Herbert Mabuza was an outstanding photographer, who was promoted to the position of managing editor at the Sunday Times and later to the same position at the Sowetan and Sunday World.
Mabuza was for a very short period a member of the photographic collective Afrapix.
After leaving journalism in 2015, he became an emerging cattle farmer.
Herbert Mabuza passed away on 2 June 2019 in Johannesburg, Gauteng.