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
… This is how they appear, holding placards on the steps of Johannesburg City Hall, in an enlarged 1956 photo dominating … in the township of Sharpeville, 30 miles south of Johannesburg. Everything changed. Nelson Mandela, already a … In 1976, in Soweto, a black township that is now part of Johannesburg, police opened fire on high school students …