Sharing tribal-language readers
- ZA HPRA A3440-B-B1-B1.8-B1.8.4
- Item
- 1967
Children must share tribal-language reader because of shortage of supplies. Principal of this school ordered sixty readers from Government, received two.
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.
"We sleep anywhere", a boy told me, "in drainpipes, parks, junk yards, anywhere". At dawn I found them lying in a park, shivering.
Expressive face of woman denizen of the shebeens. Some men and women stay in shebeens all day, drinking themselves witless.
Man in shebeen tries age-old persuasion of drink and talk on his attractive companion.
Man in shebeen tries age-old persuasion of drink and talk on his attractive companion. Part of a series of 3 photographs, see items B1.11.6 & B1.11.7
Usual way to hide liquor from police is in four-gallon cans buried in ground.