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Jürgen Schadeberg in 1955 with trainee photographers at Drum, Peter Magubane, left, and Bob Gosani. Both became well-known photographers. © Jürgen Schadeberg

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.
The more than two million houses built by the state and transferred to the residents as freehold property, many with solar energy, are the most visible of the Freedom Charter’s achievements. Reuters

The legacy of South Africa’s Freedom Charter 60 years later

Keith Gottschalk, University of the Western Cape

The Freedom Charter, adopted at a meeting in Soweto on June 25-26 1955, triggered a paradigm shift in thinking about the democratic rights of black South Africans and their protection under the law.

Related Topics

  1. African National Congress (ANC)
  2. Anti-apartheid activism
  3. Apartheid
  4. Jürgen Schadeberg
  5. Miriam Makeba
  6. Nelson Mandela
  7. South African history
  8. South African politics

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