outside the offices of the Divisional Council in Atlantis, the dormitory suburb built for Coloured people outside Cape Town
Identifier: islandora:16713

Title: Retrenched resident of Atlantis, Cape Town
Subject: Atlantis (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Apartheid, Labour, Economy, Unemployment
Description: Miss Charmaine van Wyk, foreground, recently retrenched, stands with a friend on the stairs of their Atlantis council block: " If you can't get work, how can you pay rent?"
Identifier: islandora:16700

Title: Young boy is an Argus newspaper vendor, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Newspapers, Apartheid, Coloured Labour Preference Area Policy (South Africa), Child labour, Children's rights
Description: Argus newspaper vendor Donovan October, 13, and his dogs Cha-Cha Boy and Sheba are inseparable companions. The three are such good friends that newspaper-buyers outside the Meadowridge Service Station have seen Donovan covering his dogs up with his jersey and raincoat when it rains while he gets drenched. The dogs take the job seriously and they growled fiercely when an Argus photographer came too near their master to take this picture.
Identifier: islandora:16690

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