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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: Man holding little boy on shoulders, Mai Mai hostel, Johannesburg, South Africa
Subject: Men--South Africa--Johannesburg, Children--South Africa--Johannesburg, Urban housing--South Africa--Johannesburg
Description: A man holds a little boy on his shoulder outside a room at the Mai Mai hostel in Johannesburg, South Africa.
Identifier: islandora:18595

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: 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: Young boy in garden, Johannesburg, South Africa
Subject: Urban housing--South Africa, Children--South Africa, Urban youth--South Africa,
Description: A little boy stands in the garden in front of his home next to a statue of a lady, Robertsham, Johannesburg, South Africa.
Identifier: islandora:1272

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: 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: Boy playing with toy car, Johannesburg, South Africa
Subject: Urban housing--South Africa, City dwellers--South Africa, Children--South Africa,
Description: A young boy plays with a remote controlled car in a small backyard garden in Vredepark, Johannesburg, South Africa.
Identifier: islandora:1250

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: 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: 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

Title: Black children at school, Johannesburg, South Africa
Subject: Discrimination in education--South Africa--Johannesburg, Youth--South Africa--Johannesburg, School children--South Africa--Johannesburg, Segregation--South Africa--Johannesburg, Race discrimination--South Africa--Johannesburg
Description: Poor black education at an informal (squatter) settlement outside Johannesburg. Children sat on the floor, or on bricks as stools, due to a lack of facilities, South Africa, August 1990.
Identifier: islandora:5364

Title: Shepherd and his family, Cederberg, South Africa, 1987
Subject: South Africa--Social conditions--20th century, Children--South Africa, Shepherds--South Africa, Some evidence of things seen
Description: A shepherd and his family, outside the home he built himself under a massive rock in the Cederberg, south-western Cape, 1987. During the bitterly cold winter months, he would trek with his employer's sheep to the Ceres-Karoo, but as soon as spring arrived, he would start the long trek back to the mountains. This had been his life for the best of 70 odd years
Identifier: islandora:937

Title: Portrait of a young child, Genadendal, South Africa
Subject: Genadendal (South Africa)—Social conditions, Children—South Africa--Genadendal,
Description: A young child poses for a portrait, Genadendal, South Africa.
Identifier: islandora:18302

Title: Before wedding, Arniston, South Africa
Subject: Weddings--South Africa, Children--South Africa, Social life and customs--South Africa,
Description: Andrew's child from his first marriage, Sabine, gets dressed for the wedding, while Karen (Andrew's bride) has her hair done in the background at the Arniston Hotel in 2001.
Identifier: islandora:1427

Title: Pauline Kuzwayo, whose son was shot dead, Kathlehong township, South Africa
Subject: South Africa--Social conditions--20th century, Children--South Africa, Mothers--South Africa, Murder victims--South Africa, Violence--South Africa, Some evidence of things seen
Description: Pauline Kuzwayo is a widow who lives in the Twala Section of Kathlehong. A deeply religious person, she cried softly when she spoke about the death of her son, Sibusiso. "I do not know where he died. I do not even know how he died. But he was shot. When I found him in the mortuary, there were many other women also looking for their children. One had to see the piles of bodies to believe that so many young people were being murdered. And each body had a mother. It was left for us, the mothers, to find our children's bodies."
Identifier: islandora:956

Title: Child at soup kitchen, Johannesburg, South Africa, 1995
Subject: South Africa--Social conditions--20th century, Children--South Africa, Soup kitchens--South Africa, Poor whites--South Africa, Some evidence of things seen
Description: At a soup kitchen, run by a former alcoholic turned born-again-Christian, a girl eats lunch after school. For many who went there it was the only meal of the day. Claremont, Johannesburg, 1995
Identifier: islandora:960

Title: HIV positive siblings at Cotlands Baby Sanctuary, Hlabisa, South Africa
Subject: AIDS (disease)--South Africa, Orphans--South Africa, Children--South Africa,
Description: HIV positive brothers and sisters, Sanele Zungu (5 years old), Lungile Zungu (2 years old), and Zanele Zungu (4 years old) at Cotlands Baby Sanctuary in Hlabisa, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
Identifier: islandora:1359

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