Image Number: APN106835
Path:
Africa Media Online /
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,
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father,
Solly Nathie,
May,
1964,
1960s,
Evaton,
Johannesburg,
Gauteng,
weddings,
guests,
brides,
celebrations,
apartheid,
Hatira Nathie,
crying,
,
Model Release: No
Property Release: No
