Image Number: APN10456
Title: Acres of Love,
Path: african.pictures / Independent Photographers / David Larsen
Description: Acres of Love, Johannesburg, South Africa, 9/2003Acres of Love in the upper middle class suburb of Bryanston, Johannesburg is a haven for abandoned and HIV+ children. The Christian organisation provides an extraordinary level of care for each child giving the opportunities of a middle class upbringing to children dumped in dustbins, found abandoned in city parks, and fished out of pit latrines © David Larsen/The Media Bank - embargoed in South Africaboy, child, children, HIV/Aids, AIDS, sores
Collections: Independent Photographers
Subcollections: David Larsen
Country: South Africa
Orientation: portrait
Pixel Size: 2284 x 3398
Media Id: 55_390
Credit: David Larsen / Independent Photographers / african.pictures
Keywords: portrait, black African children, close up (view of object), colour image , playground equipment, Africa, South Africa, ,
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Image Number: APN10457
Title: Lunch time
Path: african.pictures / Independent Photographers / David Larsen
Description: 9/2003 Acres of Love,Johannesburg, Gauteng, South AfricaAcres of Love in the upper middle class suburb of Bryanston, Johannesburg is a haven for abandoned and HIV+ children. The Christian organisation provides an extraordinary level of care for each child giving the opportunities of a middle class upbringing to children dumped in dustbins, found abandoned in city parks, and fished out of pit latrines © David Larsen/The Media Bank - embargoed in South Africachildren, food, eatin, HIV/Aids, AIDS, feeding
Collections: Independent Photographers
Subcollections: David Larsen
Country: South Africa
Orientation: landscape
Pixel Size: 3466 x 2280
Media Id: 55_676
Credit: David Larsen / Independent Photographers / african.pictures
Keywords: AIDS related, diseases, South Africa, Gauteng, Johannesburg, colour image , black African children, child-care centres, eating, abandoned, looking at camera, top view, ,
Model Release: No
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Image Number: APN106425
Path: african.pictures / Independent Photographers / Eric Miller
Description: Johannesburg Gold Reef City. White man consults traditional sangoma witchdoctor healer throws bones Photo © Eric Miller
Collections: Independent Photographers
Subcollections: Eric Miller
Country: South Africa
Orientation: portrait
Pixel Size: 2274 x 3508
Media Id: 91_351
Credit: Eric Miller / Independent Photographers / african.pictures
Keywords: colour image , South Africa, Africa, vertical, looking, groups, examining, ,
Model Release: No
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Image Number: APN106441
Path: african.pictures / Independent Photographers / Eric Miller
Description: KroonstadA prisoner just released from Kroonstad prison after serving his sentence travels by train back to Johannesburg. With him is a house he made in prison from matchsticks.crime©Eric Miller
Collections: Independent Photographers
Subcollections: Eric Miller
Country: South Africa
Orientation: landscape
Pixel Size: 3508 x 2359
Media Id: 90_374
Credit: Eric Miller / Independent Photographers / african.pictures
Keywords: colour image , South Africa, Africa, groups, horizontal, crafts and craft equipment, models, ,
Model Release: No
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Image Number: APN106811
Title: James Sofasonke Mpanza
Path: african.pictures / Bailey's African History Archive / Drum Social Histories
Description: DM2001042301:SAED:SOCIAL:PERSONALITY:MAR1954 - Mpanza Speaks - The Black 'Mayor' of Orlando the biggest township in South Africa speaks to Drum. James Sofasonke Mpanza sits like a king on 'Brown Sugar' as he rides through OrlandoTownship, where he is khown to young and old as their leader. (Photograph by Bob Gosani written by Todd Matshikiza BAHA) old car
Collections: Baileys African History Archive
Subcollections: Drum Social Histories
Pixel Size: 4691 x 4720
Media Id: 69_352
Credit: Drum Social Histories / Baileys African History Archive / Africa Media Online
Keywords: Drum Magazine, South Africa, Africa, South African history, black and white image, square, 1959, 1950s, James Sofasonke Mpanza, gangsters, March, black African man, riding, townships, dirt road, Orlando, Johannesburg, Gauteng, Brown Sugar, horse riding, Bob Gosani, ,
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Image Number: APN106823
Title: Dorothy Masuka
Path: african.pictures / Bailey's African History Archive / Drum Social Histories
Description: DM2005031508:SAED:MUSIC:PERSONALITY:JAN1955 - Everybody's Dotty - Dorothy Masuka (Masuku), the sizzling hepcat 'Nontsokilo' singer from Bulawayo. She blew into Jo'burg from Rhodesia some two years gone. Now, Jo'burg is a tough joint. It takes a tornado to make Jo'burg go nuts. So two years ago Dorothy was just another canary from far. Jo'burg couldn't care less about her. (Photograph by Bob Gosani BAHA) fashion, neg 450
Collections: Baileys African History Archive
Subcollections: Drum Social Histories
Pixel Size: 1950 x 1860
Media Id: 69_652
Credit: Drum Social Histories / Baileys African History Archive / Africa Media Online
Keywords: singers, Drum Magazine, South Africa, Africa, South African history, black and white image, square, January, 1955, 1950s, Bob Gosani, Dorothy Masuka, Bob Gosani, Dotty, Bulawayo, Rhodesia, Joburg, Johannesburg, ,
Model Release: No
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Image Number: APN106835
Path: african.pictures / Bailey's African History Archive / Drum Social Histories
Description: DM2001091204:GCPLR:POLITICS:PERSONALITY:24MAY1964 - Banned From Attending His Daughter's Wedding. The bride says a tearful goodbye to her father. To do this she had to leave her husband and the guests and walk alone to where he was standing. It was a wedding. A happy, all-day, all-family affair, but not quite. Cars from everywhere, Jo'burg, Durban, the Cape, Maritzburg, even Northern Rhodesia, presents galore. A beautiful smiling bride, Miss Hatira, and bashful groom, Dr Ahmed Bhabha. The guests streamed into the gay 'hall' speciallly built for the occasion alongside the Residensia home in Evaton, in Johannesburg. There was another stream of people, too a one-to-one trickle going away from the house, up into the dusty veld above the house, in amongst the cars from everywhere. One by one the guests peeled off, waited patiently and then went, alone to shake the hand of a man who sat alone all day leaning against the furthest car. That man, alone, was Sulliman 'Solly&a
Collections: Baileys African History Archive
Subcollections: Drum Social Histories
Country: South Africa
Pixel Size: 1930 x 1950
Media Id: 69_353
Credit: Drum Social Histories / Baileys African History Archive / Africa Media Online
Keywords: Drum Magazine, South Africa, Africa, South African history, black and white image, daughters, square, father, Solly Nathie, May, 1964, 1960s, Evaton, Johannesburg, Gauteng, weddings, guests, brides, celebrations, apartheid, Hatira Nathie, crying, ,
Model Release: No
Property Release: No

Image Number: APN106848
Title: Banana Boy Blues!
Path: african.pictures / Bailey's African History Archive / Drum Social Histories
Description: DM2005020702:SAED:SOCIAL:MUSIC:PERSONALITY:SEP1957 - Banana Boy Blues! - Then there was Gambi George, certainly one of top drummersof all races in the Union. Ten years ago a Johannesburg music teacher embarked on an experiment to find out how musical or unmusical Indian Music students were. He was primarily interested in producing Indian jazzmen because he had an argument with other musicians who said that only Africans and Coloureds make good jazzmen. He had been told that Indians had a poor sense of Western rhythms and hardly a good ear for the western melody and harmony. (Photograph by Drum Photograph BAHA)
Collections: Baileys African History Archive
Subcollections: Drum Social Histories
Orientation: landscape
Pixel Size: 4349 x 2912
Media Id: 69_695
Credit: Drum Social Histories / Baileys African History Archive / Africa Media Online
Keywords: Drum Magazine, South Africa, Africa, South African history, black and white image, horizontal, 1957, September, 1950s, Gambi George, drummer, drums, Jazz musician, Indian man, Drum Photographer, ,
Model Release: No
Property Release: No

Image Number: APN106854
Path: african.pictures / Bailey's African History Archive / Drum Social Histories
Description: DM2005020708:SAED:MUSIC:THEATRE:PERSONALITY:JAN1956 - Manhattan Brothers Mellow - (Left to right: Rufus Khoza, Ronnie Sehume, Joe Mogotsi, Nathan 'Dambuza' Mdledle with Miriam Makeba.) For 21 years now they have been South Africa's Kings of Song. In November, 1955, at the Bantu Men's Social Centre, Johannesburg the Manhattan Brothers celebrated 21 years in Show Business. In the gala opening of the anniversary celebrations the Brothers crashed through a paper screen into their current hit-parade song...'The `Urge'. In the words of the song, they told of their love and devotion to the stage...A year ago the Manhattan Brothers discovered a great voice in Miriam Makeba. She was just a small-town girl with a voice, which was about all she had. They saw possibilities in her and signed her for a year. The backing group was: Norman Martins (drums) Jacob 'Mzala' Lepere (bass) Fix Qinta (piano) Randolph Chose (trumpet) Kippie Moeketsi (clarinet) MacKay Davashe (te
Collections: Baileys African History Archive
Subcollections: Drum Social Histories
Country: South Africa
Orientation: landscape
Pixel Size: 4398 x 2946
Media Id: 69_626
Credit: Drum Social Histories / Baileys African History Archive / Africa Media Online
Keywords: Johannesburg, horizontal, black and white image, Bantu Men's Social Centre , Africa, Nathan Dambuza Mdledle, South Africa, Joe Mogotsi, Rufus Khoza, 1950s, 1956, singing, Drum Magazine, Ronnie Sehume, South African history, January, musicians, Manhattan Brothers, Gauteng, ,
Model Release: No
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Image Number: APN106855
Path: african.pictures / Bailey's African History Archive / Drum Social Histories
Description: DM2005020709:SAED:SOCIAL:MUSIC:PERSONALITY:JUN1960 - The Show Had Everything - Phata-phata becomes show business. And those guys and dolls went wriggly-pattying gone that someone in the audience just hollered saying somebody should call the fire brigade.The Song? Man, we were not listening! Yes Indeedy. There were pretty girls, hep boys, clown, snazzy music. A shebeenised coffin, too. "FUDUWA!" (Go, man!) the audience shouted in Sotho. And things really began to pop at the Selbourne Hall, Johannesburg. One of the liveliest shows we have had for some time in progress.They called it "In Township Tonight." (Photograph by Peter Magubane BAHA) Ruth Nkonyeni, Dottie Tiyo, rehearsals
Collections: Baileys African History Archive
Subcollections: Drum Social Histories
Country: South Africa
Orientation: portrait
Pixel Size: 2830 x 4234
Media Id: 69_278
Credit: Drum Social Histories / Baileys African History Archive / Africa Media Online
Keywords: Drum Magazine, South Africa, South African history, black and white image, vertical, music, Johannesburg, African Jazz, personality, June, 1960, dancing, In Township Tonight, Dottie Tiyo, Ruth Nkonyeni, Kippie Moeketsi, Performing, phata-phata, 1960s, ,
Model Release: No
Property Release: No

Image Number: APN106856
Path: african.pictures / Bailey's African History Archive / Drum Social Histories
Description: DM2005020710:SAED:SOCIAL:MUSIC:PERSONALITY:JUN1960 - The Show Had Everything - Phata-phata becomes show business. And those guys and dolls went wriggly-pattying gone that someone in the audience just hollered saying somebody should call the fire brigade.The Song? Man, we were not listening! Yes Indeedy. There were pretty girls, hep boys, clown, snazzy music. A shebeenised coffin, too. "FUDUWA!" (Go, man!) the audience shouted in Sotho. And things really began to pop at the Selbourne Hall, Johannesburg. One of the liveliest shows we have had for some time in progress.They called it "In Township Tonight." (Photograph by Peter Magubane BAHA) Ruth Nkonyeni, Dottie Tiyo, rehearsals
Collections: Baileys African History Archive
Subcollections: Drum Social Histories
Country: South Africa
Orientation: portrait
Pixel Size: 2867 x 4250
Media Id: 69_429
Credit: Drum Social Histories / Baileys African History Archive / Africa Media Online
Keywords: music, Drum Magazine, South Africa, South African history, black and white image, vertical, Johannesburg, African Jazz, personality, June, 1960, dancing, In Township Tonight, Dottie Tiyo, Ruth Nkonyeni, Kippie Moeketsi, Performing, 1960s, ,
Model Release: No
Property Release: No

Image Number: APN106857
Title: Kippie Moeketsi
Path: african.pictures / Bailey's African History Archive / Drum Social Histories
Description: DM2005020711:SAED:SOCIAL:MUSIC:PERSONALITY:NODATE - Kippie Moeketsi And Kippie -That's Kippie 'Charlie Parker' Moeketsi, the 35 year old son of a carpenter from George Goch. (Photograph by Drum Photograph BAHA)
Collections: Baileys African History Archive
Subcollections: Drum Social Histories
Orientation: portrait
Pixel Size: 2896 x 4282
Media Id: 69_228
Credit: Drum Social Histories / Baileys African History Archive / Africa Media Online
Keywords: music, Johannesburg, Drum Magazine, South Africa, South African history, black and white image, vertical, African Jazz, personality, June, 1960, dancing, In Township Tonight, Dottie Tiyo, Ruth Nkonyeni, Kippie Moeketsi, Performing, 1960s, Drum Photographer, ,
Model Release: No
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Image Number: APN106858
Path: african.pictures / Bailey's African History Archive / Drum Social Histories
Description: DM2005020712:SAED:SOCIAL:MUSIC:PERSONALITY:JUN1960 - The Show Had Everything - Phata-phata becomes show business. And those guys and dolls went wriggly-pattying gone that someone in the audience just hollered saying somebody should call the fire brigade.The Song? Man, we were not listening! Yes Indeedy. There were pretty girls, hep boys, clown, snazzy music. A shebeenised coffin, too. "FUDUWA!" (Go, man!) the audience shouted in Sotho. And things really began to pop at the Selbourne Hall, Johannesburg. One of the liveliest shows we have had for some time in progress.They called it "In Township Tonight." (Photograph by Peter Magubane BAHA) Ruth Nkonyeni, Dottie Tiyo, rehearsals
Collections: Baileys African History Archive
Subcollections: Drum Social Histories
Country: South Africa
Orientation: portrait
Pixel Size: 2769 x 4266
Media Id: 70_250
Credit: Drum Social Histories / Baileys African History Archive / Africa Media Online
Keywords: music, Johannesburg, African Jazz, Drum Magazine, South Africa, South African history, black and white image, vertical, personality, June, 1960, dancing, In Township Tonight, Dottie Tiyo, Ruth Nkonyeni, Kippie Moeketsi, Performing, phata-phata, 1960s, ,
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Image Number: APN106859
Title: Four of the beauties who gave colour to the show.
Path: african.pictures / Bailey's African History Archive / Drum Social Histories
Description: DM2005020713:SAED:SOCIAL:MUSIC:PERSONALITY:JUN1960 - The Show Had Everything - Four of the beauties who gave colour to the show. The Song? Man, we were not listening! Yes Indeedy. There were pretty girls, hep boys, clown, snazzy music. A shebeenised coffin, too. "FUDUWA!" (Go, man!) the audience shouted in Sotho. And things really began to popat the Selbourne Hall, Johannesburg. One of the liveliest shows we have had for some time in progress.They called it "In Township Tonight." (Photograph by Peter Magubane BAHA) Ruth Nkonyeni, Dottie Tiyo
Collections: Baileys African History Archive
Subcollections: Drum Social Histories
Orientation: panoramic
Pixel Size: 4266 x 2616
Media Id: 69_820
Credit: Drum Social Histories / Baileys African History Archive / Africa Media Online
Keywords: Drum Magazine, South Africa, personality, South African history, black and white image, horizontal, Township Jazz, music, June, 1960, In Township Tonight, Ruth Nkonyeni, vocalists, singing, Performing, Dottie Tiyo, 1960s, Peter Magubane, ,
Model Release: No
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Image Number: APN106947
Title: Last Days Of Sophiatown
Path: african.pictures / Bailey's African History Archive / Drum Social Histories
Description: DM2005020201:SAED:POLITICS:APARTHEID:SOCIAL:PERSONALITY:NOV1959 - Last Days Of Sophiatown - (Photograph by Drum Photographer BAHA) forced removals,
Collections: Baileys African History Archive
Subcollections: Drum Social Histories
Orientation: portrait
Pixel Size: 1960 x 2980
Media Id: 70_188
Credit: Drum Social Histories / Baileys African History Archive / Africa Media Online
Keywords: Drum Magazine, South Africa, South African history, black and white image, November, vertical, apartheid, politics, 1959, forced removals, Group Areas Act, Sophiatown, black African man, 1950s, ,
Model Release: No
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Image Number: APN106949
Path: african.pictures / Bailey's African History Archive / Drum Social Histories
Description: DM2005020202:SAED:POLITICS:APARTHEID:SOCIAL:NOV1959 - Last Days Of Sophiatown - Big machines and men with picks are beating down the last walls of Sof'town. Take a last look and say goodbuy. Sophiatown, the city that was within a city, the Gay Paris of Johannesburg, the notorious Casbah gang den, the shebeeniest of them all. Sophiatown is now breathing for the last time. I was robbed on her streets, beaten up in her dark corners and I will never forget the day when a womean friend of mine was grabbed from me by Sophiatown's tough sons. Her people do not like the fact that she is being murdered and I sympathise with them because she was a free city. There was Aunt Babes, in Edith Street. Bright's place in Tucker and opposite him the Carlton Hotel, run by a Chinaman. She also had her respectable citizens. There was Dr. A.B. Xuma, the African M.D., and Mr J. R. Rathebe, who reminded everybody that he was once in America. Sophiatown will also boast that it built two gentlemen w
Collections: Baileys African History Archive
Subcollections: Drum Social Histories
Country: South Africa
Orientation: portrait
Pixel Size: 1960 x 2850
Media Id: 69_365
Credit: Drum Social Histories / Baileys African History Archive / Africa Media Online
Keywords: Drum Magazine, South Africa, Africa, South African history, black and white image, Sophiatown, vertical, November, 1959, 1950s, black African woman, ,
Model Release: No
Property Release: No

Image Number: APN106951
Path: african.pictures / Bailey's African History Archive / Drum Social Histories
Description: DM2005020203:SAED:POLITICS:APARTHEID:SOCIAL:NOV1959 - Last Days Of Sophiatown - Big machines and men with picks are beating down the last walls of Sof'town. Take a last look and say goodbuy. Sophiatown, the city that was within a city, the Gay Paris of Johannesburg, the notorious Casbah gang den, the shebeeniest of them all. Sophiatown is now breathing for the last time. I was robbed on her streets, beaten up in her dark corners and I will never forget the day when a womean friend of mine was grabbed from me by Sophiatown's tough sons. Her people do not like the fact that she is being murdered and I sympathise with them because she was a free city. There was Aunt Babes, in Edith Street. Bright's place in Tucker and opposite him the Carlton Hotel, run by a Chinaman. She also had her respectable citizens. There was Dr. A.B. Xuma, the African M.D., and Mr J. R. Rathebe, who reminded everybody that he was once in America. Sophiatown will also boast that it built two gentlemen w
Collections: Baileys African History Archive
Subcollections: Drum Social Histories
Country: South Africa
Orientation: landscape
Pixel Size: 2946 x 1926
Media Id: 69_537
Credit: Drum Social Histories / Baileys African History Archive / Africa Media Online
Keywords: South Africa, Drum Magazine, South African history, black and white image, Africa, horizontal, 1950s, Sophiatown, 1959, November, black African people, ,
Model Release: No
Property Release: No

Image Number: APN106953
Path: african.pictures / Bailey's African History Archive / Drum Social Histories
Description: DM2005020204:SAED:POLITICS:APARTHEID:SOCIAL:NOV1959 - Last Days Of Sophiatown - Big machines and men with picks are beating down the last walls of Sof'town. Take a last look and say goodbuy. Sophiatown, the city that was within a city, the Gay Paris of Johannesburg, the notorious Casbah gang den, the shebeeniest of them all. Sophiatown is now breathing for the last time. I was robbed on her streets, beaten up in her dark corners and I will never forget the day when a womean friend of mine was grabbed from me by Sophiatown's tough sons. Her people do not like the fact that she is being murdered and I sympathise with them because she was a free city. There was Aunt Babes, in Edith Street. Bright's place in Tucker and opposite him the Carlton Hotel, run by a Chinaman. She also had her respectable citizens. There was Dr. A.B. Xuma, the African M.D., and Mr J. R. Rathebe, who reminded everybody that he was once in America. Sophiatown will also boast that it built two gentlemen w
Collections: Baileys African History Archive
Subcollections: Drum Social Histories
Country: South Africa
Orientation: portrait
Pixel Size: 1980 x 2930
Media Id: 69_513
Credit: Drum Social Histories / Baileys African History Archive / Africa Media Online
Keywords: destruction, Sophiatown, Drum Magazine, South Africa, Africa, South African history, black and white image, vertical, November, 1959, 1950s, ,
Model Release: No
Property Release: No

Image Number: APN106959
Path: african.pictures / Bailey's African History Archive / Drum Social Histories
Description: DM2000072661:SAED:PERSONALITY:APR1954 - Tell Freedom - Two years ago Peter abrahams came to South Africa for a month's visit after 14 years away, to write a series of a articles for an overseas paper. Here he is being met at the Johannesburg airport on his arrival, by his friend, Henry Nxumalo, assistant editor of Drum. Drum is privileged to publish in serial form what we believe to be one of the finest books ever to come out of Africa. ' Tell Freedom is the life story of Peter Abrahams, the brilliant coloured writer who was born in the slums of Johannesburg and has risen to be awriter of international reputaion. It is an astonishing, moving story, supebly told by a master of language. (Photograph by Bob Gosani Baileys Archive) neg 012, 1952
Collections: Baileys African History Archive
Subcollections: Drum Social Histories
Country: South Africa
Pixel Size: 1990 x 1890
Media Id: 70_233
Credit: Drum Social Histories / Baileys African History Archive / Africa Media Online
Keywords: 1954, April, Drum Magazine, South Africa, personality, South African history, black and white image, square, Johannesburg, Peter Abrahams, journalist, 1950s, ,
Model Release: No
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Image Number: APN106960
Path: african.pictures / Bailey's African History Archive / Drum Social Histories
Description: DM2005020208:SAED:POLITICS:APARTHEID:SOCIAL:NOV1959 - Last Days Of Sophiatown - Big machines and men with picks are beating down the last walls of Sof'town. Take a last look and say goodbuy. Sophiatown, the city that was within a city, the Gay Paris of Johannesburg, the notorious Casbah gang den, the shebeeniest of them all. Sophiatown is now breathing for the last time. I was robbed on her streets, beaten up in her dark corners and I will never forget the day when a womean friend of mine was grabbed from me by Sophiatown's tough sons. Her people do not like the fact that she is being murdered and I sympathise with them because she was a free city. There was Aunt Babes, in Edith Street. Bright's place in Tucker and opposite him the Carlton Hotel, run by a Chinaman. She also had her respectable citizens. There was Dr. A.B. Xuma, the African M.D., and Mr J. R. Rathebe, who reminded everybody that he was once in America. Sophiatown will also boast that it built two gentlemen w
Collections: Baileys African History Archive
Subcollections: Drum Social Histories
Country: South Africa
Orientation: portrait
Pixel Size: 1930 x 2960
Media Id: 70_142
Credit: Drum Social Histories / Baileys African History Archive / Africa Media Online
Keywords: November, South African history, Africa, black and white image, 1950s, Sophiatown, South Africa, Drum Magazine, vertical, destruction, 1959, black African children, ,
Model Release: No
Property Release: No

Image Number: APN106962
Path: african.pictures / Bailey's African History Archive / Drum Social Histories
Description: DM2005020209:SAED:POLITICS:APARTHEID:SOCIAL:NOV1959 - Last Days Of Sophiatown - Big machines and men with picks are beating down the last walls of Sof'town. Take a last look and say goodbuy. Sophiatown, the city that was within a city, the Gay Paris of Johannesburg, the notorious Casbah gang den, the shebeeniest of them all. Sophiatown is now breathing for the last time. I was robbed on her streets, beaten up in her dark corners and I will never forget the day when a womean friend of mine was grabbed from me by Sophiatown's tough sons. Her people do not like the fact that she is being murdered and I sympathise with them because she was a free city. There was Aunt Babes, in Edith Street. Bright's place in Tucker and opposite him the Carlton Hotel, run by a Chinaman. She also had her respectable citizens. There was Dr. A.B. Xuma, the African M.D., and Mr J. R. Rathebe, who reminded everybody that he was once in America. Sophiatown will also boast that it built two gentlemen w
Collections: Baileys African History Archive
Subcollections: Drum Social Histories
Country: South Africa
Orientation: portrait
Pixel Size: 1990 x 2920
Media Id: 69_661
Credit: Drum Social Histories / Baileys African History Archive / Africa Media Online
Keywords: black and white image, South African history, Africa, Drum Magazine, November, 1950s, destruction, Sophiatown, 1959, vertical, South Africa, black African children, ,
Model Release: No
Property Release: No

Image Number: APN106965
Path: african.pictures / Bailey's African History Archive / Drum Social Histories
Description: DM2005020210:SAED:POLITICS:APARTHEID:SOCIAL:NOV1959 - Last Days Of Sophiatown - Big machines and men with picks are beating down the last walls of Sof'town. Take a last look and say goodbuy. Sophiatown, the city that was within a city, the Gay Paris of Johannesburg, the notorious Casbah gang den, the shebeeniest of them all. Sophiatown is now breathing for the last time. I was robbed on her streets, beaten up in her dark corners and I will never forget the day when a womean friend of mine was grabbed from me by Sophiatown's tough sons. Her people do not like the fact that she is being murdered and I sympathise with them because she was a free city. There was Aunt Babes, in Edith Street. Bright's place in Tucker and opposite him the Carlton Hotel, run by a Chinaman. She also had her respectable citizens. There was Dr. A.B. Xuma, the African M.D., and Mr J. R. Rathebe, who reminded everybody that he was once in America. Sophiatown will also boast that it built two gentlemen w
Collections: Baileys African History Archive
Subcollections: Drum Social Histories
Country: South Africa
Orientation: landscape
Pixel Size: 2960 x 1940
Media Id: 70_199
Credit: Drum Social Histories / Baileys African History Archive / Africa Media Online
Keywords: 1959, bending over, November, Africa, South African history, South Africa, horizontal, Drum Magazine, black and white image, Sophiatown, 1950s, black African people, ,
Model Release: No
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Image Number: APN106967
Title: Last Days Of Sophiatown
Path: african.pictures / Bailey's African History Archive / Drum Social Histories
Description: DM2005020211:SAED:POLITICS:APARTHEID:SOCIAL:NOV1959 - Last Days Of Sophiatown - Big machines and men with picks are beating down the last walls of Sof'town. Take a last look and say goodbuy. Sophiatown, the city that was within a city, the Gay Paris of Johannesburg, the notorious Casbah gang den, the shebeeniest of them all. Sophiatown is now breathing for the last time. I was robbed on her streets, beaten up in her dark corners and I will never forget the day when a womean friend of mine was grabbed from me by Sophiatown's tough sons. Her people do not like the fact that she is being murdered and I sympathise with them because she was a free city. There was Aunt Babes, in Edith Street. Bright's place in Tucker and opposite him the Carlton Hotel, run by a Chinaman. She also had her respectable citizens. There was Dr. A.B. Xuma, the African M.D., and Mr J. R. Rathebe, who reminded everybody that he was once in America. Sophiatown will also boast that it built two gentlemen w
Collections: Baileys African History Archive
Subcollections: Drum Social Histories
Orientation: portrait
Pixel Size: 1960 x 2910
Media Id: 70_58
Credit: Drum Social Histories / Baileys African History Archive / Africa Media Online
Keywords: South African history, Sophiatown, vertical, November, destruction, 1950s, Africa, South Africa, 1959, black and white image, Drum Magazine, black African children, Drum Photographer, ,
Model Release: No
Property Release: No

Image Number: APN106969
Path: african.pictures / Bailey's African History Archive / Drum Social Histories
Description: DM2005020212:SAED:POLITICS:APARTHEID:SOCIAL:NOV1959 - Last Days Of Sophiatown - Big machines and men with picks are beating down the last walls of Sof'town. Take a last look and say goodbuy. Sophiatown, the city that was within a city, the Gay Paris of Johannesburg, the notorious Casbah gang den, the shebeeniest of them all. Sophiatown is now breathing for the last time. I was robbed on her streets, beaten up in her dark corners and I will never forget the day when a womean friend of mine was grabbed from me by Sophiatown's tough sons. Her people do not like the fact that she is being murdered and I sympathise with them because she was a free city. There was Aunt Babes, in Edith Street. Bright's place in Tucker and opposite him the Carlton Hotel, run by a Chinaman. She also had her respectable citizens. There was Dr. A.B. Xuma, the African M.D., and Mr J. R. Rathebe, who reminded everybody that he was once in America. Sophiatown will also boast that it built two gentlemen w
Collections: Baileys African History Archive
Subcollections: Drum Social Histories
Country: South Africa
Orientation: landscape
Pixel Size: 2860 x 1920
Media Id: 69_489
Credit: Drum Social Histories / Baileys African History Archive / Africa Media Online
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Image Number: APN106971
Path: african.pictures / Bailey's African History Archive / Drum Social Histories
Description: DM2005020213:SAED:POLITICS:APARTHEID:SOCIAL:NOV1959 - Last Days Of Sophiatown - Big machines and men with picks are beating down the last walls of Sof'town. Take a last look and say goodbuy. Sophiatown, the city that was within a city, the Gay Paris of Johannesburg, the notorious Casbah gang den, the shebeeniest of them all. Sophiatown is now breathing for the last time. I was robbed on her streets, beaten up in her dark corners and I will never forget the day when a womean friend of mine was grabbed from me by Sophiatown's tough sons. Her people do not like the fact that she is being murdered and I sympathise with them because she was a free city. There was Aunt Babes, in Edith Street. Bright's place in Tucker and opposite him the Carlton Hotel, run by a Chinaman. She also had her respectable citizens. There was Dr. A.B. Xuma, the African M.D., and Mr J. R. Rathebe, who reminded everybody that he was once in America. Sophiatown will also boast that it built two gentlemen w
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Subcollections: Drum Social Histories
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Credit: Drum Social Histories / Baileys African History Archive / Africa Media Online
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Image Number: APN106973
Title: Sophiatown removals
Path: african.pictures / Bailey's African History Archive / Drum Social Histories
Description: DM2005020901:SAED:SOCIAL:APARTHEID:1955 - Sophiatown - The Move - The first sixty families in Sophiatown, Johannesburg, have been given orders to leave their houses, and have been offered accomodation in the new location in Meadowlands. "You are hereby required in terms of the Native Resetlement Act 1954 to vacate the premises in which you are residing..." The first date given is February 12th. (Photograph by Drum Photographer BAHA) neg 926, police
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Subcollections: Drum Social Histories
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Credit: Drum Social Histories / Baileys African History Archive / Africa Media Online
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Image Number: APN106975
Path: african.pictures / Bailey's African History Archive / Drum Social Histories
Description: DM2005020902:SAED:SOCIAL:APARTHEID:1955 - Sophiatown - The Move - The first sixty families in Sophiatown, Johannesburg, have been given orders to leave their houses, and have been offered accomodation in the new location in Meadowlands. "You are hereby required in terms of the Native Resetlement Act 1954 to vacate the premises in which you are residing..." The first date given is February 12th. (Photograph by Drum Photographer BAHA) neg 926, police
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Subcollections: Drum Social Histories
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Credit: Drum Social Histories / Baileys African History Archive / Africa Media Online
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Image Number: APN106976
Path: african.pictures / Bailey's African History Archive / Drum Social Histories
Description: DM2005020215:SAED:POLITICS:APARTHEID:SOCIAL:NOV1959 - Last Days Of Sophiatown - Big machines and men with picks are beating down the last walls of Sof'town. Take a last look and say goodbuy. Sophiatown, the city that was within a city, the Gay Paris of Johannesburg, the notorious Casbah gang den, the shebeeniest of them all. Sophiatown is now breathing for the last time. I was robbed on her streets, beaten up in her dark corners and I will never forget the day when a womean friend of mine was grabbed from me by Sophiatown's tough sons. Her people do not like the fact that she is being murdered and I sympathise with them because she was a free city. There was Aunt Babes, in Edith Street. Bright's place in Tucker and opposite him the Carlton Hotel, run by a Chinaman. She also had her respectable citizens. There was Dr. A.B. Xuma, the African M.D., and Mr J. R. Rathebe, who reminded everybody that he was once in America. Sophiatown will also boast that it built two gentlemen w
Collections: Baileys African History Archive
Subcollections: Drum Social Histories
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Credit: Drum Social Histories / Baileys African History Archive / Africa Media Online
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Image Number: APN106978
Path: african.pictures / Bailey's African History Archive / Drum Social Histories
Description: DM2005020903:SAED:SOCIAL:APARTHEID:1955 - Sophiatown - The Move - The first sixty families in Sophiatown, Johannesburg, have been given orders to leave their houses, and have been offered accomodation in the new location in Meadowlands. "You are hereby required in terms of the Native Resetlement Act 1954 to vacate the premises in which you are residing..." The first date given is February 12th. (Photograph by Drum Photographer BAHA) neg 926, police
Collections: Baileys African History Archive
Subcollections: Drum Social Histories
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Credit: Drum Social Histories / Baileys African History Archive / Africa Media Online
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Image Number: APN106979
Path: african.pictures / Bailey's African History Archive / Drum Social Histories
Description: DM2005020216:SAED:POLITICS:APARTHEID:SOCIAL:NOV1959 - Last Days Of Sophiatown - Big machines and men with picks are beating down the last walls of Sof'town. Take a last look and say goodbuy. Sophiatown, the city that was within a city, the Gay Paris of Johannesburg, the notorious Casbah gang den, the shebeeniest of them all. Sophiatown is now breathing for the last time. I was robbed on her streets, beaten up in her dark corners and I will never forget the day when a womean friend of mine was grabbed from me by Sophiatown's tough sons. Her people do not like the fact that she is being murdered and I sympathise with them because she was a free city. There was Aunt Babes, in Edith Street. Bright's place in Tucker and opposite him the Carlton Hotel, run by a Chinaman. She also had her respectable citizens. There was Dr. A.B. Xuma, the African M.D., and Mr J. R. Rathebe, who reminded everybody that he was once in America. Sophiatown will also boast that it built two gentlemen w
Collections: Baileys African History Archive
Subcollections: Drum Social Histories
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Credit: Drum Social Histories / Baileys African History Archive / Africa Media Online
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Image Number: APN106981
Path: african.pictures / Bailey's African History Archive / Drum Social Histories
Description: DM2005020904:SAED:SOCIAL:APARTHEID:1955 - Sophiatown - The Move - The first sixty families in Sophiatown, Johannesburg, have been given orders to leave their houses, and have been offered accomodation in the new location in Meadowlands. "You are hereby required in terms of the Native Resetlement Act 1954 to vacate the premises in which you are residing..." The first date given is February 12th. (Photograph by Drum Photographer BAHA) neg 926, police
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Subcollections: Drum Social Histories
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Credit: Drum Social Histories / Baileys African History Archive / Africa Media Online
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Image Number: APN106982
Path: african.pictures / Bailey's African History Archive / Drum Social Histories
Description: DM2005020217:SAED:POLITICS:APARTHEID:SOCIAL:NOV1959 - Last Days Of Sophiatown - Big machines and men with picks are beating down the last walls of Sof'town. Take a last look and say goodbuy. Sophiatown, the city that was within a city, the Gay Paris of Johannesburg, the notorious Casbah gang den, the shebeeniest of them all. Sophiatown is now breathing for the last time. I was robbed on her streets, beaten up in her dark corners and I will never forget the day when a womean friend of mine was grabbed from me by Sophiatown's tough sons. Her people do not like the fact that she is being murdered and I sympathise with them because she was a free city. There was Aunt Babes, in Edith Street. Bright's place in Tucker and opposite him the Carlton Hotel, run by a Chinaman. She also had her respectable citizens. There was Dr. A.B. Xuma, the African M.D., and Mr J. R. Rathebe, who reminded everybody that he was once in America. Sophiatown will also boast that it built two gentlemen w
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Subcollections: Drum Social Histories
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Credit: Drum Social Histories / Baileys African History Archive / Africa Media Online
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Image Number: APN106983
Path: african.pictures / Bailey's African History Archive / Drum Social Histories
Description: DM2005020905:SAED:SOCIAL:APARTHEID:1955 - Sophiatown Removals - The Move - The first sixty families in Sophiatown, Johannesburg, have been given orders to leave their houses, and have been offered accomodation in the new location in Meadowlands. "You are hereby required in terms of the Native Resetlement Act 1954 to vacate the premises in which you are residing..." The first date given is February 12th. (Photograph by Drum Photographer BAHA) neg 926
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Subcollections: Drum Social Histories
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Credit: Drum Social Histories / Baileys African History Archive / Africa Media Online
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Image Number: APN106984
Path: african.pictures / Bailey's African History Archive / Drum Social Histories
Description: DM2005020218:SAED:POLITICS:APARTHEID:SOCIAL:NOV1959 - Last Days Of Sophiatown - Big machines and men with picks are beating down the last walls of Sof'town. Take a last look and say goodbuy. Sophiatown, the city that was within a city, the Gay Paris of Johannesburg, the notorious Casbah gang den, the shebeeniest of them all. Sophiatown is now breathing for the last time. I was robbed on her streets, beaten up in her dark corners and I will never forget the day when a womean friend of mine was grabbed from me by Sophiatown's tough sons. Her people do not like the fact that she is being murdered and I sympathise with them because she was a free city. There was Aunt Babes, in Edith Street. Bright's place in Tucker and opposite him the Carlton Hotel, run by a Chinaman. She also had her respectable citizens. There was Dr. A.B. Xuma, the African M.D., and Mr J. R. Rathebe, who reminded everybody that he was once in America. Sophiatown will also boast that it built two gentlemen w
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Subcollections: Drum Social Histories
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Credit: Drum Social Histories / Baileys African History Archive / Africa Media Online
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Image Number: APN106985
Path: african.pictures / Bailey's African History Archive / Drum Social Histories
Description: DM2005020906:SAED:SOCIAL:APARTHEID:1955 - Sophiatown Removals - The Move - The first sixty families in Sophiatown, Johannesburg, have been given orders to leave their houses, and have been offered accomodation in the new location in Meadowlands. "You are hereby required in terms of the Native Resetlement Act 1954 to vacate the premises in which you are residing..." The first date given is February 12th. (Photograph by Drum Photographer BAHA) neg 926
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Subcollections: Drum Social Histories
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Credit: Drum Social Histories / Baileys African History Archive / Africa Media Online
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Image Number: APN106986
Title: Last Days Of Sophiatown
Path: african.pictures / Bailey's African History Archive / Drum Social Histories
Description: DM2005020219:SAED:POLITICS:APARTHEID:SOCIAL:NOV1959 - Last Days Of Sophiatown - Big machines and men with picks are beating down the last walls of Sof'town. Take a last look and say goodbuy. Sophiatown, the city that was within a city, the Gay Paris of Johannesburg, the notorious Casbah gang den, the shebeeniest of them all. Sophiatown is now breathing for the last time. I was robbed on her streets, beaten up in her dark corners and I will never forget the day when a womean friend of mine was grabbed from me by Sophiatown's tough sons. Her people do not like the fact that she is being murdered and I sympathise with them because she was a free city. There was Aunt Babes, in Edith Street. Bright's place in Tucker and opposite him the Carlton Hotel, run by a Chinaman. She also had her respectable citizens. There was Dr. A.B. Xuma, the African M.D., and Mr J. R. Rathebe, who reminded everybody that he was once in America. Sophiatown will also boast that it built two gentlemen w
Collections: Baileys African History Archive
Subcollections: Drum Social Histories
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Credit: Drum Social Histories / Baileys African History Archive / Africa Media Online
Keywords: Drum Magazine, November, Africa, South African history, horizontal, black and white image, South Africa, Sophiatown, 1959, 1950s, Peter Magubane, Last days of Sophiatown, ,
Model Release: No
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Image Number: APN106987
Title: Forced removals
Path: african.pictures / Bailey's African History Archive / Drum Social Histories
Description: DM2005020907:SAED:SOCIAL:APARTHEID:1955 - Sophiatown Removals - The Move - The first sixty families in Sophiatown, Johannesburg, have been given orders to leave their houses, and have been offered accomodation in the new location in Meadowlands. "You are hereby required in terms of the Native Resetlement Act 1954 to vacate the premises in which you are residing..." The first date given is February 12th. (Photograph by Drum Photographer BAHA) neg 926
Collections: Baileys African History Archive
Subcollections: Drum Social Histories
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Location: Sophiatown, South Africa
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Pixel Size: 3000 x 1930
Media Id: 69_536
Credit: Drum Social Histories / Baileys African History Archive / Africa Media Online
Keywords: 1955, Drum Magazine, South Africa, South African history, black and white image, horizontal, politics, apartheid, Group Areas Act, Sophiatown, forced removals, Johannesburg, black African people, Native Resettlement Act, 1950s, ,
Model Release: No
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Image Number: APN106988
Path: african.pictures / Bailey's African History Archive / Drum Social Histories
Description: DM2005020908:SAED:SOCIAL:APARTHEID:1955 - Sophiatown Removals - The Move - The first sixty families in Sophiatown, Johannesburg, have been given orders to leave their houses, and have been offered accomodation in the new location in Meadowlands. "You are hereby required in terms of the Native Resetlement Act 1954 to vacate the premises in which you are residing..." The first date given is February 12th. (Photograph by Drum Photographer BAHA) neg 926
Collections: Baileys African History Archive
Subcollections: Drum Social Histories
Country: South Africa
Orientation: landscape
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Credit: Drum Social Histories / Baileys African History Archive / Africa Media Online
Keywords: 1955, politics, Drum Magazine, South Africa, South African history, black and white image, horizontal, apartheid, Group Areas Act, Sophiatown, forced removals, Johannesburg, black African people, Native Resettlement Act, 1950s, ,
Model Release: No
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Image Number: APN106989
Path: african.pictures / Bailey's African History Archive / Drum Social Histories
Description: DM2005020220:SAED:POLITICS:APARTHEID:SOCIAL:NOV1959 - Last Days Of Sophiatown - Big machines and men with picks are beating down the last walls of Sof'town. Take a last look and say goodbuy. Sophiatown, the city that was within a city, the Gay Paris of Johannesburg, the notorious Casbah gang den, the shebeeniest of them all. Sophiatown is now breathing for the last time. I was robbed on her streets, beaten up in her dark corners and I will never forget the day when a womean friend of mine was grabbed from me by Sophiatown's tough sons. Her people do not like the fact that she is being murdered and I sympathise with them because she was a free city. There was Aunt Babes, in Edith Street. Bright's place in Tucker and opposite him the Carlton Hotel, run by a Chinaman. She also had her respectable citizens. There was Dr. A.B. Xuma, the African M.D., and Mr J. R. Rathebe, who reminded everybody that he was once in America. Sophiatown will also boast that it built two gentlemen w
Collections: Baileys African History Archive
Subcollections: Drum Social Histories
Country: South Africa
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Credit: Drum Social Histories / Baileys African History Archive / Africa Media Online
Keywords: Drum Magazine, November, Sophiatown, 1959, 1950s, horizontal, black and white image, South African history, Africa, South Africa, ,
Model Release: No
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Image Number: APN106991
Path: african.pictures / Bailey's African History Archive / Drum Social Histories
Description: DM2005020222:SAED:POLITICS:APARTHEID:SOCIAL:NOV1959 - Last Days Of Sophiatown - Big machines and men with picks are beating down the last walls of Sof'town. Take a last look and say goodbuy. Sophiatown, the city that was within a city, the Gay Paris of Johannesburg, the notorious Casbah gang den, the shebeeniest of them all. Sophiatown is now breathing for the last time. I was robbed on her streets, beaten up in her dark corners and I will never forget the day when a womean friend of mine was grabbed from me by Sophiatown's tough sons. Her people do not like the fact that she is being murdered and I sympathise with them because she was a free city. There was Aunt Babes, in Edith Street. Bright's place in Tucker and opposite him the Carlton Hotel, run by a Chinaman. She also had her respectable citizens. There was Dr. A.B. Xuma, the African M.D., and Mr J. R. Rathebe, who reminded everybody that he was once in America. Sophiatown will also boast that it built two gentlemen w
Collections: Baileys African History Archive
Subcollections: Drum Social Histories
Country: South Africa
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Credit: Drum Social Histories / Baileys African History Archive / Africa Media Online
Keywords: Drum Magazine, South Africa, Africa, South African history, black and white image, destruction, vertical, Sophiatown, November, 1959, 1950s, black African child, ,
Model Release: No
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Image Number: APN106992
Path: african.pictures / Bailey's African History Archive / Drum Social Histories
Description: DM2005020223:SAED:POLITICS:APARTHEID:SOCIAL:NOV1959 - Last Days Of Sophiatown - Big machines and men with picks are beating down the last walls of Sof'town. Take a last look and say goodbuy. Sophiatown, the city that was within a city, the Gay Paris of Johannesburg, the notorious Casbah gang den, the shebeeniest of them all. Sophiatown is now breathing for the last time. I was robbed on her streets, beaten up in her dark corners and I will never forget the day when a womean friend of mine was grabbed from me by Sophiatown's tough sons. Her people do not like the fact that she is being murdered and I sympathise with them because she was a free city. There was Aunt Babes, in Edith Street. Bright's place in Tucker and opposite him the Carlton Hotel, run by a Chinaman. She also had her respectable citizens. There was Dr. A.B. Xuma, the African M.D., and Mr J. R. Rathebe, who reminded everybody that he was once in America. Sophiatown will also boast that it built two gentlemen w
Collections: Baileys African History Archive
Subcollections: Drum Social Histories
Country: South Africa
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Credit: Drum Social Histories / Baileys African History Archive / Africa Media Online
Keywords: black and white image, South African history, Drum Magazine, South Africa, Africa, 1959, horizontal, 1950s, November, Sophiatown, black African people, ,
Model Release: No
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Image Number: APN106993
Path: african.pictures / Bailey's African History Archive / Drum Social Histories
Description: DM2005020911:SAED:SOCIAL:APARTHEID:1955 - Sophiatown Removals - (Photograph by Drum Photographer BAHA) neg 926
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Subcollections: Drum Social Histories
Country: South Africa
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Credit: Drum Social Histories / Baileys African History Archive / Africa Media Online
Keywords: 1955, apartheid, Drum Magazine, South Africa, South African history, black and white image, vertical, politics, Sophiatown, Native Resettlement Act, forced removals, black African people, Johannesburg, 1950s, ,
Model Release: No
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Image Number: APN106994
Path: african.pictures / Bailey's African History Archive / Drum Social Histories
Description: DM2005020224:SAED:POLITICS:APARTHEID:SOCIAL:NOV1959 - Last Days Of Sophiatown - Big machines and men with picks are beating down the last walls of Sof'town. Take a last look and say goodbuy. Sophiatown, the city that was within a city, the Gay Paris of Johannesburg, the notorious Casbah gang den, the shebeeniest of them all. Sophiatown is now breathing for the last time. I was robbed on her streets, beaten up in her dark corners and I will never forget the day when a womean friend of mine was grabbed from me by Sophiatown's tough sons. Her people do not like the fact that she is being murdered and I sympathise with them because she was a free city. There was Aunt Babes, in Edith Street. Bright's place in Tucker and opposite him the Carlton Hotel, run by a Chinaman. She also had her respectable citizens. There was Dr. A.B. Xuma, the African M.D., and Mr J. R. Rathebe, who reminded everybody that he was once in America. Sophiatown will also boast that it built two gentlemen w
Collections: Baileys African History Archive
Subcollections: Drum Social Histories
Country: South Africa
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Credit: Drum Social Histories / Baileys African History Archive / Africa Media Online
Keywords: Drum Magazine, horizontal, South African history, black and white image, Africa, South Africa, 1950s, 1959, November, Sophiatown, black African people, ,
Model Release: No
Property Release: No

Image Number: APN106995
Path: african.pictures / Bailey's African History Archive / Drum Social Histories
Description: DM2005020912:SAED:SOCIAL:APARTHEID:1955 - Sophiatown Removals - (Photograph by Drum Photographer BAHA) neg 926
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Subcollections: Drum Social Histories
Country: South Africa
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Credit: Drum Social Histories / Baileys African History Archive / Africa Media Online
Keywords: 1955, apartheid, politics, Drum Magazine, South Africa, South African history, black and white image, vertical, Sophiatown, Native Resettlement Act, forced removals, black African people, Johannesburg, 1950s, ,
Model Release: No
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Image Number: APN106996
Path: african.pictures / Bailey's African History Archive / Drum Social Histories
Description: DM2005020225:SAED:POLITICS:APARTHEID:SOCIAL:NOV1959 - Last Days Of Sophiatown - Big machines and men with picks are beating down the last walls of Sof'town. Take a last look and say goodbuy. Sophiatown, the city that was within a city, the Gay Paris of Johannesburg, the notorious Casbah gang den, the shebeeniest of them all. Sophiatown is now breathing for the last time. I was robbed on her streets, beaten up in her dark corners and I will never forget the day when a womean friend of mine was grabbed from me by Sophiatown's tough sons. Her people do not like the fact that she is being murdered and I sympathise with them because she was a free city. There was Aunt Babes, in Edith Street. Bright's place in Tucker and opposite him the Carlton Hotel, run by a Chinaman. She also had her respectable citizens. There was Dr. A.B. Xuma, the African M.D., and Mr J. R. Rathebe, who reminded everybody that he was once in America. Sophiatown will also boast that it built two gentlemen w
Collections: Baileys African History Archive
Subcollections: Drum Social Histories
Country: South Africa
Orientation: portrait
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Credit: Drum Social Histories / Baileys African History Archive / Africa Media Online
Keywords: South African history, Africa, South Africa, Drum Magazine, black and white image, vertical, Sophiatown, November, 1959, 1950s, black African people, ,
Model Release: No
Property Release: No

Image Number: APN106997
Title: Sophiatown removals
Path: african.pictures / Bailey's African History Archive / Drum Social Histories
Description: DM2005020913:SAED:SOCIAL:APARTHEID:1955 - Sophiatown Removals - Sophiatown residents show mixed feelings about the move. The first sixy families in Sophiatown, Johannesburg, have been given orders to leave their houses, and have been offered accomodation in the new location in Meadolands.(Photograph by Drum Photographer BAHA) neg 926