Drum Magazine social history photographs, South Africa edition 1430

South Africa, 1957. Inside Dube Hostel: A Place Nobody Wants. Following recent violence in Dube, areas like Phefeni and Meadowlands also required constant patrolling by heavily armed police. The residents of Dube Hostel's bleak and forbidding buildings never wished to live there. For many, it serves merely as a place to rest a weary head and find shelter from the elements. Most are Johannesburg workers forcibly uprooted from their city rooms by the 'Locations in the Sky' Act. Their employers share this dislike, stating that operations were smoother when workers resided nearby and didn't face long daily commutes.