- ZA AFRAPIX AP5-12-12.3-12.3.2
- Stuk
- c1983
Children in class at the Rooigrond school. A teacher stands in front of a chalkboard in a corrugated iron building teaching English. .
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Children in class at the Rooigrond school. A teacher stands in front of a chalkboard in a corrugated iron building teaching English. .
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"Open City" walk in Cape Town to protest against the Group Areas Act
About 2000 people participated in an 'Open City' walk to indicate their opposition to the Group Areas Act which reserves certain residential areas for different race groups. This participant, with a banner saying "it's my country I will live where I choose to!!", was instructed not to hold his banner because the police had forbidden the display of any banners and posters. He tied the poster to his back so was not 'holding' it.
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Non-racial 'Swim-in' held in Hillbrow, defying the Group Areas Act
A multi-racial 'Swim-in' was organised by the Democratic Party (DP) at a swimming pool in central Johannesburg as part of a campaign to defy apartheid laws in the city. In terms of the Group Areas Act, difference races are forced to use different amenities.
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Right-wingers trying to prevent a 'Swim-in'
Right-wingers, holding an AWB flag, attempt to prevent a non-racial 'Swim-in' organised by the Democratic Party, at the Hillbrow Swimming pool. Johannesburg, June 1989.
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AWB right-wingers trying to prevent a 'Swim-in' are arrested by police
AWB right wing supporters, who attempt to prevent a non-racial swim-in organised by the Democratic Party at the Hillbrow swimming pool, are arrested by police. Johannesburg, June 1989.
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Police oversee destruction of a squatter camp near Cape Town
Police in armoured Saracen van (Ratel) oversee the destruction of a Cape Town 'Squatter Camp'.
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The Batlokwa people protest their removal
A community meeting being held to protest the forced removal of the Batlokwa people.
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The Bethanie community after Magopa residents were forcefully removed
Most of the Magopa community moved to Bethanie in 1984. Depicted is a corrugated iron house. Part of a series on forced removal of the Mogopa people from their home to Pachsdraai and Bethanie between 1983 and 1984.
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White truck drivers who transported the belongings of the Mogopa people
Residents forcibly removed from Mogopa where charged as much as R300 by farmers who transported their belongings by truck to a far away homeland.
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A field with rubble, part of the removal of the Mogopa people from their home
A landscape of a homestead in the background and a pile of rubble of a destroyed building in the foreground. Part of the forced removal of the Mogopa people from their home to Pachsdraai and Bethanie between 1983 and 1984.
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