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an old postcard with writing on the side of it and people walking in front

A postcard tour of old Cape Town

St Stephen's Church and the Old Slave Market Cape Town, vintage postcard

an old postcard with a clock on the top of a hill in the ocean

West Coast National Park Cape Town

Misty Cliffs Cape Town

Century City Cape Town

Castle Of Good Hope Cape Town

Bloubergstrand Cape Town

A postcard tour of old Cape Town

The first sight of Cape Town. Vintage postcard

an old black and white photo of a street with tracks in the snow on it

Cape Town South Africa

Rondebosch, Cape Town. 1900's ?

an old black and white photo of a street with cars, buses and people on it

Long Street Cape Town

Sa Art

Cape Town Waterfront South Africa

Kommetjie Cape Town

Western Cape South Africa

Durban

Adderley Street, Cape Town 1920s. BelAfrique your personal travel planner - www.BelAfrique.com

an old black and white photo of many buildings

Boer War Concentration camp - am writing a novel on this at the moment

an old black and white photo of a town street

Wale Street, Cape Town

Wale Street, Cape Town. An early view of Wale Street showing, at left, St. George's Cathedral. The bell tower, which is prominent in this photograph, was demolished in 1952 after it became unsafe. The first building on the right is now the Taj Hotel while the building in the middle distance at right is the present day Mandela-Rhodes building. Part of Signal Hill can be seen in the background. | Flickr - Photo Sharing!

an old book with pictures of people standing in front of it and the title district six, let we forget

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The context is Cape Town, South Africa of the 1930s as seen through the pre-teen eyes of the author, Yousuf ‘Joe’ Rassool when ‘life was one interminable summer’. This family history covers the era of Gandhi in South Africa through the early Anti-Apartheid struggle.

an old black and white photo of mountains with cars driving on the road below them

Kloof Road 1953 - courtesy www.roomsforafrica.com/art/cape_town_historical_photos

an old black and white photo of horse drawn carriages in front of a mountain range

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V&A Waterfront in 1900's, cape town, south africa

an old black and white photo of people walking down the street in front of a bus

South Africa: Overcoming Apartheid

During a lunchtime anti-apartheid demonstration in Darling Street, Cape Town, people lined the street in front of the General Post Office to protest petty apartheid policies in post offices in the Cape Peninsula. The Cape Times newspaper described the approximately 1000 demonstrators as communists. September 14, 1949