- ZA HPRA A3440-B-B1-B1.6-B1.6.16
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- 1967
Signage at cashier demarcation "Non-Europeans teller. nie Blanke kassier"
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Signage at cashier demarcation "Non-Europeans teller. nie Blanke kassier"
"2nd class Stop. 2e klas Halte"
"Slegs vir Nie-Blankes. Non-Europeans only."
Section of Rand Leases mine compound
Section of Rand Leases mine compound, outside Johannesburg, where African miners live while on contract. No families or women are allowed. this is a typical compound, with buildings laid out in a square and only one gate.
After breakfast of tea laced with sugar, Jane Mogale scrapes pot for crusts of last night's porridge, which may be her only food till evening.
Brand new school, with no desks. It opened with seven hundred students and only three teachers assigned by Government. Without supervision, pupils have gone to recess leaving books scattered and trampled.
But others may get caught as police try to solve tsotsi problem with roundups and arrests. This only toughens the youths, who take pride in being able to stand up to interrogation, beatings, and jail conditions.
Servants' quarters atop a luxury apartment house in northern Johannesburg.
Relatives of the arrested come to door of jail. Some bring money for fines, others bring food.
priest gives Communion to sock woman. He is among few whites who experience first-hand the living conditions of Africans in townships.Catholic Church's role largely remains the traditional one of preparing souls for eternity.