- ZA HPRA A3440-B-B1-B1.1-B1.1.4
- Item
- 1967
Waits are tedious; processing may take two days, time for which men are not paid.
Waits are tedious; processing may take two days, time for which men are not paid.
During group medical examination
During group medical examination, the nude men are herded through a string of doctors' offices.
After processing, they wait at railroad station for transportation to mine.
Cardboard punched with holes and hung from the ceiling serves one man as holder for his spoons.
During a "swoop", police are everywhere, checking passes
Young boy is stopped for his pass as white plainclothesman looks on. Checks go on in the townships, too.
During a "swoop", police are everywhere, checking passes
A student who said he was going to fetch his textbook is pulled in. To prove he was still in school he showed his fountain pen and ink-stained fingers. But that was not enough; in long pants he looked older than sixteen.
Sometimes check broadens into search of a man's person and belongings.
African township is bulldozed out of existence to make way for white expansion. Government trucks will move residents and their few possessions to matchbox houses in new locations, usually in remote areas, perhaps not even named n map. Even t live there, families must qualify. People at right did not, and thus have not only had their homes razed, but have nowhere to go.
Typical location has acres of identical four-room houses on nameless streets. Many are hours by train from city jobs.
Sign warns that permits are needed to enter location.