Image Number: APN19021
Path: Africa Media Online / South Photos / Lori Waselchuk
Description: Qunu, South Africa, January, 2000. water, rural life, farmingA young woman collects water from the small river that runs through Qunu, South Africa. Qunu, the birthplace of Nelson Mandela, is a Xhosa rural community and daily life has changed little from the days when Mandela spent his childhood.. Photo by Lori Waselchuk/South Photographshorizontal/color
Collections: South Photos
Subcollections: Lori Waselchuk
Country: South Africa
Orientation: landscape
Pixel Size: 3600 x 2406
Media Id: 759_801
Credit: Lori Waselchuk / South Photos / Africa Media Online
Keywords: colour image , South Africa, Africa, Eastern Cape, horizontal, Qunu, rural life, black African woman, river, collecting water, January, 2000,
Model Release: No
Property Release: No

Image Number: APN302648
Title: carecentre
Description: Senior citizens of the Zhelihle township in Hermanus go to the Siyakula centre each weekday. Here they receive a cooked meal and gather to chat and exchange news. They were dressed in traditional Xhosa dress and showed off the medals they won in the Golden Games. In this sporting event senior citizens compete in items such as throwing a ball into baskets, a getting-dressed competion and a short distacnce running item.
Collections: Independent Contributors
Subcollections: Marinda Louw
Country: south africa
Location: Zwelihle township
Orientation: portrait
Pixel Size: 2848 x 4272
Media Id: UNSECURED-7425
Credit: Marinda Louw / Independent Contributors / Africa Media Online
Keywords: model released, Xhosa, Zwelihle, care centre, gogo, old people, protea, township, traditional clothes, traditional dress, woman,
Model Release: Yes

Image Number: APN295263
Title: Life After Rape. Survivor Portrait Series.
Description: Phumla remembers the great sense of excitement and expectation when her father sent for her to come and live with him at the age of 9. She had never really known him and had been living with her mother and extended family up to that age. It was not long though before she realised he had other more sinister motives when she was subjected to continuous sexual abuse for almost 4 years. As a practicing sangoma (traditional African witch-doctor) he would often threaten to curse her if she spoke of her plight to anyone. When though at the age of 13 Phulma fell pregnant and gave birth to a daughter, it was no longer possible to hide this terrible affair. She was abandoned by her mother and forced to live with her father’s extended family who were physically and mentally abusive and dismissive towards her. Growing up was tough and lonely for Phumla.. Her father was eventually brought to justice and sentenced to life imprisonment. But for Phumla this was a hollow victory. While prosec
Collections: Independent Contributors
Subcollections: George Philipas
Country: South Africa
Location: Cape Town
Orientation: portrait
Pixel Size: 3654 x 4872
Media Id: UNSECURED-2024
Credit: George Philipas / Independent Contributors / Africa Media Online
Keywords: 1, aid, benefit, bold, brave, bravery, Cape Town, charitable, charity, counselling, counsellor, COUNTRY - CITY - SOUTH AFRICA - CAPE TOWN, COUNTRY - SOUTH AFRICA, courage, courageous, defiance, defiant, female, feminine, funding, gallant, gallantly, GENERAL - FORMAT: PORTRAIT, GENERAL - IMAGE, GENERAL - NUMBERS, GENERAL - WOMAN, graceful, help, helpless, hero, heroic, heroism, icon, image, lady, NGO, NGO's, one, ordeal, person, photo, picture, portrait, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, powerless, proteas, rainbow, RAPE, Rape Trauma Syndrome, relief, single, SOCIAL - CHARITY, South, South Africa, strong, subject, survivor, SYN - BRAVERY, SYN - DEFIANCE, trauma, treatment, vertical, vigorous, Western Cape, Xhosa,
Model Release: No
Property Release: No

Image Number: APN253197
Title: Xhosa people
Path: Africa Media Online / Historic Africa / Rhodes University / Cory Library
Description: Photograph showing Xhosa people at a traditional ceremony, village huts in the background.
Collections: Rhodes University
Subcollections: Cory Library
Country: South Africa
Orientation: landscape
Pixel Size: 2968 x 2190
Media Id: 151_9
Credit: Cory Library / Rhodes University / Africa Media Online
Keywords: sepia, horizontal, South Africa, Eastern Cape, Xhosa homestead, Xhosa people, african men & women, African children, outside beehive hut, traditional beehive huts, African village scene, ceremony, celebration, ,
Model Release: No
Property Release: No

Image Number: APN262622
Path: Africa Media Online / Historic Africa / McGregor Museum / McGregor Museum Photographic Collection
Description: Cape, Xhosa, portrait, woman, married, mother, costume, headdress
Collections: Independent Contributors
Subcollections: McGregor Museum
Country: South Africa
Orientation: portrait
Pixel Size: 3527 x 5328
Media Id: 287_23
Credit: McGregor Museum / Independent Contributors / Africa Media Online
Model Release: No
Property Release: No

Image Number: APN135494
Path: Africa Media Online / Africa Imagery / Roger de la Harpe
Description: Old Xhosa man. Qora mouth. Eastern Cape
Collections: Africa Imagery
Subcollections: Roger de la Harpe
Country: South Africa
Orientation: landscape
Pixel Size: 3830 x 2501
Media Id: 31_711
Credit: Roger de la Harpe / Africa Media Online
Keywords: facing camera, old Xhosa man, colour image , South Africa, Africa, horizontal, Eastern Cape, Qora mouth, black African men, sitting, smiling, hats, beards, ,
Model Release: No
Property Release: No

Image Number: APN263122
Path: Africa Media Online / Historic Africa / McGregor Museum / McGregor Museum Photographic Collection
Description: Cape, Xhosa, portrait, woman, senior, activity, carrying
Collections: Independent Contributors
Subcollections: McGregor Museum
Country: South Africa
Orientation: portrait
Pixel Size: 3460 x 5274
Media Id: 291_35
Credit: McGregor Museum / Independent Contributors / Africa Media Online
Model Release: No
Property Release: No

Image Number: APN302652
Title: carecentre
Description: Senior citizens of the Zhelihle township in Hermanus go to the Siyakula centre each weekday. Here they receive a cooked meal and gather to chat and exchange news. They were dressed in traditional Xhosa dress and showed off the medals they won in the Golden Games. In this sporting event senior citizens compete in items such as throwing a ball into baskets, a getting-dressed competion and a short distacnce running item.
Collections: Independent Contributors
Subcollections: Marinda Louw
Country: south africa
Location: Zwelihle township
Orientation: portrait
Pixel Size: 2848 x 4272
Media Id: UNSECURED-7429
Credit: Marinda Louw / Independent Contributors / Africa Media Online
Keywords: model released, Xhosa, Zwelihle, care centre, gogo, old people, township, traditional clothes, traditional dress, woman,
Model Release: Yes

Image Number: APN256994
Title: Models: Kuhle Simelela
Path: Africa Media Online / African Photo Entrepreneur Programme / Tammy Gardner
Description: Model release no: MRP0013
Collections: Independent Contributors
Subcollections: Tammy Gardner
Country: South Africa
Location: City apartment, Adderley Street, Cape Town
Orientation: landscape
Pixel Size: 5120 x 3413
Media Id: 20_441
Credit: Tammy Gardner / Africa Media Online
Keywords: ballerina, ballerina girl, ballet, ballet class, ballet dancer, ballet student, cute kid, cute little girl, girl, introspective, learning to dance, little ballerina, little black girl, little dancer, pretty little black girl, thoughtful, thoughtul girl,
Model Release: Yes
Property Release: No

Image Number: APN140588
Path: Africa Media Online / Africa Imagery / Roger de la Harpe
Description: Xhosa woman. Portrait. Lesedi Cultural Village. Johannesburg. South Africa.
Collections: Africa Imagery
Subcollections: Roger de la Harpe
Country: South Africa
Orientation: portrait
Pixel Size: 2328 x 3543
Media Id: 33_775
Credit: Roger de la Harpe / Africa Media Online
Keywords: colour image , South Africa, Africa, vertical, Johannesburg, Gauteng, portrait, Xhosa woman, facing camera, traditional, beads, headscarf, ,
Model Release: No
Property Release: No

Image Number: APN265504
Path: Africa Media Online / Historic Africa / McGregor Museum / McGregor Museum Photographic Collection
Description: Xhosa 1976 / 77 Mens Girls Ciskei
Collections: Independent Contributors
Subcollections: McGregor Museum
Country: South Africa
Pixel Size: 4320 x 4372
Media Id: 323_17
Credit: McGregor Museum / Independent Contributors / Africa Media Online
Model Release: No
Property Release: No

Image Number: APN304791
Title: Mama Biko
Description: Princess Biko, aunt of anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko in front of her B&B in the Zwelihle township, Hermanus. Model released
Collections: Independent Contributors
Subcollections: Marinda Louw
Country: south africa
Location: township
Orientation: portrait
Pixel Size: 2848 x 4272
Media Id: UNSECURED-9569
Credit: Marinda Louw / Independent Contributors / Africa Media Online
Keywords: Princess Biko, Xhosa woman, guest house, zwelihle township, model released,
Model Release: Yes

Image Number: APN263079
Path: Africa Media Online / Historic Africa / McGregor Museum / McGregor Museum Photographic Collection
Description: Cape, Xhosa,portrait, woman, married, costume, headdress
Collections: Independent Contributors
Subcollections: McGregor Museum
Country: South Africa
Orientation: portrait
Pixel Size: 3486 x 5409
Media Id: 290_31
Credit: McGregor Museum / Independent Contributors / Africa Media Online
Model Release: No
Property Release: No

Image Number: APN254867
Title: Available on africa@street level CD
Path: Africa Media Online / African Photo Entrepreneur Programme / Lizane Louw
Description: Cape Town, City Bowl.09/20/2008.Brothers in the hood. Mike Bero out shopping with his brother and friends. He loves music. Photo Lizane LouwModel Released
Collections: Independent Contributors
Subcollections: Lizane Louw
Country: South Africa
Orientation: landscape
Pixel Size: 3900 x 2613
Media Id: 18_141
Credit: Lizane Louw / Africa Media Online
Keywords: South Africa, African Males, ipod,
Model Release: Yes
Property Release: No

Image Number: APN162419
Title: Available on africa@street level CD
Path: Africa Media Online / African Photo Entrepreneur Programme / Lizane Louw
Description: Model released MRP0261 MRP0262Cape Town CBD. 09/16/2008. Absolutely Fabulous. Akona Mhlana and Zameka Maqagi on the way to work in the CBD. Photo Lizane Louw
Collections: Independent Contributors
Subcollections: Lizane Louw
Country: South Africa
Orientation: landscape
Pixel Size: 3706 x 2538
Media Id: 18_144
Credit: Lizane Louw / Africa Media Online
Keywords: colour image , South Africa, Africa, horizontal, African people, Cape Town, Western Cape, friends, mates, friendship, September, 2008, business women, smart attire, fashion, stylish, fashionable, wearing, hats, working, outside, street scene, African women, close up, chatting, communicating, ,
Model Release: Yes
Property Release: No

Image Number: APN322121
Path: Africa Media Online / Historic Africa / McGregor Museum / McGregor Museum Photographic Collection
Description: Xhosa In the rising sun, where women are thatching Abakwethu hut, while boys are being circumcised in the shelter of the bushes nearby (out of view). Macleantown, Eastern Cape 1979
Collections: Independent Contributors
Subcollections: McGregor Museum
Country: South Africa
Pixel Size: 4395 x 4410
Media Id: 763_14
Credit: McGregor Museum / Independent Contributors / Africa Media Online
Model Release: No
Property Release: No

Image Number: APN140221
Path: Africa Media Online / Africa Imagery / Roger de la Harpe
Description: Xhosa amaKwetha (young men who have just been circumcised as part of their initiation into manhood) covered with blankets (traditional). Coffee Bay. Wild Coast. Eastern Cape. South Africa
Collections: Africa Imagery
Subcollections: Roger de la Harpe
Country: South Africa
Orientation: portrait
Pixel Size: 3531 x 5386
Media Id: 32_379
Credit: Roger de la Harpe / Africa Media Online
Keywords: vertical, Africa, South Africa, colour image , Coffee Bay, Eastern Cape, Wild Coast, initiates, Xhosa Initiates, Amakweta, black African youth, culture, cultural events & activities, circumcision, rituals, traditional circumcision, ,
Model Release: No
Property Release: No

Image Number: APN14203
Path: Africa Media Online / South Photos / Graeme Williams
Description: South Africa, Port Elizabeth. 1993 : Initiates for traditional Xhosa initiation into manhood, involving circumcision. They remain in an area on the outskirts of Port Elizabeth. Their huts are built out of branches and plastic sheets. There have been a large number of deaths in these traditional circumsicions due to badly executed cutting and some organizers use the same blade for all the initiates. ( Spreading Aids).. Aids, traditional rituals, traditional medicine. Photograph: Graeme williams
Collections: South Photos
Subcollections: Graeme Williams
Country: South Africa
Orientation: landscape
Pixel Size: 5551 x 3732
Media Id: 107_685
Credit: Graeme Williams / South Photos / Africa Media Online
Keywords: black and white image, horizontal, Africa, South Africa, Port Elizabeth, initiation, huts, traditional, outside, outdoors, veld, black African men, black African man, medicine, rituals, circumcision, mud, Eastern Cape, Xhosa , ,
Model Release: No
Property Release: No

Image Number: APN140232
Path: Africa Media Online / Africa Imagery / Roger de la Harpe
Description: Xhosa amaKwetha (young men who has just been circumcised as part of their initiation into manhood) hunting birds. Wild Coast. Eastern Cape. South Africa
Collections: Africa Imagery
Subcollections: Roger de la Harpe
Country: South Africa
Orientation: landscape
Pixel Size: 3589 x 2310
Media Id: 34_139
Credit: Roger de la Harpe / Africa Media Online
Keywords: Coffee Bay, colour image , South Africa, Africa, horizontal, Eastern Cape, Wild Coast, initiates, Xhosa Initiates, Amakweta, black African youth, culture, cultural events & activities, body painting, circumcision, painted white, rituals, traditional circumcision, ,
Model Release: No
Property Release: No

Image Number: APN258380
Path: Africa Media Online / Prime Images / Neil Austen
Description: An African family living in the shanty town of Khayelitsha
Collections: Art Publishers
Subcollections: Neil Austen
Country: South Africa
Pixel Size: 3371 x 3427
Media Id: 22_17
Credit: Neil Austen / Art Publishers / Africa Media Online
Keywords: Africa, South Africa, Western Cape, Cape Town, African people, Xhosa family, african, Khayelitsha, informal settlement, shanty town, scenic locations, landscape (views), culture, colour image, square, horizontal,
Model Release: No
Property Release: No

Image Number: APN253217
Title: Xhosa diviner or "Isanuse"
Path: Africa Media Online / Historic Africa / Rhodes University / Cory Library
Description: Photograph by Rev. J. W. Househam
Collections: Rhodes University
Subcollections: Cory Library
Country: South Africa
Orientation: portrait
Pixel Size: 3957 x 5768
Media Id: 152_27
Credit: Cory Library / Rhodes University / Africa Media Online
Keywords: vertical, black and white, sangomas, South Africa, Eastern Cape, male diviner, Xhosa Dress, traditional, traditional African dress, animal skin, feather headress, Xhosa man, ,
Model Release: No
Property Release: No

Image Number: APN322803
Title: Sir George Cory and Xhosa people
Path: Africa Media Online / Historic Africa / Rhodes University / Cory Library
Description: Showing Sir George Cory interviewing four Xhosa men and six Xhosa women (with two children). The group, who are all in traditional Xhosa dress, are seated on the ground with Cory, somewhere in the Eastern Cape countryside.
Collections: Rhodes University
Subcollections: Cory Library
Country: South Africa
Orientation: landscape
Pixel Size: 3511 x 2495
Media Id: 775_6
Credit: Cory Library / Rhodes University / Africa Media Online
Keywords: Africa, African people, mission stations, rural lifestyle, rural life, Eastern Cape, South Africa, Xhosa people, traditional dress & jewelry, horizontal, tranquil scene, sepia, black African people, white man, African woman, African child, african man, full body photographs, group photograph, ,
Model Release: No
Property Release: No

Image Number: APN262638
Path: Africa Media Online / Historic Africa / McGregor Museum / McGregor Museum Photographic Collection
Description: Cape, Xhosa, portrait, woman, girl, costume, beadwork, ceremonial
Collections: Independent Contributors
Subcollections: McGregor Museum
Country: South Africa
Orientation: portrait
Pixel Size: 3258 x 5145
Media Id: 287_38
Credit: McGregor Museum / Independent Contributors / Africa Media Online
Model Release: No
Property Release: No

Image Number: APN15025
Path: Africa Media Online / South Photos / Graeme Williams
Description: GW0196, South Africa, Eastern Cape, 1998: Circumcision initates during their two month stay in the bush. African rituals, young boys, customs,ethnic,traditional, tribal. Photograph: Graeme Williams/South Photographs
Collections: South Photos
Subcollections: Graeme Williams
Country: South Africa
Orientation: portrait
Pixel Size: 2673 x 3902
Media Id: 111_43
Credit: Graeme Williams / South Photos / Africa Media Online
Keywords: colour image , South Africa, Africa, vertical, Eastern Cape, Xhosa , black African youth, customs, rituals, boys, traditional beliefs, coming of age, white robes, shelters, white-painted faces, clay, manhood, 1998, ,
Model Release: No
Property Release: No

Image Number: APN295287
Title: The Child Rape Crisis in Khayelitsha.
Description: A counsellor at the Simelela Rape Centre.
Collections: Independent Contributors
Subcollections: George Philipas
Country: South Africa
Location: Khayelitsha, Cape Town.
Orientation: landscape
Pixel Size: 5223 x 3482
Media Id: UNSECURED-2048
Credit: George Philipas / Independent Contributors / Africa Media Online
Keywords: adolescent, afraid, Africa, African, aid, baby, bad, benefit, boy, boys, Cape Town, charitable, charity, child, childhood, childlike, CHILDREN, consternation, CONTINENT - AFRICA, counselling, counsellor, COUNTRY - CITY - SOUTH AFRICA - CAPE TOWN, COUNTRY - SOUTH AFRICA, dark, darkness, developing, earthy, evil, fear, foreboding, funding, GENERAL - FORMAT: LANDSCAPE, GENERAL - IMAGE, girl, girls, harmful, healthcare, help, helpless, horizontal, horror, icon, image, innocent, intimidate, intimidated, intimidation, juvenile, Khaye, Khayelitsha, kid, kids, landscape, LDC, malicious, naive, nation, NGO, NGO's, ordeal, photo, picture, playful, portrait, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, powerless, proteas, rainbow, RAPE, Rape Trauma Syndrome, relief, scared, shocking, sinister, SOCIAL - CHARITY, South, South Africa, survivor, SYN - DARK, SYN - FEAR, teenager, tense, terror, toddler, trauma, treatment, tropical, vibrant, Western Cape, Xhosa, young, youth,
Model Release: No
Property Release: No

Image Number: APN4988
Path: Africa Media Online / African Pictures / Eric Miller
Description: Xhosa initiate has his hair cut immediately prior to his initiation, circumcision Photo Eric Miller
Collections: Independent Contributors
Subcollections: Eric Miller
Country: South Africa
Orientation: landscape
Pixel Size: 2503 x 1782
Media Id: 90_409
Credit: Eric Miller / Independent Contributors / Africa Media Online
Keywords: colour image , South Africa, Africa, African people, horizontal, black African men, ceremony, initiation, haircuts, traditional, Xhosa man, ,
Model Release: No
Property Release: No

Image Number: APN265748
Path: Africa Media Online / Historic Africa / McGregor Museum / McGregor Museum Photographic Collection
Description: Xhosa In the rising sun, where women are thatching Abakwethu hut, while boys are being circumcised in the shelter of the bushes nearby (out of view). Macleantown, Eastern Cape 1979
Collections: Independent Contributors
Subcollections: McGregor Museum
Country: South Africa
Pixel Size: 4374 x 4447
Media Id: 329_33
Credit: McGregor Museum / Independent Contributors / Africa Media Online
Model Release: No
Property Release: No

Image Number: APN253648
Title: Xhosa youths
Path: Africa Media Online / Prime Images / John Hone
Description: The tradition of a Xhosa boy to manhood is marked by a circumcision ceremony. After their bodies are whitened with clay they are forcibly driven through a river to cymbolically wash away their boyhood.
Collections: Art Publishers
Subcollections: John Hone
Country: South Africa
Pixel Size: 5055 x 5071
Media Id: 16_880
Credit: John Hone / Art Publishers / Africa Media Online
Keywords: Africa, south africa, Eastern Cape, scenic locations, landscape (views), colour image, square, horizontal, culture, Transkei, Wild coast, Xhosa youths, African people, tradition,
Model Release: No
Property Release: No

Image Number: APN254454
Title: Makana
Path: Africa Media Online / Historic Africa / Rhodes University / Albany Museum / Albany Museum Image Collection
Description: Portrait of Makana (?- 1820) (Makhanda/Nxele)Xhosa prophet; shield & assegaai in hand. Painting by FT I'Ons dated 1835.
Collections: Independent Contributors
Subcollections: Albany Museum
Country: South Africa
Orientation: portrait
Pixel Size: 3152 x 4438
Media Id: 170_9
Credit: Albany Museum / Independent Contributors / Africa Media Online
Keywords: Eastern Cape, South Africa, Africa, vertical, colour image , art, paintings, 1800s, portraits, Xhosa man, leaders, orators, diviners, traditional dress, shields, traditional spears, fighting sticks, pride, ,
Model Release: No
Property Release: No

Image Number: APN265752
Path: Africa Media Online / Historic Africa / McGregor Museum / McGregor Museum Photographic Collection
Description: Xhosa In the rising sun, where women are thatching Abakwethu hut, while boys are being circumcised in the shelter of the bushes nearby (out of view). Macleantown, Eastern Cape 1979
Collections: Independent Contributors
Subcollections: McGregor Museum
Country: South Africa
Orientation: portrait
Pixel Size: 3428 x 5159
Media Id: 329_37
Credit: McGregor Museum / Independent Contributors / Africa Media Online
Model Release: No
Property Release: No

Image Number: APN4992
Path: Africa Media Online / African Pictures / Eric Miller
Description: Young Xhosa men, recently completed traditional initiation rites, at school dressed in the clothes common among post-intiation men.Photo © iAfrika Photos. Xhosaculturetraditionalinitiationcircumcisionreligion
Collections: Independent Contributors
Subcollections: Eric Miller
Country: South Africa
Orientation: landscape
Pixel Size: 2125 x 1480
Media Id: 91_296
Credit: Eric Miller / Independent Contributors / Africa Media Online
Keywords: colour image , South Africa, Africa, ceremony, horizontal, initiation, religion, religious activities, African culture, cultural, Xhosa man, ,
Model Release: No
Property Release: No

Image Number: APN295274
Title: The Child Rape Crisis in Khayelitsha.
Description: A child Awareness Campaign at a primary school in Khayelitsha. A Theatre group, sponsored by the NGO the Simelela Centre - a one-stop 24/7 Rape Centre - performs a puppet show in the local Xhosa language to warn of the dangers of friendly approaches by older people – be they a family friend or even relative.
Collections: Independent Contributors
Subcollections: George Philipas
Country: South Africa
Location: Khayelitsha, Cape Town.
Orientation: landscape
Pixel Size: 5223 x 3482
Media Id: UNSECURED-2035
Credit: George Philipas / Independent Contributors / Africa Media Online
Keywords: adolescent, afraid, Africa, African, aid, baby, bad, benefit, boy, boys, Cape Town, charitable, charity, child, childhood, childlike, CHILDREN, consternation, CONTINENT - AFRICA, counselling, counsellor, COUNTRY - CITY - SOUTH AFRICA - CAPE TOWN, COUNTRY - SOUTH AFRICA, dark, darkness, developing, earthy, evil, fear, foreboding, funding, GENERAL - FORMAT: LANDSCAPE, GENERAL - IMAGE, girl, girls, harmful, healthcare, help, helpless, horizontal, horror, icon, image, innocent, intimidate, intimidated, intimidation, juvenile, Khaye, Khayelitsha, kid, kids, landscape, LDC, malicious, naive, nation, NGO, NGO's, ordeal, photo, picture, playful, portrait, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, powerless, proteas, rainbow, RAPE, Rape Trauma Syndrome, relief, scared, shocking, sinister, SOCIAL - CHARITY, South, South Africa, survivor, SYN - DARK, SYN - FEAR, teenager, tense, terror, toddler, trauma, treatment, tropical, vibrant, Western Cape, Xhosa, young, youth,
Model Release: No
Property Release: No

Image Number: APN19024
Path: Africa Media Online / South Photos / Lori Waselchuk
Description: Qunu, South Africa, January, 2000. Pumeza poses for a portrait in her home in Qunu, South Africa. Barely twenty, Pumeza hopes to leave the quiet life of Qunu to attend college in nearby Umtata. Qunu, the birthplace of Nelson Mandela, is a Xhosa rural community and daily life has changed little from the days when Mandela spent his childhood.Photo by Lori Waselchuk/South Photographshorizontal/color
Collections: South Photos
Subcollections: Lori Waselchuk
Country: South Africa
Orientation: landscape
Pixel Size: 3744 x 2517
Media Id: 759_442
Credit: Lori Waselchuk / South Photos / Africa Media Online
Keywords: colour image , South Africa, Africa, Eastern Cape, horizontal, Qunu, black African woman, Xhosa , portrait, facing camera, Pumeza, January, 2000,
Model Release: No
Property Release: No

Image Number: APN262630
Path: Africa Media Online / Historic Africa / McGregor Museum / McGregor Museum Photographic Collection
Description: Cape, Xhosa, portrait, woman, costume, headdress.
Collections: Independent Contributors
Subcollections: McGregor Museum
Country: South Africa
Orientation: portrait
Pixel Size: 3295 x 5312
Media Id: 287_30
Credit: McGregor Museum / Independent Contributors / Africa Media Online
Model Release: No
Property Release: No

Image Number: APN140323
Path: Africa Media Online / Africa Imagery / Roger de la Harpe
Description: Xhosa woman portrait. Johannesburg. South Africa.
Collections: Africa Imagery
Subcollections: Roger de la Harpe
Country: South Africa
Orientation: landscape
Pixel Size: 3780 x 2509
Media Id: 54_355
Credit: Roger de la Harpe / Africa Media Online
Keywords: Africa, South Africa, colour image , horizontal, Johannesburg, Gauteng, black African woman, portrait, Xhosa woman, traditional headdress, traditional beaded jewellery, ,
Model Release: No
Property Release: No

Image Number: APN140266
Path: Africa Media Online / Africa Imagery / Roger de la Harpe
Description: Xhosa mKwetha (young man who has just been circumcised as part of their initiation into manhood). Coffee Bay. Wild Coast. Eastern Cape. South Africa
Collections: Africa Imagery
Subcollections: Roger de la Harpe
Country: South Africa
Orientation: portrait
Pixel Size: 2400 x 3600
Media Id: 32_923
Credit: Roger de la Harpe / Africa Media Online
Keywords: colour image , Coffee Bay, Africa, South Africa, Eastern Cape, Wild Coast, initiates, Xhosa Initiates, Amakweta, black African youth, culture, cultural events & activities, body painting, painted white, vertical, circumcision, rituals, traditional circumcision, portrait, ,
Model Release: No
Property Release: No

Image Number: APN253283
Title: Xhosa warrior
Path: Africa Media Online / Historic Africa / Rhodes University / Cory Library
Description: Xhosa warrior posing with his shield and assegaai.
Collections: Rhodes University
Subcollections: Cory Library
Country: South Africa
Orientation: portrait
Pixel Size: 3732 x 6034
Media Id: 153_6
Credit: Cory Library / Rhodes University / Africa Media Online
Keywords: vertical, black and white, South Africa, Eastern Cape, african man, Xhosa warriors, traditional weapons, traditional African shields, traditional spears, feather headress, full length portrait, ,
Model Release: No
Property Release: No

Image Number: APN45383
Path: Africa Media Online / African Pictures / Guy Stubbs
Collections: Independent Contributors
Subcollections: Guy Stubbs
Country: South Africa
Orientation: landscape
Pixel Size: 3436 x 2266
Media Id: 114_414
Credit: Guy Stubbs / Independent Contributors / Africa Media Online
Keywords: waist up, Xhosa women, colour image , South Africa, standing, rural, portrait, ethnic dress, agricultural workers, black African woman, farm workers, tea picking, close up (view of person), harvesting, facing camera, Wild Coast, agricultural activities, Lusikisiki, Eastern Cape, tea plantations, one person, ,
Model Release: Yes
Property Release: No

Image Number: APN253240
Title: Xhosa man and his five wives, smoking, 1878
Path: Africa Media Online / Historic Africa / Rhodes University / Cory Library
Description: Photograph showing pipes ("Mgcongo") with a straight stem of about 20cm, a 5cm detachable mouthpiece, and a bowl about 8cm long, lined with sheetmetal and sometimes inlayed on the outside. Usually lit with a live ember.
Collections: Rhodes University
Subcollections: Cory Library
Country: South Africa
Orientation: portrait
Pixel Size: 3591 x 4896
Media Id: 153_10
Credit: Cory Library / Rhodes University / Africa Media Online
Keywords: vertical, South Africa, bare breasted, "man and wife", Eastern Cape, smoking pipe, group photograph, woman and children, black and white, traditional mud houses, full body photographs, family portrait, ,
Model Release: No
Property Release: No

Image Number: APN265028
Path: Africa Media Online / Historic Africa / McGregor Museum / McGregor Museum Photographic Collection
Description: Xhosa Married woman (widdow?)
Collections: Independent Contributors
Subcollections: McGregor Museum
Country: South Africa
Orientation: portrait
Pixel Size: 3969 x 4828
Media Id: 319_9
Credit: McGregor Museum / Independent Contributors / Africa Media Online
Model Release: No
Property Release: No

Image Number: APN253216
Title: Xhosa people
Path: Africa Media Online / Historic Africa / Rhodes University / Cory Library
Description: Young Xhosa broom seller.
Collections: Rhodes University
Subcollections: Cory Library
Country: South Africa
Orientation: portrait
Pixel Size: 3936 x 5809
Media Id: 152_26
Credit: Cory Library / Rhodes University / Africa Media Online
Keywords: vertical, black and white, South Africa, Eastern Cape, sellers, traditional dress & jewelry, broomsticks, Xhosa Dress, Xhosa woman, ,
Model Release: No
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Image Number: APN4682
Path: Africa Media Online / African Pictures / Eric Miller
Description: Black woman with traditional beads round neck. Head scarf, talking on cell phone. © iAfrika PhotoswomanbeadscellphonecommunicationtechnologyXhosa
Collections: Independent Contributors
Subcollections: Eric Miller
Country: South Africa
Orientation: landscape
Pixel Size: 3323 x 2484
Media Id: 90_313
Credit: Eric Miller / Independent Contributors / Africa Media Online
Keywords: colour image , South Africa, Africa, black African woman, horizontal, Xhosa women, telephones, cellular telephones, mobile phones, headgear, scarfs, ,
Model Release: No
Property Release: No

Image Number: APN257004
Title: Models: Asanda Gxamza
Path: Africa Media Online / African Photo Entrepreneur Programme / Tammy Gardner
Description: Hello Summer
Collections: Independent Contributors
Subcollections: Tammy Gardner
Country: South Africa
Location: Camps Bay, Cape Town
Orientation: landscape
Pixel Size: 4291 x 2861
Media Id: 20_451
Credit: Tammy Gardner / Africa Media Online
Keywords: cape town, cellphone, chatting, cool young black man, first car, happy, holiday, mini cooper, mobile phone, sightseeing, summer, sunglasses, talking on phone, technology, young black man,
Model Release: Yes
Property Release: No

Image Number: APN14841
Path: Africa Media Online / South Photos / Graeme Williams
Description: PXGW0054, South Africa, Port Elizabeth, 1994.Xhosa initiation ritual - Young men prepare themselves for the circumcision. Aids, culture, traditional. initiates, contrasts, tradition. Photograph Graeme Willams/South
Collections: South Photos
Subcollections: Graeme Williams
Country: South Africa
Orientation: landscape
Pixel Size: 6025 x 4004
Media Id: 108_405
Credit: Graeme Williams / South Photos / Africa Media Online
Keywords: black and white image, horizontal, vertical, Africa, South Africa, Eastern Cape, Port Elizabeth, Xhosa culture, black African boys, circumcision, African religion, traditional beliefs, rituals, initiates, tribal customs, traditional dress, white clay, initiation, sticks, loin cloths, city, buildings, traffic, 1994, ,
Model Release: No
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Image Number: APN140220
Path: Africa Media Online / Africa Imagery / Roger de la Harpe
Description: Xhosa amaKwetha (young men who have just been circumcised as part of their initiation into manhood) covered with blankets (traditional). Coffee Bay. Wild Coast. Eastern Cape. South Africa
Collections: Africa Imagery
Subcollections: Roger de la Harpe
Country: South Africa
Orientation: landscape
Pixel Size: 3645 x 2333
Media Id: 54_630
Credit: Roger de la Harpe / Africa Media Online
Keywords: colour image , South Africa, horizontal, Africa, Coffee Bay, Eastern Cape, Wild Coast, initiates, Xhosa Initiates, Amakweta, black African youth, culture, cultural events & activities, circumcision, rituals, traditional circumcision, ,
Model Release: No
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Image Number: APN8852
Title: XHOSA WOMAN
Path: Africa Media Online / The Media Bank / Shane Doyle
Description: XHOSA PIPE SMOKER
Collections: Independent Contributors
Subcollections: Shane Doyle
Country: SOUTH AFRICA
Orientation: portrait
Pixel Size: 1839 x 2741
Media Id: 59_235
Credit: Shane Doyle / Independent Contributors / Africa Media Online
Keywords: Xhosa women, black African women, portrait, waist up, facing camera, multiracial, colour image , sitting, Africa, pipes (smoking), ,
Model Release: No
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Image Number: APN253467
Title: Xhosa people
Path: Africa Media Online / Historic Africa / Rhodes University / Cory Library
Description: Young Xhosa man in traditional costume with pipe.
Collections: Rhodes University
Subcollections: Cory Library
Country: South Africa
Orientation: portrait
Pixel Size: 1692 x 2291
Media Id: 157_2
Credit: Cory Library / Rhodes University / Africa Media Online
Keywords: sepia, vertical, traditional clothing, smoking pipe, sitting on ground, gentlemen, african man, head and torso, ,
Model Release: No
Property Release: No

Image Number: APN256959
Title: Models: Kuhle Simelela
Path: Africa Media Online / African Photo Entrepreneur Programme / Tammy Gardner
Description: Model release no: MRP0013
Collections: Independent Contributors
Subcollections: Tammy Gardner
Country: South Africa
Location: City apartment, Adderley Street, Cape Town
Orientation: portrait
Pixel Size: 3413 x 5120
Media Id: 20_406
Credit: Tammy Gardner / Africa Media Online
Keywords: birthday girl, celebration, christmas clothes, cute kid, cute little girl, dancing, delight, girl, happy, ipod, joy, listening to ipod, listening to music, little black girl, little girl and gift, little girl listening to ipod, little girl listening to music, pink party frock, pretty little black girl, technology,
Model Release: Yes
Property Release: No

Image Number: APN140545
Path: Africa Media Online / Africa Imagery / Roger de la Harpe
Description: Xhosa Woman and Girl. Sorting beans. Lesedi Cultural Village. Johannesburg. South Africa.
Collections: Africa Imagery
Subcollections: Roger de la Harpe
Country: South Africa
Orientation: landscape
Pixel Size: 4023 x 2579
Media Id: 27_335
Credit: Roger de la Harpe / lost+found
Keywords: Lesedi Cultural village, colour image , South Africa, Africa, horizontal, Johannesburg, Gauteng, Xhosa culture, black African people, traditional village huts, tourism, ,
Model Release: No
Property Release: No

Image Number: APN147234
Path: Africa Media Online / Historic Africa / Rhodes University / International Library of African Music / ILAM Digital Archives / ILAM Images Archive / ILAM Photographic Collection
Description: Xhosa girl playing Uhadi bow , Xhosa , Hugh Tracey , International Library of African Music , South Africa , ILM00268_10 , Performance , 6cmX6cm
Collections: Independent Contributors
Subcollections: ILAM Photographer
Country: South Africa
Pixel Size: 4600 x 4524
Media Id: 94_306
Credit: ILAM Photographer / Africa Media Online
Keywords: ILAM, Africa, black and white image, Xhosa , square, Uhadi bows, African music, ethnic music, traditional musical instruments, traditional music, black African woman, South Africa, playing, Performing, Hugh Tracey, traditional clothes, ,
Model Release: No
Property Release: No

Image Number: APN140252
Path: Africa Media Online / Africa Imagery / Roger de la Harpe
Description: Xhosa woman smoking a pipe. Coffee Bay. Wild Coast. Eastern Cape. South Africa
Collections: Africa Imagery
Subcollections: Roger de la Harpe
Country: South Africa
Orientation: portrait
Pixel Size: 2400 x 3600
Media Id: 32_681
Credit: Roger de la Harpe / Africa Media Online
Keywords: colour image , South Africa, Africa, vertical, Xhosa woman, black African woman, smoking pipe, traditional pipes, Coffee Bay, Wild Coast, Eastern Cape, traditional dress, traditional headdress, ,
Model Release: No
Property Release: No

Image Number: APN140317
Path: Africa Media Online / Africa Imagery / Roger de la Harpe
Description: Xhosa Bride (RHS) portrait. Johannesburg. South Africa
Collections: Africa Imagery
Subcollections: Roger de la Harpe
Country: South Africa
Orientation: landscape
Pixel Size: 3669 x 2333
Media Id: 28_688
Credit: Roger de la Harpe / Africa Media Online
Keywords: colour image , South Africa, Africa, Johannesburg, horizontal, Gauteng, portrait, black African women, carrying on the head, Xhosa women, traditional dress, traditional beaded jewellery, Xhosa bride, ,
Model Release: No
Property Release: No

Image Number: APN254876
Title: Documentary Photography
Path: Africa Media Online / African Photo Entrepreneur Programme / Lizane Louw
Description: Cape Town,Green Market Square.09/20/2008. Artist, Entrepeneur and businessman, Gilles K. Bapynga, at his stall and mini exibition in Green Market Square. Photo Lizane Louw
Collections: Independent Contributors
Subcollections: Lizane Louw
Country: South Africa
Orientation: landscape
Pixel Size: 3900 x 2613
Media Id: 18_152
Credit: Lizane Louw / Africa Media Online
Keywords: South Africa, Green Maket Square, Artist,
Model Release: Yes
Property Release: No

Image Number: APN4869
Path: Africa Media Online / African Pictures / Eric Miller
Description: Cape Town, Guguletu 27/4/94A woman ululates with joy as she waits in an election Q to vote for the first timePhoto © iAfrika Photos. electionvoteululateXhosa
Collections: Independent Contributors
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