Victoria Street in Fingo Village, a township settlement in East Grahamstown, South Africa
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5218 x 3465 px | 44.2 x 29.3 cm | 17.4 x 11.6 inches | 300dpiDate taken:
25 July 2008Location:
Victoria Street, Fingo Village, Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, Republic of South AfricaMore information:
Grahamstown may be a unique South African city because its black population was never re-settled during the apartheid era. The oldest township area of Fingo Village, at the foot of Makana's Kop, the wooded hill in the background of this view of Victoria Street, dates to 1857, when black people, loyal to the colonial forces, were given freehold land, on the eastern edge of the city, in recognition of their service. In 1996 Victoria Street was an infill area of rough, informal housing, associated with a high crime rate. Some tin shacks remain, one, on the right, painted green; but brick and breeze block are visible, including a large privately improved house on the right, near the junction with the main road. A tavern, opposite, with several men sitting and standing inside its pink walled precinct, continues to do business. The time is 2.40 pm (14.40): the end of the school day, so many children are casually dressed.