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Title: Forced removals, Bakwena Ba Mogopa
Subject: Rural poor--South Africa, Forced migration--South Africa, Eviction--South Africa, South Africa--Social conditions--20th century, Apartheid, The Cordoned Heart
Description: A resident of Mogopa dismantles his home in preparation for forced removal, 1983.
Identifier: islandora:5759

Title: Nqutu District, 1973
Subject: Blacks--relocation--South Africa, Apartheid--South Africa, Forced migration--South Africa, South Africa--Social conditions, South Africa--Social conditions, Winer Batch01,
Description: Nqutu District, Kwa-Zulu, 1973. "Homeland resettlement area", otherwise known as "the dumping grounds" for black people forcibly removed from metropolitan urban areas in terms of the apartheid Group Areas Act.
Identifier: islandora:12532

Title: Commemoration meeting, Merebank
Subject: Memorials--South Africa, Public meetings'South Africa, Political history--South Africa, South Africa--Social conditions--20th century, Apartheid, The Cordoned Heart
Description: Participants gesture with raised fists at a commemoration meeting in Merebank for African National Congress (ANC) members killed in a South African military raid into Maputo.
Identifier: islandora:5731

Title: Forced removals, Kammaskraal
Subject: Rural poor--South Africa, Forced migration--South Africa, Eviction--South Africa, South Africa--Social conditions--20th century, Apartheid, The Cordoned Heart
Description: A family wait alongside their dismantled house for collection by a government truck.
Identifier: islandora:5754

Title: Kasitile, the rain-maker.
Subject: Nyakyusa (African people), Ethnology--Tanzania--Rungwe District, Rungwe District (Tanzania)--Rural conditions, Men--Tanzania--Rungwe District, Rain-making--Religious aspects
Description: Kasitile, the rain-maker. The anthropologist's tent-ropes, wooden table, camping chair and wooden box (possibly containing a gramophone) are visible in the background on either side of the rain-maker. Photograph taken by Monica Wilson during joint fieldwork at different periods from April 1935-December 1937.
Identifier: islandora:5556

Title: Zulu hostel, South Africa, 1992
Subject: Apartheid--South Africa--Soweto, Political violence--South Africa--Soweto, Soweto (South Africa)--Social conditions, History--Political aspects--South Africa--Soweto, Weapons--South Africa--Soweto, Best of Marinovich
Description: Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) supporters show off weapons in a shebeen in Dobsonville hostel, while police search for weapons outside, Soweto, 1992. Thousands of people, both civilians and combatants, died in the so-called "Hostel War" that lasted from 1989-1995.
Identifier: islandora:1190

Title: Sitting in the sun
Subject: Bushman, Southern Africa, San, indigenous, removal, army, tent, man, !Xun, Khwe, Kxoe (African people)--South Africa--Schmidtsdrift, San (African people)--South Africa--Schmidtsdrift, San (African people)--Housing--South Africa--Schmidtsdrift, Schmidtsdrift (South Africa)--Social conditions, Schmidtsdrift (South Africa)
Identifier: islandora:12220

Title: Forced removals, Kammaskraal
Subject: Rural poor--South Africa, Forced migration--South Africa, Eviction--South Africa, Women--South Africa, South Africa--Social conditions--20th century, Apartheid, The Cordoned Heart
Description: Women and children wait to board a government truck.
Identifier: islandora:5758

Title: UDF meeting, Cape Town
Subject: Public meetings--South Africa, Political activists--South Africa, Boesak, Allan Aubrey, 1946-, Political history--South Africa, South Africa--Social conditions--20th century, Apartheid, The Cordoned Heart
Description: Dr. Allan Boesak and Mrs. Helen Joseph at a United Democractic Front (UDF) meeting, Cape Town, 1984.
Identifier: islandora:5741

Title: Vegetable garden group, Mpukonyoni
Subject: Subsistence farming--South Africa, Agricultural workers--South Africa, Women farmers--South Africa, Women--South Africa, South Africa--Social conditions--20th century, Apartheid, The Cordoned Heart
Description: Women from a vegetable garden group attend a meeting in the fertile area of Mpukonyoni, in Reserve Four, KwaZulu reserve.
Identifier: islandora:5763

Title: Security guard's chair, South Africa, 2004
Subject: Chairs, Mpumalanga (South Africa)--Social conditions, Best of Marinovich
Description: Security guard's chair, Barberton-Badplaas road, Mpumalanga, 2004.
Identifier: islandora:1214

Title: Pearl Khubeha and Louisa Malapa in Trumpelsor Mansions, South Africa
Subject: Women--South Africa, City dwellers--South Africa, Johannesburg (South Africa)--Social conditions, Urban housing--South Africa--Johannesburg
Description: Pearl Khubeha, Louisa Malapa and their friend's reflection in a mirror in their room in Trumpelsor Mansions, South Africa.
Identifier: islandora:18554

Title: Birth of a baby, Sophiatown, 1951
Subject: Sophiatown (Johannesburg, South Africa)--Social conditions, Childbirth at home--South Africa--Sophiatown (Johannesburg), Mother and child--South Africa--Sophiatown (Johannesburg), Midwives--South Africa--Sophiatown (Johannesburg)
Description: Birth of a baby, Sophiatown, 1951.
Identifier: islandora:7448

Title: Chief Porokoto's main house in Ilolo Village
Subject: Nyakyusa (African people), Ethnology--Tanzania--Rungwe District, Rungwe District (Tanzania)--Rural conditions, Nyakyusa (African people)--Dwellings, Huts--Tanzania--Rungwe District
Description: 'The dignity of the homestead' - new style. Chief Porokoto's main house in Ilolo Village.
Identifier: islandora:5515

Title: Two couples in a car, Johannesburg, South Africa
Subject: City dwellers--South Africa, Recreation areas--South Africa, Social conditions--South Africa, Leisure time--South Africa,
Description: Two couples relaxing in a car in Wemmer Pan, Johannesburg, South Africa.
Identifier: islandora:1268

Title: Carrying goods at the harbour
Subject: Ethnology--Tanzania--Dar es Salaam, Dar es Salaam (Tanzania)--Rural conditions, Harbours--Tanzania--Dar es Salaam, Crowds--Tanzania--Dar es Salaam
Description: People carrying goods at the harbour. Photograph taken on 28 August 1934 by Godfrey Wilson, as a lone anthropologist during his first five months of fieldwork (August-December 1934)
Identifier: islandora:5608

Title: Pensioner, Durban
Subject: Urban poor--South Africa, Older men--South Africa, Fuelwood gatherers--South Africa, Squatter settlements--South Africa, South Africa--Social conditions--20th century, Apartheid, The Cordoned Heart
Description: A pensioner carries wood in a buffer zone between the 'African' township of KwaMashu and the 'coloured' township of Newlands East, Durban.
Identifier: islandora:5714

Title: Young woman playing tennis
Subject: Women--South Africa, South Africa—Social conditions—1961-1994, South Africa—Social life and customs—20th century,
Description: A young woman plays tennis dressed all in white in the Eastern Cape, South Africa.
Identifier: islandora:18460

Title: Untitled
Subject: South Africa--Politics and government--1978-1989--Caricatures and cartoons, Politicians--South Africa--Caricatures and cartoons, South Africa--Social conditions--1961-1994--Caricatures and cartoons, South African wit and humor, Pictorial, South Africa
Description: Public protests in Soweto gave notice of the seismic upheavals to come. Description provided by Tony Grogan.
Identifier: islandora:6191

Title: Sindiswa Mkonto and Nomonde Calata, Cradock Four widows, Michausdal township, 1997
Subject: Apartheid--South Africa, Political violence--South Africa, South Africa--Social conditions, War crimes investigation--South Africa, Truth and Lies,
Description: Sindiswa Mkonto and Nomonde Calata, widows of two of the Cradock Four victims, Cradock, 1997. The Cradock Four were a group of four political activists from Cradock who disappeared in 1985 during a trip to Port Elizabeth. Their mutilated bodies were found a week later. In January 1997, six members of the Port Elizabeth security police applied for amnesty for the killing of the Cradock Four. It was refused.
Identifier: islandora:772

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