Award-winning photojournalist Peter Magubane immortalises SA’s political battle field from 1976 onwards, writes Sue Blaine I’VE GOT the history of the country in my hand, says photojournalist Peter Magubane. From anyone else, those words would be unconscionably arrogant; from veteran Magubane, they are simple fact.Magubane is talking about SA’s modern history. He started taking press pictures for Drum magazine in 1955. By June 16 1976, when the police’s reaction to a peaceful Soweto school pupils’ march exposed just how ready the apartheid government was to use violence to put down black dissent, Magubane had already won several awards for his photographic record of life under apartheid. He was to win more including the 1986 Robert Capa Award, the Luther King Luthuli Award in 1995, the Mother Jones and Leica Cameras Lifetime Achievement Award in 1997, and the Order for Meritorious Service Class II from then president Nelson Mandela in 1999.DetailsTITLE: June 16: 4oth Anniversary Edi...
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