Klipfontein & Glenmore, Cape Province - Forced Removals Collection (1979)
Item set
- Alternative Title
- Forced Removals Photographic Archive – Klipfontein & Glenmore
- Creator
- Maclennan, Ben (Collector)
- Description
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The Klipfontein & Glenmore, Cape Province – Forced Removals Collection (1979) comprises a series of 84 photographs and associated textual images documenting the forced removals of communities from Klipfontein farm, near Kenton-on-Sea, to the resettlement area of Glenmore in 1979. These images were compiled by journalist Ben Maclennan, who covered the removal and subsequent legal and community responses for the Eastern Province Herald and in his book Glenmore: the Story of a Forced Removal. The collection includes photographs of individuals and families affected by the eviction, agricultural schemes such as the Tyefu irrigation scheme, court proceedings in Grahamstown concerning eviction orders, community leaders and administration officials, and everyday scenes reflecting the socio-economic conditions of the displaced communities in both Klipfontein and Glenmore.
The photographs provide a vivid visual record of apartheid-era forced removals and resettlement practices in the Eastern Cape, capturing both the human experience of dispossession and the political and legal contexts surrounding these events. This collection is an important resource for researchers in South African social history, apartheid studies, land rights and forced removals, journalism and visual culture, and community activism. - Date Issued
- 1979
- Language
- English
- Provenance
- Materials collection by Ben Maclennan, a journalist and photographer, who covered this event.
- Type
- Collection
- Genre
- Documentary photography
- Social justice archives
- Legal/journalistic imagery
- Subject
- Forced removals
- Apartheid spatial policies
- ApartheidSee all item sets with this value
- Eastern Cape social history
- Klipfontein (South Africa)
- Glenmore (South Africa)
- Tyefu Agricultural Scheme
- Forced relocation activism
- Format
- Digital images (photographs/scans)
- Spatial Coverage
- Klipfontein farm (Eastern Cape, South Africa)
- Glenmore (Eastern Cape, South Africa)
- Kenton-on-Sea (Eastern Cape, South Africa)
- Grahamstown (Eastern Cape, South Africa)
- Temporal Coverage
- 1979
- Extent
- 84 photographic and textual items
Items
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A series of photographs taken at the time of the Klipfontein evictions, the resultant trial at the Supreme Court Grahamstown, and the eventual settlement of those evicted in the Glenmore resettlement location, showing some of the residents involved, officials, members of the press, as well as aerial and on site views of Glenmore. Photographers: Dave Forbes, Ben Maclennan, Evert Smith, and an unknown photographer. This photograph shows a group of five men, probably members of the East Cape Administration Board who are visiting Glenmore, and a pressman or newspaper reporter taking pictures. -
A series of photographs showing views of forced removal of communities from Klipfontein farm, near Kenton-on-sea, and other areas, to Glenmore in 1979. These photographs were accumulated by Ben Maclennan when he worked as a journalist for Eastern Province Herald, covering the move, and when he wrote the book "Glenmore : the story of a forced removal. This photograph showing Ronnie Knott, owner of farm Glenmore. He was evicted from Glenmore to make way for the resettled people -
A series of photographs showing views of forced removal of communities from Klipfontein farm, near Kenton-on-sea, and other areas, to Glenmore in 1979. These photographs were accumulated by Ben Maclennan when he worked as a journalist for Eastern Province Herald, covering the move, and when he wrote the book "Glenmore : the story of a forced removal. This photograph showing a transcript - About 4000 Fingo Village residents will be asked to signify today if they favour moving to a new town to be built on the farm Glenmore at Committees Drift, 37 kilometres from Grahamstown" -
A series of photographs taken at the time of the Klipfontein evictions, the resultant trial at the Supreme Court Grahamstown, and the eventual settlement of those evicted in the Glenmore resettlement location, showing some of the residents involved, officials, members of the press, as well as aerial and on site views of Glenmore. Photographers: Dave Forbes, Ben Maclennan, Evert Smith, and an unknown photographer. This photograph shows a signboard by the Administration Board for the Cape Midlands, displaying a no unauthorised entry into Glenmore. -
A series of photographs taken at the time of the Klipfontein evictions, the resultant trial at the Supreme Court Grahamstown, and the eventual settlement of those evicted in the Glenmore resettlement location, showing some of the residents involved, officials, members of the press, as well as aerial and on site views of Glenmore. Photographers: Dave Forbes, Ben Maclennan, Evert Smith, and an unknown photographer. This photograph shows Mr Louis Koch leaves the supreme court in Grahamstown after the setting aside of Mr Van der Watt's eviction order. Behind Mr Koch, from left: Advocate van Rensburg, Mr Dennis Bush, Mr van der Watt (top) -
A series of photographs taken at the time of the Klipfontein evictions, the resultant trial at the Supreme Court Grahamstown, and the eventual settlement of those evicted in the Glenmore resettlement location, showing some of the residents involved, officials, members of the press, as well as aerial and on site views of Glenmore. Photographers: Dave Forbes, Ben Maclennan, Evert Smith, and an unknown photographer. This photograph shows Mr van der Watt's back view, Louis Koch, Mr B.B. Zondani and Dennis Bush's back view. The photograph was taken outside court building during the Klipfontein Forced Removal trial in Grahamstown -
A series of photographs showing views of forced removal of communities from Klipfontein farm, near Kenton-on-sea, and other areas, to Glenmore in 1979. These photographs were accumulated by Ben Maclennan when he worked as a journalist for Eastern Province Herald, covering the move, and when he wrote the book "Glenmore : the story of a forced removal. This photograph showing cabbages and onions grown by one of the 12 commercial farmers at Tyefu. Tyefu Agricultural Scheme was a showpiece agricultural scheme run by the Ciskei administration in the impoverished tribal land south of Glenmore. Begun in November 1976, it was open to only a small number of selected farmers, all of whom had already been allocated plots -
A series of photographs showing views of forced removal of communities from Klipfontein farm, near Kenton-on-sea, and other areas, to Glenmore in 1979. These photographs were accumulated by Ben Maclennan when he worked as a journalist for Eastern Province Herald, covering the move, and when he wrote the book "Glenmore : the story of a forced removal. This photograph showing a transcript "Cabbages and onions grown by one of the 12 commercial farmers at Tyefu". Tyefu Agricultural Scheme was a showpiece agricultural scheme run by the Ciskei administration in the impoverished tribal land south of Glenmore. Begun in November 1976, it was open to only a small number of selected farmers, all of whom had already been allocated plots -
A series of photographs showing views of forced removal of communities from Klipfontein farm, near Kenton-on-sea, and other areas, to Glenmore in 1979. These photographs were accumulated by Ben Maclennan when he worked as a journalist for Eastern Province Herald, covering the move, and when he wrote the book "Glenmore : the story of a forced removal. This photograph showing Mr William Myali, his wife Nomtinam [Nontinam] and two children. One of the children is their daughter Pamela, held by Mr Myali