Children selling newspapers, Cape Town, South Africa, 1981

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Title: Children selling newspapers, Cape Town, South Africa, 1981
Creator: Alberts, Paul, 1946-2010
Subject: South Africa--Social conditions--20th century, Apartheid--South Africa, Children--South Africa, Newspaper vendors--South Africa, Child labor--South Africa, Some evidence of things seen
Description: It is 6:30am on a cold, wet day in winter of 1981. A young boy sleeps on the pavement on top of a pile of newspapers that he is meant to be selling. When a customer asked for 'Die Burger', another boy, selling the 'Cape Times', dutifully slipped 'Die Burger' newspaper from under the sleeping boy's head and placed the money beside his comrade
Publisher: University of Cape Town. Libraries
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Date: 1981
Type: StillImage
Format: documentary photographs, black-and-white photographs
Identifier: islandora:949
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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.