White woman on a bench for "Europeans Only"
- ZA HPRA A3440-B-B1-B1.6-B1.6.1
- Stuk
- 1967
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White woman on a bench for "Europeans Only"
"Pretoria Voorstedelike stasie vir Nie-Blankes. Suburban station for Non-Whites."
Two telephone booths with the signage: "Non-Europeans. Nie-Blankes" and "Blankes. Europeans"
"2nd class Stop. 2e klas Halte"
Moses Mogale does homework by candlelight. Township houses are not equipped with electricity.
Sharing tribal-language readers
Children must share tribal-language reader because of shortage of supplies. Principal of this school ordered sixty readers from Government, received two.
During day, floor patients are moved outside.
Only most urgent cases are admitted; still, wards operate at 50% beyond capacity. patients lie on stretchers, chairs, and felt mats on floor between and under beds.
Township mother fights losing battle to keep son, age nine, from running off t live life of the streets. She tries to assert authority with threats: "What's your future going to be like without an education?" But it is too late...
Line between laughing and crying, between playing and fighting, is very narrow for boy schooled in the streets. He doesn't care that he wears rags.