Title: South Africa. The Cordoned Heart
Photographer(s): Paul Alberts, Joe Alphers, Michael Barry, Omar Badsha, Bee Berkman, Michael Davies, David Goldblatt, Paul Konings, Lesley Lawson, Rashid Lombard, Chris Ledchowski, Jimi Matthews, Ben Maclennan, Gideon Mendel, Cedric Nunn, Myron Peters, Berney Perez, Jeeva Rajgopaul, Wendy Schwegmann and Paul Weinberg
Writer(s): Francis Wilson, Bishop Desmond Tutu, Farouk Stemmet
Designer(s): Margaret Sartor
Publisher(s): Gallery Press, Cape Town, South Africa
W.W. Norton & Company, New York. U.S.A.- London, England
in association with:
Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit - University Cape Town, South Africa
Center fro Documentary Photography, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, U.S.A.
Year: 1986
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Language(s): English
Pages: 186
Size: 27 x 27 cm
Binding: Softcover
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Nation(s) and year(s) of Protest: South Africa, 1979-1984
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These black-and-white images came out of a documentary project by the photographic collective Afrapix, as part of the Second Carnegie Inquiry into Poverty and Development in South Africa. They document a crucial period of protest and social upheaval in South African history, and focus on poverty and the daily lives of people living under apartheid. Photographs depict neighborhoods, rural and urban residences, social life, families, work conditions, events in South African history such as forced relocations, and scenes of political or labor conflict.
The pictures should also make us aware of our own situation and how important it is to guard the freedoms to which we give lip service but which are constantly eroded by our own racial prejudice and class system. It is easy for liberal minded people to be lulled into a false sense of security but real democracy is more than just a voting system and needs constant vigilance if the equality of opportunity it promises is not to be compromised. Once a totalitarian regime takes over, be it left or right, it is seemingly impossible to change it without violence, bloodshed and misery for everyone.
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