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A sister of a young man who was killed by hostel dwellers in Soweto collapses in grief at his funeral.

A victim, who had been seriously slashed with a broken bottle, is treated in an emergency room of Baragwanth hospital in Soweto.

A 13-year-old boy was shot in the back by police during a protest against the violence in Soweto.

Residents of Alexandra Township, who had been peacefully demonstrating against violence, were shot and teargassed by the police.

Residents of Soweto protesting the violence by hostel dwellers are restrained by the police.

Residents of Alexandra Township warm themselves by a fire on a cold winter morning.

A sugar cane cutter removes his shirt at the end of the working day.

Young men being initiated into manhood must live for about one month outside the village, without clothes and covered with white clay.

A mother carries her dead child to his grave.

A famine victim is being wrapped for burial.