- ZA HPRA A3440-B-B1-B1.4-B1.4.4
- Item
- 1967
Whistle has sounded, train is moving, but people are still trying to get on.
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Men who have finished their sentences
- ZA HPRA A3440-B-B1-B1.2-B1.2.10
- Item
- 1967
Men who have finished their sentences depart under guard for their home towns.
- ZA HPRA A3440-B-B1-B1.9-B1.9.10
- Item
- 1967
Child has been judged not "serious" enough to be given a bed.
- ZA HPRA A3440-B-B1-B1.14-B1.14.10
- Item
- 1967
Little news filters in from outside, and conversation on the same old topics sometimes flares with irritation.
Paulus Howell Mopeli (alias Mopelinyana)
- ZA HPRA A3440-B-B1-B1.14-B1.14.5
- Item
- 1967
Treaty Mopeli's husband Paulus, once a Basotho chief, was banished in 1950.
- ZA HPRA A3440-B-B1-B1.13-B1.13.3
- Item
- 1967
Rented car is status symbol at middle-class marriage. Expensive wedding can leave couple broke for a year.
- ZA HPRA A3440-B-B1-B1.11-B1.11.6
- Item
- 1967
Man in shebeen tries age-old persuasion of drink and talk on his attractive companion.
Man singing with guitar in a shebeen
- ZA HPRA A3440-B-B1-B1.11-B1.11.3
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- 1967
Atmosphere of the shebeens is free, in contrast to that of regimented Government beer halls. When spirits run high, someone usually provides music, and a woman may break into a dance or staccato of swearwords. It used to be a social disgrace for an African woman to be found drinking with men. Shebeens have changed this.
- ZA HPRA A3440-B-B1-B1.10-B1.10.17
- Item
- 1967
But others may get caught as police try to solve tsotsi problem with roundups and arrests. This only toughens the youths, who take pride in being able to stand up to interrogation, beatings, and jail conditions.
- ZA HPRA A3440-B-B1-B1.7-B1.7.6
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- 1967
Low-paid Africans buy high-priced goods on time in white-owned stores like this one.
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