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Ruth Motau Collection

Ruth Seopedi Motau is a South African photographer whose fascinating professional history is surpassed only by the timeless appeal of the images she has amassed over her career.
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    Image Number: APN715125
    Title: RM_0000-123.tif
    Path: Africa Media Online / African Pictures / Ruth Motau Archive / Ruth Motau Projects / Women
    Description: Woman cooks in her homestead
    Collections: Women
    Orientation: landscape
    Pixel Size: 2681 x 1770
    Media Id: 1707_19
    Credit: © Ruth Motau
    Keywords: Children, housing, post apartheid, rural, women
    Model Release: No
    Property Release: No
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    Image Number: APN715149
    Title: RM_0000-29.tif
    Path: Africa Media Online / African Pictures / Ruth Motau Archive / Ruth Motau Projects / Portraits
    Description: Portrait, Athol Fugard, Market Theatre
    Collections: Portraits
    Orientation: landscape
    Pixel Size: 3113 x 2071
    Media Id: 1707_40
    Credit: © Ruth Motau
    Keywords: culture, drama, exile, post apartheid
    Model Release: No
    Property Release: No
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    Image Number: APN714971
    Title: RM_0000-89.tif
    Path: Africa Media Online / African Pictures / Ruth Motau Archive / Ruth Motau Projects / Children
    Description: snake park, 1993
    Collections: Children
    Orientation: landscape
    Pixel Size: 3491 x 2530
    Media Id: 1706_281
    Credit: © Ruth Motau
    Model Release: No
    Property Release: No
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    Image Number: APN714977
    Title: RM_0000-160.tif
    Path: Africa Media Online / African Pictures / Ruth Motau Archive / Ruth Motau Projects / Hostel Essay
    Description: Man drinks beer ina shebeen in Dobsonville
    Collections: Hostel Essay
    Orientation: portrait
    Pixel Size: 1894 x 2724
    Media Id: 1706_287
    Credit: © Ruth Motau
    Keywords: alternative economy, informal sector, migrant labour, post apartheid, shebeen
    Model Release: No
    Property Release: No
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    Image Number: APN715155
    Title: RM_0000-138.tif
    Path: Africa Media Online / African Pictures / Ruth Motau Archive / Ruth Motau Projects / Elections 1994
    Description: Pensioners waiting in queue
    Collections: Elections 1994
    Orientation: landscape
    Pixel Size: 2842 x 1971
    Media Id: 1707_9
    Credit: © Ruth Motau
    Keywords: democracy, elections, pensioners, post apartheid, poverty, voting
    Model Release: No
    Property Release: No
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    Image Number: APN714968
    Title: RM_0000-173.tif
    Path: Africa Media Online / African Pictures / Ruth Motau Archive / Ruth Motau Projects / Hostel Essay
    Description: Man pours beer in a shebeen in Dobsonville
    Collections: Hostel Essay
    Orientation: landscape
    Pixel Size: 2707 x 1791
    Media Id: 1706_278
    Credit: © Ruth Motau
    Keywords: alternative economy, informal sector, migrant labour, post apartheid, shebeen
    Model Release: No
    Property Release: No
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    Image Number: APN715066
    Title: RM_0000-143.tif
    Path: Africa Media Online / African Pictures / Ruth Motau Archive / Ruth Motau Projects / Pensioners
    Description: Voting for thr first time
    Collections: Pensioners
    Orientation: landscape
    Pixel Size: 2726 x 1844
    Media Id: 1706_376
    Credit: © Ruth Motau
    Keywords: democracy, elections, post apartheid, voting
    Model Release: No
    Property Release: No
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    Image Number: APN714988
    Title: RM_0000-135.tif
    Path: Africa Media Online / African Pictures / Ruth Motau Archive / Ruth Motau Projects / On Assignment
    Description: Reconstruction and Devlopment RDP, housing
    Collections: On Assignment
    Orientation: landscape
    Pixel Size: 2726 x 1845
    Media Id: 1706_298
    Credit: © Ruth Motau
    Keywords: construction, democracy, post apartheid, poverty
    Model Release: No
    Property Release: No
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    Image Number: APN715049
    Title: RM_0000-176.tif
    Path: Africa Media Online / African Pictures / Ruth Motau Archive / Ruth Motau Projects / Hostel Essay
    Description: Adults drink beer in a shebeen in Dobsonville
    Collections: Hostel Essay
    Orientation: landscape
    Pixel Size: 3964 x 2784
    Media Id: 1706_359
    Credit: © Ruth Motau
    Keywords: alternative economy, informal sector, migrant labour, post apartheid, shebeen
    Model Release: No
    Property Release: No
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    Image Number: APN715022
    Title: RM_0000-34.tif
    Path: Africa Media Online / African Pictures / Ruth Motau Archive / Ruth Motau Projects / Portraits
    Description: Veteranphotographer, Jurgen Schadeberg
    Collections: Portraits
    Orientation: portrait
    Pixel Size: 3209 x 4652
    Media Id: 1706_332
    Credit: © Ruth Motau
    Keywords: culture, photography, post apartheid
    Model Release: No
    Property Release: No
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    Image Number: APN715086
    Title: RM_0000-163.tif
    Path: Africa Media Online / African Pictures / Ruth Motau Archive / Ruth Motau Projects / Hostel Essay
    Description: Man drinks beer ina shebeen in Dobsonville
    Collections: Hostel Essay
    Orientation: portrait
    Pixel Size: 1798 x 2754
    Media Id: 1706_396
    Credit: © Ruth Motau
    Keywords: alternative economy, informal sector, migrant labour, post apartheid, shebeen
    Model Release: No
    Property Release: No
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    Image Number: APN715085
    Title: RM_0000-80.tif
    Path: Africa Media Online / African Pictures / Ruth Motau Archive / Ruth Motau Projects / Children
    Description: Primary School teacher conducts class
    Collections: Children
    Orientation: portrait
    Pixel Size: 2435 x 3132
    Media Id: 1706_395
    Credit: © Ruth Motau
    Keywords: Children, education, literacy, post apartheid, poverty
    Model Release: No
    Property Release: No
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    Image Number: APN714964
    Title: RM_0000-15.tif
    Path: Africa Media Online / African Pictures / Ruth Motau Archive / Ruth Motau Projects / Religions and Rituals
    Description: Daily life of nuns in a Catholic monastry, Rosetenville
    Collections: Religions and Rituals
    Orientation: landscape
    Pixel Size: 4538 x 2963
    Media Id: 1706_274
    Credit: © Ruth Motau
    Keywords: church, faith, post apartheid, rituals
    Model Release: No
    Property Release: No
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    Image Number: APN715147
    Title: RM_0000-30.tif
    Path: Africa Media Online / African Pictures / Ruth Motau Archive / Ruth Motau Projects / Portraits
    Description: Portrait, Athol Fugard, Market Theatre
    Collections: Portraits
    Orientation: landscape
    Pixel Size: 3123 x 2039
    Media Id: 1707_39
    Credit: © Ruth Motau
    Keywords: culture, drama, exile, post apartheid
    Model Release: No
    Property Release: No
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    Image Number: APN714984
    Title: RM_0000-10.tif
    Path: Africa Media Online / African Pictures / Ruth Motau Archive / Ruth Motau Projects / Religions and Rituals
    Collections: Religions and Rituals
    Orientation: landscape
    Pixel Size: 4642 x 3100
    Media Id: 1706_294
    Credit: © Ruth Motau
    Model Release: No
    Property Release: No
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    Image Number: APN715145
    Title: RM_0000-33.tif
    Path: Africa Media Online / African Pictures / Ruth Motau Archive / Ruth Motau Projects / Portraits
    Description: Lionel Ngakane, writer, playwriter, director and actor who lived much of his life in exile
    Collections: Portraits
    Orientation: portrait
    Pixel Size: 3116 x 4789
    Media Id: 1707_37
    Credit: © Ruth Motau
    Keywords: apartheid, culture, exile, writer
    Model Release: No
    Property Release: No
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    Image Number: APN714975
    Title: RM_0000-26.tif
    Path: Africa Media Online / African Pictures / Ruth Motau Archive / Ruth Motau Projects / Portraits
    Description: Gina Beukes, violinist
    Collections: Portraits
    Orientation: landscape
    Pixel Size: 3323 x 2306
    Media Id: 1706_285
    Credit: © Ruth Motau
    Keywords: Portrait, culture, music, post apartheid, women
    Model Release: No
    Property Release: No
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    Image Number: APN715061
    Title: RM_0000-187.tif
    Path: Africa Media Online / African Pictures / Ruth Motau Archive / Ruth Motau Projects / Ordinary People
    Description: Pensioners, queue 2, Soweto
    Collections: Ordinary People
    Orientation: landscape
    Pixel Size: 4284 x 2867
    Media Id: 1706_371
    Credit: © Ruth Motau
    Keywords: migrant labour, pensioners, post apartheid, urban life, women
    Model Release: No
    Property Release: No
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    Image Number: APN714999
    Title: RM_0000-184.tif
    Path: Africa Media Online / African Pictures / Ruth Motau Archive / Ruth Motau Projects / Ordinary People
    Description: Pensioner with cup, Venda
    Collections: Ordinary People
    Orientation: landscape
    Pixel Size: 4300 x 2914
    Media Id: 1706_309
    Credit: © Ruth Motau
    Keywords: migrant labour, post apartheid, urban life, women
    Model Release: No
    Property Release: No
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    Image Number: APN715081
    Title: RM_0000-21.tif
    Path: Africa Media Online / African Pictures / Ruth Motau Archive / Ruth Motau Projects / Portraits
    Description: Singer, Al Jarreau, at the Joy of Jazz Festival
    Collections: Portraits
    Orientation: landscape
    Pixel Size: 2624 x 1746
    Media Id: 1706_391
    Credit: © Ruth Motau
    Keywords: Portrait, culture, music, post apartheid
    Model Release: No
    Property Release: No
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    Image Number: APN715065
    Title: RM_0000-191.tif
    Path: Africa Media Online / African Pictures / Ruth Motau Archive / Ruth Motau Projects / Ordinary People
    Description: Young boy, resting on a bench, Kathlegong
    Collections: Ordinary People
    Orientation: landscape
    Pixel Size: 4257 x 2861
    Media Id: 1706_375
    Credit: © Ruth Motau
    Keywords: Children, migrant labour, post apartheid, poverty, urban life
    Model Release: No
    Property Release: No
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    Image Number: APN715074
    Title: RM_0000-148.tif
    Path: Africa Media Online / African Pictures / Ruth Motau Archive / Ruth Motau Projects / Pensioners
    Description: Pensioners waiting in queue
    Collections: Pensioners
    Orientation: landscape
    Pixel Size: 4268 x 2862
    Media Id: 1706_384
    Credit: © Ruth Motau
    Keywords: democracy, elections, pensioners, post apartheid, poverty
    Model Release: No
    Property Release: No
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    Image Number: APN715000
    Title: RM_0000-66.tif
    Path: Africa Media Online / African Pictures / Ruth Motau Archive / Ruth Motau Projects / Children
    Description: Children at Tlhokomelo primary school in Meadowlands Soweto during their break time, Soweto, 1992
    Collections: Children
    Orientation: portrait
    Pixel Size: 2311 x 3592
    Media Id: 1706_310
    Credit: © Ruth Motau
    Keywords: Children, post apartheid, poverty
    Model Release: No
    Property Release: No
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    Image Number: APN715063
    Title: RM_0000-90.tif
    Path: Africa Media Online / African Pictures / Ruth Motau Archive / Ruth Motau Projects / Children
    Description: The streets of any black township are filled with children walking and playing around, Soweto, 1993
    Collections: Children
    Orientation: landscape
    Pixel Size: 3651 x 2385
    Media Id: 1706_373
    Credit: © Ruth Motau
    Keywords: Children, post apartheid, poverty
    Model Release: No
    Property Release: No
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    Image Number: APN714973
    Title: RM_0000-43.tif
    Path: Africa Media Online / African Pictures / Ruth Motau Archive / Ruth Motau Projects / Portraits
    Description: Nobel prize winner for literature, Toni Morrison, American writer, activist, editor
    Collections: Portraits
    Orientation: portrait
    Pixel Size: 3153 x 4584
    Media Id: 1706_283
    Credit: © Ruth Motau
    Keywords: culture, drama, post apartheid, women, writeer activist
    Model Release: No
    Property Release: No
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    Image Number: APN714962
    Title: RM_0000-189.tif
    Path: Africa Media Online / African Pictures / Ruth Motau Archive / Ruth Motau Projects / Ordinary People
    Description: Pensioner smokes a pipe, Soweto
    Collections: Ordinary People
    Orientation: landscape
    Pixel Size: 4261 x 2868
    Media Id: 1706_272
    Credit: © Ruth Motau
    Keywords: migrant labour, pensioners, post apartheid, urban life
    Model Release: No
    Property Release: No
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    Image Number: APN715028
    Title: RM_0000-95.tif
    Path: Africa Media Online / African Pictures / Ruth Motau Archive / Ruth Motau Projects / Children
    Description: Children playing around the school at Siloe, School for blind
    Collections: Children
    Orientation: landscape
    Pixel Size: 2990 x 2178
    Media Id: 1706_338
    Credit: © Ruth Motau
    Keywords: Children, disability, post apartheid
    Model Release: No
    Property Release: No
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    Image Number: APN714982
    Title: RM_0000-77.tif
    Path: Africa Media Online / African Pictures / Ruth Motau Archive / Ruth Motau Projects / Children
    Description: Children reading in class Nonofelo primary school in Mzimhlophe Soweto, 1992
    Collections: Children
    Orientation: landscape
    Pixel Size: 3482 x 2715
    Media Id: 1706_292
    Credit: © Ruth Motau
    Keywords: Children, education, literacy, post apartheid, poverty
    Model Release: No
    Property Release: No
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    Image Number: APN715080
    Title: RM_0000-35.tif
    Path: Africa Media Online / African Pictures / Ruth Motau Archive / Ruth Motau Projects / Portraits
    Description: Ernest Mancoba, sculptor, with his art. First black artist to exhibiti in the late 1920's
    Collections: Portraits
    Orientation: portrait
    Pixel Size: 2309 x 3508
    Media Id: 1706_390
    Credit: © Ruth Motau
    Keywords: ART, apartheid, culture, exile
    Model Release: No
    Property Release: No
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    Image Number: APN714789
    Title: RM_0000-46.tif
    Path: Africa Media Online / African Pictures / Ruth Motau Archive / Ruth Motau Projects / Portraits
    Description: Cheryl Caroulis, at ameeting
    Collections: Portraits
    Orientation: panoramic
    Pixel Size: 1664 x 985
    Media Id: 1704_96
    Credit: © Ruth Motau
    Keywords: ANC, politics, post apartheid, women
    Model Release: No
    Property Release: No
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    Image Number: APN715060
    Title: RM_0000-192.tif
    Path: Africa Media Online / African Pictures / Ruth Motau Archive / Ruth Motau Projects / Ordinary People
    Description: Boy in kitchen, Venda
    Collections: Ordinary People
    Orientation: landscape
    Pixel Size: 4395 x 2919
    Media Id: 1706_370
    Credit: © Ruth Motau
    Keywords: chidren, migrant labour, post apartheid, poverty, rural
    Model Release: No
    Property Release: No
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    Image Number: APN715083
    Title: RM_0000-99.tif
    Path: Africa Media Online / African Pictures / Ruth Motau Archive / Ruth Motau Projects / Children
    Description: Reading braille at Siloe, School for blind
    Collections: Children
    Orientation: landscape
    Pixel Size: 2991 x 2414
    Media Id: 1706_393
    Credit: © Ruth Motau
    Keywords: Children, disability, post apartheid
    Model Release: No
    Property Release: No
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    Image Number: APN715116
    Title: RM_0000-70.tif
    Path: Africa Media Online / African Pictures / Ruth Motau Archive / Ruth Motau Projects / Children
    Description: Children playing in Child outside home, Soweto, 1993
    Collections: Children
    Orientation: portrait
    Pixel Size: 2474 x 3440
    Media Id: 1707_10
    Credit: © Ruth Motau
    Keywords: Children, post apartheid, poverty
    Model Release: No
    Property Release: No
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    Image Number: APN714959
    Title: RM_0000-196.tif
    Path: Africa Media Online / African Pictures / Ruth Motau Archive / Ruth Motau Projects / Ordinary People
    Description: Children, peace demonstration, Johannesburg
    Collections: Ordinary People
    Orientation: portrait
    Pixel Size: 2820 x 4365
    Media Id: 1706_269
    Credit: © Ruth Motau
    Keywords: Children, post apartheid, urban life
    Model Release: No
    Property Release: No
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    Image Number: APN715152
    Title: RM_0000-167.tif
    Path: Africa Media Online / African Pictures / Ruth Motau Archive / Ruth Motau Projects / Hostel Essay
    Description: A child with adults drinking beer in a shebeen in Dobsonville
    Collections: Hostel Essay
    Orientation: landscape
    Pixel Size: 2695 x 1784
    Media Id: 1707_6
    Credit: © Ruth Motau
    Keywords: Children, alternative economy, informal sector, migrant labour, post apartheid, shebeen
    Model Release: No
    Property Release: No
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    Image Number: APN715072
    Title: RM_0000-45.tif
    Path: Africa Media Online / African Pictures / Ruth Motau Archive / Ruth Motau Projects / Portraits
    Description: Cheryl Caroulis, at ameeting
    Collections: Portraits
    Orientation: panoramic
    Pixel Size: 1623 x 982
    Media Id: 1706_382
    Credit: © Ruth Motau
    Keywords: ANC, politics, post apartheid, women
    Model Release: No
    Property Release: No
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    Image Number: APN714970
    Title: RM_0000-64.tif
    Path: Africa Media Online / African Pictures / Ruth Motau Archive / Ruth Motau Projects / Music and Culture
    Description: A play, Market Theatre
    Collections: Music and Culture
    Orientation: landscape
    Pixel Size: 3344 x 2279
    Media Id: 1706_280
    Credit: © Ruth Motau
    Keywords: culture, drama, post apartheid
    Model Release: No
    Property Release: No
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    Image Number: APN715121
    Title: RM_0000-98.tif
    Path: Africa Media Online / African Pictures / Ruth Motau Archive / Ruth Motau Projects / Children
    Description: Children playing at Siloe, School for blind
    Collections: Children
    Orientation: landscape
    Pixel Size: 2989 x 2414
    Media Id: 1707_15
    Credit: © Ruth Motau
    Keywords: Children, disability, post apartheid
    Model Release: No
    Property Release: No
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    Image Number: APN715078
    Title: RM_0000-129.tif
    Path: Africa Media Online / African Pictures / Ruth Motau Archive / Ruth Motau Projects / On Assignment
    Description: Nelson Mandela unveiling the the constitution monument in Sharpville 1996
    Collections: On Assignment
    Orientation: landscape
    Pixel Size: 2166 x 1441
    Media Id: 1706_388
    Credit: © Ruth Motau
    Keywords: constitution, democracy, post apartheid
    Model Release: No
    Property Release: No
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    Image Number: APN714976
    Title: RM_0000-181.tif
    Path: Africa Media Online / African Pictures / Ruth Motau Archive / Ruth Motau Projects / Ordinary People
    Description: 'My corner', Helen Joseph Woman's Hostel
    Collections: Ordinary People
    Orientation: landscape
    Pixel Size: 4341 x 2917
    Media Id: 1706_286
    Credit: © Ruth Motau
    Keywords: migrant labour, post apartheid, urban life, women
    Model Release: No
    Property Release: No
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    Image Number: APN715148
    Title: RM_0000-85.tif
    Path: Africa Media Online / African Pictures / Ruth Motau Archive / Ruth Motau Projects / Children
    Description: Looking after a disbaled child
    Collections: Children
    Orientation: landscape
    Pixel Size: 3389 x 2189
    Media Id: 1707_4
    Credit: © Ruth Motau
    Keywords: Children, disability, education, literacy, post apartheid, poverty
    Model Release: No
    Property Release: No
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    Image Number: APN715135
    Title: RM_0000-119.tif
    Path: Africa Media Online / African Pictures / Ruth Motau Archive / Ruth Motau Projects / Women
    Collections: Women
    Orientation: landscape
    Pixel Size: 2966 x 2018
    Media Id: 1707_28
    Credit: © Ruth Motau
    Keywords: funeral, post apartheid, ritual, women
    Model Release: No
    Property Release: No
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    Image Number: APN715067
    Title: RM_0000-19.tif
    Path: Africa Media Online / African Pictures / Ruth Motau Archive / Ruth Motau Projects / Portraits
    Description: Marius Schoon, political activist whose wife, Jeannette and daughter Katryn were murdered by South African security forces, 1995
    Collections: Portraits
    Orientation: portrait
    Pixel Size: 3147 x 4273
    Media Id: 1706_377
    Credit: © Ruth Motau
    Keywords: afrikaner, apartheid, assassination, exile, politics, security forces
    Model Release: No
    Property Release: No
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    Image Number: APN715015
    Title: RM_0000-145.tif
    Path: Africa Media Online / African Pictures / Ruth Motau Archive / Ruth Motau Projects / Pensioners
    Description: Voting for thr first time
    Collections: Pensioners
    Orientation: portrait
    Pixel Size: 1819 x 2730
    Media Id: 1706_325
    Credit: © Ruth Motau
    Keywords: democracy, elections, post apartheid, voting
    Model Release: No
    Property Release: No
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    Image Number: APN715115
    Title: RM_0000-02.tif
    Path: Africa Media Online / African Pictures / Ruth Motau Archive / Ruth Motau Projects / Religions and Rituals
    Description: Immersion baptism at Orlando,Soweto of the Zionist Church from Meadowlands Zone 4, 1991
    Collections: Religions and Rituals
    Orientation: landscape
    Pixel Size: 3273 x 2171
    Media Id: 1707_1
    Credit: © Ruth Motau
    Keywords: apartheid, religion, river, spirituality, women
    Model Release: No
    Property Release: No
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    Image Number: APN715036
    Title: RM_0000-115.tif
    Path: Africa Media Online / African Pictures / Ruth Motau Archive / Ruth Motau Projects / Women
    Collections: Women
    Orientation: portrait
    Pixel Size: 2020 x 2866
    Media Id: 1706_346
    Credit: © Ruth Motau
    Keywords: migrant labour, post apartheid, travel, women
    Model Release: No
    Property Release: No
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    Image Number: APN715035
    Title: RM_0000-177.tif
    Path: Africa Media Online / African Pictures / Ruth Motau Archive / Ruth Motau Projects / Hostel Essay
    Description: Man poses for the camera in a shebeen in Dobsonville
    Collections: Hostel Essay
    Orientation: portrait
    Pixel Size: 2989 x 4488
    Media Id: 1706_345
    Credit: © Ruth Motau
    Keywords: alternative economy, informal sector, migrant labour, post apartheid, shebeen
    Model Release: No
    Property Release: No
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    Image Number: APN714998
    Title: RM_0000-171.tif
    Path: Africa Media Online / African Pictures / Ruth Motau Archive / Ruth Motau Projects / Hostel Essay
    Description: Shebeen Queen , owner of a shebeen in Dobsonville
    Collections: Hostel Essay
    Orientation: landscape
    Pixel Size: 4374 x 2987
    Media Id: 1706_308
    Credit: © Ruth Motau
    Keywords: alternative economy, informal sector, migrant labour, post apartheid, shebeen, women
    Model Release: No
    Property Release: No
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    Image Number: APN715142
    Title: RM_0000-69.tif
    Path: Africa Media Online / African Pictures / Ruth Motau Archive / Ruth Motau Projects / Children
    Description: Children writing in class Nonofelo primary school in Mzimhlophe Soweto, 1992s Soweto, 1992
    Collections: Children
    Orientation: landscape
    Pixel Size: 3573 x 2778
    Media Id: 1707_34
    Credit: © Ruth Motau
    Keywords: Children, education, post apartheid, poverty
    Model Release: No
    Property Release: No
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    Image Number: APN715056
    Title: RM_0000-22.tif
    Path: Africa Media Online / African Pictures / Ruth Motau Archive / Ruth Motau Projects / Portraits
    Description: Singer, Al Jarreau, at the Joy of Jazz Festival
    Collections: Portraits
    Orientation: portrait
    Pixel Size: 3262 x 4953
    Media Id: 1706_366
    Credit: © Ruth Motau
    Keywords: Portrait, culture, music, post apartheid
    Model Release: No
    Property Release: No
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    Image Number: APN714958
    Title: RM_0000-139.tif
    Path: Africa Media Online / African Pictures / Ruth Motau Archive / Ruth Motau Projects / Elections 1994
    Description: Voting for thr first time
    Collections: Elections 1994
    Orientation: portrait
    Pixel Size: 2975 x 4522
    Media Id: 1706_268
    Credit: © Ruth Motau
    Keywords: democracy, elections, post apartheid, voting
    Model Release: No
    Property Release: No
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    Image Number: APN715001
    Title: RM_0000-147.tif
    Path: Africa Media Online / African Pictures / Ruth Motau Archive / Ruth Motau Projects / Pensioners
    Description: Pensioners waiting in queue
    Collections: Pensioners
    Orientation: landscape
    Pixel Size: 2876 x 2012
    Media Id: 1706_311
    Credit: © Ruth Motau
    Keywords: democracy, elections, pensioners, post apartheid, poverty
    Model Release: No
    Property Release: No
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    Image Number: APN715144
    Title: RM_0000-24.tif
    Path: Africa Media Online / African Pictures / Ruth Motau Archive / Ruth Motau Projects / Portraits
    Description: Salif Keita, musician
    Collections: Portraits
    Orientation: portrait
    Pixel Size: 2839 x 4377
    Media Id: 1707_36
    Credit: © Ruth Motau
    Keywords: Portrait, culture, music, post apartheid
    Model Release: No
    Property Release: No
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    Image Number: APN715007
    Title: RM_0000-106.tif
    Path: Africa Media Online / African Pictures / Ruth Motau Archive / Ruth Motau Projects / Children
    Description: Children outiside their homestead
    Collections: Children
    Orientation: landscape
    Pixel Size: 2762 x 1834
    Media Id: 1706_317
    Credit: © Ruth Motau
    Keywords: Children, housing, post apartheid, rural, w
    Model Release: No
    Property Release: No
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    Image Number: APN715079
    Title: RM_0000-162.tif
    Path: Africa Media Online / African Pictures / Ruth Motau Archive / Ruth Motau Projects / Hostel Essay
    Description: Man drinks beer ina shebeen in Dobsonville
    Collections: Hostel Essay
    Orientation: portrait
    Pixel Size: 1784 x 2705
    Media Id: 1706_389
    Credit: © Ruth Motau
    Keywords: alternative economy, informal sector, migrant labour, post apartheid, shebeen
    Model Release: No
    Property Release: No
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    Image Number: APN715127
    Title: RM_0000-01.tif
    Path: Africa Media Online / African Pictures / Ruth Motau Archive / Ruth Motau Projects / Religions and Rituals
    Description: Immersion baptism at Orlando,Soweto of the Zionist Church from Meadowlands Zone 4, 1991
    Collections: Religions and Rituals
    Orientation: landscape
    Pixel Size: 3358 x 2261
    Media Id: 1707_20
    Credit: © Ruth Motau
    Keywords: apartheid, religion, river, spirituality, women
    Model Release: No
    Property Release: No
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    Image Number: APN715013
    Title: RM_0000-182.tif
    Path: Africa Media Online / African Pictures / Ruth Motau Archive / Ruth Motau Projects / Ordinary People
    Description: Breakfast, Helen Joseph Woman's Hostel
    Collections: Ordinary People
    Orientation: landscape
    Pixel Size: 4276 x 2907
    Media Id: 1706_323
    Credit: © Ruth Motau
    Keywords: migrant labour, post apartheid, urban life, women
    Model Release: No
    Property Release: No
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    Image Number: APN715037
    Title: RM_0000-142.tif
    Path: Africa Media Online / African Pictures / Ruth Motau Archive / Ruth Motau Projects / Pensioners
    Description: Pensioners waiting in queue
    Collections: Pensioners
    Orientation: landscape
    Pixel Size: 4402 x 2930
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    Path: Africa Media Online / African Pictures / Ruth Motau Archive / Ruth Motau Projects / Children
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    Description: Child sleeping during break,Nonofelo primary school in Mzimhlophe Soweto, 1992
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    Path: Africa Media Online / African Pictures / Ruth Motau Archive / Ruth Motau Projects / Religions and Rituals
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