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Title: The Haven, Cape Town
Subject: Homeless persons--South Africa, Urban poor--South Africa, Shelters for the homeless--South Africa, South Africa--Social conditions--20th century, Apartheid, The Cordoned Heart
Description: A man climbs stairs at the Haven Night Shelter.
Identifier: islandora:5735

Title: Squatters, Hout Bay, Cape Town
Subject: Urban poor--South Africa, Squatter settlements--South Africa, Temporary housing--South Africa, Dwellings--Social aspects--South Africa, South Africa--Social conditions--20th century, Apartheid, The Cordoned Heart
Description: Mr. Martin Anthony and his two daughters.
Identifier: islandora:5745

Title: Young newspaper vendor, Cape Town
Subject: Child labor--South Africa, Poor children--South Africa, Children--South Africa, Newspaper vendors--South Africa, South Africa--Social conditions--20th century, Apartheid, The Cordoned Heart
Description: A child newspaper vendor stands barefoot, ready to begin the day's work before sunrise.
Identifier: islandora:5726

Title: Squatters, Hout Bay, Cape Town
Subject: Urban poor--South Africa, Squatter settlements--South Africa, Temporary housing--South Africa, Dwellings--Social aspects--South Africa, South Africa--Social conditions--20th century, Apartheid, The Cordoned Heart
Description: Mr. Fraser Anthony, who had lived in squatter camps most of his life.
Identifier: islandora:5744

Title: Prayer meeting, Crossroads, Cape Town
Subject: Squatter settlements--South Africa, Religious gatherings--South Africa, Public meetings'South Africa, South Africa--Social conditions--20th century, Apartheid, The Cordoned Heart
Description: Residents close their eyes and sing in prayer at a meeting.
Identifier: islandora:5725

Title: Cows, Crossroads, Cape Town
Subject: Dwellings--Social aspects--South Africa, Temporary housing--South Africa, Subsistence farming--South Africa, Cattle--South Africa, South Africa--Social conditions--20th century, Apartheid, The Cordoned Heart
Description: Cows roam amongst plastic shelters and corrugated iron shacks.
Identifier: islandora:5740

Title: Squatters, Hout Bay, Cape Town
Subject: Urban poor--South Africa, Squatter settlements--South Africa, Temporary housing--South Africa, Dwellings--Social aspects--South Africa, South Africa--Social conditions--20th century, Apartheid, The Cordoned Heart
Description: Mrs. Dorothy Moses with children from the squatter camps.
Identifier: islandora:5743

Title: The Haven, Cape Town
Subject: Homeless persons--South Africa--Social conditions, Urban poor--South Africa, Shelters for the homeless--South Africa, South Africa--Social conditions--20th century, Apartheid, The Cordoned Heart
Description: A naked man in one of the communal bedrooms at the Haven Night Shelter. For a nominal sum, a homeless man could get a bed for the night, a protein-enriched supper, bathing and washing facilities, and the opportunity to see a social worker.
Identifier: islandora:5737

Title: Inside plastic shelter, Crossroads, Cape Town
Subject: Poor women--South Africa, Women--South Africa, Temporary housing--South Africa, Squatter settlements--South Africa, South Africa--Social conditions--20th century, Apartheid, The Cordoned Heart
Description: Women cook food inside a plastic shelter.
Identifier: islandora:5728

Title: Homeless children, Cape Town
Subject: Homeless children--South Africa, Poor boys--South Africa, Children--South Africa, South Africa--Social conditions--20th century, Apartheid, The Cordoned Heart
Description: Three young boys sleep on the back seat of a wrecked car in a scrapyard at 6am on a cold spring morning. Another three slept in the front. They were all younger than 8 years of age. One of the boys wore only pants, and had cigarette burn marks on his chest.
Identifier: islandora:5730

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: Plastic shelter, Crossroads, Cape Town
Subject: Temporary housing--South Africa, Squatter settlements--South Africa, Forced migration--South Africa, Eviction--South Africa, South Africa--Social conditions--20th century, Apartheid, The Cordoned Heart
Description: A bed stands outside a plastic shelter erected after a mass demolition of homes, circa 1980.
Identifier: islandora:5715

Title: Gambling, Guguletu, Cape Town
Subject: Leisure--Social aspects--South Africa, Poor men--South Africa, Gambling--South Africa, South Africa--Social conditions--20th century, Apartheid, The Cordoned Heart
Description: Men gather around an open-air gambling table.
Identifier: islandora:5739

Title: The Haven, Cape Town
Subject: Homeless persons--South Africa, Urban poor--South Africa, Shelters for the homeless--South Africa, South Africa--Social conditions--20th century, Apartheid, The Cordoned Heart
Description: Blood drips down the back of a man spending the night at The Haven Night Shelter.
Identifier: islandora:5736

Title: Squatters, Hout Bay, Cape Town
Subject: Urban poor--South Africa, Squatter settlements--South Africa, Temporary housing--South Africa, Dwellings--Social aspects--South Africa, South Africa--Social conditions--20th century, Apartheid, The Cordoned Heart
Description: Maria with her daughter.
Identifier: islandora:5742

Title: Council flats, Kew Town
Subject: Poor children--South Africa, Children--South Africa, Public housing--South Africa, Dwellings--Social aspects--South Africa, South Africa--Social conditions--20th century, Apartheid, The Cordoned Heart
Description: Children play outside their council flat homes.
Identifier: islandora:5711

Title: Child being arrested by policeman, Cape Town, South Africa, 1982
Subject: South Africa--Social conditions--20th century, Apartheid--South Africa, Children--South Africa, Shoplifting--South Africa, Police--South Africa, Some evidence of things seen
Description: A youthful shoplifter is arrested by a policeman in Loop Street, Cape Town, 1982
Identifier: islandora:920

Title: Family, Kew Town, Cape Town
Subject: Urban poor--South Africa, Families--South Africa, Forced migration--South Africa, Dwellings--Social aspects--South Africa, South Africa--Social conditions--20th century, Apartheid, The Cordoned Heart
Description: A family inside their home in Kew Town, on the Cape Flats.
Identifier: islandora:5729

Title: Young child, Kew Town, Cape Town
Subject: Poor children--South Africa, Children--South Africa, Boys--South Africa, Dwellings--Social aspects--South Africa, South Africa--Social conditions--20th century, Apartheid, The Cordoned Heart
Description: A young boy from Kew Town, on the Cape Flats, a low-lying area outside Cape Town where the majority of the city's poor live.
Identifier: islandora:5727

Title: Children selling newspapers, Cape Town, South Africa, 1981
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
Identifier: islandora:949

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