Peter Magubane documented black life and resistance in South Africa.
Peter Magubane/PMHA/Courtesy the Magubane family
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.
© Baileys African History Archives/Drum photographer/Courtesy Jacana Media
The Drum journalist was a rare woman in a male-dominated world. Her autobiography has now been published after her death.
Alain Proust/Hidden Pretoria
Built by Tamil immigrants almost 100 years ago, the temple has survived apartheid and urban decay to remain at the heart of its community.
Today’s gang violence on the Cape Flats can’t be divorced from Cape Town’s history of forced removals.
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Given the framework within which removals under the Group Areas Act took place in Cape Town, a social disaster was inevitable.
Kewpie at the site of a demolished building after the forced removals from District Six, Cape Town.
Kewpie Collection/GALA
Despite South Africa’s progressive constitution, LGBTIQ people continue to face discrimination in all social spheres.
Master Mansions today. From Fourthwall Books’ ‘Master Mansions’ (2017) by Mark Lewis and Tanya Zack.
Mark Lewis/ Fourthwall Books
Apartheid was to officially end in 1994. So was the fashion of wearing hats as the formalities of business, church and leisure gave way to the informality of urban equality.