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Title
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Oxton and Zweledinga, Cape Province - Forced Removals Collection (1980)
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Alternative Title
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Priscilla Hall Collection
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Description
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This collection comprises a series of twenty photographs documenting houses (both newly constructed and older dwellings) and the surrounding landscape in the Oxton and Zweledinga resettlement areas during 1980. The photographs record physical environments shaped by apartheid-era forced removals and resettlement policies in the Eastern Cape.
The communities depicted in these images largely consist of residents who voluntarily left the Glen Grey and Herschel districts in 1976 in an effort to avoid incorporation into the Transkei homeland. Despite this relocation, the settlements of Oxton and Zweledinga were later incorporated into the Ciskei homeland. The photographs provide visual evidence of the material conditions, settlement patterns, and lived landscapes associated with displacement, resettlement, and homeland administration during the late apartheid period.
As a visual record, the collection contributes to the documentation of population movement, land tenure changes, and the social consequences of apartheid spatial planning in South Africa.
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Date Issued
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1980-
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Provenance
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The collection was donated to the Cory Library for Humanities Research by Priscilla Hall
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Temporal Coverage
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1980
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Format
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image/jpeg
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Medium
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Photographic prints
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Extent
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20 photographs