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Americans for South African Resistance, 25 June 1982
I was very pleased to receive the invitation to make statement to the Special Committee against Apartheid on the occasion of the 30th…
Reclaim the humanism of Socialism, The 2017 Strini Moodley Memorial Lecture, UKZN, Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, by Mphutlane Wa Bofelo, Pambazuka News, 19 July 2017
The crisis facing South Africa and the world today has its roots in: (1) the barbarism and injustices of market supremacism, racial…
Reclaim the humanism of Socialism, The 2017 Strini Moodley Memorial Lecture, Mphutlane Wa Bofelo, 27 July 2017, Pambazuka News
Mines of the beloved country: Through the mind of a photographer and essayist by J Brooks Spector (Daily Maverick), 5 November 2012
Back in the mid-1970s, when the writer was still feeling his way along the dark moral landscape that was South Africa, a South African…
ArchiveZondeni Veronica Sobukwe interviewed by Ntsikelelo Sandi,King Williams Town,12 May 1997
CHAIRPERSON: Mrs Sobukwe, are you Zodwa? MRS SOBUKWE: I am Zondeni. CHAIRPERSON: Zondeni Veronica. We welcome you Mrs Sobukwe in this…
Images That Preserve History, and Make It : ‘Rise and Fall of Apartheid’ at Center of Photography by Holland Cotter (The New York Times), 20 September 2012
Photography is the common language of modern history. It’s everywhere; and everyone, in some way, understands it. No institution presents…
David Goldblatt by Jean Dykstra, 11 September 2011
In a videotaped interview with David Goldblatt that is included in his current exhibition at the Jewish Museum, the South African…
Statement 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
Mrs. Gertrude Shope On behalf of the Women's Section of the African National Congress and in the name of the entire oppressed and…
South Africa's political landscape, as visual poetry: Haunting images have understated, dry elegance by Mark Feeney, 20 February 2011
Goldblatt, who turned 80 in November, is among the greatest of living documentary photographers. He won the Hasselblad Award, something…
David Goldblatt, TJ, 1948-2010 - review by Claire Guillot, 25 January 2011
One morning, in the middle-class suburb of Johannesburg where he lives, David Goldblatt found his camper van on bricks. "Someone had stolen…
Intergenerational Dialogue, Ntokozo Moloi and Terrence Tryon (3/3) by Kyla Mc Nulty, 2017
Apartheid’s Twisted Dream: David Goldblatt’s South Africa by Joseph Lelyveld, 2 July 2010
As a matter of crude shorthand, the South African photographer David Goldblatt might be described as his country’s Walker Evans. Though…
Country Divided in Black and White by Holland Cotter, 1 July 2010
For the last few weeks millions of fevered eyes have been fixed on South Africa, host to the World Cup, which ends next weekend. For half a…
Photography David Goldblatt by Sean Jacobs, 1 September 2009
Fred Ritchin (associate professor of photography and communications at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts and a new media…
Silent Cries from a Beloved Country by Ken Johnson, 20 August 2009
Looking at the series of large color photographs called “In the Time of AIDS” by the South African David Goldblatt, you may wonder why they…