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Title: Little boy giving Afrikaner-Weerstandsbeweging (AWB) salute, Pretoria, South Africa, 1986
Subject: South Africa--Social conditions--20th century, Apartheid--South Africa, Children--South Africa, Afrikaner-Weerstandsbeweging, Some evidence of things seen
Description: Afrikaner-Weerstandsbeweging (AWB) leadership conference, Wag-n-Bietjie, Hartbeespoortdam, Pretoria, 1986. An attractive boy with a lovely smile stopped and looked at me with some trepidation. Suddenly a man's voice spoke to him from behind my back: "Groet die oom, my seun." (Greet the uncle, my son). It was his father speaking. The little boy then stood on guard, swiftly raised his right arm in the AWB salute and grinned
Identifier: islandora:951

Title: Farmer, Mpukonyoni
Subject: Subsistence farming--South Africa, Agricultural workers--South Africa, Farmers--South Africa, Poor children--South Africa, South Africa--Social conditions--20th century, Apartheid, The Cordoned Heart
Description: Cassava farmer and child from the fertile area of Mpukonyoni, in Reserve Four, KwaZulu reserve.
Identifier: islandora:5761

Title: Gardeners, Merebank
Subject: Subsistence farming--South Africa, Agricultural workers--South Africa, Informal sector (Economics)--South Africa, South Africa--Social conditions--20th century, Apartheid, The Cordoned Heart
Description: A market gardener and her assistant clearing land adjoining Louis Botha Airport.
Identifier: islandora:5718

Title: Orlando township, 1951
Subject: Orlando (South Africa)--Social conditions, Squatter settlements--South Africa--Orlando, Temporary housing--South Africa--Orlando, Forced migration--South Africa--Orlando, Blacks--Housing--South Africa--Orlando, Apartheid--South Africa
Description: Makeshift houses in Orlando squatter camp, outside Johannesburg, 1951.
Identifier: islandora:7454

Title: Joyce Mananki Seipei with her daughter, Johannesburg, 1997
Subject: Apartheid--South Africa, Political violence--South Africa, South Africa--Social conditions, War crimes investigation--South Africa, Truth and Lies,
Description: Joyce Mananki Seipei with her daughter whom she calls 'klein Stompie', Johannesburg, 1997. Joyce is the mother of Stompie Seipei, a fourteen-year-old activist who was suspected of being a police informer. Stompie's body was found on 6 January 1989. He was tortured to death by Jerry Richardson, the coach of the Mandela Football Club. Jerry testified at the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) and claimed that his orders came from Mrs Winnie Mandela, whom he called "mommie". Mrs Mandela denied all involvement.
Identifier: islandora:767

Title: Albertina Mzimela and Ngoni Siza, KwaZulu-Natal, 1998
Subject: Apartheid--South Africa, Political violence--South Africa, South Africa--Social conditions, War crimes investigation--South Africa, Truth and Lies,
Description: Albertina Mzimela and Ngoni Siza, KwaZulu-Natal, 1998. Albertina and Ngoni were present at a family party in 1994 when Inkatha impi warriors burst into the house and opened fire. Four male relatives were killed.
Identifier: islandora:774

Title: Children outside shebeen, Montagu, South Africa, 1976
Subject: South Africa--Social conditions--20th century, Apartheid--South Africa, Children--South Africa, Bars (Drinking establishments)--South Africa, Some evidence of things seen
Description: Inquisitive children outside a shebeen, Montagu, 1976
Identifier: islandora:941

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: Sindiswa Mkonto and her son, Lonwabo, Lingelihle 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 her son, Lonwabo, in Lingelihle township where she lived with her husband who was one of the Cradock Four, 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:799

Title: Labour strike, Johannesburg
Subject: Strikes and lockouts--South Africa, Labor union members--South Africa, Labor unions--South Africa, South Africa--Social conditions--20th century, Apartheid, The Cordoned Heart
Description: A meeting of striking Alfa Romeo workers.
Identifier: islandora:5748

Title: Little boy tending cattle, Transkei, South Africa, 1979
Subject: South Africa--Social conditions--20th century, Apartheid--South Africa, Children--South Africa, Cattle herders--South Africa, Cows--South Africa, Some evidence of things seen
Description: Little boy tending cattle. It took quite some time and all the sweets and fruit I had in my car to lure this boy closer to me so that I could take his photograph, Transkei, 1979
Identifier: islandora:957

Title: Cattle herders, Venda
Subject: Cattle herders--South Africa, Subsistence farming--South Africa, People with disabilities--South Africa, South Africa--Rural conditions, South Africa--Social conditions--20th century, Apartheid, The Cordoned Heart
Description: Two family members of a cattle herder pose for the camera. The man is on crutches as he has only one leg.
Identifier: islandora:5780

Title: Drum office, Johannesburg, 1952
Subject: Johannesburg (South Africa)--Social conditions, Apartheid--South Africa--Johannesburg, Printing industry--Employees, Drum (Johannesburg, South Africa), Blacks--Employment--South Africa--Johannesburg
Description: Drum office, Johannesburg, 1952.
Identifier: islandora:7428

Title: Pensioner, Transkei
Subject: Rural elderly--South Africa, Rural poor--South Africa, Older women--South Africa, Traditional farming--South Africa, South Africa--Social conditions--20th century, Apartheid, The Cordoned Heart
Description: A pensioner walks home after tending her patch in the community vegetable garden.
Identifier: islandora:5713

Title: Family of Maki Skhosana, necklacing victim, Duduza township, 1997
Subject: Apartheid--South Africa, Political violence--South Africa, South Africa--Social conditions, War crimes investigation--South Africa, Truth and Lies,
Description: Evelina Puleng Moloko, Diane Moshapalo and Reverend Moshapalo, family of Maki Skhosana, a twenty-four year-old female ANC activist who was burned to death in the first officially acknowledged 'necklacing' incident in South Africa. Duduza, 1997.
Identifier: islandora:762

Title: Hostel, Johannesburg
Subject: Migrant labor--South Africa--Social conditions, Migrant labor--Housing--South Africa, Miners--Housing--South Africa, Urban poor--South Africa, South Africa--Social conditions--20th century, Apartheid, The Cordoned Heart
Description: A miner reads in his concrete bed in a mining compound.
Identifier: islandora:5782

Title: Non-whites only' bus, Johannesburg, South Africa
Subject: Transportation--South Africa--Pretoria, Apartheid--South Africa--Pretoria, Social conditions--South Africa--Pretoria, Segregation--South Africa--Pretoria, Race discrimination--South Africa--Pretoria
Description: Non-whites only' bus, September 1982, Johannesburg, South Africa. Under apartheid, buses and bus-stops were racially segregated.
Identifier: islandora:5333

Title: Thembinkosi Tshabe and Mxolisa Goboza, Free State, 1997
Subject: Apartheid--South Africa, Political violence--South Africa, South Africa--Social conditions, War crimes investigation--South Africa, Truth and Lies,
Description: Mxolisa Goboza (right) and Thembinkosi Tshabe, two of the youngest victims to appear before the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), described how they had been shot and wounded by police while taking part in a COSAS (Congress of South African Students) demonstration. Free State, 1997.
Identifier: islandora:793

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