- ZA HPRA A3440-B-B1-B1.9-B1.9.5
- Stuk
- 1967
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.
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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.
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.
Child has been judged not "serious" enough to be given a bed.
Infant patients must often share a bed with two others, and spread of infectious diseases is a common problem.
African children who have left home to fend for themselves in city streets.
When these pictures were taken, Papa's mother had just learned that he had been playing hooky for three months.
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.
Atmosphere of the shebeens is free, in contrast to that of regimented Government beer halls. When spirits run high, someone usually provides music, and a woman may break into a dance or staccato of swearwords. It used to be a social disgrace for an African woman to be found drinking with men. Shebeens have changed this.
Municipalities legally monopolize production and sale of this brew; profits are high. In Government beer halls (where women are not allowed), it is dispensed automatically from huge vats.
Drummer intones hymn and congregation takes it up with gusto, swaying bodies as they sing. Soon they are carried away with emotion and begin dancing in rhythm with the drum.