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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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: Child's grave, Brandfort, South Africa
Subject: South Africa--Social conditions--20th century, Children--South Africa, Cemeteries--South Africa, Ritual--South Africa, Burial--South Africa, Some evidence of things seen
Description: The custom with the inhabitants of Majwemasweu is to demarcate their cemeteries carefully for elderly people, middle-aged people, young people and children. In a corner of one of their three cemeteries, a hundred children lay buried. High infant mortality rate is a feature of all rural townships in South Africa. It is a remarkable fact that all the children were buried here since 1991 and that all were younger than five years of age
Identifier: islandora:940

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: 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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