Sometimes it is easier to remember a single moment of protest – a day, an action, a single dead soul – than it is to remember the ways in which that protest continued, changed, mutated, and developed into something new
Posts tagged as “June 16”
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.
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.