Category: feature
UCT council votes to remove the Rhodes statue. University of Cape Town, South Africa, April 2015.
On 8 April 2015, UCT’s council met to decide the fate of the statue of Cecil John Rhodes that had stood on the university’s upper campus since 1934. The meeting was disrupted by students who had been occupying the space around the statue for weeks as part of the Rhodes Must Fall movement. The council voted to remove the statue
Domestic worker walking past window in Capricorn Park, Cape Town, 2009.
Domestic worker walking past window in Capricorn Park, Cape Town, 2009.
Men playing a game of Dominos in the street, Woodstock 2014.
Men gather around a worn table in the street to play dominoes, their hands moving through dappled shade. Woodstock, Cape Town, South Africa, 2014.
Wedding in Johannesburg, South Africa
Guests depart carrying gifts on a wet street outside a family home. Johannesburg, South Africa, 2017.
Overlooking Blikkiesdorp, 2010
Overlooking one of Western Cape’s temporary housing projects, Blikkiesdorp – Afrikaans for “Tin Can Town” – built ahead of the 2010 FIFA World Cup to relocate informal settlement residents from areas designated for tourist development. What was promised as temporary became permanent for thousands of families. Photographed from the perimeter, 2010.
Rugby at Newlands watching the Stormers
Newlands Stadium, Cape Town. Stormers match, year I have forgotten but the photograph remembers it. I was in the crowd, not behind it. That choice is the photograph. The try line is in the background, the arms are in front, and somewhere in between is the reason I brought a camera instead of just watching. I left Cape Town in
COSATU march in Cape Town
Approximately 10.000 people gathered in Keizersgracht Street on the 6th of August for a march to Parliament. This was done to protest against the rising electricity, fuel and food prices. The protesters expressed their lack of faith in the government’s ability to fix the country’s economic problems. Having failed to meet the peoples needs for so long, the politicians are
The evening train to Khayelitsha
It is 17:35 and one of the trains to Khayelitsha departs from Cape Town’s train station. The masses of people travelling on this line are packed into the train coaches. The carriages get so full that people hang out of the windows and doors or stand in between the coaches. This of course is a dangerous activity but cannot be
Zimbabweans use social media to rally up support for march, 18 November 2017
#ThisFlag #FREEPASTOREVAN #NoCorruption #Justice #NoToPoverty #AriseZimbabwe These are some of the hashtags used by the zimbabwean community and activists across South Africa to gain support for a planned march in Zimbabwe and South Africa. The call is for a new leadership that will “relieve the suffering endured” by the nation under President Robert Mugabe.