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Title: Child being caned, Ditsaneng, South Africa, 1981
Subject: South Africa--Social conditions--20th century, Apartheid--South Africa, Children--South Africa, Violence--South Africa, Crime--South Africa, Some evidence of things seen
Description: A shop owner canes one of three young boys for stealing a can of food from his shop in Ditsaneng (previously part of Bophuthatswana), North-West Province, 1981. The men who watched the caning laughed
Identifier: islandora:923

Title: Child burning tyres, Soweto, South Africa, 1983
Subject: South Africa--Social conditions--20th century, Apartheid--South Africa, Children--South Africa, Squatter settlements--South Africa, Some evidence of things seen
Description: Seeking warmth, a child burns tyres in the veld (Afrikaans for field), Soweto, 1983
Identifier: islandora:964

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: Police arresting innocent man, South Africa, 1992
Subject: Apartheid--South Africa--eNtokozweni, Race discrimination--South Africa--eNtokozweni, eNtokozweni (South Africa)--Social conditions, Police brutality--South Africa--eNtokozweni, Best of Marinovich
Description: A policeman and his friend try to arrest a man who was walking drunk along the main road in the small, escarpment town of Machadodorp, 1992.
Identifier: islandora:1191

Title: Children pumping water, Phokeng, South Africa, 1980
Subject: South Africa--Social conditions--20th century, Apartheid--South Africa, Children--South Africa, South Africa--Water supply, Squatter settlements--South Africa, Some evidence of things seen
Description: Children pumping water at a public well in Phokeng, North-West Province, 1980
Identifier: islandora:919

Title: Apartheid-era Bellville South Community Centre, Cape Town
Subject: Bellville (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Architecture, Coloured people (South Africa), Local government, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950
Description: The modern frontage of the Community Centre in Bellville South, part of a large complex.
Identifier: islandora:16819

Title: Young boy with home-made toys, Dinokana, South Africa, 1981
Subject: South Africa--Social conditions--20th century, Apartheid--South Africa, Children--South Africa, Some evidence of things seen
Description: A youngster with home-made toys, Dinokana, North-West Province, 1981
Identifier: islandora:958

Title: Migrant labourer with children, Ga-Rankuwa township, South Africa, 1979
Subject: South Africa--Social conditions--20th century, Apartheid--South Africa, Children--South Africa, Migrant workers--South Africa, Some evidence of things seen
Description: A migrant labourer with his family at their home near Ga-Rankuwa, 1979. He was due to leave the same day to begin his next contract on the mines
Identifier: islandora:965

Title: Children praying, Karoo, South Africa, 1984
Subject: South Africa--Social conditions--20th century, Apartheid--South Africa, School children--South Africa, Rural schools--South Africa, Prayer--South Africa, Some evidence of things seen
Description: Children saying grace at a farm school in the southern Karoo, 1984
Identifier: islandora:931

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

Title: Funeral of PAC member Mike Mosadi, Krugersdorp, South Africa
Subject: Funeral rites and ceremonies--South Africa--Krugersdorp, Political activists--South Africa--Krugersdorp, Apartheid--South Africa--Krugersdorp
Description: Guerillas of the Pan African Congress (PAC) movement bury slain comrade, Mike Mosadi, with military honors in Krugersdorp, South Africa, April 1991.
Identifier: islandora:5366

Title: South African Domestic Workers' Union, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Trade unions, Domestic workers, Apartheid,
Description: South African Domestic Workers' Union (SADWU), Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:18038

Title: Community leader, Alcockspruit, South Africa
Subject: Housing--South Africa, Apartheid--South Africa, Social conditions--South Africa,
Description: Alcockspruit community leader, Horatius Mabuso. The community succesfully reclaimed land from which they were forcibly removed, 1994.
Identifier: islandora:18388

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: South African Prime Minister Strijdom's coffin being loaded onto a train, 1958
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Apartheid, Politicians, Trains, Transport
Description: A group of cabinet ministers on Cape Town Station load the coffin of J. G. Strijdom onto the mourning coach on its journey to Pretoria. The group of cabinet ministers consisted of P. O. Sauer, B. J. Schoeman, J. F. T. Naude, Dr T. E. Donges, Dr E. H. Louw and C. R. Swart.
Identifier: islandora:17416

Title: South African Cabinet members, 1994, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Post-Apartheid era, Politics, Cabinet ministers, South Africa. Government of National Unity 1994-1997
Description: Post-apartheid Cabinet ministers in the Government of National Unity (left to right): Alfred Nzo (Minister of Foreign Affairs), Jay Naidoo (Minister of Telecommunications, Post and Broadcasting), Sidney Mufamadi (Minister of Safety and Security), and Roelf Meyer (Minister of Constitutional Affairs)
Identifier: islandora:16936

Title: Examples of identity cards for South Africa's 'independent states'
Subject: South Africa, Western Cape (South Africa), Citizenship, Influx Control, Bantustans, Independence, Apartheid,
Description: Identity cards for the Bantustans: Transkei, Ciskei, Lebowa, KwaZulu, Bophuthatswana, Gazankulu, Venda,
Identifier: islandora:15855

Title: Mother and children, Kewtown, South Africa, 1979
Subject: South Africa--Social conditions--20th century, Apartheid--South Africa, Children--South Africa, Mothers--South Africa, Some evidence of things seen
Description: A mother and her children, Kewtown, near Cape Town, 1979
Identifier: islandora:946

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: Victim of shack demolition, South Africa, 1991
Subject: Apartheid--South Africa--Ivory Park, Race discrimination--South Africa--Ivory Park, Homeless persons--South Africa--Ivory Park, Best of Marinovich
Description: A man wakes up from where he spent the night amongst his belongings after police demolished the illegal shack he erected, Ivory Park, near Johannesburg, 1991.
Identifier: islandora:1206

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