Catholic missionary in Mamelodi
- ZA HPRA A3440-B-B1-B1.12-B1.12.13
- Item
- 1967
Children trot after Catholic missionary on his rounds in Mamelodi.
Catholic missionary in Mamelodi
Children trot after Catholic missionary on his rounds in Mamelodi.
Possession ceremony of initiate
Possession ceremony of initiate (girl wearing strands of beads may involve days or months of ritual dancing and singing to beat of sacred drum until irresistible force of spirit enters girl.
Frenchdale banishment camp: twelve huts with nothing around them but miles of barren velds.
Leonford Ganyile was hopeful for future and studied for his matriculation by the light of a paraffin lamp. He later escaped across Botswana border.
At the end of a day there is nothing to do but sleep.
Ernest Cole portrait photographs
Ernest Cole, Photographic collection and Papers
The collection contains the photographic work of the South African photographer Ernest Cole, some of which culminated in the iconic book "House of Bondage", published in 1967. Also included are his notes, correspondence and research material, as well as his photographic work which he continued in the USA.
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These images were published in the book "House of Bondage". Each of the 184 photographs originate from one of the folders in B2.1-24, from which they were extracted. The images which were selected for the book are marked on the original contact sheets and the negative sheets.
At assignment desk clerk's rubber stamp dictates mine where man will work.
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.