Two-storey brick hostels, housing single working men in the days of apartheid, Langa Township, Cape Town, South Africa
These two-storey brick buildings were originally hostels housing single working men in the days of apartheid rule, when Black South Africans, arriving from rural areas in their search for work, were not allowed to bring their families. Families now live in the hostels, but conditions are grim: 18 families in one hostel sharing one bathroom; three families sharing one small bedroom, parents in bunk beds, children sleeping on the floor. On the sandy verge outside, two men show interest in the chickens women are cooking on grills over fires in oil drums cut lengthways and supported on metal table frames. A sheep's head is visible on an oil drum table on the far right. The wall painting, 'Strike HIGHER WAGES', on the near corner of the first hostel block, may an apartheid relic.
Size: 5806px × 3888px
Location: Langa Township, Cape Town, Western Cape, Republic of South Africa
Photo credit: © robert harrison / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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