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Title: Father with children, Rhodes, South Africa, 1980
Subject: South Africa--Social conditions--20th century, Apartheid--South Africa, Children--South Africa, Poor whites--South Africa, Fathers--South Africa, Some evidence of things seen
Description: A father and his two children, Rhodes, 1980
Identifier: islandora:934

Title: Three women at a formal event, Eastern Cape, South Africa
Subject: Women--South Africa, South Africa—Social life and customs—20th century,
Description: Three women pose for a portrait at a formal event in the Eastern Cape, South Africa.
Identifier: islandora:18450

Title: Boy selling newspapers, Parow, 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: A newspaper vendor with his bundle of newspapers at the Parow railway station, where he was left shortly before dawn, 1981
Identifier: islandora:950

Title: Two women posing on a rock next to the ocean. Eastern Beach, Eastern Cape, South Africa
Subject: Women--South Africa, Bathing suits—South Africa—20th century, South Africa—Social life and customs—20th century,
Description: Two women pose on a rock next to the ocean at Eastern Beach in the Eastern Cape, South Africa.
Identifier: islandora:18426

Title: Mother with children, Newtown, South Africa, 1995
Subject: South Africa--Social conditions--20th century, Children--South Africa, Soup kitchens--South Africa, Mothers--South Africa, Poor--South Africa, Some evidence of things seen
Description: A mother and her three children who attend a soup kitchen every day near their home in Newtown, Johannesburg, 1995
Identifier: islandora:961

Title: Children fetching water, Dinokana, South Africa, circa 1980
Subject: South Africa--Social conditions--20th century, Apartheid--South Africa, Children--South Africa, Water-supply--South Africa, Some evidence of things seen
Description: Children carrying buckets filled with water in Dinokana, North-West Province
Identifier: islandora:918

Title: Child in rubbish dump, Winterveld, South Africa, 1981
Subject: South Africa--Social conditions--20th century, Apartheid--South Africa, Children--South Africa, Poverty--South Africa, Some evidence of things seen
Description: A young boy eating fruit he found on a rubbish dump in Winterveld, near Pretoria, 1981
Identifier: islandora:947

Title: Boys watching destruction of District Six, South Africa, 1974
Subject: South Africa--Social conditions--20th century, Apartheid--South Africa, Children--South Africa, Forced migration--South Africa, Some evidence of things seen
Description: The destruction of District Six was one of the worst insults inflicted upon the coloured people of the Cape by the National Party (NP). On a Sunday morning in 1974, three boys from a nearby shack strolled passed the demolition, sat on what used to be the pavement, and watched the destruction. Others also gathered, but no on said anything for a long time. When people have experienced too much pain, their senses become numb. The boys then got up and ran over the spaces of what used to be District Six
Identifier: islandora:924

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: Women and children praying, Crossroads, South Africa, 1982
Subject: South Africa--Social conditions--20th century, Apartheid--South Africa, Children--South Africa, Prayer groups--South Africa, Squatter settlements--South Africa, Some evidence of things seen
Description: Women and children of Crossroads gather to pray for the Nyanga bush squatters, who had staged a hunger strike in St George's Cathedral in an attempt to persuade the authorities not to demolish their plastic shacks. The protest was fruitless - the shacks were torn down during the wet Cape winter, causing hardship, Cape Town, 1982
Identifier: islandora:917

Title: Young girl offloading fruit from basket, Wellington, South Africa, 1986
Subject: South Africa--Social conditions--20th century, Children--South Africa, Agriculture--South Africa, Agricultural laborers--South Africa, Girls--South Africa, Some evidence of things seen
Description: A young girl offloading a basket filled with fruit she had picked on a farm near Wellington, Western Cape, 1986
Identifier: islandora:935

Title: Woman brushing hair while looking in mirror, Eastern Cape, South Africa
Subject: Women--South Africa, South Africa—Social life and customs—20th century, South Africa—Social conditions—1961-1994,
Description: A woman, dresseed in her underwear, brushes hair while looking in a mirror in her home in the Eastern Cape, South Africa.
Identifier: islandora:18418

Title: Shepherd and his family, Cederberg, South Africa, 1987
Subject: South Africa--Social conditions--20th century, Children--South Africa, Shepherds--South Africa, Some evidence of things seen
Description: A shepherd and his family, outside the home he built himself under a massive rock in the Cederberg, south-western Cape, 1987. During the bitterly cold winter months, he would trek with his employer's sheep to the Ceres-Karoo, but as soon as spring arrived, he would start the long trek back to the mountains. This had been his life for the best of 70 odd years
Identifier: islandora:937

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: Pauline Kuzwayo, whose son was shot dead, Kathlehong township, South Africa
Subject: South Africa--Social conditions--20th century, Children--South Africa, Mothers--South Africa, Murder victims--South Africa, Violence--South Africa, Some evidence of things seen
Description: Pauline Kuzwayo is a widow who lives in the Twala Section of Kathlehong. A deeply religious person, she cried softly when she spoke about the death of her son, Sibusiso. "I do not know where he died. I do not even know how he died. But he was shot. When I found him in the mortuary, there were many other women also looking for their children. One had to see the piles of bodies to believe that so many young people were being murdered. And each body had a mother. It was left for us, the mothers, to find our children's bodies."
Identifier: islandora:956

Title: Bride and groom in garden on their wedding day, Eastern Cape, South Africa
Subject: Weddings--South Africa, Women--South Africa, Men--South Africa, South Africa—Social life and customs—20th century,
Description: Bride and groom in a garden on their wedding day in the Eastern Cape, South Africa.
Identifier: islandora:18431

Title: Child at soup kitchen, Johannesburg, South Africa, 1995
Subject: South Africa--Social conditions--20th century, Children--South Africa, Soup kitchens--South Africa, Poor whites--South Africa, Some evidence of things seen
Description: At a soup kitchen, run by a former alcoholic turned born-again-Christian, a girl eats lunch after school. For many who went there it was the only meal of the day. Claremont, Johannesburg, 1995
Identifier: islandora:960

Title: Two women wearing sunglasses and sitting in a rock pool at Eastern Beach, South Africa
Subject: Women--South Africa, Bathing suits—South Africa—20th century, South Africa—Social life and customs—20th century,
Description: Two women wearing sunglasses sit in a rock pool at Eastern Beach in the Eastern Cape, South Africa.
Identifier: islandora:18457

Title: School boy, Crossroads, South Africa, 1979
Subject: South Africa--Social conditions--20th century, Apartheid--South Africa, Youth--South Africa, Education--South Africa, School children--South Africa, Some evidence of things seen
Description: A pupil of the Sizamile School, Crossroads, Cape Town, 1979
Identifier: islandora:954

Title: Carpet sellers, Umbumbulu, KwaZulu-Natal
Subject: Self-employed women--South Africa, Urban poor--South Africa, Informal sector (Economics)--South Africa, Women--South Africa, South Africa--Social conditions--20th century, Apartheid, The Cordoned Heart
Description: Informal carpet sellers carry off-cuts on their heads. Buying off-cuts from a factory provided them with material and the opportunity to make a little money.
Identifier: islandora:5717

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