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Title: Young newspaper vendor, Cape Town
Subject: Child labor--South Africa, Poor children--South Africa, Children--South Africa, Newspaper vendors--South Africa, South Africa--Social conditions--20th century, Apartheid, The Cordoned Heart
Description: A child newspaper vendor stands barefoot, ready to begin the day's work before sunrise.
Identifier: islandora:5726

Title: Remains of an unidentified body close to the Angolan border
Subject: Namibia--History, Military--20th century, War victims--Namibia
Description: The bush of ghosts. The remains of an unidentified body close to the Angolan border.
Identifier: islandora:6983

Title: Plastic shelter, Crossroads, Cape Town
Subject: Temporary housing--South Africa, Squatter settlements--South Africa, Forced migration--South Africa, Eviction--South Africa, South Africa--Social conditions--20th century, Apartheid, The Cordoned Heart
Description: A bed stands outside a plastic shelter erected after a mass demolition of homes, circa 1980.
Identifier: islandora:5715

Title: Forced removals, Bakwena Ba Mogopa
Subject: Rural poor--South Africa, Forced migration--South Africa, Eviction--South Africa, South Africa--Social conditions--20th century, Apartheid, The Cordoned Heart
Description: A resident of Mogopa dismantles his home in preparation for forced removal, 1983.
Identifier: islandora:5759

Title: Commemoration meeting, Merebank
Subject: Memorials--South Africa, Public meetings'South Africa, Political history--South Africa, South Africa--Social conditions--20th century, Apartheid, The Cordoned Heart
Description: Participants gesture with raised fists at a commemoration meeting in Merebank for African National Congress (ANC) members killed in a South African military raid into Maputo.
Identifier: islandora:5731

Title: Forced removals, Kammaskraal
Subject: Rural poor--South Africa, Forced migration--South Africa, Eviction--South Africa, South Africa--Social conditions--20th century, Apartheid, The Cordoned Heart
Description: A family wait alongside their dismantled house for collection by a government truck.
Identifier: islandora:5754

Title: Released prisoner from Onaimwandi base with his family, Tsandi, northern Namibia
Subject: Namibia--History, Military--20th century, Prisoners of war--Namibia
Description: Released prisoner from Onaimwandi base with his family, Tsandi, northern Namibia.
Identifier: islandora:6969

Title: Forced removals, Kammaskraal
Subject: Rural poor--South Africa, Forced migration--South Africa, Eviction--South Africa, Women--South Africa, South Africa--Social conditions--20th century, Apartheid, The Cordoned Heart
Description: Women and children wait to board a government truck.
Identifier: islandora:5758

Title: UDF meeting, Cape Town
Subject: Public meetings--South Africa, Political activists--South Africa, Boesak, Allan Aubrey, 1946-, Political history--South Africa, South Africa--Social conditions--20th century, Apartheid, The Cordoned Heart
Description: Dr. Allan Boesak and Mrs. Helen Joseph at a United Democractic Front (UDF) meeting, Cape Town, 1984.
Identifier: islandora:5741

Title: Vegetable garden group, Mpukonyoni
Subject: Subsistence farming--South Africa, Agricultural workers--South Africa, Women farmers--South Africa, Women--South Africa, South Africa--Social conditions--20th century, Apartheid, The Cordoned Heart
Description: Women from a vegetable garden group attend a meeting in the fertile area of Mpukonyoni, in Reserve Four, KwaZulu reserve.
Identifier: islandora:5763

Title: SADF soldier, Rundu
Subject: Namibia--History, Military--20th century, Soldiers--Namibia--Rundu
Description: South African Defence Force (SADF) soldier, Rundu, Kavango. Rundu was the second-most militarised area of the border zone, after the more densely populated Owambo to the east.
Identifier: islandora:6939

Title: Pensioner, Durban
Subject: Urban poor--South Africa, Older men--South Africa, Fuelwood gatherers--South Africa, Squatter settlements--South Africa, South Africa--Social conditions--20th century, Apartheid, The Cordoned Heart
Description: A pensioner carries wood in a buffer zone between the 'African' township of KwaMashu and the 'coloured' township of Newlands East, Durban.
Identifier: islandora:5714

Title: Young woman playing tennis
Subject: Women--South Africa, South Africa—Social conditions—1961-1994, South Africa—Social life and customs—20th century,
Description: A young woman plays tennis dressed all in white in the Eastern Cape, South Africa.
Identifier: islandora:18460

Title: Destruction of the outer palisade of a home by casspirs
Subject: Namibia--History, Military--20th century, Armored personnel carriers
Description: Destruction of the outer palisade of a home by casspirs, an armoured personnel carrier that is protected from landmines, as a result of fighting between SWAPO and the South West African Police Counter-Insurgency Unit (SWAPOL-COIN), also known as Koevoet, in the Omundudu area.
Identifier: islandora:6985

Title: Farm labourer, Merebank
Subject: Subsistence farming--South Africa, Agricultural workers--South Africa, Casual labor--South Africa, Informal sector (Economics)--South Africa, South Africa--Social conditions--20th century, Apartheid, The Cordoned Heart
Description: A farm labourer who finds work from market gardeners.
Identifier: islandora:5720

Title: Hostel, Johannesburg
Subject: Migrant labor--South Africa--Social conditions, Migrant labor--Housing--South Africa, Dwellings--Social aspects--South Africa, Urban poor--South Africa, South Africa--Social conditions--20th century, Apartheid, The Cordoned Heart
Description: Communal showers in a male labour compound.
Identifier: islandora:5781

Title: Child labourer, Magaliesberg, Transvaal
Subject: Child labor--South Africa, Agricultural workers--South Africa, Children--South Africa, South Africa--Rural conditions, South Africa--Social conditions--20th century, Apartheid, The Cordoned Heart
Description: Child farm labourer at work in the fields.
Identifier: islandora:5723

Title: Willie Amutenya leading children in a dance
Subject: Cassinga (Angola)--History, Angola--History, Military--20th century, People with disabilities, Political prisoners--Namibia--Mariental
Description: Willie Amutenya leading children in a dance. Willie Amutenya was captured at the Vietnam Camp, 50 km from the Namibian border, on the same day as the Cassinga attack in 1978 and held for years at Keikanachab prison, Mariental. The Battle of Cassinga, Cassinga Raid or Kassinga Massacre was a controversial South African airborne attack on a SWAPO refugee camp and military base at the former town of Cassinga, Angola on 4 May 1978.
Identifier: islandora:6953

Title: Lesotho Highlands
Subject: Herders--Lesotho, Cattle--Lesotho, Children--Lesotho, Boys--Lesotho, Lesotho--Social conditions--20th century, The Cordoned Heart
Description: A herd boy on a hillside, with cattle.
Identifier: islandora:5767

Title: Squatters, Hout Bay, Cape Town
Subject: Urban poor--South Africa, Squatter settlements--South Africa, Temporary housing--South Africa, Dwellings--Social aspects--South Africa, South Africa--Social conditions--20th century, Apartheid, The Cordoned Heart
Description: Mr. Fraser Anthony, who had lived in squatter camps most of his life.
Identifier: islandora:5744

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