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Title: Hostel, Johannesburg
Subject: Migrant labor--South Africa--Social conditions, Migrant labor--Housing--South Africa, Dwellings--Social aspects--South Africa, Urban poor--South Africa, South Africa--Social conditions--20th century, Apartheid, The Cordoned Heart
Description: Communal showers in a male labour compound.
Identifier: islandora:5781

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: Zulu hostel, South Africa, 1992
Subject: Apartheid--South Africa--Soweto, Political violence--South Africa--Soweto, Soweto (South Africa)--Social conditions, History--Political aspects--South Africa--Soweto, Weapons--South Africa--Soweto, Best of Marinovich
Description: Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) supporters show off weapons in a shebeen in Dobsonville hostel, while police search for weapons outside, Soweto, 1992. Thousands of people, both civilians and combatants, died in the so-called "Hostel War" that lasted from 1989-1995.
Identifier: islandora:1190

Title: Hostel wars, South Africa, 1990
Subject: Apartheid--South Africa--Thokoza, Political violence--South Africa--Thokoza, Thokoza (South Africa)--Social conditions, History--Political aspects--South Africa--Thokoza, Best of Marinovich
Description: ANC (African National Congress) supporters push over a breeze-block wall, part of Khalanyoni hostel at the southern end of Khumalo Street, Thokoza, 1990. These ANC warriors dismantled the buildings, brick by multi-coloured brick, and used them to rebuild their shacks that were destroyed in the fighting with the IFP (Inkatha Freedom Party).
Identifier: islandora:1192

Title: Hostel interior, South Africa, 1990
Subject: Apartheid--South Africa--Thokoza, Thokoza (South Africa)--Social conditions, Housing--South Africa--Thokoza, History--Political aspects--South Africa--Thokoza, Best of Marinovich
Description: A room inside the Mshaya'zafe hostel, Thokoza, near Johannesburg, 1990. The migrant workers' hostel was later destroyed in clashes between the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) and African National Congress (ANC). Thousands of people, both civilians and combatants, died in the so-called "Hostel War" that lasted from 1989-1995.
Identifier: islandora:1204

Title: Hostel, Johannesburg
Subject: Migrant labor--South Africa, 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 sits on his concrete bed in a mining compound.
Identifier: islandora:5783

Title: Hostel, Johannesburg
Subject: Migrant labor--South Africa, 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 communal stove and concrete beds in a mining compound.
Identifier: islandora:5784

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