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This weekend marks the 30th anniversary since the fall of South African apartheid. Since then, the young democracy has struggled to find its footing as it grapples with apartheid’s legacy and ...
Apartheid, from an Afrikaans word meaning "apart-hood," is a system of legalized segregation that was widely practiced in South Africa and enacted by law by the white-ruled Nationalist Party in 1948.
Magubane was also the first black South African to win Press Photo of the Year (in 1958). Since 1994, he concentrated on holding exhibitions and publishing work from his archives, and in an interview ...
Instead, he went to New York City, where Magnum Photos and Random House published his House of Bondage, exposing South Africa’s horrific apartheid system to the world.
This would remain an issue in the South African Council on Sport of the 1970s and 1980s. Jasmat Dhiraj told me that he had to “overcome inhibitions and complexes” on tour. Bobat states that they ...
Peter Magubane, a South African photojournalist who documented apartheid’s unrest and repression and was also caught in its grip, once jailed in solitary confinement for 586 days and banned from ...
Apartheid, from an Afrikaans word meaning "apart-hood," is a system of legalized segregation that was widely practiced in South Africa and enacted by law by the white-ruled Nationalist Party in 1948.
Apartheid, from an Afrikaans word meaning "apart-hood," is a system of legalized segregation that was widely practiced in South Africa and enacted by law by the white-ruled Nationalist Party in 1948.
Peter Magubane, the renowned artist-photographer who shed light on the everyday struggles of Black South Africans for decades under apartheid, died on Monday. He was 91.