- ZA HPRA A3440-B-B1-B1.1-B1.1.1
- Item
- 1967
Pensive tribesmen, newly recruited to mine labor, await processing and assignment.
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- 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.
- ZA HPRA A3440-B-B1-B1.1-B1.1.2
- Item
- 1967
Fingerprinting is necessary step in issuance of all-important pass legalizing workman's presence in white area for duration of his job.
During group medical examination
- ZA HPRA A3440-B-B1-B1.1-B1.1.5
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- 1967
During group medical examination, the nude men are herded through a string of doctors' offices.
- ZA HPRA A3440-B-B1-B1.1-B1.1.6
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- 1967
After processing, they wait at railroad station for transportation to mine. Identity tag on wrist shows shipment of labor to which man is assigned.
- ZA HPRA A3440-B-B1-B1.1-B1.1.8
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- 1967
After processing, they wait at railroad station for transportation to mine.
Section of Rand Leases mine compound
- ZA HPRA A3440-B-B1-B1.1-B1.1.9
- Item
- 1967
Section of Rand Leases mine compound, outside Johannesburg, where African miners live while on contract. No families or women are allowed. this is a typical compound, with buildings laid out in a square and only one gate.
- ZA HPRA A3440-B-B1-B1.1-B1.1.10
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- 1967
Barracks-like buildings are divided into starkly simple rooms with bunk space for twenty men. There are no closets or cupboards, so clothes and boots hang all over.
- ZA HPRA A3440-B-B1-B1.1-B1.1.15
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- 1967
Some, like man with penny whistle, pass time with musical instruments.
- ZA HPRA A3440-B-B1-B1.1-B1.1.19
- Item
- 1967
As old group leaves, new one arrives, driven to mines by failing crops. Man with cane is signing on again despite wooden leg, result of mine accident.
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