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Title: Traditional herders on a mountain, Lesotho
Subject: Lesotho--Social conditions, Lesotho--Social life and customs, Zulu (African people)--Lesotho,
Description: Traditional herders on a mountain in Lesotho.
Identifier: islandora:18628

Title: Interior of a hut
Subject: Pondo (African people), Ethnology--South Africa--Pondoland, Eastern Cape (South Africa)--Rural conditions, Implements, utensils, etc.--South Africa--Pondoland
Description: The interior of a hut showing the men's side.
Identifier: islandora:5487

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: Pondoland Reserve
Subject: Pondo (African people), Ethnology--South Africa--Pondoland, Eastern Cape (South Africa)--Rural conditions, Cattle--South Africa--Pondoland, Huts--South Africa--Pondoland
Description: Landscape scene in Pondoland Reserve. A distant umzi, a large herd of cattle and a river.
Identifier: islandora:5481

Title: Ritual dance of novice and amagqira
Subject: Pondo (African people), Ethnology--South Africa--Pondoland, Eastern Cape (South Africa)--Rural conditions, Pondo (African people)--Clothing, Pondo (African people)--Social life and customs
Description: Ritual dance of novice and amagqira.
Identifier: islandora:5414

Title: Beer-drink
Subject: Pondo (African people), Ethnology--South Africa--Pondoland, Eastern Cape (South Africa)--Rural conditions, Pondo (African people)--Social life and customs, Pondo (African people)--Clothing
Description: A beer-drink out of doors.
Identifier: islandora:5423

Title: Landscape scene
Subject: Nyakyusa (African people), Ethnology--Tanzania, Tanzania--Rural conditions, Men--Tanzania, Landscapes--Tanzania
Description: Landscape scene, possibly at Mwaya on Lake Nyasa. Notice the coastal palms in the background. Photograph taken by Monica Wilson during joint fieldwork at different periods from April 1935-December 1937.
Identifier: islandora:5642

Title: Interior of a house
Subject: Pondo (African people), Ethnology--South Africa--Pondoland, Eastern Cape (South Africa)--Rural conditions, Pondo (African people)--Dwellings, Interior decoration--South Africa--Pondoland
Description: Interior of what is probably a round square house in Pondoland. Notice the grinding stone on the bottom left and the picture on the wall.
Identifier: islandora:5428

Title: Children
Subject: Pondo (African people), Ethnology--South Africa--Pondoland, Eastern Cape (South Africa)--Rural conditions, Children--South Africa--Pondoland, Huts--South Africa--Pondoland
Description: Nurses with their charges. This photograph depicts the same event as seen in: Reaction to conquest: effects of contact with Europeans on the Pondo of South Africa. London : H. Milford, Pub. for the International Institute of African Languages and Cultures by the Oxford University Press, 1936. Plate XIVa.
Identifier: islandora:5409

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: Laagers
Subject: South Africa--Politics and government--1978-1989--Caricatures and cartoons, South Africa--Social conditions--1961-1994--Caricatures and cartoons, Political violence--South Africa--Caricatures and cartoons, South African wit and humor, Pictorial, South Africa
Description: History seemed to repeat itself when upheaval in the townships caused a nervous government to seek security by surrounding itself within a laager of steel. Description provided by Tony Grogan.
Identifier: islandora:6195

Title: Cattle kraal
Subject: Namibia--Rural conditions, Marinovich african spirituality
Description: Cattle kraal, Namibia.
Identifier: islandora:7228

Title: A gathering
Subject: Pondo (African people), Ethnology--South Africa--Pondoland, Eastern Cape (South Africa)--Rural conditions, Umbrellas--South Africa--Pondoland, Crowds--South Africa--Pondoland
Description: A social or political gathering.
Identifier: islandora:5491

Title: Bad news, Mr President. The dollar's crashed against toilet paper!
Subject: Zimbabwe--Economic conditions--1980- --Caricatures and cartoons, Mugabe, Robert Gabriel, 1924- --Caricatures and cartoons, Inflation (Finance)--Zimbabwe-- Caricatures and cartoons, Zimbabwe--Politics and government--1980- --Caricatures and cartoons, South African wit and humor, Pictorial, Zimbabwe
Description: Under the lunatic economic policies of ZANU-PF (Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front) the value of the Zimbabwe dollar went into free fall. Printing money was one of the solutions adopted to support it. Description provided by Tony Grogan.
Identifier: islandora:6137

Title: Pot-making
Subject: Pondo (African people), Ethnology--South Africa--Pondoland, Eastern Cape (South Africa)--Rural conditions, Pottery--South Africa--Pondoland, Mother and child--South Africa--Pondoland
Description: Building up the sides. This photograph depicts the same subject as seen in: Reaction to conquest: effects of contact with Europeans on the Pondo of South Africa. London : H. Milford, Pub. for the International Institute of African Languages and Cultures by the Oxford University Press, 1936. Plate IXb.
Identifier: islandora:5400

Title: Storage hut
Subject: Pondo (African people), Ethnology--South Africa--Pondoland, Eastern Cape (South Africa)--Rural conditions, Storage facilities--South Africa--Pondoland, Children--South Africa--Pondoland
Description: A storage hut in Pondoland.
Identifier: islandora:5429

Title: I knew it ' give them an inch and they'll take a foot. '.- he's doing the backstroke in the bathtub!
Subject: South Africa--Politics and government--1961-1978--Caricatures and cartoons, Apartheid--South Africa--Caricatures and cartoons, Blacks--South Africa--Social conditions--Caricatures and cartoons, South African wit and humor, Pictorial, South Africa
Description: One of the adjustments to apartheid necessary to accommodate influential black people visiting the urban centres was to allow blacks to stay in previously 'whites only' hotels provided they qualified as 'bona fide' travellers. This caused grave disquiet among purist government supporters. Description provided by Tony Grogan.
Identifier: islandora:6147

Title: Interior of a hut
Subject: Pondo (African people), Ethnology--South Africa--Pondoland, Eastern Cape (South Africa)--Rural conditions, Implements, utensils, etc.--South Africa--Pondoland, Huts--South Africa--Pondoland
Description: The interior of a hut showing the men's side.
Identifier: islandora:5387

Title: As I was saying affirmative action must not mean that people are moved into jobs beyond their level of competence '
Subject: Affirmative action programs--South Africa--Caricatures and cartoons, South Africa--Social conditions--1994- --Caricatures and cartoons, Whites--South Africa--Social conditions--Caricatures and cartoons, South African wit and humor, Pictorial, South Africa
Description: Affirmative action had severe implications for white employees who, fearing the threat to their jobs, warned about lowering of standards. Description provided by Tony Grogan.
Identifier: islandora:6131

Title: Elderly Xhosa man dressed in a large cloak, Transkei, South Africa
Subject: Transkei (South Africa)—Rural conditions, Xhosa (African people)—South Africa—Social conditions, Men—South Africa,
Description: An elderly Xhosa man, dressed in a large black cloak, holds a hat in his hands, Transkei, South Africa.
Identifier: islandora:18277

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