DStv Channel 403 Tuesday, 19 November 2024

WATCH | Remembering photojournalist Peter Magubane

JOHANNESBURG - Tributes continue to pour in for the photojournalist, Peter Magubane.

He died on Monday at the age of 91.

Magubane captured the atrocities of the apartheid regime and everyday scenes that highlighted racial divides in South Africa.

These images were relayed to the world, building momentum in the fight against apartheid. He documented the 1950 police massacre in the township of Sharpeville.

He also covered the Rivonia trial of Nelson Mandela and the uprising of school students in 1976. Magubane gained world renown and joined Time Magazine in 1978.

But at home he endured beatings, he was banned and he was kept in solitary confinement for 586 days. In 1990 he became Mandela’s official photographer for four years.

We spoke to Magubane’s long-time former manager, David Meyer-Gollan.

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