Squatters' shacks being demolished
- ZA AFRAPIX AP5-20-20.1.14
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- c1983
South African Police oversee the destruction squatter shacks by a front-end loader.
Matthews, Jimi
Squatters' shacks being demolished
South African Police oversee the destruction squatter shacks by a front-end loader.
Matthews, Jimi
New housing estate for the rising middle class in the Black community - Malungu Park, near Guguletu.
Malungu park, on the borders of Gugulethu, is a new housing estate for the rising petit bourgeois in the black community. Notice the double garage and twin level. 1984
Matthews, Jimi
Woman in one-roomed home in Alexandra
Woman in one-roomed home in Alexandra. The family moved from house in township to disused TB treatment centre to make way for houses (the new houses are rented at exorbitant prices the people cannot afford). This woman has made a cardboard partition in the room - shared by 4 families - to create privacy for her family.
Schwegmann, Wendy
Man and a boy next to sleeping dogs at a hostel in Gugulethu.
Meintjes, Roger
Living space for twelve in a Gugulethu hostel
A room in a Gugulethu Hostel for twelve people. People in the hostel refer to their bed as a 'room' and their room as a 'house'.
Meintjes, Roger
Women fill buckets from communal tap
Women fill buckets from the communal tap in front of their houses. .
Schwegmann, Wendy
Mrs Mlangeni and six children in front of the Mlangeni homestead. Possibly Rooigrond?
Schwegmann, Wendy
Women and children outside their dwellings
Women and children outside their corrugated iron dwellings, probably on a farm.
Schwegmann, Wendy
Fire in Phoenix settlement outside Durban
People carry valuable household possessions out of range of a fire in Phoenix settlement.
Paddock, Billy
Residents Association meeting in Cape Town
Residents attending a civic meeting organised by Bommakierie, Bridgetown, Silverton and Kewtown (BBSK) Residents Association. The association is demanding more equitable housing conditions.
Matthews, Jimi