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- 1990-06-05 (Creation)
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1 photograph, b/w
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Afrapix was a collective agency of amateur and professional photographers who documented Apartheid South Africa through their photographs in the 1980s. At its height there were 20 members, and up to 60 "stringers" which had an affiliation and would do projects for Afrapix.
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SOUTH AFRICAN HISTORY ARCHIVE (SAHA)
AL2547 - The Original SAHA Photograph Collection
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Plush homes in the background stand in sharp contrast to the squatter shacks in the foreground on Princess street in Hout Bay. Efforts so far, by the minister of provincial affairs and planning to offer the squatters land somewhere else, have been turned down by the squatters.
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Photographer: © Zubeida Vallie
Permission to use the photograph for publication has to be obtained from the photographer / AFRAPIX.