One of the organisers of the 1956 Women's March, Lilian Ngoyi
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A young victim of the atrocities committed by Belgium in the Congo stands next to a missionary.
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Riot police play a game of soccer with youths in Nyanga on 27 August 1976. Photo by John Paisley
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A certificate of slavery for an infant named Sophie, dated 1827 Cape of Good Hope.
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Riot police attempt to block the way of workers leaving a May Day meeting at Khotso House in Johannesburg in May 1985.
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A family sits outside the front door of their District Six home in Cape Town in the 1970s, prior to their forced removal. Photograph by Jansje Wissema.
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Ysterplaat is an old Northern Suburb of Cape Town and home to an Airforce Base, School's and a Museum; amongst many Churches and a nearby Synagogue. This Area is situated very near the City of Cape Town. It is very close to the neighbouring Suburbs of: 'Brooklyn, Paarden Island, Maitland, Milnerton and Century City.'
It is not known precisely known when aviators started using Ysterplaat as a landing field. However in the Municipal Census of 1810, it is listed that on the 31st December 1810, Willem Caesar and a widow; ''Priem'' with her two children are residents at: 'd`Yzere Plaat'.