- ZA HPRA A3440-B-B1-B1.9-B1.9.5
- Item
- 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.
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.
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.
...the boy - called Papa - is out of control. Jumping fences is something he must do well if he means to live by his wits.
Papa with slingshot, usually first weapon of township boy.
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.
When these pictures were taken, Papa's mother had just learned that he had been playing hooky for three months.
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.
"Penny, baas, please, baas, I hungry..." This plaint is part of nightly scene in the golden City, as black boys beg from whites. They may be thrown a coin, or, as here, they may get slapped in the face.