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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: APN715133
    Title: RM_0000-08.tif
    Path: Africa Media Online / African Pictures / Ruth Motau Archive / Ruth Motau Projects / Religions and Rituals
    Description: Sangomas and trainees visit Mount Moutse
    Collections: Religions and Rituals
    Orientation: portrait
    Pixel Size: 3210 x 4863
    Media Id: 1707_26
    Credit: © Ruth Motau
    Keywords: church, faith, indigenous, post apartheid, rituals
    Model Release: No
    Property Release: No
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    Image Number: APN715143
    Title: RM_0000-92.tif
    Path: Africa Media Online / African Pictures / Ruth Motau Archive / Ruth Motau Projects / Children
    Description: Feeding scheme.This is a government programme in Limpopo where one nutritional meal is served to learners from primary school to high school.
    Collections: Children
    Orientation: landscape
    Pixel Size: 2989 x 2416
    Media Id: 1707_35
    Credit: © Ruth Motau
    Keywords: Children, education, literacy, post apartheid, poverty
    Model Release: No
    Property Release: No
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    Image Number: APN715057
    Title: RM_0000-105.tif
    Path: Africa Media Online / African Pictures / Ruth Motau Archive / Ruth Motau Projects / Children
    Collections: Children
    Orientation: landscape
    Pixel Size: 2446 x 1889
    Media Id: 1706_367
    Credit: © Ruth Motau
    Keywords: Children, post apartheid, rural
    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: 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: APN714957
    Title: RM_0000-16.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: 4513 x 2952
    Media Id: 1706_267
    Credit: © Ruth Motau
    Keywords: church, faith, post apartheid, rituals
    Model Release: No
    Property Release: No
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    Image Number: APN715151
    Title: RM_0000-38.tif
    Path: Africa Media Online / African Pictures / Ruth Motau Archive / Ruth Motau Projects / Portraits
    Description: Gita Baloi, basist
    Collections: Portraits
    Orientation: portrait
    Pixel Size: 2240 x 3393
    Media Id: 1707_5
    Credit: © Ruth Motau
    Keywords: culture, music, post apartheid
    Model Release: No
    Property Release: No
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    Image Number: APN715131
    Title: RM_0000-28.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: 3137 x 2053
    Media Id: 1707_24
    Credit: © Ruth Motau
    Keywords: culture, drama, exile, 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: APN715025
    Title: RM_0000-120.tif
    Path: Africa Media Online / African Pictures / Ruth Motau Archive / Ruth Motau Projects / Women
    Description: Woman outiside her homestead
    Collections: Women
    Orientation: landscape
    Pixel Size: 2710 x 1887
    Media Id: 1706_335
    Credit: © Ruth Motau
    Keywords: housing, post apartheid, rural, women
    Model Release: No
    Property Release: No
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    Image Number: APN715016
    Title: RM_0000-62.tif
    Path: Africa Media Online / African Pictures / Ruth Motau Archive / Ruth Motau Projects / Music and Culture
    Description: Meadowlands dance group rehearsing at the Bapedi hall
    Collections: Music and Culture
    Orientation: landscape
    Pixel Size: 3279 x 2063
    Media Id: 1706_326
    Credit: © Ruth Motau
    Keywords: Dance, culture, post apartheid, youth
    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: APN715044
    Title: RM_0000-170.tif
    Path: Africa Media Online / African Pictures / Ruth Motau Archive / Ruth Motau Projects / Hostel Essay
    Description: Menn drinking beer in a shebeen in Dobsonville
    Collections: Hostel Essay
    Orientation: landscape
    Pixel Size: 2722 x 1808
    Media Id: 1706_354
    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: APN715055
    Title: RM_0000-161.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: landscape
    Pixel Size: 2718 x 1834
    Media Id: 1706_365
    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: APN714955
    Title: RM_0000-111.tif
    Path: Africa Media Online / African Pictures / Ruth Motau Archive / Ruth Motau Projects / Women
    Collections: Women
    Orientation: portrait
    Pixel Size: 2335 x 3731
    Media Id: 1706_265
    Credit: © Ruth Motau
    Keywords: health, pensioners, post apartheid, poverty
    Model Release: No
    Property Release: No
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    Image Number: APN715003
    Title: RM_0000-82.tif
    Path: Africa Media Online / African Pictures / Ruth Motau Archive / Ruth Motau Projects / Children
    Description: Children dance, Soweto Dance Group,
    Collections: Children
    Orientation: portrait
    Pixel Size: 2106 x 3167
    Media Id: 1706_313
    Credit: © Ruth Motau
    Model Release: No
    Property Release: No
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    Image Number: APN715076
    Title: RM_0000-57.tif
    Path: Africa Media Online / African Pictures / Ruth Motau Archive / Ruth Motau Projects / Music and Culture
    Description: Unknown Cuban performer
    Collections: Music and Culture
    Orientation: landscape
    Pixel Size: 3399 x 2287
    Media Id: 1706_386
    Credit: © Ruth Motau
    Keywords: culture, music, post apartheid
    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: APN715132
    Title: RM_0000-67.tif
    Path: Africa Media Online / African Pictures / Ruth Motau Archive / Ruth Motau Projects / Children
    Description: A baby crawls on the floor at creche in Snake park Soweto, 1992
    Collections: Children
    Orientation: portrait
    Pixel Size: 2234 x 3470
    Media Id: 1707_25
    Credit: © Ruth Motau
    Keywords: Children, creche, post apartheid
    Model Release: No
    Property Release: No
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    Image Number: APN714991
    Title: RM_0000-79.tif
    Path: Africa Media Online / African Pictures / Ruth Motau Archive / Ruth Motau Projects / Children
    Description: Children in an abondoned house, Limpopo, 1993
    Collections: Children
    Orientation: portrait
    Pixel Size: 2651 x 3920
    Media Id: 1706_301
    Credit: © Ruth Motau
    Keywords: Children, education, literacy, post apartheid, poverty
    Model Release: No
    Property Release: No
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    Image Number: APN714986
    Title: RM_0000-75.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: 3459 x 2664
    Media Id: 1706_296
    Credit: © Ruth Motau
    Keywords: Children, education, literacy, post apartheid, poverty
    Model Release: No
    Property Release: No
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    Image Number: APN715034
    Title: RM_0000-121.tif
    Path: Africa Media Online / African Pictures / Ruth Motau Archive / Ruth Motau Projects / Women
    Description: Woman outiside her homestead
    Collections: Women
    Orientation: portrait
    Pixel Size: 1882 x 2745
    Media Id: 1706_344
    Credit: © Ruth Motau
    Keywords: Children, housing, post apartheid, rural, women
    Model Release: No
    Property Release: No
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    Image Number: APN715146
    Title: RM_0000-164.tif
    Path: Africa Media Online / African Pictures / Ruth Motau Archive / Ruth Motau Projects / Hostel Essay
    Description: Child in a shebeen in Dobsonville
    Collections: Hostel Essay
    Orientation: landscape
    Pixel Size: 2930 x 1974
    Media Id: 1707_38
    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: APN715006
    Title: RM_0000-83.tif
    Path: Africa Media Online / African Pictures / Ruth Motau Archive / Ruth Motau Projects / Children
    Description: Children dance, Soweto Dance Group,
    Collections: Children
    Orientation: portrait
    Pixel Size: 2312 x 3251
    Media Id: 1706_316
    Credit: © Ruth Motau
    Model Release: No
    Property Release: No
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    Image Number: APN714995
    Title: RM_0000-134.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: 2736 x 1800
    Media Id: 1706_305
    Credit: © Ruth Motau
    Keywords: construction, democracy, post apartheid, poverty
    Model Release: No
    Property Release: No
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    Image Number: APN715137
    Title: RM_0000-20.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: 3154 x 4210
    Media Id: 1707_3
    Credit: © Ruth Motau
    Keywords: afrikaner, apartheid, assassination, exile, politics, security forces
    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: 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: 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: 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: APN715032
    Title: RM_0000-124.tif
    Path: Africa Media Online / African Pictures / Ruth Motau Archive / Ruth Motau Projects / Women
    Description: A girl in a rural kitchen, Venda
    Collections: Women
    Orientation: portrait
    Pixel Size: 1780 x 2672
    Media Id: 1706_342
    Credit: © Ruth Motau
    Keywords: Children, education, literacy, post apartheid, poverty
    Model Release: No
    Property Release: No
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    Image Number: APN715029
    Title: RM_0000-101.tif
    Path: Africa Media Online / African Pictures / Ruth Motau Archive / Ruth Motau Projects / Children
    Description: Albino child at play, Siloe, School for Blind
    Collections: Children
    Orientation: portrait
    Pixel Size: 1298 x 2126
    Media Id: 1706_339
    Credit: © Ruth Motau
    Keywords: Children, albimism, disability, post apartheid
    Model Release: No
    Property Release: No
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    Image Number: APN715048
    Title: RM_0000-53.tif
    Path: Africa Media Online / African Pictures / Ruth Motau Archive / Ruth Motau Projects / Music and Culture
    Description: BB King, guitarist
    Collections: Music and Culture
    Orientation: portrait
    Pixel Size: 2334 x 3473
    Media Id: 1706_358
    Credit: © Ruth Motau
    Keywords: culture, music, post apartheid
    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: APN715126
    Title: RM_0000-183.tif
    Path: Africa Media Online / African Pictures / Ruth Motau Archive / Ruth Motau Projects / Ordinary People
    Description: Grandfather, grandson, Venda
    Collections: Ordinary People
    Orientation: landscape
    Pixel Size: 4339 x 2879
    Media Id: 1707_2
    Credit: © Ruth Motau
    Keywords: migrant labour, post apartheid, poverty, rural
    Model Release: No
    Property Release: No
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    Image Number: APN714997
    Title: RM_0000-194.tif
    Path: Africa Media Online / African Pictures / Ruth Motau Archive / Ruth Motau Projects / Ordinary People
    Description: New Year, New Eve, elections, 1994
    Collections: Ordinary People
    Orientation: landscape
    Pixel Size: 4325 x 2848
    Media Id: 1706_307
    Credit: © Ruth Motau
    Keywords: democracy, elections, post apartheid, urban life
    Model Release: No
    Property Release: No
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    Image Number: APN715059
    Title: RM_0000-110.tif
    Path: Africa Media Online / African Pictures / Ruth Motau Archive / Ruth Motau Projects / Women
    Description: Woman washing dishes in her shack in Snake Park Soweto.
    Collections: Women
    Orientation: portrait
    Pixel Size: 2512 x 3813
    Media Id: 1706_369
    Credit: © Ruth Motau
    Keywords: informal settlement post apartheid, women
    Model Release: No
    Property Release: No
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    Image Number: APN714960
    Title: RM_0000-93.tif
    Path: Africa Media Online / African Pictures / Ruth Motau Archive / Ruth Motau Projects / Children
    Description: Feeding scheme.This is a government programme in Limpopo where one nutritional meal is served to learners from primary school to high school.
    Collections: Children
    Orientation: landscape
    Pixel Size: 2990 x 2415
    Media Id: 1706_270
    Credit: © Ruth Motau
    Keywords: Children, education, literacy, post apartheid, poverty
    Model Release: No
    Property Release: No
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    Image Number: APN715073
    Title: RM_0000-131.tif
    Path: Africa Media Online / African Pictures / Ruth Motau Archive / Ruth Motau Projects / On Assignment
    Description: Residents of an Innercity dwelling at the now Anglogold Ashanti in Jeppe street
    Collections: On Assignment
    Orientation: portrait
    Pixel Size: 3325 x 4805
    Media Id: 1706_383
    Credit: © Ruth Motau
    Keywords: post apartheid, squatters, urban life
    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: APN715027
    Title: RM_0000-97.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: 2991 x 2403
    Media Id: 1706_337
    Credit: © Ruth Motau
    Keywords: Children, disability, post apartheid
    Model Release: No
    Property Release: No
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    Image Number: APN715150
    Title: RM_0000-60.tif
    Path: Africa Media Online / African Pictures / Ruth Motau Archive / Ruth Motau Projects / Music and Culture
    Description: Meadowlands dance group rehearsing at the Bapedi hall
    Collections: Music and Culture
    Orientation: landscape
    Pixel Size: 2650 x 1736
    Media Id: 1707_41
    Credit: © Ruth Motau
    Keywords: Dance, culture, post apartheid, youth
    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: APN714967
    Title: RM_0000-04.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: 3314 x 2246
    Media Id: 1706_277
    Credit: © Ruth Motau
    Keywords: apartheid, religion, river, spirituality, women
    Model Release: No
    Property Release: No
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    Image Number: APN714788
    Title: RM_0000-118.tif
    Path: Africa Media Online / African Pictures / Ruth Motau Archive / Ruth Motau Projects / Women
    Collections: Women
    Orientation: portrait
    Pixel Size: 1343 x 1980
    Media Id: 1701_516
    Credit: © Ruth Motau
    Keywords: fformal economy, labour, post apartheid, women, workers
    Model Release: No
    Property Release: No
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    Image Number: APN715128
    Title: RM_0000-03.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: 3268 x 2185
    Media Id: 1707_21
    Credit: © Ruth Motau
    Keywords: apartheid, religion, river, spirituality, women
    Model Release: No
    Property Release: No
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    Image Number: APN715118
    Title: RM_0000-84.tif
    Path: Africa Media Online / African Pictures / Ruth Motau Archive / Ruth Motau Projects / Children
    Description: Feeding scheme.This is a government programme in Limpopo where one nutritional meal is served to learners from primary school to high school.
    Collections: Children
    Orientation: landscape
    Pixel Size: 3311 x 2196
    Media Id: 1707_12
    Credit: © Ruth Motau
    Keywords: Children, education, literacy, post apartheid, poverty
    Model Release: No
    Property Release: No
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    Image Number: APN714961
    Title: RM_0000-65.tif
    Path: Africa Media Online / African Pictures / Ruth Motau Archive / Ruth Motau Projects / Children
    Description: A child outside his home in Soweto, 1993
    Collections: Children
    Orientation: landscape
    Pixel Size: 3570 x 2572
    Media Id: 1706_271
    Credit: © Ruth Motau
    Keywords: Children, post apartheid, poverty
    Model Release: No
    Property Release: No
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    Image Number: APN714978
    Title: RM_0000-168.tif
    Path: Africa Media Online / African Pictures / Ruth Motau Archive / Ruth Motau Projects / Hostel Essay
    Description: Man drinks beer in a shebeen in Dobsonville
    Collections: Hostel Essay
    Orientation: landscape
    Pixel Size: 2686 x 1768
    Media Id: 1706_288
    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: APN715043
    Title: RM_0000-96.tif
    Path: Africa Media Online / African Pictures / Ruth Motau Archive / Ruth Motau Projects / Children
    Description: Albino child at play, Siloe, School for Blind
    Collections: Children
    Orientation: landscape
    Pixel Size: 2990 x 2217
    Media Id: 1706_353
    Credit: © Ruth Motau
    Keywords: Children, albimism, disability, post apartheid
    Model Release: No
    Property Release: No
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    Image Number: APN715124
    Title: RM_0000-132.tif
    Path: Africa Media Online / African Pictures / Ruth Motau Archive / Ruth Motau Projects / On Assignment
    Description: Jonas Gwangwa during the SAMRO march
    Collections: On Assignment
    Orientation: landscape
    Pixel Size: 4314 x 3106
    Media Id: 1707_18
    Credit: © Ruth Motau
    Keywords: culture, music, post apartheid, protest
    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: 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: 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: APN715069
    Title: RM_0000-172.tif
    Path: Africa Media Online / African Pictures / Ruth Motau Archive / Ruth Motau Projects / Hostel Essay
    Description: Man pours beer ina shebeen in Dobsonville
    Collections: Hostel Essay
    Orientation: landscape
    Pixel Size: 2705 x 1787
    Media Id: 1706_379
    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: APN715018
    Title: RM_0000-169.tif
    Path: Africa Media Online / African Pictures / Ruth Motau Archive / Ruth Motau Projects / Hostel Essay
    Description: Man drinks beer in a shebeen in Dobsonville
    Collections: Hostel Essay
    Orientation: landscape
    Pixel Size: 2688 x 1788
    Media Id: 1706_328
    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: 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: APN715072
    Title: RM_0000-45.tif
    Path: Africa Media Online / African Pictures / Ruth Motau Archive / Ruth Motau Projects / Portraits
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    Path: Africa Media Online / African Pictures / Ruth Motau Archive / Ruth Motau Projects / Religions and Rituals
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    Path: Africa Media Online / African Pictures / Ruth Motau Archive / Ruth Motau Projects / Portraits
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    Path: Africa Media Online / African Pictures / Ruth Motau Archive / Ruth Motau Projects / Religions and Rituals
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