The Walther Collection

Children at the border between Pageview (Fietas) and Mayfair, Johannesburg. April 1952

Evening exodus from the city. Blacks stream to Westgate station for trains to Soweto; Whites, in their cars, head for the Northern Suburbs, Johannesburg. 1964

Migrant mineworkers who had served their contracts on the gold mines and were waiting for a train to take them part-way to their homes in Nyassaland (Malawi), Mayfair railway station, Johannesburg. December 1952

Old mill foundations, tailings wheel and sand dump, Witwatersrand Deep Gold Mine, Germiston. August 1966

Miner's bunks in the abandoned Chinese compound, so called because it probably housed indentured Chinese labourer between 1904 and 1910. Before its abandonment in the 1950s, Black miners were accommodated here, Simmer & Jack Gold Mine, Germiston.

"Boss Boy" detail, Battery Reef, Randfontein Estates Gold Mine, Randfontein, Transvaal. 1966

Time-office clerks and a miner, City Deep Gold Mine, Johannesburg. 1966

Harry Oppenheimer, chairman of the Anglo American Corporation in his office at the company's headquarters, 44 Main Street, Johannesburg. 1966

Some Afrikaners: The farm Quaggasfontein in the Great Karoo on a summer afternoon. About 250 years ago, after 13 years of work, two slaves are said to have completed the building of this wall which surrounds the farmyard, near Graaff-Reinet. Dec 1966

Some Afrikaners: A railway shunter who dreamed of a garden without concrete or bricks, watered by this dam on his plot, or small-holding, Koksoord, Randfontein. 1962

Some Afrikaners: A farmer's son with his nursemaid, Heimweeberg, Nietverdiend. 1964

Some Afrikaners: The commando of National Party stalwarts which escorted Prime Minister and National Party leader, Hendrik Verwoerd and his wife, Betsie, to the party's 50th anniversary celebrations at De Wildt, Transvaal. October 1964

Some Afrikaners: An elder of the Dutch Reformed Church walking home with his family after the Sunday service, George. January 1968

Some Afrikaners: An elder of the Dutch Reformed Mission Church walking home with his family after the Sunday service, Carnavon. January 1968

Some Afrikaners: A plot-holder, his wife and their eldest son at lunch, Wheatlands, Randfontein. September 1962

Bantustans: Framework for a new dwelling, Flagstaff, Transkei. 9 October 1975

Bantustans: House near Phuthaditjhaba, Qwa Qwa. 1 May 1989

Bantustans: Kite flying, near Phuthaditjhaba, Qwa Qwa. 1 May 1989

Bantustans: Landscape with 1500 lavatories, Frankfort, Ciskei. 12 July 1983

Bantustans: Going to work: 2:45 am, the first bus of the day. There being almost no employment opportunities in KwaNdebele, these people travel up to eight hours per day to get to and from work around Pretoria, Mathysloop, KwaNdebele. 1984

Bantustans: Going home: 8:45 pm, Marabastad-Waterval bus; some of these passengers will reach home at 10:00 pm and start the next day at 2:00 am. 1984

In Boksburg: Saturday morning at the corner of Commissioner and Trichardts streets, Boksburg. 1979–1980

In Boksburg: Saturday afternoon in Sunward Park, Boksburg. 1979–1980

In Boksburg: On the stoep in her new tutu, Boksburg. 1980

In Boksburg: Meeting of the Worker-Management Liaison Committee of the Colgate-Palmolive Company, Boksburg. 1980

In Boksburg: Saturday morning at the Pick 'n Pay hypermarket, semi-final of the Miss Lovely Legs Competition, Boksburg. 1980

In Boksburg: Flag-raising ceremony for Republic Day at Christian Brothers College, Boksburg. 1979-1980

In Boksburg: Funeral with military honours for two boyhood friends who went to school together in Boksburg, were drafted into the same unit of the South African Army, and were killed in the same action against SWAPO on the Namibia-Angola border, Boksburg.

In Boksburg: Members of the Methodist Church meet to find ways of reducing the racial, cultural and class barriers which divide them, Boksburg. 1979–1980

Structures: Remnant of a wild almond hedge planted in 1660 to keep the indigenous Khoe out of the first European settlement in South Africa, Kirstenbosch, Cape Town. 16 May 1993

Structures: Suburban garden, Bloubergstrand and Table Bay, Cape Town ('...the entire coastal belt from Bloubergstrand to Melkbosstrand has been proclaimed a white group area from The Standard Encylopaedia of Southern Africa (1971)'). 9 January 1986

Structures: The destruction of District Six under the Group Areas Act, Cape Town. 5 May 1982

Structures: Mother and child in their home after the destruction of its shelter by officials of the Western Cape Development Board, Crossroads, Cape Town. 11 October 1986

Structures: Flushing Meadows – so called because it had water-borne sanitation – and lighting masts, Site B, Khayelitsha, Cape Town, Cape. 11 October 1987

Structures: Speculative investment by a property developer in a house which he claimed was 'authentic Cape Dutch' but which was, in fact, a grossly corrupted version of that form, Agatha, Tzaneen district. 10 April 1989

Structures: Luke Kgatitsoe at his house, destroyed by government bulldozers in February 1984. Magopa, Ventersdorp district. 21 October 1986

Structures: No Rest Location, formerly New Rest Location renamed by residents because of harassment by the Security Police in the 1980s, Middelburg, Cape. 21 July 1986

Structures: Nederduitse Gereformeerde Kerk, inaugurated 31 July 1966, Op-die-Berg, Cape. 23 May 1987

Structures: Die Heldeakker, The Heroes' Acre: cemetery for white members of the security forces killed in 'The Total Onslaught.' Ventersdorp, Transvaal. 1 November 1986

Structures: Unemployed men and Krugerpark government housing scheme for lower and middle class whites. Pretoria, Transvaal. 28 October 1986

Structures: A new shack under construction, Lenasia Extension 9, Lenasia, Johannesburg. 5 May 1990

Soweto: Meadowlands from Mofolo, Soweto, Johannesburg. September 1972

Soweto: Margaret Mcingana at home on a Sunday afternoon, Zola. As Margaret Singana she became a famous singer. She died on 22 April 2000 at the age of 63. October 1970

Soweto: Butchering a coal merchant's horse for its meat after it had been condemned and shot by a municipal inspector, Tladi. November 1972

Soweto: At the Soccer Cup Final, Orlando Stadium. 1972

Soweto: A man and a passing woman, Tladi. 5 November 1972

Joburg: In the Docrat living room before its destruction under the Group Areas Act, 20th Street, Fietas. 1977

Joburg: Hassimia Sahib's butchery truncated but still in business after demolition of his neighbour's portion under the Group Areas Act. Whites in residence in their new houses, Fietas. 8 March 1986

Joburg: Southeast wing of a hostel for Black male workers erected during apartheid as part of a scheme to make Joburg city and suburbs white, Alexandra Township. 1 June 1988

Joburg: Domestic worker's afternoon off, Sunninghill, Sandton. 23 July 1999

Second Avenue, Houghton. 26 September 2006

A shoemaker at work, Raleigh Street, Yeoville. 14 September 2006

Miriam Mazibuko watering her garden, Extension 8, Far East Alexandra Township. 12 September 2006

Refugees from Zimbabwe given shelter in the Central Methodist Church, Pritchard Street. 22 March 2009

Soweto: George and Sarah Manyani, 3153 Emdeni Extension. August 1972

Soweto: Young men with dompas, White City, Jabavu. November 1972

Structures: Homesteads, Manyane, KwaZulu Natal. 28 July 1989

Mineworkers in their hostel, Western Deep Levels, Carletonville

Mineworkers in their hostel, Western Deep Levels, Carletonville

Mother and Child, Vorstershoop, North West Province. 1 June 2003

Sheep Farm at Oubip, Between Aggenys and Loop 10, Bushmanland, Northern Cape. 5 June 2004

A Stadium for the 2010 Soccer World Cup. Green Point, Cape Town. 17 August 2008

Deserted farmhouse near Molteno. Eastern Cape. 25 February 2006

Remains of households in a children's game called onopopi, and the shells of incomplete houses in a housing scheme that stalled. Kwezinaledi, Lady Grey, Eastern Cape. 5 August 2006

Anna Boois, Namaqualand, Northern Cape. 20 September 2003

Squatter camp of foreign nationals between the N1 and railway property at Woodstock. Cape Town. 22 August 2006

Blue asbestos fibres, Owendale Mine, Northern Cape. 26 October 2002