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.
Detail of a photo of Lilian Ngoyi making a speech in 1960.
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The pioneering role she played, and the sacrifices she made, extended well beyond the famous 1956 Women’s March.
South African Communist Party members have held key positions in the ANC-led governments.
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The Communist Party draws most of the members from South Africa’s mainly young, unemployed people, a group that keeps growing.
A demonstration in Red Square (since renamed Freedom Square) in the Johannesburg suburb of Fordsburg, South Africa, 6th April 1952.
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When the Truth and Reconciliation was mandated to investigate human rights violations from March 1960, that left twelve years of apartheid rule unexplored.