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David Goldblatt: Structures of Dominion & Democracy (Artthrob), 31 March 2015, Durban, Kwazulu Natal, South Africa
11 June 2019
For five decades Goldblatt has travelled South Africa photographing sites weighted with historical narrative: monuments,...
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David Goldblatt,The Transported of KwaNdebele by L'oeil De La Photographie, 26 September 2016
11 June 2019
For over 60 years, David Goldblatt has documented the social and political developments of his native South Africa with ...
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Paper prepared at the request of the United Nations Special Committee Against Apartheid by Oliver Tambo, 1 June 1968, Stockholm
11 June 2019
Present stage of the Struggle Against Apartheid In South Africa Twenty years ago last month, a minority of the white mi...
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National General Elections 2009: List of candidates for the National Assembly: National-to-National, 2 March 2009
11 June 2019
The ANC is fielding candidates for all seats in the National Assembly. In putting together these lists, the ANC has emph...
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Remarks by President Jacob Zuma, the Grand Patron of the National Orders, on the occasion of the awarding of the National Orders Awards, on Freedom Day, Presidential Guest House, 27 April 2012
11 June 2019
Deputy President, Mr Kgalema Motlanthe;  Chief Justice, Judge Mogoeng Mogoeng;  Minister of Arts and Culture...
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South Africa: Liberation and Reconciliation Role of International Solidarity, 8 April 2004
11 June 2019
Based on a speech at the University of Connecticut under the Auspices of UNESCO Chair and Institute of Comparative Human...
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Statement by Mrs. Gertrude Shope at the meeting of the Special Committee against Apartheid in observance of the International Day of Solidarity with the Struggle of Women in South Africa and Namibia, 11 August 1981
11 June 2019
On behalf of the Women`s Section of the African National Congress and in the name of the entire oppressed and struggling...
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Address by President Jacob Zuma at the official launch of the Dube Trade Port and King Shaka International Airport, 8 May 2010, Tongaat, KwaZulu-Natal
11 June 2019
His Majesty the King, Isilo Samabandla, Premier of KwaZulu-Natal, Dr Zweli Mkhize, Minister Transport S`bu Ndebele, M...
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Acceptance speech by President Jacob Zuma on the occasion of being awarded an Honorary Doctorate in Humane Letters in recognition of his contribution to education at Texas Southern University Houston, Texas, 23 September 2011
11 June 2019
Dr. John M. Rudley, President of Texas Southern University, Faculty Members, Members of the Alumni, Convocation, ...
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David Goldblatt’s Portraits of Ex-Convicts at the Scenes of their Crimes by Max Campbell, 6 October 2016
11 June 2019
In one image from “Ex-Offenders at the Scene of the Crime,” a series by the South African photographer David Goldblatt, ...
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UCT defends stance on artistic freedom after Goldblatt pulls out by Paul Herman (News24), 4 March 2017
11 June 2019
Cape Town - The University of Cape Town has defended its protection of freedom of artistic expression, after the David G...
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Analysis: Is South Africa doing enough to prevent heritage flight? by Rebecca Davis (Daily Maverick), 07 March 2017, South Africa
11 June 2019
David Goldblatt was the first South African to be granted one of the art world’s major benchmarks for international succ...
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This doccie about a SA photographer is worth the watch by Garreth Van Niekerk (channel24), 28 May 2017
11 June 2019
Johannesburg - For the better half of the past century, celebrated South African lensman David Goldblatt has turned his ...
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The values of David Goldblatt by Zachary Rosen,13 June 2017
11 June 2019
Inseparable from the photographic images of world-renowned South African photographer David Goldblatt, are values. Value...
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​Regarding the white male gaze in South African photography by Daniel Gallan, 14 Jun 2017
11 June 2019
How does a person place himself in the current South African discourse when he is young, white and male? As someone who ...
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