Our ANC Archive Collections Are Growing
ANC Archives Digitisation of the ANC Archives began at the University of Fort Hare in 2011 and continued on and off until 2018. Tens of thousands of images have been digitised and will be added […]
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Remembering Tom Mboya: in 1969
View this email in your browser. Tom Mboya: assassinated 1969 This year marks 55 years since Tom Mboya’s assassination in Kenya. Mboya was a dynamic Kenyan leader whose contributions spanned trade unionism […]
Marikana Massacre
The Marikana Massacre A Photographic Journey The Marikana Massacre was democratic South Africa’s worst massacre the story is one of grave injustice. To date, justice has not been meted out to perpetrators of […]
Brave Photographers – Ken Oosterbroek
Committed to Exposing Apartheid Ken took getting up close seriously as you can see in this shot, standing his ground and capturing the Afrikaner Resistance Movement guards riding with raised batons. Ken […]
ANC Archives – Exiled in Amsterdam
ANC Archives – Amsterdam When banned in South Africa, the African National Congress (ANC) established international bases in numerous cities, including Amsterdam. These photographs were captured in Amsterdam in the […]
Brave Photographers – George Philipas
Photojournalists help the world to see people not just statistics. They have to risk their lives to get close enough to capture life and death. George Philipas Post-Election Upheaval in Kenya – […]
Pravin Gordhan
Goodbye Pravin Gordhan In the early hours of this morning, the 13th of September Pravin Gordhan sadly passed after a battle with cancer. We have gathered some photos of Gordhan who was a […]
Brave Photographers – Anton Hammerl
Killed Photographing Conflict in Libya Hammerl, the former picture editor for The Saturday Star (Johannesburg, South Africa), went to Libya […]
Brave Photographers – Mohamed Amin
Brave Photographers Photographic journalists risk their lives documenting war and disasters. Over the next five blog posts, we are going to cover some astoundingly brave […]
Desmond Tutu From Pulpit to Peacemaker
Desmond Tutu Desmond Tutu, a South African Anglican bishop, rose to prominence fighting apartheid. Ordained in 1960, he became the first Black Archbishop of Cape Town. His […]