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Glenmore squatters

“Glenmore squatters”, Cory Library and Historical Archives, accessed 28 December 2025, https://digitalarchives.ru.ac.za/s/cory/item/11311

Title: Glenmore squatters
Description: 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 wooden shacks, temporary houses built for Glenmore people after they were removed from different places in the Eastern Cape, including Klipfontein
Subject: Forced migration -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape -- Photographs; Forced migration -- South Africa -- Glenmore -- Photographs; Forced migration -- South Africa -- Klipfontein -- Photographs; Blacks -- South Africa -- Relocation -- Photographs; Apartheid -- South Africa -- Photographs; Glenmore (South Africa, Eastern Cape) -- Race relations -- Photographs; Squatters -- South Africa -- Glenmore -- Photographs
Type: Image
Format: jpg
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/41910
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 4902-22
useGuidelines: Copryright. Image made available for research and educational purposes only.

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

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)

“Glenmore squatters”, Cory Library and Historical Archives, accessed 28 December 2025, https://digitalarchives.ru.ac.za/s/cory/item/11311

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