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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: 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: Searching for remains of home, Bellville, South Africa, 1977
Subject: South Africa--Social conditions--20th century, Apartheid--South Africa, Squatter settlements--South Africa, Forced migration--South Africa, Some evidence of things seen
Description: A woman with her child on her back searches for remains of her home after the demolition of squatter's homes in Modderdam Road, near the University of the Western Cape, just outside Bellville, 1977
Identifier: islandora:926

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