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ANC supporters take cover on the Ciskeien side of the border with South Africa after they were fired on, September 7, 19...

At the age of 16, all Africans were required to carry passes that determined where they could live, go to school, and wo...

An example of Art Deco architecture in Yeoville, Johannesburg. Photograph by Franco Frescura.

An out-house at the Liliesleaf farm, known as room number 4, used by the National High Command for storage and making ph...

Signs on postcards, and then removed.

In time two classes of pullers emerged: those largely of mPondo background, who serviced the market areas, and those ori...

Winged warriors. Nor that of birds being fleet on the wing. These are White metaphors.

Ancestral symbolism. Cattle = land = lobola = children =access to ancestors.

Durban’ s ricksha heritage.

High tradition and decline.

Some satisfied customers.

In the beginning ...

European adaptations

Fares and Distances. Pullers could make up to £1 per day which aroused white anger. Working conditions did not make for ...

Rural elements find way into ricksha costumes.

The vehicle rapidly became incorporated into local society and was adapted by Japanese artists and photographers into th...

Experimentation and development.

spread into Asia

The Special Shilling. After 1900 Durban saw a dramatic influx of “continental“ women and their pimps, and by...

China and Hong kong

illegal loading

Early dress codes

I have seen the future, and it is Handa...

Early Segregation. Rickshas could either carry white passengers and their goods, or just goods. It was generally assumed...

Part of the life of Natal

On 26 April 1994 millions of South Africans turned out to vote in the country's first multi-racial elections. The world ...

Harrismith, Ladysmith, Dundee and Newcastle. Harrismith is the only place I have found evidence of rickshas in the OFS. ...

The name “amaLisha” is the Zulu interpretation of the word ricksha, also sometimes spelt with a “w&rdq...

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