Child's grave, Brandfort, South Africa

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Title: Child's grave, Brandfort, South Africa
Creator: Alberts, Paul, 1946-2010
Subject: South Africa--Social conditions--20th century, Children--South Africa, Cemeteries--South Africa, Ritual--South Africa, Burial--South Africa, Some evidence of things seen
Description: The custom with the inhabitants of Majwemasweu is to demarcate their cemeteries carefully for elderly people, middle-aged people, young people and children. In a corner of one of their three cemeteries, a hundred children lay buried. High infant mortality rate is a feature of all rural townships in South Africa. It is a remarkable fact that all the children were buried here since 1991 and that all were younger than five years of age
Publisher: University of Cape Town. Libraries
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Type: StillImage
Format: documentary photographs, black-and-white photographs
Identifier: islandora:940
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Rights: Copyright held by Charmaine Alberts. Please contact the Special Collections at the University of Cape Town Libraries for further information about using and/or publishing this photograph.