Title: Tin Technology
Image Number: APN111730
Media Id: 87_284
Path:
african.pictures /
The Media Bank /
Izak de Vries
Description: Look at the ingenuity with which these shacks have been built. The human spirit and mind is just great. Even in the face of poverty, caused by apartheid and unequal opportunities, these guys have used wood, plastic and old tins to create these interesting bits of technology. These shacks have developed because of years of influx control under apartheid. In the homelands, or Bantustans, there were not enough jobs and not enough land. People had to move to the city. Today township dwellers are a powerful lobby group and our government is providing electricity and other services.
Collections: Shuter and Shooter
Subcollections:
Izak de Vries
Country: South Africa
Orientation: landscape
Pixel Size: 2048 x 1536
Credit: Izak de Vries / Shuter and Shooter / Africa Media Online
Keywords:
buildings,
structures & establishments,
settlements,
huts,
informal housing,
informal settlements,
social problems,
poverty,
corrugated iron building,
corrugated iron houses,
shacks,
poor,
squatting,
unfortunate,
,
Model Release: No
Property Release: No