WITS

Waits are tedious

ZA HPRA A3440-B-B1-B1.1-B1.1.4
Pièce
1967

Fait partie de Ernest Cole, Photographic collection and Papers

Waits are tedious; processing may take two days, time for which men are not paid.

During group medical examination

ZA HPRA A3440-B-B1-B1.1-B1.1.5
Pièce
1967

Fait partie de Ernest Cole, Photographic collection and Papers

During group medical examination, the nude men are herded through a string of doctors' offices.

Wait at railroad station

ZA HPRA A3440-B-B1-B1.1-B1.1.8
Pièce
1967

Fait partie de Ernest Cole, Photographic collection and Papers

After processing, they wait at railroad station for transportation to mine.

Storage is improvised

ZA HPRA A3440-B-B1-B1.1-B1.1.12
Pièce
1967

Fait partie de Ernest Cole, Photographic collection and Papers

Cardboard punched with holes and hung from the ceiling serves one man as holder for his spoons.

During a "swoop", police are everywhere, checking passes

ZA HPRA A3440-B-B1-B1.2-B1.2.2
Pièce
1967

Fait partie de Ernest Cole, Photographic collection and Papers

Young boy is stopped for his pass as white plainclothesman looks on. Checks go on in the townships, too.

During a "swoop", police are everywhere, checking passes

ZA HPRA A3440-B-B1-B1.2-B1.2.3
Pièce
1967

Fait partie de Ernest Cole, Photographic collection and Papers

A student who said he was going to fetch his textbook is pulled in. To prove he was still in school he showed his fountain pen and ink-stained fingers. But that was not enough; in long pants he looked older than sixteen.

Police check passes

ZA HPRA A3440-B-B1-B1.2-B1.2.6
Pièce
1967

Fait partie de Ernest Cole, Photographic collection and Papers

Sometimes check broadens into search of a man's person and belongings.

African township is bulldozed

ZA HPRA A3440-B-B1-B1.3-B1.3.2
Pièce
1967

Fait partie de Ernest Cole, Photographic collection and Papers

African township is bulldozed out of existence to make way for white expansion. Government trucks will move residents and their few possessions to matchbox houses in new locations, usually in remote areas, perhaps not even named n map. Even t live there, families must qualify. People at right did not, and thus have not only had their homes razed, but have nowhere to go.