Peter Magubane documented black life and resistance in South Africa.
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Magubane’s photographs testify to the hope that is at the heart of the struggle for a just world.
A young Juby Mayet in Vrededorp, Johannesburg.
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The Drum journalist was a rare woman in a male-dominated world. Her autobiography has now been published after her death.
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The end of apartheid should have heralded a new South Africa for the generation born at its demise. But that hasn’t happened.
Award-winning Hemelbesem is a black Afrikaans hip-hop artist.
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Afrikaans is very much a black language. The apartheid government’s ploy to construct it as a “white language”, with a “white history”, denied the commonality of the language across race and class.
Portrait of Miriam Tlali as part of Adrian Steirn’s 21 Icons South Africa project. Date: 15.10.2014.
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A South African novel, published in 1980 and dealing with the Soweto student uprising four years earlier, still provides lessons for students today.