Remarkably, he survived being shot seventeen times at a student’s funeral in Natalspruit, Gauteng Province and endured over 586 days in solitary confinement in 1969. Magubane’s resistance was not only evident in his actions but also in his creative methods of capturing the truth.
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Limpopo Traffic safety officers and the SA Police Services conducted a roadblock at the Kranskop Toll Plaza on the N1 North highway recently as part…
Puuuulaaa! Puuuuulaaaa! Puuuulaaaa! With this chant the Moletši Traditional Council declared proceedings for the Mokgoši wa Pula traditional ceremony officially open. The ceremony which is…
Limpopo experiencing widespread distribution of illegal gambling machines usually found at foreign-owned local spaza shops in rural
areas across the province.
In another time the hills around Mafefe resonated with the crashing sound of chisel and hammer as hundreds of men and women mined asbestos. Extraction…
“Photography has always been the great love of my father’s life. He went about his business with great stubbornness and determination. And no one could dissuade him from taking his pictures, for he always had some kind of trick that he used to disguise himself in places where his camera was forbidden.
Magubane and other brave newsmen and women hit the streets with their cameras and notepads, defying strict government restrictions to expose the brutality of the state, capture the bravery of the youth, the fear, agony and grief of the parents.