{"id":15805,"date":"2012-10-23T08:01:01","date_gmt":"2012-10-23T06:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/10\/south-african-photographer-who-chronicled-apartheid-dies\/"},"modified":"2012-10-23T08:01:01","modified_gmt":"2012-10-23T06:01:01","slug":"south-african-photographer-who-chronicled-apartheid-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/south-african-photographer-who-chronicled-apartheid-dies\/","title":{"rendered":"South African photographer who chronicled apartheid dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">JOHANNESBURG<\/span> Oct 22 (Reuters) &#8211; Alf Khumalo, a South<br \/>\nAfrican photographer whose pictures of the brutalities of the<br \/>\napartheid regime piled pressure on the white-minority<br \/>\ngovernment, has died of renal failure at the age of 82.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Khumalo made his name as a photographer for Drum magazine,<br \/>\ninitially a black lifestyle magazine that was notable for its<br \/>\nreportage of township life under the apartheid state.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>He photographed some of the most significant moments of the<br \/>\nliberation struggle including the student uprisings of the 1970s<br \/>\nand captured images of Nelson Mandela when he was released from<br \/>\nprison and led the country to its first democratic elections in<br \/>\n1994.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He was a meticulous photographer and his work will live on<br \/>\nforever as a monument to the people&#8217;s resilience and fortitude<br \/>\nin the face of colonial oppression and apartheid,&#8221; President<br \/>\nJacob Zuma said on Monday after Khumalo died at the weekend.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Former colleague and award winning photo-journalist Peter<br \/>\nMagubane described Khumalo as a hardworking man whose apartheid<br \/>\nphotographs helped free South Africa.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We were calling the shots and did not believe in being<br \/>\ndictated to. We used our cameras as our guns to liberate<br \/>\nourselves and South Africa,&#8221; Magubane said.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>(Reporting by Tshepo Tshabalala and Ndundu Sithole; Editing by<br \/>\nJon Herskovitz and Alison Williams)<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright\">\n<p>         \t\t\u00a9 Thomson Reuters 2012 All rights reserved<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JOHANNESBURG Oct 22 (Reuters) &#8211; Alf Khumalo, a South African photographer whose pictures of the brutalities of the apartheid regime piled pressure on the white-minority government, has died of renal failure at the age of 82. Khumalo made his name as a photographer for Drum magazine, initially a black lifestyle magazine that was notable for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-15805","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15805\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}