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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: 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: APN715042
    Title: Ordinary People by Ruth Motau
    Path: Africa Media Online / African Pictures / Ruth Motau Archive / Ruth Motau Projects / Ordinary People
    Description: RM_0000-180.tif
    Collections: Ordinary People
    Orientation: landscape
    Pixel Size: 6430 x 4343
    Media Id: 1706_352
    Model Release: No
    Property Release: Yes
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    Image Number: APN715071
    Title: RM_0000-104.tif
    Path: Africa Media Online / African Pictures / Ruth Motau Archive / Ruth Motau Projects / Children
    Collections: Children
    Orientation: landscape
    Pixel Size: 2436 x 1774
    Media Id: 1706_381
    Credit: © Ruth Motau
    Keywords: Children, post apartheid, rural
    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: 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: 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: APN715068
    Title: RM_0000-146.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: 2581 x 1742
    Media Id: 1706_378
    Credit: © Ruth Motau
    Keywords: democracy, elections, pensioners, post apartheid, poverty, voting
    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: 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: 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: 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: APN715070
    Title: RM_0000-73.tif
    Path: Africa Media Online / African Pictures / Ruth Motau Archive / Ruth Motau Projects / Children
    Description: Child sleeping during break,Nonofelo primary school in Mzimhlophe Soweto, 1992Soweto, 1992
    Collections: Children
    Orientation: portrait
    Pixel Size: 2424 x 3181
    Media Id: 1706_380
    Credit: © Ruth Motau
    Keywords: Children, education, post apartheid, poverty
    Model Release: No
    Property Release: No
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    Image Number: APN715062
    Title: RM_0000-06.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: 2829 x 1920
    Media Id: 1706_372
    Credit: © Ruth Motau
    Keywords: apartheid, religion, river, spirituality, women
    Model Release: No
    Property Release: No
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    Image Number: APN715075
    Title: RM_0000-125.tif
    Path: Africa Media Online / African Pictures / Ruth Motau Archive / Ruth Motau Projects / On Assignment
    Description: Voting for thr first time
    Collections: On Assignment
    Orientation: portrait
    Pixel Size: 1048 x 1575
    Media Id: 1706_385
    Credit: © Ruth Motau
    Keywords: democracy, elections, post apartheid, voting
    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: APN715077
    Title: RM_0000-100.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: 2988 x 2401
    Media Id: 1706_387
    Credit: © Ruth Motau
    Keywords: Children, albimism, 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: 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: APN715084
    Title: RM_0000-49.tif
    Path: Africa Media Online / African Pictures / Ruth Motau Archive / Ruth Motau Projects / Music and Culture
    Description: Jonny Mekoa, playing at the Music Academy of Gauteng
    Collections: Music and Culture
    Orientation: landscape
    Pixel Size: 3411 x 2284
    Media Id: 1706_394
    Credit: © Ruth Motau
    Keywords: culture, learners, music, post apartheid
    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: APN715082
    Title: RM_0000-179.tif
    Path: Africa Media Online / African Pictures / Ruth Motau Archive / Ruth Motau Projects / Hostel Essay
    Description: Shebeen in Dobsonville
    Collections: Hostel Essay
    Orientation: landscape
    Pixel Size: 3763 x 2472
    Media Id: 1706_392
    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: 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: 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: 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: APN715051
    Title: RM_0000-72.tif
    Path: Africa Media Online / African Pictures / Ruth Motau Archive / Ruth Motau Projects / Children
    Description: A boy walks back home from spasa shop after buying a loaf of bread in Snake Park Soweto
    Collections: Children
    Orientation: portrait
    Pixel Size: 2291 x 3373
    Media Id: 1706_361
    Credit: © Ruth Motau
    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: 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: APN715046
    Title: RM_0000-197.tif
    Path: Africa Media Online / African Pictures / Ruth Motau Archive / Ruth Motau Projects / Ordinary People
    Description: Maize meal factory, Johannesburg
    Collections: Ordinary People
    Orientation: portrait
    Pixel Size: 2832 x 4292
    Media Id: 1706_356
    Credit: © Ruth Motau
    Keywords: labour, migrant labour, post apartheid, urban life, workers
    Model Release: No
    Property Release: No
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    Image Number: APN715047
    Title: RM_0000-25.tif
    Path: Africa Media Online / African Pictures / Ruth Motau Archive / Ruth Motau Projects / Portraits
    Description: Gina Beukes, violinist
    Collections: Portraits
    Orientation: landscape
    Pixel Size: 3277 x 2518
    Media Id: 1706_357
    Credit: © Ruth Motau
    Keywords: Portrait, culture, music, post apartheid, women
    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: 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: APN715050
    Title: RM_0000-74.tif
    Path: Africa Media Online / African Pictures / Ruth Motau Archive / Ruth Motau Projects / Children
    Description: Child sleeping during break,Nonofelo primary school in Mzimhlophe Soweto, 1992
    Collections: Children
    Orientation: portrait
    Pixel Size: 2440 x 3107
    Media Id: 1706_360
    Credit: © Ruth Motau
    Keywords: Children, education, post apartheid, poverty
    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: APN715064
    Title: RM_0000-109.tif
    Path: Africa Media Online / African Pictures / Ruth Motau Archive / Ruth Motau Projects / Women
    Description: Nurses protest,
    Collections: Women
    Orientation: landscape
    Pixel Size: 3485 x 2344
    Media Id: 1706_374
    Credit: © Ruth Motau
    Model Release: No
    Property Release: No
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    Image Number: APN715054
    Title: RM_0000-42.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: landscape
    Pixel Size: 3323 x 2173
    Media Id: 1706_364
    Credit: © Ruth Motau
    Keywords: culture, drama, post apartheid, women, writeer activist
    Model Release: No
    Property Release: No
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    Image Number: APN715053
    Title: RM_0000-05.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: 3291 x 2194
    Media Id: 1706_363
    Credit: © Ruth Motau
    Keywords: apartheid, religion, river, spirituality, women
    Model Release: No
    Property Release: No
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    Image Number: APN715052
    Title: RM_0000-108.tif
    Path: Africa Media Online / African Pictures / Ruth Motau Archive / Ruth Motau Projects / Women
    Description: Women street vendors, Braamfontein
    Collections: Women
    Orientation: landscape
    Pixel Size: 3240 x 2134
    Media Id: 1706_362
    Credit: © Ruth Motau
    Keywords: informal sector, post apartheid, urban life, women
    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: 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: APN715058
    Title: RM_0000-13.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: 4550 x 3001
    Media Id: 1706_368
    Credit: © Ruth Motau
    Keywords: church, faith, post apartheid, rituals
    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: 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: 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: 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: 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
    Media Id: 1706_347
    Credit: © Ruth Motau
    Keywords: pensioners, post apartheid, poverty, women
    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: APN715134
    Title: RM_0000-149.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: 4517 x 3024
    Media Id: 1707_27
    Credit: © Ruth Motau
    Keywords: democracy, elections, pensioners, post apartheid, poverty
    Model Release: No
    Property Release: No
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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: APN715139
    Title: RM_0000-68.tif
    Path: Africa Media Online / African Pictures / Ruth Motau Archive / Ruth Motau Projects / Children
    Description: Children playing in the veld in Snake Park Soweto, 1993
    Collections: Children
    Orientation: landscape
    Pixel Size: 3344 x 2223
    Media Id: 1707_31
    Credit: © Ruth Motau
    Keywords: Children, post apartheid, poverty
    Model Release: No
    Property Release: No
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    Image Number: APN715140
    Title: RM_0000-81.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: portrait
    Pixel Size: 2288 x 3428
    Media Id: 1707_32
    Credit: © Ruth Motau
    Keywords: Children, education, literacy, post apartheid, poverty
    Model Release: No
    Property Release: No
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    Image Number: APN715141
    Title: RM_0000-117.tif
    Path: Africa Media Online / African Pictures / Ruth Motau Archive / Ruth Motau Projects / Women
    Description: Pensioner complains about high cost of living
    Collections: Women
    Orientation: landscape
    Pixel Size: 2608 x 1717
    Media Id: 1707_33
    Credit: © Ruth Motau
    Keywords: post apartheid, poverty, 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: 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: 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: 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: APN715136
    Title: RM_0000-23.tif
    Path: Africa Media Online / African Pictures / Ruth Motau Archive / Ruth Motau Projects / Portraits
    Description: Salif Keita, musician
    Collections: Portraits
    Orientation: portrait
    Pixel Size: 2367 x 3305
    Media Id: 1707_29
    Credit: © Ruth Motau
    Keywords: Portrait, culture, music, post apartheid
    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: 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
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    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
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    Path: Africa Media Online / African Pictures / Ruth Motau Archive / Ruth Motau Projects / Religions and Rituals
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    Credit: © Ruth Motau
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