Kliptown, Soweto, South Africa,2009 - Apartheid laws forced the Black and non-white people of South Africa, the vast majority of the population, to live in restricted areas apart from the white population. The influx of people into South African black townships outgrew the capacity of the original matchbox houses, and shacks made of corrugated tin and random pieces of wood were erected in back yards and areas of vacant land. Slide 2: Alexandra Township, South Africa, 1992 - Men warm themselves over a fire in a metal storage drum on a cold winter morning. Slide 3: Natal Province, South Africa,1992 - Farm workers shielded themselves from the intense heat as a sugar cane field was burned prior to harvesting. Burning off the undergrowth made cutting the cane stalks more efficient. Slide 4: Natal Province, South Africa,1992 - At the end of the day, a sugar cane worker removed his soot-blackened shirt. Many farm workers were migrants who lived in hostels and did not return to their homes and families for months at a time. They worked long hours, earning around 40 rand ($14) a day. Slide 5: Witwatwersrand Region, South Africa, 1992 - The South African gold fields are a massive ridge of gold-bearing rock, that contain the world's largest gold deposits and are the deepest in the world. Temperatures can reach 140 degrees Fahrenheit. The miners who performed the hard labor were black migrant workers who spent many months each year away from their homes and families, lived in workers' quarters at the mine and were paid a fraction of the wages earned by white miners. Slide 6: Meadowlands Hostel, Soweto, South Africa, 1992 - Many workers in South Africa were forced to live far from their homes and families in the often squalid and violent conditions of all-male, migrant workers' hostels, such as this one. Sanitation facilities were minimal, over-crowded and broken-down. #archive #southafrica