Teenage Gangsters Goes To War - They ought to
Teenage Gangsters Goes To War - They ought to be busy with their reading, writing and rithmetic. But that isn't their line of study. They're too busy getting clued up on dicing, smoking. And in some cased they're taking to real gang warfare. How it begins; Two groups of boys from different parts of a township meet on an open stretch of ground and have a go at each other with mealie cobs and watermelon skins, and with zinc lids as shields. It's just for kicks. This is the boys wil be boys stage. But too often it leads to the formation of gangs, with the mealie cob giving way to the knife
Picture No
14063043
Media ID
44589956
Size
3040px x 1985px
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Credit
© Drum / Bailey's African History Archive / african.pictures / Mary Evans
Source
Drum - Drum Social Histories - Bailey's African History Archive - african.pictures
Date
1959





























