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Klipfontein Trial - Ben Maclennan taking notes

Item

“Klipfontein Trial - Ben Maclennan taking notes”, Cory Library and Historical Archives, accessed 29 December 2025, https://digitalarchives.ru.ac.za/s/cory/item/11295

Title

Klipfontein Trial - Ben Maclennan taking notes

Description

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 men( residents of Klipfontein) standing outside court during Klipfontein trial. Ben Maclennan, a reporter and journalist for the Eastern Province Herald, is taking notes

Subject

Forced migration South Africa Eastern Cape Photographs,Forced migration South Africa Glenmore Photographs,Forced migration South Africa Klipfontein Photographs,Black people Relocation South Africa Photographs,Apartheid South Africa Photographs,Squatters South Africa Glenmore Photographs,Glenmore (South Africa) Race relations Photographs

Type

Image

Format

jpg

Identifier

http://hdl.handle.net/10962/40064

Location - Physical Location

Original held at Cory Library for Humanities Research, situated at Rhodes University.

Date Issued

1979

Provenance

Klipfontein - Glenmore Forced Removal Collection

Location - Copy -- Shelf Locator

PIC/S 4902-14

useGuidelines

Copryright. Image made available for research and educational purposes only.

Item sets

Klipfontein & Glenmore, Cape Province - Forced Removals Collection (1979)

Media

vital_24949+SOURCE1+SOURCE1.0.jpeg

Hierarchies

Apartheid, the Struggle and the People

• Anti-Apartheid Movement and Acts of Defiance (7 items)
• Apartheid - Legal Frameworks (2 items)
• Forced Removals and Evictions (104 items)
  • Klipfontein & Glenmore, Cape Province - Forced Removals Collection (1979) (84 items)
  • Oxton and Zweledinga, Cape Province - Forced Removals Collection (1980) (20 items)
• The People versus the State (12 items)

“Klipfontein Trial - Ben Maclennan taking notes”, Cory Library and Historical Archives, accessed 29 December 2025, https://digitalarchives.ru.ac.za/s/cory/item/11295