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South Africa: The Cordoned Heart

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A project of the Second Carnegie Inquiry into Poverty and Development in Southernstet Africa , this collection of 136 pictures taken by 20 South African photographers poignantly documents the evils of apartheid. Wendy Schwegmann captures a black man dismantling his home in Mogopa as he prepares to be resettled by the government in his tribal ""homeland.'' Lesley Lawson shows a shabbily dressed black maid polishing a table in a lavish corporate conference room. Ben MacIennan records four black workers in their ``dormitory'' in front of tiers of concrete beds, which resemble bathtubs. The introduction and extensive commentaries by Wilson, a professor at the University of Cape Town, offer an impassioned, statistical account of the extent and horror of poverty in South Africa.

Language: English

Pages: 186

Format: Paperback

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Release: December 01, 1986

ISBN: 0393303357

ISBN 13: 0393303357

South Africa: The Cordoned Heart

0/5 ( ratings)

A project of the Second Carnegie Inquiry into Poverty and Development in Southernstet Africa , this collection of 136 pictures taken by 20 South African photographers poignantly documents the evils of apartheid. Wendy Schwegmann captures a black man dismantling his home in Mogopa as he prepares to be resettled by the government in his tribal ""homeland.'' Lesley Lawson shows a shabbily dressed black maid polishing a table in a lavish corporate conference room. Ben MacIennan records four black workers in their ``dormitory'' in front of tiers of concrete beds, which resemble bathtubs. The introduction and extensive commentaries by Wilson, a professor at the University of Cape Town, offer an impassioned, statistical account of the extent and horror of poverty in South Africa.

Language: English

Pages: 186

Format: Paperback

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Release: December 01, 1986

ISBN: 0393303357

ISBN 13: 0393303357

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