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Title: Kamassies
Subject: Namaqualand (South Africa)--Rural conditions, Donkeys--South Africa--Namaqualand,
Description: Donkeys harnessed together for water collection.
Identifier: islandora:5099

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: Terry's son with domestic worker
Subject: Domestic employees--South Africa, Children--South Africa, Social conditions--South Africa,
Description: Terry's son, Nicholas, spending the day with Honey, Frances and Graeme.
Identifier: islandora:1379

Title: Family on front stoep of their home, South Africa
Subject: South Africa--Social conditions, South Africa--Social life and customs, Men--South Africa, Women--South Africa,
Description: Three men and a woman stand on the front stoep of a home in South Africa. One man holds a rifle gun.
Identifier: islandora:18627

Title: The end of Sophiatown, 1959
Subject: Sophiatown (Johannesburg, South Africa)--Social conditions, Apartheid--South Africa--Sophiatown (Johannesburg), Blacks--Housing--South Africa--Sophiatown (Johannesburg), Forced migration--South Africa--Sophiatown (Johannesburg), Rubble--South Africa--Sophiatown (Johannesburg)
Description: By 1959 most of the houses in Sophiatown had disappeared. Big machines and men with picks beat down the last walls of Sophiatown.
Identifier: islandora:7458

Title: Elderly woman's hands crossed on her lap
Subject: Genadendal (South Africa)—Social conditions, Women—South Africa—Genadendal,
Description: The hands of an elderly woman crossed on her lap.
Identifier: islandora:18287

Title: Children with domestic worker, South Africa
Subject: Household employees--South Africa, Children--South Africa, Social conditions--South Africa,
Description: A domestic worker directs her employer's two children past a pile of rubbish bins on a pavement in South Africa, January 1973.
Identifier: islandora:18483

Title: Two men walking with backpacks, Genadendal, South Africa
Subject: Genadendal (South Africa)—Social conditions, Men—South Africa--Genadendal,
Description: Two men walking with backpacks along a gravel road in Genadendal, South Africa.
Identifier: islandora:18293

Title: Mr President, Schalk McVenter, Frikkie McBotha and Jock van der Merwe of the Gauteng Bolanders want a Scottish homeland of their own
Subject: Mandela, Nelson, 1918- --Caricatures and cartoons, Whites--South Africa--Social conditions--21st century--Caricatures and cartoons, South African wit and humor, Pictorial, South Africa
Description: Certain whites, feeling their cultural heritage and independence threatened, continued to yearn for an exclusive homeland. Description provided by Tony Grogan.
Identifier: islandora:6170

Title: Child at the Mai Mai hostel, Johannesburg, South Africa
Subject: Children--South Africa--Johannesburg, Johannesburg (South Africa)--Social conditions, Urban housing--South Africa--Johannesbueg
Description: A young girl stands outside a room in the Mai Mai hostel in Johannesburg, South Africa.
Identifier: islandora:18574

Title: Kuboes
Subject: Richtersveld (South Africa)--Rural conditions, Goat farmers--South Africa--Richtersveld, Subsistence farming--South Africa--Richtersveld,
Description: Subsistence goat farmer.
Identifier: islandora:5103

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: 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: Oral history interview with Tony Ehrenreich
Subject: Oral history, Labor unions--Social aspects--South Africa, Economic conditions--South Africa, Apartheid--South Africa, Labor union members--South Africa--Interviews, Ehrenreich, Tony
Description: The interviews trace the working lives and political consciousness of three people involved with trade unions in industry. Themes include: Combined Workers Union, Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU), family background, gender discrimination, job reservation, student activism 1976-1985, shop stewards, political consciousness, working conditions, working environment and the 1980 school boycotts., Por3.01.mp3: Part 1 of 1 ; 30:49 min. ; interview 1 of 4
Identifier: islandora:25022

Title: The Jazzolomos, Sophiatown, 1953
Subject: Sophiatown (Johannesburg, South Africa)--Social conditions, Entertainers--South Africa--Sophiatown (Johannesburg), Musicians, Black--South Africa--Sophiatown (Johannesburg), Jazz musicians--South Africa--Sophiatown (Johannesburg)
Description: "We three the Jazz dizzlers be..." The popular Jazzolomos rocked the Reef in the fifties. Band members were from left: Jacob 'Mzala' Lepers (bass), Sol 'Beegeepee' Klaaste (piano) and Benni 'Gwigwi' Mrwebi (alto saxophone). Sophiatown, 1953.
Identifier: islandora:7445

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

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