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Umbulwana, a resettlement camp in Natal



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Africans were forced to leave Umbulwana, a so-called "Black spot" where Africans had owned land and lived for generations, and moved to resettlement camps with tiny, identical mud huts in "resettlement villages" in their designated "homelands."

By U.N. Photo

1982

Collection: Historical Images of South Africa (United Nations)

Used by permission.

AODL African Studies Center MSU NEH Matrix