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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: 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: 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: Great Trek Commemoration, Uitenhage, South Africa
Subject: South Africa-- History--Great Trek, 1836-1840--Anniversaries, etc., Role playing, Political history--South Africa--Pretoria, Afrikaners--Social life and customs
Description: Commemoration of the Afrikaners' Great Trek, Uitenhage, Eastern Cape, South Africa, December 1988.
Identifier: islandora:5353

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: Playing games along river, Johannesburg, South Africa
Subject: Leisure time--South Africa, Social life and customs--South Africa, City dwellers--South Africa,
Description: Andrew, Addey and Ian (from L to R) play Pooh Sticks during a picnic at a river north of Johannesburg, 1989.
Identifier: islandora:1410

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: Three men praying in a church, South Africa
Subject: South Africa--Social conditions, Men--South Africa,
Description: Three men stand and pray in a church, South Africa.
Identifier: islandora:18620

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: ANC refugees, South Africa, 1994
Subject: Apartheid--South Africa--KwaZulu-Natal, Refugees--South Africa--KwaZulu-Natal, History--Political aspects--South Africa--KwaZulu-Natal, KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa)--Social conditions, Best of Marinovich
Description: A family carry their belongings home after months in a refugee camp for African National Congress (ANC) supporting families from the Sonkombo area from which they had fled months earlier because of attacks by rival Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP). Sonkombo, KwaZulu-Natal, 1994.
Identifier: islandora:1199

Title: Xhosa man beating a drum, Transkei, South Africa
Subject: Transkei (South Africa)—Rural conditions, Xhosa (African people)—South Africa, Xhosa (African people)—South Africa—Social conditions, Men—South Africa,
Description: A Xhosa man, dressed in traditional clothing beats a drum, Transkei, South Africa.
Identifier: islandora:18267

Title: Portrait of an elderly man, Genadendal, South Africa
Subject: Genadendal (South Africa)—Social conditions, Men—South Africa--Genadendal,
Description: Portrait of an elderly man from Genadendal, South Africa.
Identifier: islandora:18310

Title: Portrait of a woman wearing an apron, Genadendal, South Africa
Subject: Genadendal (South Africa)—Social conditions, Women—South Africa—Genadendal,
Description: A woman, wearing an apron, stands at a fence outside her home in Genadendal, South Africa.
Identifier: islandora:18294

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: Couple at the Mai Mai Hostel, Johannesburg, South Africa
Subject: Men--South Africa--Johannesburg, Women--South Africa--Johannesburg, Johannesburg (South Africa)--Social life and customs, Suits (Clothing)--South Africa--Johannesburg, Clothing, Traditional--South Africa--Johannesburg, Urban housing--South Africa--Johannesburg
Description: A couple standing outside a room at the Mai Mai Hostel display an interesting mixture of clothing. The woman wears traditional clothing and the man is dressed in a modern suit. Johannesburg, South Africa.
Identifier: islandora:18576

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

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