Forced Removals and Evictions
Item set
- Alternative Title
- Apartheid Forced Removals — Klipfontein, Glenmore, Oxton & Zweledinga
- Description
- The “Forced Removals and Evictions” item set is a thematic archival grouping within the Cory Library and Historical Archives’ digital collections that focuses on the documentation of forced removals, evictions, and apartheid-era spatial and social displacements in South Africa. This item set forms part of the broader subject area Apartheid, the Struggle and the People, which highlights primary sources related to the socio-political impacts of apartheid policies and resistance movements.
- Date Issued
- 1979–1980 (primary archival material dates)
- Language
- English
- Type
- Collection
- Subject
- Community displacement
- Oxton, Eastern Province, South Africa
- Zweledinga, Eastern Province, South Africa
- Glenmore, Eastern Province, South Africa
- Klipfontein, Eastern Province, South Africa
- South African -- History
- See all item sets with this valueApartheid
- Forced removals
- Spatial segregation
- Format
- Digital archival records
- Spatial Coverage
- Cape Province, South Africa
- Temporal Coverage
- Late 20th century (1979–1980)
Items
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A series of twenty photographs showing scenes of houses (new and old) and landscape of the Oxton and Zweledinga areas of resettlement under the forced removals policy, 1980. Most of the community settled here had voluntarily left Glen Grey and Herschel in 1976, to avoid incorporation into the Transkei homeland, only to be incorporated, at a later date, into Ciskei instead. These photographs were taken by Priscilla Hall. -
A series of twenty photographs showing scenes of houses (new and old) and landscape of the Oxton and Zweledinga areas of resettlement under the forced removals policy, 1980. Most of the community settled here had voluntarily left Glen Grey and Herschel in 1976, to avoid incorporation into the Transkei homeland, only to be incorporated, at a later date, into Ciskei instead. These photographs were taken by Priscilla Hall. -
A series of twenty photographs showing scenes of houses (new and old) and landscape of the Oxton and Zweledinga areas of resettlement under the forced removals policy, 1980. Most of the community settled here had voluntarily left Glen Grey and Herschel in 1976, to avoid incorporation into the Transkei homeland, only to be incorporated, at a later date, into Ciskei instead.These photographs were taken by Priscilla Hall. -
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