Jürgen Schadeberg in 1955 with trainee photographers at Drum, Peter Magubane, left, and Bob Gosani. Both became well-known photographers. © Jürgen Schadeberg September 1, 2020 Jürgen Schadeberg: chronicler of life across apartheid’s divides Kylie Thomas, NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies The gift of his images lies in their depiction of the social worlds that apartheid sought to destroy, but that live on through the photographs.
Raymond Louw, right, with then deputy president Cyril Ramaphosa, middle, and veteran journalist Mathatha Tsedu in 2015. GovernmentZA/Flickr June 14, 2019 A tribute to Raymond Louw: a great South African editor and determined activist Anton Harber, University of the Witwatersrand Raymond Louw will be remembered as a man of unbending principle.
Artist Johannes Phokela’s ceramic memorial wall. Ruth Simbao June 15, 2018 Capturing the Soweto Uprising: South Africa’s most iconic photograph lives on Ruth Simbao, Rhodes University The persistence of Sam Nzima’s June 16 photograph is remarkable. The shadow in the photograph can be read as a metaphor for the rich debate that this image continues to bring to the surface.