A rock drill operator, who earns just R4,350 a month, stands in his shack at Wonderkop shantytown, 18 August, 2012. Two days previously, striking Lonmin miners gathered to have a meeting to discuss the deaths of some 34 of their colleagues.
Yellow paint marks made by investigators indicate where the bodies of some of the 34 men killed by police were recovered by forensics at Nkanini, Marikana, 2012. Some of the rock crevices these bodies were found in, indicate that they had been hunted down and shot at close range. Not a single policeman was reported wounded on August 16th.
Bhele Tholakele Dlunga was tortured by police while in custody as part of what seems to be a systematic intimidation campaign against witnesses to the Marikana Massacre, Wonderkop, Marikana, 2012.
South African police fired on African National Congress (ANC) supporters as they tried to check the identity of a man shot dead by police in this Boipatong field on June 20, 1992. Forty-five ANC supporters, including women and children, were massacred by Zulu supporters of the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) the night before.
African National Congress (ANC) and South African Communist Party (SACP) supporters scatter as police fire teargas and live rounds outside the Soweto soccer stadium where the funeral of Chris Hani was attended by thousands of mourners, April 19, 1993.
A goat stands on mass graves of Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) supporters killed in fighting with African National Congress (ANC) members at Table Mountain, near Pietermaritzburg, KwaZulu-Natal, 1993.
Sixteen year old, Sifiso Hlongwe, irons his clothes for the funeral of his mother, AIDS activist Deli Hlongwa, on the day of her funeral in Ngwelezana, 25 March 2000. Deli took part in a local 'Funeral Campaign' where people with HIV and AIDS invite others in their community to come look at them in their open caskets when they die, in order to disprove the widely-held notion that HIV does not kill.
South African riot policemen and African National Congress (ANC) supporters look at some of the 29 marchers who were killed after an ANC march on the Ciskei homeland, 7 September, 1992. The ANC supporters were killed when Ciskei security forces opened fire after the marchers broke through the border in an attempt to force the Ciskeien military leader, Brigadier Oupa Gqozo, to allow free political activity in Ciskei.
African National Congress (ANC) supporters flee towards the South African side of the border with the Ciskei bantustan after they were fired at, killing 29 marchers and wounding dozens, during an ANC march on the Ciskei homeland, 7 September, 1992. The ANC supporters were killed when Ciskei security forces opened fire after the marchers broke through the border in an attempt to force the Ciskeien military leader, Brigadier Oupa Gqozo, to allow free political activity in Ciskei.
Gang members who specialised in car hijacking, celebrate at the funeral of slain gangster, Darkie, in Soweto's Avalon Cemetery, 16 Oct 1995. It is customary to have a party and celebrate rather than mourn at the funerals of gangsters and criminals.
Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) supporters show off weapons in a shebeen in Dobsonville hostel, while police search for weapons outside, Soweto, 1992. Thousands of people, both civilians and combatants, died in the so-called "Hostel War" that lasted from 1989-1995.
ANC (African National Congress) supporters push over a breeze-block wall, part of Khalanyoni hostel at the southern end of Khumalo Street, Thokoza, 1990. These ANC warriors dismantled the buildings, brick by multi-coloured brick, and used them to rebuild their shacks that were destroyed in the fighting with the IFP (Inkatha Freedom Party).
Family members mourning the death of Aaron Mathope and his mother. On a winter's night in the Vaal, 45 people were killed when a large group of men rampaged through Boipatong township. Klaas Mathope and many other survivors maintained that it had not been only Zulus who had attacked them, but white policemen too. Klaas's wife and 9-month-old son, Aaron, were murdered in the attack in 1992.
Zimbabwean teenagers, Tareiro Mbudzi, 19 (front, in red and blue) and Obey Sithole (rear), climb over the third and last fence from Zimbabwe to South Africa in their attempt to enter South Africa illegally to start a new life, March, 2007. Thousands of Zimbabweans attempt the crossing each day, some of whom are arrested by the security forces. The women are often raped, and all are robbed or extorted.
Azanian People's Organisation (Azapo) supporters fire at African National Congress (ANC) supporters in clashes between the police, army, Azapo and the ANC in Bekkersdal township, 1994.
Azanian People's Organisation (Azapo) supporters charge at African National Congress (ANC) supporters in clashes between the police, army, Azapo and the ANC in Bekkersdal township, 1994.
Azanian People's Organisation (Azapo) supporters pull their dead and wounded members back after having charged at African National Congress (ANC) supporters in clashes between the police, army, Azapo and the ANC in Bekkersdal township, 1994.
A family carry their belongings home after months in a refugee camp for African National Congress (ANC) supporting families from the Sonkombo area from which they had fled months earlier because of attacks by rival Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP). Sonkombo, KwaZulu-Natal, 1994.
A football team buries their teammate, who was killed in crossfire between African National Congress (ANC) and Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) fighters, while playing soccer in Ratanda township, Heidelberg, 1993.
Members of the far right-wing Afrikaner-Weerstandsbeweging (AWB) were executed in a shoot-out by Bophuthatswana soldiers during an abortive right-wing attempt to prop up homeland leader, Lucas Mangope, who refused to participate in the first democratic, non-racial elections in South Africa. March 1994.
A room inside the Mshaya'zafe hostel, Thokoza, near Johannesburg, 1990. The migrant workers' hostel was later destroyed in clashes between the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) and African National Congress (ANC). Thousands of people, both civilians and combatants, died in the so-called "Hostel War" that lasted from 1989-1995.
Police search African National Congress (ANC) supporters at a train station in Soweto, 1992. Hundreds were killed on trains, often by masked men. Some were later identified as police agents, while others claimed the minibus taxi bosses organised the deaths to force customers to use their mode of transport.
A man wakes up from where he spent the night amongst his belongings after police demolished the illegal shack he erected, Ivory Park, near Johannesburg, 1991.
An African National Congress (ANC) supporter checks out his 'kwash' (homemade pistol) during clashes with Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP), KwaMashu, KwaZulu-Natal, circa 1993.
Zulu supporters of the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) try to force their way into a Nancefield hostel room where a Pondo man, accused of being an African National Congress (ANC) supporter, hides. Soweto, 1990.
Zulu supporters of the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) hack and beat a Pondo man accused of being an ANC (African National Congress) supporter, Nancefield hostel, Soweto, 1990.
Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography, 1991: an African National Congress (ANC) supporter swings a machete into Lindsaye Tshabalala's blazing head. Tshabalala was suspected of being an Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) supporter. Inhlazane Station, 1990.
100,000 pilgrims start a three-day long, barefoot walk from the headquarters of the Nazareth Baptist Church (or Shembe Church). Shembe is a staunchly traditionalist Zulu cult that was founded in 1913 by Isaiah Shembe after he had a vision. Their beliefs are a mix of Old and New Testament and the ancestral veneration of traditional Zulu culture. Ekupakameni, KwaZulu-Natal, 1997.
Members of the Gauteng branch of the Nazareth Baptist Church (or Shembe Church) travel from the church headquarters to the Klip River for baptism. Shembe is a staunchly traditionalist Zulu cult that was founded in 1913 by Isaiah Shembe after he had a vision. Their beliefs are a mix of Old and New Testament and the ancestral veneration of traditional Zulu culture. Gauteng, 1997.
African National Congress (ANC) supporting activists stand above a cap that is still smoking from a gunshot to a fellow comrade, killed by Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) members, while watching the FIFA football World Cup that was played in Atlanta, USA, 1994.
A man is prepared for burial after being returned from an autopsy, this following a series of killings between Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) and African National Congress (ANC) supporters in the Table Mountain area of KwaZulu-Natal, 1993.
The aunt of nine-month-old Aaron Mathope sits next to his body in Boipatong township, south of Johannesburg, 1992. On this day, 45 people were killed by Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) supporting Zulus. Aaron and his mother were hacked to death, and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) found both the IFP and the security forces of the then-white regime responsible.
African National Congress (ANC) supporters do the toyi-toyi dance at a night vigil for a comrade who was killed by security forces in the Venda homeland, in the far north of South Africa, 1989.
Minister of Law and Order, Adriaan Vlok (rear left), watches his colleague, National Party (NP) Foreign Minister, Pik Botha (front left), at a sitting of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), Johannesburg, 1997.
1996: An African National Congress (ANC) survivor, whose face shows the wounds he suffered during an attack on Christmas Day a year earlier (1995). The late Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) warlord, Sqolosa Xolo, led his men to massacre over 25 ANC supporters on Christmas Day 1995. He was never charged in the case, despite there being eyewitness testimony.
KwaZulu-Natal. Church members led by elders carrying the objects that belonged to the founder and the 'Ark of the Covenant', make their way towards the holy mountain followed by 100,000 pilgrims who made a three day barefoot walk from the headquarters of the Nazareth Baptist Church, or Shembe Church. Shembe is a staunchly traditionalist Zulu cult that was founded in 1913 by Isaiah Shembe after a vision. Their beliefs are a mix of Old and New Testament and the ancestral veneration of traditional Zulu culture.
Venda girls lay down as part of a traditional dance held under the area of Chief Kennedy Tshivhase. Venda, Tshivhase, Limpopo Province, South Africa. 3 February 2001
