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
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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, 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: APN106849
Path: african.pictures / Bailey's African History Archive / Drum Social Histories
Description: DM2005020703:SAED:MUSIC:PERSONALITY:OCT1959 - What Our Players Learned From The Jazz Prof. - Sophie Mgcina belting it out. John Mehegen, Hugh Masekeka. American pianist John Mehegen came to South Africa to play a short season in the plush white clubs. He heard some of our fellows blow, and decided he would like to record with them. "You guys ready?" The session is on. He thinks that trumpeter Hugh Masekela, is world class. (Photograph by Peter Magubane BAHA)
Collections: Baileys African History Archive
Subcollections: Drum Social Histories
Country: South Africa
Orientation: landscape
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Media Id: 70_127
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, October, 1959, 1950s, Peter Magubane, singer, singing, black African woman, Sophie Mgcina, performances, ,
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Image Number: APN106851
Title: What Our Players Learned From The Jazz Prof
Path: african.pictures / Bailey's African History Archive / Drum Social Histories
Description: DM2005020705:SAED:MUSIC:PERSONALITY:OCT1959 - What Our Players Learned From The Jazz Prof. - Abegail Kubeka. Jazz has got to come from the heart. American pianist John Mehegan came to South Africa to play a short season in the plush white clubs. He heard some of our fellows blow, and decided he would like to record with them. "You guys ready?" The session is on. We ought to thank the Jazz Foundation for bringing Mr Mehegan to us all the way from New York, where he is Professor of Jazz Piano at the Juliard School of Music. A lot of America's best jazz musicians have studied at Juliard, and that's no kidding. (Photograph by Peter Magubane BAHA)
Collections: Baileys African History Archive
Subcollections: Drum Social Histories
Orientation: portrait
Pixel Size: 2814 x 4381
Media Id: 69_708
Credit: Drum Social Histories / Baileys African History Archive / Africa Media Online
Keywords: October, Drum Magazine, South Africa, Africa, South African history, black and white image, vertical, 1959, 1950s, musicians, jazz, black African man, Jazz Foundation, Abigail Kubeka, Peter Magubane, piono, Juliard School of music, October 1959, ,
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Image Number: APN106852
Title: What Our Players Learned From The Jazz Prof. - Abegail Kubeka
Path: african.pictures / Bailey's African History Archive / Drum Social Histories
Description: DM2005020706:SAED:MUSIC:PERSONALITY:OCT1959 - What Our Players Learned From The Jazz Prof. - Abegail Kubeka. Jazz has got to come from the heart. American pianist John Mehegan came to South Africa to play a short season in the plush white clubs. He heard some of our fellows blow, and decided he would like to record with them. "You guys ready?" The session is on. We ought to thank the Jazz Foundation for bringing Mr Mehegan to us all the way from New York, where he is Professor of Jazz Piano at the Juliard School of Music. A lot of America's best jazz musicians have studied at Juliard, and that's no kidding. (Photograph by Peter Magubane BAHA)
Collections: Baileys African History Archive
Subcollections: Drum Social Histories
Orientation: landscape
Pixel Size: 4282 x 2682
Media Id: 69_580
Credit: Drum Social Histories / Baileys African History Archive / Africa Media Online
Keywords: October, Drum Magazine, South Africa, Africa, South African history, black and white image, horizontal, 1959, 1950s, musicians, jazz, black African woman, Jazz Foundation, Abigail Kubeka, singer, singing, Peter Magubane, Mr Mehegan, ,
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Image Number: APN106853
Title: General 'Genie' Duze
Path: african.pictures / Bailey's African History Archive / Drum Social Histories
Description: DM2005020707:SAED:MUSIC:PERSONALITY:OCT1959 - What Our Players Learned From The Jazz Prof. - General 'Genie' Duze. Jazz has got to come from the heart. American pianist John Mehegan came to South Africa to play a short season in the plush white clubs. He heard some of our fellows blow, and decided he would like to record with them. "You guys ready?" The session is on. We ought to thank the Jazz Foundation for bringing Mr Mehegan to us all the way from New York, where he is Professor of Jazz Piano at the Juliard School of Music. A lot of America's best jazz musicians have studied at Juliard, and that's no kidding. (Photograph by Peter Magubane BAHA)
Collections: Baileys African History Archive
Subcollections: Drum Social Histories
Orientation: portrait
Pixel Size: 2863 x 4349
Media Id: 69_324
Credit: Drum Social Histories / Baileys African History Archive / Africa Media Online
Keywords: General Duze, October, Drum Magazine, South Africa, Africa, South African history, black and white image, guitarist, vertical, 1959, 1950s, musicians, jazz, black African man, Jazz Foundation, October 1959, Peter Magubane, musical instrument, ,
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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
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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
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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, Sophiatown, vertical, November, 1959, 1950s, black African woman, ,
Model Release: No
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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
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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
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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
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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, ,
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Image Number: APN106955
Path: african.pictures / Bailey's African History Archive / Drum Social Histories
Description: DM2005020205:SAED:POLITICS:APARTHEID:PERSONALITY:SOCIAL:NOV1959 - Last Days Of Sophiatown - (Photograph by Drum Photograph BAHA) forced removals,
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: November, Drum Magazine, South Africa, apartheid, South African history, black and white image, vertical, politics, 1959, forced removals, Group Areas Act, Sophiatown, black African man, 1950s, ,
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Image Number: APN106957
Title: Last Days Of Sophiatown
Path: african.pictures / Bailey's African History Archive / Drum Social Histories
Description: DM2005020206:SAED:POLITICS:APARTHEID:PERSONALITY:SOCIAL:NOV1959 - Last Days Of Sophiatown - (Photograph by Drum Photograph BAHA) forced removals,
Collections: Baileys African History Archive
Subcollections: Drum Social Histories
Orientation: portrait
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Credit: Drum Social Histories / Baileys African History Archive / Africa Media Online
Keywords: apartheid, politics, Drum Magazine, South Africa, South African history, black and white image, vertical, November, 1959, forced removals, Group Areas Act, Sophiatown, black African man, 1950s, Drum Photographer, suit, hat, tie, ,
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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
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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, ,
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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
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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
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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, ,
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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
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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
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Media Id: 69_489
Credit: Drum Social Histories / Baileys African History Archive / Africa Media Online
Keywords: 1950s, bending over, 1959, November, Africa, black and white image, South Africa, Drum Magazine, South African history, horizontal, Sophiatown, black African people, ,
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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
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: horizontal, black and white image, Africa, South African history, South Africa, Drum Magazine, Sophiatown, 1950s, 1959, November, black African people, ,
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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
Country: South Africa
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Credit: Drum Social Histories / Baileys African History Archive / Africa Media Online
Keywords: South Africa, South African history, Africa, black and white image, Drum Magazine, horizontal, 1950s, 1959, Sophiatown, November, ,
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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
Country: South Africa
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Credit: Drum Social Histories / Baileys African History Archive / Africa Media Online
Keywords: South African history, South Africa, 1959, November, Drum Magazine, Africa, horizontal, black and white image, 1950s, Sophiatown, black African people, ,
Model Release: No
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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
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: November, 1959, South Africa, Drum Magazine, Sophiatown, horizontal, black and white image, South African history, Africa, 1950s, ,
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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
Collections: Baileys African History Archive
Subcollections: Drum Social Histories
Country: South Africa
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Pixel Size: 3000 x 1950
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Credit: Drum Social Histories / Baileys African History Archive / Africa Media Online
Keywords: 1950s, Sophiatown, 1959, November, horizontal, South Africa, Drum Magazine, black and white image, South African history, Africa, ,
Model Release: No
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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
Orientation: landscape
Pixel Size: 3000 x 1950
Media Id: 70_222
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, ,
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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
Orientation: landscape
Pixel Size: 3000 x 1950
Media Id: 69_389
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, ,
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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
Orientation: portrait
Pixel Size: 1970 x 2960
Media Id: 70_283
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
Orientation: landscape
Pixel Size: 2880 x 1950
Media Id: 69_777
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: 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
Orientation: landscape
Pixel Size: 2940 x 1970
Media Id: 69_768
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: 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
Pixel Size: 1980 x 2980
Media Id: 70_311
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: APN106998
Path: african.pictures / Bailey's African History Archive / Drum Social Histories
Description: DM2005020226: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 2980
Media Id: 69_254
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 people, ,
Model Release: No
Property Release: No

Image Number: APN107000
Path: african.pictures / Bailey's African History Archive / Drum Social Histories
Description: DM2005020227: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: 1970 x 3020
Media Id: 69_418
Credit: Drum Social Histories / Baileys African History Archive / Africa Media Online
Keywords: Sophiatown, Drum Magazine, South Africa, Africa, South African history, black and white image, vertical, November, 1959, 1950s, black African people, ,
Model Release: No
Property Release: No

Image Number: APN107095
Path: african.pictures / Bailey's African History Archive / Drum Social Histories
Description: DM2005020402:SAED:SOCIAL:APARTHEID:1959 - White South Africans In A Park - Sophiatown, the city that was within a city, the Gay Paris of Johannesburg, the notorious Casbah gang den, the shebeeniest of them all. (Photogaph by Drum Photographer BAHA) doves, Sophiatown
Collections: Baileys African History Archive
Subcollections: Drum Social Histories
Country: South Africa
Orientation: landscape
Pixel Size: 2990 x 1940
Media Id: 70_263
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, 1959, 1950s, Sophiatown, White people, parks, ,
Model Release: No
Property Release: No

Image Number: APN107096
Title: Sophiatown
Path: african.pictures / Bailey's African History Archive / Drum Social Histories
Description: DM2005020403:SAED:SOCIAL:APARTHEID:1959 - Sophiatown - Sophiatown, the city that was within a city, the Gay Paris of Johannesburg, the notorious Casbah gang den, the shebeeniest of them all. (Photogaph by Drum Photographer BAHA) doves, Sophiatown
Collections: Baileys African History Archive
Subcollections: Drum Social Histories
Orientation: landscape
Pixel Size: 3020 x 1980
Media Id: 69_791
Credit: Drum Social Histories / Baileys African History Archive / Africa Media Online
Keywords: bicycle, Gauteng, apartheid, Sophiatown, Johannesburg, gangs, woman, horizontal, black and white image, South African history, Africa, South Africa, Drum Magazine, 1950s, 1959, Drum photographer,
Model Release: No
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Image Number: APN107097
Path: african.pictures / Bailey's African History Archive / Drum Social Histories
Description: DM2005020404:SAED:SOCIAL:APARTHEID:1959 - Sophiatown - Sophiatown, the city that was within a city, the Gay Paris of Johannesburg, the notorious Casbah gang den, the shebeeniest of them all. (Photogaph by Drum Photographer BAHA) doves, trucks, bridge, old cars
Collections: Baileys African History Archive
Subcollections: Drum Social Histories
Country: South Africa
Orientation: landscape
Pixel Size: 3000 x 1990
Media Id: 69_823
Credit: Drum Social Histories / Baileys African History Archive / Africa Media Online
Keywords: depots, old, cars, trucks, Gauteng, apartheid, Sophiatown, Johannesburg, gangs, bridge, horizontal, black and white image, South African history, Africa, South Africa, Drum Magazine, 1959, 1950s, ,
Model Release: No
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Image Number: APN107098
Title: Sophiatown
Path: african.pictures / Bailey's African History Archive / Drum Social Histories
Description: DM2005020405:SAED:SOCIAL:APARTHEID:WOMEN:HOUSING:1959 -Sophiatown, the city that was within a city, the Gay Paris of Johannesburg, the notorious Casbah gang den, the shebeeniest of them all. Death Of Sophiatown - (Photogaph by Drum Photographer BAHA)
Collections: Baileys African History Archive
Subcollections: Drum Social Histories
Orientation: portrait
Pixel Size: 1960 x 2930
Media Id: 70_255
Credit: Drum Social Histories / Baileys African History Archive / Africa Media Online
Keywords: Drum Magazine, South Africa, South African history, black and white image, Johannesburg, vertical, Sophiatown, black African woman, apartheid, women, 1959, forced removals, 1950s, Drum Photographer, ,
Model Release: No
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Image Number: APN107099
Path: african.pictures / Bailey's African History Archive / Drum Social Histories
Description: DM2005020406:SAED:SOCIAL:APARTHEID:WOMEN:HOUSING:1959 - Sophiatown, the city that was within a city, the Gay Paris of Johannesburg, the notorious Casbah gang den, the shebeeniest of them all. Death Of Sophiatown - (Photogaph by Drum Photographer BAHA)
Collections: Baileys African History Archive
Subcollections: Drum Social Histories
Country: South Africa
Orientation: portrait
Pixel Size: 1960 x 3010
Media Id: 69_230
Credit: Drum Social Histories / Baileys African History Archive / Africa Media Online
Keywords: Johannesburg, Drum Magazine, South Africa, South African history, black and white image, Sophiatown, vertical, black African woman, apartheid, women, 1959, forced removals, 1950s, ,
Model Release: No
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Image Number: APN107100
Path: african.pictures / Bailey's African History Archive / Drum Social Histories
Description: DM2005020407:SAED:SOCIAL:APARTHEID:WOMEN:HOUSING:1959 -Sophiatown, the city that was within a city, the Gay Paris of Johannesburg, the notorious Casbah gang den, the shebeeniest of them all. Death Of Sophiatown - (Photogaph by Drum Photographer BAHA) kitchen unit
Collections: Baileys African History Archive
Subcollections: Drum Social Histories
Country: South Africa
Orientation: portrait
Pixel Size: 2010 x 2820
Media Id: 69_433
Credit: Drum Social Histories / Baileys African History Archive / Africa Media Online
Keywords: kitchenware, kitchen, kitchen dressers, Gauteng, apartheid, Sophiatown, Johannesburg, vertical, household objects, black and white image, South African history, Africa, South Africa, Drum Magazine, gangs, 1950s, 1959, ,
Model Release: No
Property Release: No

Image Number: APN107101
Title: Sophiatown
Path: african.pictures / Bailey's African History Archive / Drum Social Histories
Description: DM2005020408:SAED:SOCIAL:APARTHEID:WOMEN:HOUSING:1959 - Death Of Sophiatown - Sophiatown, the city that was within a city, the Gay Paris of Johannesburg, the notorious Casbah gang den, the shebeeniest of them all. (Photogaph by Drum Photographer BAHA) women washing, bath
Collections: Baileys African History Archive
Subcollections: Drum Social Histories
Orientation: landscape
Pixel Size: 2940 x 1950
Media Id: 69_249
Credit: Drum Social Histories / Baileys African History Archive / Africa Media Online
Keywords: Gauteng, apartheid, Sophiatown, Johannesburg, horizontal, black African women, black and white image, South African history, Africa, South Africa, Drum Magazine, gangs, 1950s, 1959, ,
Model Release: No
Property Release: No

Image Number: APN107102
Path: african.pictures / Bailey's African History Archive / Drum Social Histories
Description: DM2005020409:SAED:SOCIAL:APARTHEID:WOMEN:HOUSING:1959 - Death Of Sophiatown - Sophiatown, the city that was within a city, the Gay Paris of Johannesburg, the notorious Casbah gang den, the shebeeniest of them all. (Photogaph by Drum Photographer BAHA) women washing, bath
Collections: Baileys African History Archive
Subcollections: Drum Social Histories
Country: South Africa
Orientation: portrait
Pixel Size: 1990 x 3040
Media Id: 69_413
Credit: Drum Social Histories / Baileys African History Archive / Africa Media Online
Keywords: Johannesburg, Sophiatown, Drum Magazine, South Africa, black African woman, South African history, black and white image, vertical, apartheid, women, 1959, forced removals, 1950s, ,
Model Release: No
Property Release: No

Image Number: APN113630
Path: african.pictures / Bailey's African History Archive / Drum Social Histories
Description: DM2000011002:SAED:POLITICS:PERSONALITY:APR1959 - Josiah Madzunya: What Makes Him Tick So Loud? - Some say you can hear his blood boil when he gets worked up on a street corner about what his Africanist group stands for. Others say his blood is boiling because of that overcoat he wears, summer, winter, the lot. Whatever the reason, he has been boling over into the headlines ever since Africnists (Pan African Congress) split from the African Nationalist Congress in 1958. (Photograph by Drum photographer © Baileys Archive) PAC, ANC, township. dog. neg 818.
Collections: Baileys African History Archive
Subcollections: Drum Social Histories
Country: South Africa
Pixel Size: 4590 x 4643
Media Id: 43_750
Credit: Drum Social Histories / Baileys African History Archive / Africa Media Online
Keywords: South African history, 1959, Africa, April, South Africa, Drum Magazine, square, black African man, dogs, black and white image, 1950s, Josiah Madzunya, ,
Model Release: No
Property Release: No

Image Number: APN113669
Path: african.pictures / Bailey's African History Archive / Drum Social Histories
Description: DM1999121302: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 who fell in l
Collections: Baileys African History Archive
Subcollections: Drum Social Histories
Country: South Africa
Pixel Size: 4655 x 4589
Media Id: 43_457
Credit: Drum Social Histories / Baileys African History Archive / Africa Media Online
Keywords: Drum Magazine, South Africa, November, South African history, black and white image, 1959, square, apartheid, Sophiatown, forced removals, Group Areas Act, black African people, 1950s, ,
Model Release: No
Property Release: No

Image Number: APN114421
Path: african.pictures / Bailey's African History Archive / Drum Social Histories
Description: DM1999072216:SAED:CRIME:JAN1959 - Gang Warfare Ends Up In Court - Living in Alexandra used to be like sitting on a volcano of violence. Anything could erupt; and it usually did, with the Msomis and Spoilers feuding it out. Now war has gone to court. A long day ends as defendents leave the courtroom to be taken back into custody. Relatives and friends try to catch their attention and send messages (Photograph Peter Magubane © Baileys Archive)Gangs, jail, court, Johannesburg
Collections: Baileys African History Archive
Subcollections: Drum Social Histories
Country: South Africa
Orientation: portrait
Pixel Size: 2400 x 3780
Media Id: 69_806
Credit: Drum Social Histories / Baileys African History Archive / Africa Media Online
Keywords: Drum Magazine, Africa, black and white image, Alexandra, 1959, vertical, African history, 1950s, wars, gangs, Msomis, Spoilers, courthouses, prisons, Gauteng, Johannesburg, ,
Model Release: No
Property Release: No

Image Number: APN116120
Title: Last Days Of Sophiatown
Path: african.pictures / Bailey's African History Archive / Drum Social Histories
Description: DM1999121304: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 who fell in l
Collections: Baileys African History Archive
Subcollections: Drum Social Histories
Orientation: landscape
Pixel Size: 2970 x 1950
Media Id: 69_724
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, Johannesburg, Sophiatown, Gauteng, building demolition, townships, black African women, 1963, apartheid, politics, government, order, November, 1950s, 1959, Peter Magubane, ,
Model Release: No
Property Release: No

Image Number: APN116201
Path: african.pictures / Bailey's African History Archive / Drum Social Histories
Description: DM2001022810:SAED:BEAUTIES:1959 - Thursday Day Girl. (Photograph by Drum Photographer © Baileys Archives)
Collections: Baileys African History Archive
Subcollections: Drum Social Histories
Country: South Africa
Orientation: portrait
Pixel Size: 1759 x 3733
Media Id: 43_788
Credit: Drum Social Histories / Baileys African History Archive / Africa Media Online
Keywords: Drum Magazine, South Africa, Africa, South African history, black and white image, black African woman, vertical, 1959, 1950s, models, posing, ,
Model Release: No
Property Release: No

Image Number: APN116217
Title: Kay Sydow - Cover Girl - glamorous and unsophisticated
Path: african.pictures / Bailey's African History Archive / Drum Social Histories
Description: DM2000072118:SAED:BEAUTY:JAN1959 - Kay Sydow - Cover Girl - glamorous and unsophisticated. A face to warm the heart during this season of merriment and noble-minded thoughts. Kay Sydow is one of Cape's top ballet girls. (Photograph by Drum Photographer © Baileys Archives)
Collections: Baileys African History Archive
Subcollections: Drum Social Histories
Orientation: portrait
Pixel Size: 1910 x 2900
Media Id: 42_820
Credit: Drum Social Histories / Baileys African History Archive / Africa Media Online
Keywords: black and white image, Drum Magazine, Kay Sydow, horizontal, South African history, Africa, South Africa, models, January, 1959, 1950s, posing, white African woman, Drum Photographer, ,
Model Release: No
Property Release: No

Image Number: APN116218
Path: african.pictures / Bailey's African History Archive / Drum Social Histories
Description: DM2000072119:SAED:BEAUTY:JAN1959 - Kay Sydow - Cover Girl - glamorous and unsophisticated. A face to warm the heart during this season of merriment and noble-minded thoughts. Kay Sydow is one of Cape's top ballet girls. (Photograph by Drum Photographer © Baileys Archives)
Collections: Baileys African History Archive
Subcollections: Drum Social Histories
Country: South Africa
Orientation: portrait
Pixel Size: 1910 x 2900
Media Id: 43_165
Credit: Drum Social Histories / Baileys African History Archive / Africa Media Online
Keywords: black and white image, South African history, Africa, South Africa, Drum Magazine, Kay Sydow, horizontal, models, January, 1959, 1950s, posing, white African woman, ,
Model Release: No
Property Release: No

Image Number: APN116332
Path: african.pictures / Bailey's African History Archive / Drum Social Histories
Description: DM1999102925:GHAED:BEAUTIES:AUG1959 - It looked like any ordinary day the the beach at Accra. Then it happened. Out of the clear blue sky, it happened. The biggest confusion and mayhem an Accra beach has ever known. There were several surfboard accidents, near-fights, a din of wistling and whooping. And all because of a chocolate, a chocolate-coloured 'joy-forever', Anne Barbara Hyde. (Photograph by Christian Gbagbo © Bailey's Archives) swimsuit, covergirl, fashion
Collections: Baileys African History Archive
Subcollections: Drum Social Histories
Country: Ghana
Pixel Size: 1897 x 1928
Media Id: 43_308
Credit: Drum Social Histories / Baileys African History Archive / Africa Media Online
Keywords: Drum Magazine, South Africa, Africa, South African history, black and white image, black African woman, square, beaches, August, 1959, 1950s, lying down, black African men, ,
Model Release: No
Property Release: No

Image Number: APN146127
Title: TA-NG-olduvai-004
Path: african.pictures / Independent Photographers / Ariadne Van Zandbergen
Description: 1.75 millian year old Australopithecus jawbone was uncovered in 1959, replica in the museum at Olduvai Gorge, Ngorongoro Conservation Area, Tanzania
Collections: Africa Imagery
Subcollections: Ariadne Van Zandbergen
Country: Tanzania
Orientation: portrait
Pixel Size: 2639 x 4063
Media Id: 82_207
Credit: Ariadne Van Zandbergen / lost+found
Keywords: Tanzania, East Africa, colour image , Africa, vertical, Olduvai Gorge, Olduvai , Ngorongoro Conservation Area, Australopithecus jawbone, uncovered 1959, 1.75 million years old, replicas, museums, animal, predators, old, centuries old, ,
Model Release: No
Property Release: No

Image Number: APN146127
Title: TA-NG-olduvai-004
Path: african.pictures / Independent Photographers / Ariadne Van Zandbergen
Description: 1.75 millian year old Australopithecus jawbone was uncovered in 1959, replica in the museum at Olduvai Gorge, Ngorongoro Conservation Area, Tanzania
Collections: Africa Imagery
Subcollections: Ariadne Van Zandbergen
Orientation: portrait
Pixel Size: 2639 x 4063
Media Id: 46_472
Credit: Ariadne Van Zandbergen / lost+found
Keywords: Tanzania, East Africa, colour image , Africa, vertical, Olduvai Gorge, Olduvai , Ngorongoro Conservation Area, Australopithecus jawbone, uncovered 1959, 1.75 million years old, replicas, museums, animal, predators, old, centuries old, ,
Model Release: No
Property Release: No

Image Number: APN147958
Path: african.pictures / Historic Africa / Rhodes University / International Library of African Music / ILAM Digital Archives / ILAM Photographic Collection
Description: Two Obukano lyres from Kisii country, kenya , Lyre , Unkown , International Library of African Music , Kenya , ILM00410_43 , Instrument , Black and white print
Collections: Independent Photographers
Subcollections: ILAM Photographer
Country: Kenya
Orientation: landscape
Pixel Size: 5105 x 3847
Media Id: 93_404
Credit: ILAM Photographer / Africa Media Online
Keywords: ILAM, Africa, black and white image, horizontal, 1950s, 1959, African music, ethnic music, traditional musical instruments, traditional music, Kenya, lyres, Obukano lyre, Kisii, ,
Model Release: No
Property Release: No

Image Number: APN148532
Path: african.pictures / Historic Africa / Rhodes University / International Library of African Music / ILAM Digital Archives / ILAM Photographic Collection
Description: Ankole drumming1959 , Ankole , Andrew Tracey , International Library of African Music , Uganda , ILM00165_3 , Fieldwork , 35mm
Collections: Independent Photographers
Subcollections: ILAM Photographer
Country: Uganda
Orientation: landscape
Pixel Size: 5653 x 3685
Media Id: 94_238
Credit: ILAM Photographer / Africa Media Online
Keywords: ILAM, Africa, black and white image, horizontal, African music, ethnic music, traditional musical instruments, traditional music, ethnomusicology, Uganda, black African people, groups, drumming, dancing, African drums, musicians, dancers, outside, 1959, Ankole, ,
Model Release: No
Property Release: No

Image Number: APN148543
Path: african.pictures / Historic Africa / Rhodes University / International Library of African Music / ILAM Digital Archives / ILAM Photographic Collection
Description: Ankole people. Ankole dancing 1959 , Dance , Andrew Tracey , International Library of African Music , Uganda , ILM00165_2 , Performance , 35mm
Collections: Independent Photographers
Subcollections: ILAM Photographer
Country: Uganda
Orientation: landscape
Pixel Size: 5672 x 3741
Media Id: 95_124
Credit: ILAM Photographer / Africa Media Online
Keywords: black and white image, Africa, horizontal, ILAM, African music, ethnic music, traditional musical instruments, traditional music, ethnomusicology, Uganda, black African people, groups, drumming, dancing, African drums,