Rent protest, Phoenix township, 1981

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Title: Rent protest, Phoenix township, 1981
Creator: Badsha, Omar
Subject: Meer, Ismail, 1918-2000, Political activists, Public housing--Rent, Apartheid, Political history--South Africa, Beyond the Barricades
Description: Ismail Meer, a former treason trialist and member of the Natal Indian Congress, addresses a meeting to protest high rentals in the Phoenix township of Durban in 1981. Rent protests were manifestations of deeper political conflicts in the struggle for self-determination.
Publisher: University of Cape Town. Libraries
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Date: 1981
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Format: still image, documentary photographs, black-and-white photographs, Image/jpeg
Identifier: islandora:871
Source: mss_barricades_used_19.jpg
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