Three interviews with Shaiki Roberts which contribute toward a project exploring Simon’s Town’s contribution to the struggle for freedom and democracy and one interview with Violet Hendricks on growing up in Simon’s Town. Themes include: family background; fishermen; forced removals; history of Simon’s Town; ‘home guards’; housing conditions; job reservation; key figures; navy dockyard; physical environment; racial prejudice; recreation; Simon’s Town City Council; social history. This sub-collection includes extensive research material, newspaper articles, images and history of the False Bay area, donated by the late Albert Thomas’s wife, Gladys Thomas, in 2010.