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Title: Children carry buckets of water hanging from sticks, Cape Town
Subject: Youth, Poverty, Water supply, ,
Description: Children carry buckets of water hanging from sticks, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:15817

Title: Athlone , Cape Town
Subject: Athlone (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Apartheid, Coloured people (South Africa), Housing, Poverty
Description: Children at a sub-economic housing development in Athlone, Cape Town
Identifier: islandora:16718

Title: Poor White woman, Bellville, Cape Town
Subject: Bellville (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Housing, Apartheid, Whites, Poverty, Afrikaners
Description: Mrs Beatrice Hugo and her dog Jessie sit on the verandah of their home in Voortrekker Road, Bellville, surrounded by their belongings.
Identifier: islandora:16826

Title: Nearing Cape Town after walking from Grahamstown
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Africans, Poverty, Families, Rural areas
Description: Still erect and proud, 80-year-old Mr July Nanise plods along Settlers Way after his 700km walk from Grahamstown in search of his long-lost brother.
Identifier: islandora:15851

Title: Eviction in Athlone,Cape Town
Subject: Athlone (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Apartheid, Coloured people (South Africa), Housing, Poverty
Description: Family evicted from shack settlements in Athlone, Cape Town
Identifier: islandora:16716

Title: Woman sitting in chair looks up at the dripping ceiling, Cape Town
Subject: Poverty, Weather, , ,
Description: Woman sitting in chair looks up at the dripping ceiling, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:15602

Title: Woman crouches against rock to protect herself from the elements, Cape Town
Subject: Poverty, Homeless persons, ,
Description: Nawandle Ngongo crouches against a rock in Nyanga. All she has left to protect her from the elements is a blanket.
Identifier: islandora:15605

Title: Overcrowding in Kewtown, Athlone , Cape Town
Subject: Athlone (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Apartheid, Housing, Poverty, Coloured people (South Africa)
Description: Seventeen people - man, women and children - live, eat, cook and wash in this one-bedroom Kewtown council house. Architects provided it with a front room but that has also been turned into a bedroom, which helps but is a long way from solving the overcrowding.
Identifier: islandora:16726

Title: Sick woman sitting on bed, Cape Town
Subject: Poverty, Homeless persons, Politics, ,
Description: Desperately ill, Mrs Evelyn Magxala spends her days in a sweltering tent in the Nyanga dunes waiting for the Administration Board to decide her fate and that of 750 other squatters.
Identifier: islandora:15604

Title: Man playing a flute, Cape Town
Subject: Music, Poverty, Performing arts, ,
Description: Right: Christopher Jacobs sits under a tree at the Nyanga Art Centre practising for Saturday's performance.
Identifier: islandora:15606

Title: Informal settlement of Kismetbos, Cape Town
Subject: Squatter settlements, Shanty town, Homeless persons, Poverty, ,
Description: Only a few hundred metres away is a shanty town of Kismetbos, where about 6000 live huddled together in sickening conditions of poverty.
Identifier: islandora:15241

Title: Eviction in Athlone,Cape Town
Subject: Athlone (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Apartheid, Coloured people (South Africa), Poverty, Youth
Description: Family evicted from their home in Athlone, Cape Town
Identifier: islandora:16717

Title: Children in Athlone, Cape Town
Subject: Athlone (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Apartheid, Children, Poverty, Environment
Description: Children at a sub-economic housing development in Athlone, Cape Town
Identifier: islandora:16723

Title: Pensioner from Atlantis, Cape Town
Subject: Atlantis (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Pensions, Poverty, Older people
Description: Against all odds - Mrs Audrey Aries, 65, with her "useless" pension book, electricity and other accounts. Her husband earns R245 a month and after her rent and other accounts have been paid she has very little money left.
Identifier: islandora:16702

Title: Children play outside, Cape Town
Subject: Youth, Squatter settlements, Poverty, Apartheid, ,
Description: Children play outside the black tents. Without passes their parents can not get permanent jobs so there is no money for Christmas presents or festive foods.
Identifier: islandora:15589

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