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Glenmore - men digging a hole

Item

“Glenmore - men digging a hole”, Cory Library and Historical Archives, accessed 28 December 2025, https://digitalarchives.ru.ac.za/s/cory/item/11337

Title

Glenmore - men digging a hole

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 a group of men in Glenmore digging a hole, probably a grave. When the evicted people arrived in Glenmore, a number of them became sick, there were no jobs, only poverty and that there was no clinic for people to get medication. People started dying.

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/10962/44604

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 4902-35

useGuidelines

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

Item sets

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

Media

vital_25424+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)

“Glenmore - men digging a hole”, Cory Library and Historical Archives, accessed 28 December 2025, https://digitalarchives.ru.ac.za/s/cory/item/11337