- ZA HPRA A3440-B-B1-B1.1-B1.1.1
- Pièce
- 1967
Fait partie de Ernest Cole, Photographic collection and Papers
Pensive tribesmen, newly recruited to mine labor, await processing and assignment.
Fait partie de Ernest Cole, Photographic collection and Papers
Pensive tribesmen, newly recruited to mine labor, await processing and assignment.
Fait partie de Ernest Cole, Photographic collection and Papers
Waits are tedious; processing may take two days, time for which men are not paid.
Fait partie de Ernest Cole, Photographic collection and Papers
Fingerprinting is necessary step in issuance of all-important pass legalizing workman's presence in white area for duration of his job.
During group medical examination
Fait partie de Ernest Cole, Photographic collection and Papers
During group medical examination, the nude men are herded through a string of doctors' offices.
Fait partie de Ernest Cole, Photographic collection and Papers
After processing, they wait at railroad station for transportation to mine. Identity tag on wrist shows shipment of labor to which man is assigned.
Fait partie de Ernest Cole, Photographic collection and Papers
After processing, they wait at railroad station for transportation to mine.
Section of Rand Leases mine compound
Fait partie de Ernest Cole, Photographic collection and Papers
Section of Rand Leases mine compound, outside Johannesburg, where African miners live while on contract. No families or women are allowed. this is a typical compound, with buildings laid out in a square and only one gate.
Fait partie de Ernest Cole, Photographic collection and Papers
Barracks-like buildings are divided into starkly simple rooms with bunk space for twenty men. There are no closets or cupboards, so clothes and boots hang all over.
Fait partie de Ernest Cole, Photographic collection and Papers
Some, like man with penny whistle, pass time with musical instruments.
Fait partie de Ernest Cole, Photographic collection and Papers
As old group leaves, new one arrives, driven to mines by failing crops. Man with cane is signing on again despite wooden leg, result of mine accident.