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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: 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: 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: 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: 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: White supervisors undertake labourers work in market, South Africa
Subject: Social conditions--South Africa, Labor--South Africa, Apartheid--South Africa,
Description: White supervisors undertake labourers work in market, January 1973, South Africa.
Identifier: islandora:18493

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: Siblings, District Six, South Africa, 1974
Subject: South Africa--Social conditions--20th century, Apartheid--South Africa, Children--South Africa, Some evidence of things seen
Description: Two sisters with their brother in front of a neighbour's house in District Six, Cape Town, 1974
Identifier: islandora:953

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: 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: 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: 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: Little boy next to plastic shelter, Nyanga, South Africa, circa 1975
Subject: South Africa--Social conditions--20th century, Apartheid--South Africa, Children--South Africa, Squatter settlements--South Africa, Forced migration--South Africa, Some evidence of things seen
Description: Little boy in front of a plaster shelter at KTC camp in Nyanga, Cape Town
Identifier: islandora:933

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: Returning to the land, Magopa, South Africa
Subject: Land ownership--South Africa, Land--South Africa, Social conditions--South Africa, Apartheid--South Africa,
Description: The people of Mogopa re-establish themselves in their land after being forcibly removed by the apartheid state. Magopa, North West Province, 1991.
Identifier: islandora:18378

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: Whites only' park, Stilfontein, South Africa
Subject: Parks--Public use--South Africa--Stilfontein, Apartheid--South Africa--Stilfontein, Social conditions--South Africa--Stilfontein, Segregation----South Africa--Stilfontein, Race discrimination--South Africa--Stilfontein
Description: Under apartheid's policies of racial separation, only whites were allowed to use the park and the amenities in it, Stilfontein, South Africa, 14 December 1988.
Identifier: islandora:5355

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

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