Friends for Life painting by Breytenbach
Friends for Life (Acrylic on canvas) by Breytenbach (born 1939)
Three Faces by Eric Mbatha
Three Faces (charcoal on paper) by Eric Mbatha (born 1948)
Dr Morris Zwi
Morris Zwi was born in South Africa and later moved to the United Kingdom. He began working in social documentary photography through his need to 'bear witness' and to record what was happening around him as he grew up in South Africa, under the abhorrent Apartheid political system.
Deseni Soobben
Deseni Soobben was 10 when her grandfather, a businessman returned from a trip to Japan and gave her a Kodak lnstamatic camera.
Reminiscences of the Arrest of Fikile Bam & Marcus Solomon in 1963 by Roseinnes Phahle, August 2019
When I got arrested it was through Winnie. I got arrested in Winnie’s car, and when I got to the island I talked to him about Winnie, very strongly, to say that I didn’t think that she had done the right thing by me, that she exposed me to the police, and by associating with someone whom she ought to have known was an informer, because that’s how I got arrested.[1]
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Cloete Breytenbach
Breytenbach was born in 1933 and grew up in Bonnievale in the Cape Winelands. His father was a farmer. Later the family moved to Wellington in Cape Town. As a young man he was supposed to become a teacher but admitted that he would have “killed those kids”. As an 18-year-old, he went to the offices of Die Burger where he was handed a camera and told that he could start as a photographer in 1951.
Chris Qwazi
Chris Qwazi, a photo-journalist, started out as a freelancer in the 1980s at a time of increased resistance against Apartheid in Port Elizabeth, and the Eastern Cape.
