- ZA HPRA A3440-B-B1-B1.10-B1.10.5
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- 1967
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.
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.
...the boy - called Papa - is out of control. Jumping fences is something he must do well if he means to live by his wits.
Listing of subject matter, from 66-1 to 66-19, which also relate to the contact sheets and the files with research material.
Leonford Ganyile was hopeful for future and studied for his matriculation by the light of a paraffin lamp. He later escaped across Botswana border.
Students kneel on floor to write. government is casual about furnishing schools for blacks.
Street boys angling for a way to eat, which they do only when they have money.
Their hangout at fringe of white city's lights.
Cardboard punched with holes and hung from the ceiling serves one man as holder for his spoons.
"We sleep anywhere", a boy told me, "in drainpipes, parks, junk yards, anywhere". At dawn I found them lying in a park, shivering.
At the end of a day there is nothing to do but sleep.