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
"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.
Miller, Eric
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'.
Mendel, Gideon
A Magopa woman and children in front of a house before being forcefully removed
A woman with children in front of their home in Magopa. Part of the forced removal of the Mogopa people from their home to Pachsdraai and Bethanie between 1983 and 1984.
Weinberg, Paul
Living space in a Gugulethu hostel
Two families in a Gugulethu Hostel. People in the hostel refer to their bed as a 'room' and their room as a 'house'.
Meintjes, Roger
Two boys in front of housing in Manenberg
Vallie, Zubeida
Women with a baby outside tent.
Women stands in front of a tent holding a baby.
Schwegmann, Wendy
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